I bought the a kit not knowing I'd have to put it together. it's still in the bag...lol. pros where it'll stay. I know nothing about building this stuff. hats off to the guys that can build this stuff. I'm forced to having to purchase one already built.... I haven't done that either unfortunately. Hard to find....oh well...still wanna say thank to the people that built these and shared the original plans. that's awesome indeed!
Highly appreciate where creativity is involved. Keep it up. I've been doing lots of electronic gadgets myself for the past 22 years & as at date, it's still fun. Nowadays, i simply like to play with Arduino as there are lots of things that you can do with it. Well, one thing that i would suggest to you is that as you are talented in this RGB LED cube, try to take on orders from people as it'll bring you money & start your own business into it & like that you'll also give others around the globe the opportunity to have it & play with it. Cheers.
Not surprising. Needs a really lot of soldering. And the quality must be good enough. With asia like super quick and super cheap soldering (sorry all asians) it wouldn't look as nice as this work. So it would cost some lot. Also soldering the tlc 5940 needs some time, as you see at beginning of the vid all is soldered by hand, nothing can be done by ready build boards, all connections must set manually. I have an idea about this since I built a very smaller christmas star with 20 rgb led and 4 tlc 5940. Needed already several hours for building and debugging. If anybody is building such electronics, he/she mostly won't like to sell this manual work. To much heart blood in it :-).
WoooooooooooooooooooooooW!!! Perfect!!! Awesoooooooooooooooooooooome!!! Sharing now. Thank's you for beautiful work. Sorry my english. I'm from Brazil.
Really Great Cube right there! I my self just finished my first RGB Cube, obviously its only 4x4x4 but we'll get there :D I also used the TLCs but a Arduino Nano as a Controller which also has an Atmega. Just cant believe you've written it completely in Assembler i would go nuts :D
I wish you could buy the board and parts kit for this. I sure would like the challenge of building it. I've built a 8x8x8 is the biggest one I've ever built. I keep giving them away as gifts. I like putting all the LED's together. Then last one i built I finished with copper rails on all the corners. Next project is a bottomless box.
Could you post some exact instructions on building this? I mean physical parts as well as programming. Pretty sure I could use either my Raspberry Pi or Arduino.
+Jeffrey Barber Hi, like you see, I use the machine-code of the ATMega128. Time-critical Problems will be solved by using effectively bit-commands. I must refresh 3000 leds , every led will be controlled with 8bit resolution light-intensity. This must be happen in a short time to have a flicker-free look
Can you imagine building of large cube out of transparent OMOLED panels densely packed for a near tv quality 3D image?? Wouldn't have to solder all those slices one by one, just slide them into an edge connector on the back or the bottom of the cube and done. That would make the most amazing adverti$ement cube displays out there. Hmmm... time to research transparent OMOLed displays ;)
"Thank You", thank you very much. I find this to be VERY impressive, since the code is exclusively in Assembly. I'd like to have a copy of your notes if available and possible. Let me know. I look forward to hearing from you 😎😃😀😎
Its essentially the same as any LED cube, times 3(three color channels). Do the math, figure out your data bandwidth needs and power consumption, and make it happen! Be sure to make a video too ;)
@@vaughnscott511 hi, you have already seen this video ? th-cam.com/video/fh8QWRhbYpg/w-d-xo.html (AVR Assembly code step by step explained with a RGB cube10x10x10x) I have shown anything. What details are you interested in?
A project like this today would involve using WS2812 individually adressable RGB LEDs, utilizing a single data line; no multiplexers or shift registers.
wow and wow and wow again. Thumbs up for this, i also planed to make a small cube but when i look this wiring i feel a lil bit sick =D I hope i can do anytime a project like your minicube ...i would be happy already ^_^ But this one here, just wow, i lose my words. just Wooouw I hope to see in the Future a Project like 20x20x20 cubes or something. Would be amazing =D
Very nice! Some years before I saw the Elektor christmas star with led and TLC 5940. Changed the one color led to rgb and used 4 TLC (for 20 led). Already some work, but few against your project. Am controlling my star with an arduino, simply programmed with its c like language to get several nice effects. Every year I change the program to get new effects. May be I will show it here any day. How long did you work on your cube? What did you pay for all material? Have an idea about this, the rgb led and the tlc 5940 are not cheap here.
OK, reality check. Each LED has four leads. Each layer has 100 LEDs and 400 solder points. The cube is 10x10x10 meaning there are 10 layers and 4000 solder points. And that's just for the cube. Take a look at the bottom of control boards. How many solder points do you think there are? Another 500 perhaps? Then there is the wiring coming off the bottom of the cube. How many more points? I built an 8x8x8 cube (www.instructables.com/member/bkeaton/instructables/) from scratch, including the multiplexer, main mother board and all cabling. I can safely say this 10x10x10 cube has around 6000 solder points. Then there is the programming, in assembler no less. So anybody that thinks a cube of this sophistication would sell for around $100 to build has no chance whatsoever of ever owning one. And someone here wants “a few” of them? If the builder of this beauty ever wanted to part with it, I'd estimate the cost to be at least $1,500!
I have new found massive respect to anyone who has constructed a cube bigger than 3x3x3 as I just finished an 8x8x8 and the amount of soldering was tedious to say the least - though a better jig would have made lighter work. :/
someone needs to build one of these and figure out how to put some sort of chamber or something in the middle so you can have it look like a scanning chamber :P
Nice cube, Wolfgang, and interesting patterns. I've built three 8x8x8 RGB cubes using Steve Manley's jigs which I like and Kevin Darrah's code and design but with ULN2803A chips instead of the transistors..I think the jigs could be extended to build your 10x10x10. Under the leds looks very neat. 8-) I don't think people realise how much time is spent building a cube. I did some assembly language programming using 6800 and the Amiga 68000 way back but now I'm well out of touch so it would be great to get some code and think about the design for a 10x10x10. How would you go from a 74HC595 shift register with 8 outputs to something which needs 10 outputs? Is Part 2 out yet?
+binarybox part2 is ready and avaliable. I have insert an info-card for "part2" in my youtube-video. I have done it first time. Do you see if it works ? to discus techn. details is better we write via e-mail ( wolfgang.nk@web.de)
AWESOME!!! Looks great man!!! Does any company make these??? I can tell you now if a company makes these they will sell millions of them!!! Id pay $100 for it.
Such things will never can be produced cheap. Imagine: there are 1000 rgb led, all with 4 connectors, means you have to make 4000 connections. If they are made quick, they will not look as good. So long hours of soldering are needed (or a cnc soldering automat, but I don't know if there are such machines for this complex cube). I have needed more than 15 hours for a much smaller thing with 20 led, and that is few against this cube. Debugging the connections and programming needs also some time. So 100 $ would for such a cube mean much lesser than 7 $/hour. Nobody would like to to such a difficut work for this. So may be this cube project would be worth 1000 $, may be more.
Hi I'm working on similar project, and I'm wondering if I shuold use tlc5940 or tlc5944. Tlc5944 is otherwise similar to tlc5940 but has "Internal Pre-charcge FET to prevent LED ghosting pehnomenom on multiplexed LED system" So my question is: Does your Cube have ghosting problem noticeable by bare eye? On the video it sometimes seems like if the leds ought to be dark were faintly light. But cause it's only video it's impossible to tell, what does it look like in real world?
+Patrick Noble , It should be handmade in hard- and software. I won't use prefabricated programms. If I use machine-code, I enjoy all freedoms to do with the micro-controller what I want, without restriction of any kind. I can use all ressources of the mc. So can I say, it's 100 percent "my" cube :-) Meanwhile I use for all light-shows ca 250 nested subprograms in self-programmed machine-code.
Hi I want to make a LED cube for my first year in a Bachelor in Electronics. We have to work with a 8bit 8051 Infineon XC888 Microcontoller for everything we want as a project. As I am new I do not yet know if it is possible. We have to write the software in assembly code too. How much LED's can I probabely make and control with a 16 bit controller?
214 down thumbs.... Why? This is great... Some people must really be scared of electronics, hope they don't notice they are using a computer to thumbs down.... Troll heads exploding soon....
yes, any people do that still :-) .. if there are time-critical procedures or not enouhgh time to learn a nother prog. language. I must read 8bit-values from the ram for every color and led (3000) and feed the shift-registers with this and this flacer-free.
thanks for your copy. So I'm able to read your comment multiple. :-) But there is a little difference to read or to understand your valuable comment. I'm so sorry, but in not all other languages there is the content of these your words really understandable. :-(
i'm so curious how to write the source code...did you use that with the array control? or control each led? maybe used the group control method? am i right? i really looking forward to know this matter
Unbelievable! This is the best one I have seen. Amazing how much work had to go into this. A great job for sure!
Class !!! In assembly : total respect really ... Amazing !!! the works for the code !!!!Bravo Monsieur ... Eric from France.
I really respect the hard work you did for this.
I bought the a kit not knowing I'd have to put it together. it's still in the bag...lol. pros where it'll stay. I know nothing about building this stuff. hats off to the guys that can build this stuff. I'm forced to having to purchase one already built.... I haven't done that either unfortunately. Hard to find....oh well...still wanna say thank to the people that built these and shared the original plans. that's awesome indeed!
And where did you buy such a set
I can't believe the kind of work that goes into making something that size with way they're put together
look at part 3 .... "how does it works" -..... Speaking German?
You should create some code to make it look like a Rubik's cube solving itself.
Oh my God... This is so cool!!! Awesome work!!!
Highly appreciate where creativity is involved. Keep it up. I've been doing lots of electronic gadgets myself for the past 22 years & as at date, it's still fun. Nowadays, i simply like to play with Arduino as there are lots of things that you can do with it. Well, one thing that i would suggest to you is that as you are talented in this RGB LED cube, try to take on orders from people as it'll bring you money & start your own business into it & like that you'll also give others around the globe the opportunity to have it & play with it. Cheers.
The thing I hate most about these is that you cant buy them in stores.
Not surprising. Needs a really lot of soldering. And the quality must be good enough. With asia like super quick and super cheap soldering (sorry all asians) it wouldn't look as nice as this work. So it would cost some lot. Also soldering the tlc 5940 needs some time, as you see at beginning of the vid all is soldered by hand, nothing can be done by ready build boards, all connections must set manually. I have an idea about this since I built a very smaller christmas star with 20 rgb led and 4 tlc 5940. Needed already several hours for building and debugging. If anybody is building such electronics, he/she mostly won't like to sell this manual work. To much heart blood in it :-).
WoooooooooooooooooooooooW!!!
Perfect!!!
Awesoooooooooooooooooooooome!!!
Sharing now.
Thank's you for beautiful work.
Sorry my english. I'm from Brazil.
Really Great Cube right there!
I my self just finished my first RGB Cube, obviously its only 4x4x4 but we'll get there :D
I also used the TLCs but a Arduino Nano as a Controller which also has an Atmega.
Just cant believe you've written it completely in Assembler i would go nuts :D
Reaĺly Great Cube
I want this in my bedroom !!! :)
me 2
I want this on my window, so my neighbours can see something special
Just grab 1k led and lets go
I wish you could buy the board and parts kit for this. I sure would like the challenge of building it. I've built a 8x8x8 is the biggest one I've ever built. I keep giving them away as gifts. I like putting all the LED's together. Then last one i built I finished with copper rails on all the corners. Next project is a bottomless box.
Amazing it's like a big 3d display 😉
This is amazing. I must do this someday...
Now is the time to make this RGB LED Cube my friend!
Could you post some exact instructions on building this? I mean physical parts as well as programming. Pretty sure I could use either my Raspberry Pi or Arduino.
+Jeffrey Barber Hi, like you see, I use the machine-code of the ATMega128. Time-critical Problems will be solved by using effectively bit-commands. I must refresh 3000 leds , every led will be controlled with 8bit resolution light-intensity. This must be happen in a short time to have a flicker-free look
plz
That would also interst me
Great idea to use lego as the mold for placing the LEDS!
+John Voesten Yes, but like I said in this video, it's not my idea, I have seen it earlier in another youtube-video, don't remember whose it was.
Amazing! Great job man!
Can you imagine building of large cube out of transparent OMOLED panels densely packed for a near tv quality 3D image?? Wouldn't have to solder all those slices one by one, just slide them into an edge connector on the back or the bottom of the cube and done. That would make the most amazing adverti$ement cube displays out there. Hmmm... time to research transparent OMOLed displays ;)
Send me circuit
Excellent.... Electronic art is cool!
"Thank You", thank you very much. I find this to be VERY impressive, since the code is exclusively in Assembly. I'd like to have a copy of your notes if available and possible. Let me know. I look forward to hearing from you 😎😃😀😎
you did a brillant job
But it needs so much time ;-)
Awesome.... Brilliant....excellent.... Superb....
Can you imagine this on huge billboard displays in the future?
PLEASE do a tutorial on how to build this, i haven't seen any tutorials for 10x10x10 rgb cubes!
Its essentially the same as any LED cube, times 3(three color channels). Do the math, figure out your data bandwidth needs and power consumption, and make it happen! Be sure to make a video too ;)
look at part1 and part3. Really good tutorials you can find in the videos from Kevin Darrah
@@3dfreakful Can you at least provide a schematic? The rest i can figure out on my own.
@@3dfreakful I would love to see how you did the assembly Language.
@@vaughnscott511 hi, you have already seen this video ?
th-cam.com/video/fh8QWRhbYpg/w-d-xo.html
(AVR Assembly code step by step explained with a RGB cube10x10x10x)
I have shown anything. What details are you interested in?
@Wolfgang N where are you? We need more of your RGB LED Cubes!!! Please make another video for 2020 or 2021!!! Thanks!!!!!
hi, look at my channel Wolfgang N , and you'll see more?
A project like this today would involve using WS2812 individually adressable RGB LEDs, utilizing a single data line; no multiplexers or shift registers.
great, and how many rgb's contains it ?
Amazing any video of doing this one? ☹️
wow and wow and wow again. Thumbs up for this, i also planed to make a small cube but when i look this wiring i feel a lil bit sick =D
I hope i can do anytime a project like your minicube ...i would be happy already ^_^ But this one here, just wow, i lose my words. just Wooouw
I hope to see in the Future a Project like 20x20x20 cubes or something. Would be amazing =D
looks great :O
That is the most awesome thing ever!
very very nice project
sad to see so few comments on an amazing project ......machine code hmm
great job, amazing
Well done mate
Hello congratulations amazing work maybe you can sell me components lists and diagram to build one thanks
Simply outstanding!!!!
But unfortunately too much technology for me. There's no way I could ever finish this project...
It's amazing! Can u please share me the circuit diagram of this & basics requires about this?
Good video wow
Amazing work
Just, wow
Thats good project
It can be a good gift. Lets make it mass production
great work
and now connect it to the digital piano, light-sound party can begin!
awesome mate!
Too bea-uti-ful
Congratulation
Very nice.
out standing....
The only thing that comes to my mind is being able to play 3d-Tetris. WOOOOAH
+zeelhazard how about to try 3d chess on led set like this one ?
Awesome work.... :)
Here it is - the gradfather of the holocrone... :)
Very cool !!!
Fantastic... Schematic Please
nice project
How you made this project please give me answer and all equipment list then circuit diagram,then how to program plz sir you help me....
Hi I would like to build this cube it is awesome but the tricky part is to give commends and the connection of these LEDs plz help me
Very nice! Some years before I saw the Elektor christmas star with led and TLC 5940. Changed the one color led to rgb and used 4 TLC (for 20 led). Already some work, but few against your project. Am controlling my star with an arduino, simply programmed with its c like language to get several nice effects. Every year I change the program to get new effects. May be I will show it here any day. How long did you work on your cube? What did you pay for all material? Have an idea about this, the rgb led and the tlc 5940 are not cheap here.
Wow nice
good idea
Amazing😎😎
very nice! any chance you got the name of the soundtrack?
OK, reality check. Each LED has four leads. Each layer has 100 LEDs and 400 solder points. The cube is 10x10x10 meaning there are 10 layers and 4000 solder
points. And that's just for the cube.
Take a look at the bottom of control boards. How many solder points do you think there
are? Another 500 perhaps? Then there is the wiring coming off the bottom of the cube. How many more points? I built an 8x8x8 cube (www.instructables.com/member/bkeaton/instructables/) from scratch, including the multiplexer, main mother board and all cabling. I can safely say this 10x10x10 cube has around 6000 solder points. Then there is the programming, in assembler no less. So anybody that thinks a cube of this sophistication would sell for around $100 to build has no chance whatsoever of ever owning one. And someone here wants “a few” of them?
If the builder of this beauty ever wanted to part with it, I'd estimate the cost to be at least
$1,500!
I have new found massive respect to anyone who has constructed a cube bigger than 3x3x3 as I just finished an 8x8x8 and the amount of soldering was tedious to say the least - though a better jig would have made lighter work. :/
you are very amazing!
good project. amazing
someone needs to build one of these and figure out how to put some sort of chamber or something in the middle so you can have it look like a scanning chamber :P
Can you help me to build this cube? I can make the led structure but can't make the driver. Can you help me?
i`d like to have one of these raining a 3D Matrix code like in the movie
At first i though it might have take some time then i red assembly on the title
man you are a fool xD
Nice cube, Wolfgang, and interesting patterns.
I've built three 8x8x8 RGB cubes using Steve Manley's jigs which I like and Kevin Darrah's code and design but with ULN2803A chips instead of the transistors..I think the jigs could be extended to build your 10x10x10. Under the leds looks very neat. 8-)
I don't think people realise how much time is spent building a cube.
I did some assembly language programming using 6800 and the Amiga 68000 way back but now I'm well out of touch so it would be great to get some code and think about the design for a 10x10x10.
How would you go from a 74HC595 shift register with 8 outputs to something which needs 10 outputs?
Is Part 2 out yet?
+binarybox part2 is ready and avaliable. I have insert an info-card for "part2" in my youtube-video. I have done it first time. Do you see if it works ? to discus techn. details is better we write via e-mail ( wolfgang.nk@web.de)
Why do you not use just seven chip TCA6424A with 24 IOs each in the project?
the tlc5940 contains also a pwm-control for each channel
awesooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooome
but how much voltage does it need ?
ahmed alhloul all units work with +5V
Muy bueno me encanto $$$$quiero uno asi cunato me costaria con todo y envio porfavor
But how to make this cude plz tell me and this cude made me how to, and requirements components plz tell me
hello I would like to make a cube as your Can you tell me where I can find all the schemes
AWESOME!!! Looks great man!!! Does any company make these??? I can tell you now if a company makes these they will sell millions of them!!! Id pay $100 for it.
+geeetube would you by 10/10/10 cubic chess set of a similar kind technology
if chess are of your interest at all ))
+geeetube Not of this size bro...
+geeetube THEN THERE IS NO WAY YOU WILL OWN ONE.
I'd also like one for less than the cost of the LEDs :D
Such things will never can be produced cheap. Imagine: there are 1000 rgb led, all with 4 connectors, means you have to make 4000 connections. If they are made quick, they will not look as good. So long hours of soldering are needed (or a cnc soldering automat, but I don't know if there are such machines for this complex cube). I have needed more than 15 hours for a much smaller thing with 20 led, and that is few against this cube. Debugging the connections and programming needs also some time. So 100 $ would for such a cube mean much lesser than 7 $/hour. Nobody would like to to such a difficut work for this. So may be this cube project would be worth 1000 $, may be more.
Hi I'm working on similar project, and I'm wondering if I shuold use tlc5940 or tlc5944. Tlc5944 is otherwise similar to tlc5940 but has "Internal Pre-charcge FET to prevent LED ghosting pehnomenom on multiplexed LED system" So my question is:
Does your Cube have ghosting problem noticeable by bare eye?
On the video it sometimes seems like if the leds ought to be dark were faintly light. But cause it's only video it's impossible to tell, what does it look like in real world?
Awesome How Much Would You Sell One For That Same Effect But Just Saying Pizza & Noodle Bar REMEMBBER Im In The UK So I Pay £
wow nice cupe
2:53 Slice*
+OverPoweredCat Hi SuperCat... ??? What's the matter?
Wolfgang N ur cool!
This is sick
wow, amazing, how many use led ? maklum indonesian people
Bhai aapne led ko comnnect karne ke liye kon se wire use kiye h
bạn có thể cho tôi biết bạn đã sử dụng phần mềm nào để tạo ra được những hiệu ứng tuyệt vời như thế này không
assembly-code, machine-code of the atmega128
thank you
Why assembly? Badass points? C compiled micro controllers not fast enough to address so many leds smoothly?
+Patrick Noble , It should be handmade in hard- and software. I won't use prefabricated programms. If I use machine-code, I enjoy all freedoms to do with the micro-controller what I want, without restriction of any kind. I can use all ressources of the mc. So can I say, it's 100 percent "my" cube :-)
Meanwhile I use for all light-shows ca 250 nested subprograms in self-programmed machine-code.
awesome
you can use it to make 3D shapes :O.
Hi I want to make a LED cube for my first year in a Bachelor in Electronics. We have to work with a 8bit 8051 Infineon XC888 Microcontoller for everything we want as a project. As I am new I do not yet know if it is possible. We have to write the software in assembly code too. How much LED's can I probabely make and control with a 16 bit controller?
I've no experience with 16-bit-controllers. If you want to know more details about the cube, please contact me via mail to wolfgang.nk@web.de
Okay thanks!
nice
soooòooo cool man
Would you actually sell these? Or are there already things like this out there? I want a few.
214 down thumbs.... Why? This is great... Some people must really be scared of electronics, hope they don't notice they are using a computer to thumbs down.... Troll heads exploding soon....
Awesome
Can we do that with using Arduino uno (may be reducing size)?
yes, there any youtube-videos about this. They use all a higher programming language. I use assembly language code.
assembly, holy crap, do people still do that?
yes, any people do that still :-)
.. if there are time-critical procedures or not enouhgh time to learn a nother prog. language. I must read 8bit-values from the ram for every color and led (3000) and feed the shift-registers with this and this flacer-free.
please ,can you give me this program code ?i have project in led cub
make one I can walk inside of and smoke weed in, and I'll buy it. just big enough to fit a bean bag.
???
thanks for your copy. So I'm able to read your comment multiple. :-) But there is a little difference to read or to understand your valuable comment. I'm so sorry, but in not all other languages there is the content of these your words really understandable. :-(
wouuuuuuuuuu klasse
Jesus how many years have you used to create this ???
i'm so curious how to write the source code...did you use that with the array control? or control each led? maybe used the group control method? am i right? i really looking forward to know this matter
Can you send the circuit diagram
Parts list?
What's the BGM??