How to make a 16x16x16 LED CUBE at home with Arduino platform
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- This video is to give some insights in creating a very large LED CUBE.
I modeled this cube and construction jigs in fusion 360, led Driver PCB is made with KiCad. Code is programmed in PlatformIO using the Arduino Platform.
The dome is made from acrylic, I ordered that by size and glued it together with chloroform. All black plastic was printed on my CR10S-pro and glued with chloroform.
I have a custom PCB with a Teensy 4.0 mounted on it. Only 3 pins of the Teensy are used to drive 32 channels with 128 leds each. The refresh rate of the display and the animations is 178 frames per second. Everything is non blocking and refreshing the display is done with DMA taking zero processor time. There also is an esp8266 and a touchscreen connected to the PCB, that will need to be programmed at a later time.
Code and Gerber files are available for free, link is in the video.
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Now run Doom on it.
What do you know about 3d games on your 2d monitors? But doom on a 3d cube, that's it.
That one is actually good
Bruh
Or bad apple
Kkkkkkkk perfect
Ba doom tss
I usually don't like or dislike this kind of videos, but the work involved, the attention to details, and the end result is greater than most. And after that, you provide the code and the files to anyone that want to do the same project, for free!
Double thumbs up for you and this video!
I like to have my projects open source and open hardware, so more people can enjoy these kind of things. I also like watching other peoples projects, and this is my contribution 😎
Saw thumbnail "Ah this is cool, maybe I can make this for my living room"
Three minutes in "Never mind.."
Awesome project!
Exactly the same :)
Im an Software Engineer and an Electrical Engineer, and this Video hit diffrent, mate im stunned!
You are inspiring, thank you alot!
Congrats, you're almost as smart as the average idiot!
That is amazing. People who have never soldered anything before have no idea the hours that this must have taken.
Indeed and that asking can i buy this….
@@MaltWhiskey it's a long shot, but we don't know unless we ask. So, that's a 'yes', right? 😜 Truly marvelous work. I'm still in awe. I suck at soldering, so that's at least one reason I wouldn't survive such a project.
40 hours of soldering on a 7*7*7 I guess here it’s about 80 + with a lot of preparation to be more efficient
can you imagine how a physics professor could use this to demonstrate all sorts of things in 3 dimensions? Can't do that on a whiteboard, you know? Amazing creation we should use to visualize in 3d for education
Tbh they need to do this
A VR headset could work too
I was thinking the same....!
Same thought 🤔.
We Had Tech Like This At One Point, The Kuntz Who rule Today, Removed It From Society & Civilisation...🤦🏼♂️ The Very Education System You Speak Of They Control! Fml.
They Don't Want Folk To Learn In A Visual Manner....Plus Devices Such As This Will "Open Eyes" To Many Lies About A Ball Earth?
Much Love
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This is the most spectacular LED cube I've ever seen. 10/10 for the design, build and software demos! Amazing.
That is awesome. Sales would be insane if this was mass produced. Take my money
I’ve built many high performance audio amplifiers and preamplifiers, countless piwer supplies and too many projects to count over 43 years. This cube, my friend, is the ultimate end to end beautifully designed project I have laid eyes on. A real credit to you. If this was a kitset with a carefully written manual, I suspect you’d have a fair market at your disposal. Bravo!
Incredible. That must've cost a fortune in materials and the skill to bring it all together. Amazing.
How much of cost I m getting one said how much cost I'm buying that new think
@@sagarawari1340 where I live in Canada each 4 pin dip style neopixel 5mm led is about 2 dollars each. So it cost alot lol
Update. I just checked and a pack of 5 8mm neopixel leds are 15 plus tax lol
@@jstro-hobbytech it costs €0.12 per led. So €500 for all of them. These are pl9823, not neo pixels.
@@MaltWhiskey that's awesome. I forgot about those. It's 400 for 1000 of them here. They are beautiful man.
20 Years ago i made a 8x8x8 Blue LED Cube with two shoolfriends as a project in school. This was heavy soldering fun. I can imagine how much work a 16x16x16 Cube was! Very nice work!!!
That cat was trying to end this man's career
This would have taken so long, amazing work.
yeah
took me forever to just do a 8x8
Well he used his lockdown time wisely.
This project will be an excellent example of patience and knowledge together... For us and the future generation....
Agreed
that is an extremely beautiful thing. not just in the obvious way of what it can do in the end, but in the construction as well
This is by far the coolest one of all these 3D LED cubes that I've seen.
Did everyone JUST get this recommended lmao, all the comments are fresh 💀
Looks like it X)
And again, it seems
Yes!
Yep lol
bruh ur one of the "hahaha the algorithm again" guys
YOU ARE WARRIOR . I have made the 8X8X8 simple led and i was about to die.... but this RGB16X16X16 is at least 15 times more complexe. You are crazy man ! Big kudos !!!
🤪🤪😂🤣
The amount of engineering and craftsmanship that went into this far exceeded my expectations upon first opening this video. This is incredible work and I seriously hope you're proud, you've earned the right to be.
You cover mechanical design including material consideration and manufacturing methods, maintenance considerations in the form of modularity and critical system ease of access, electrical PCB prototyping, power distribution and intensive quantities of soldering, C++ Programming and then the patience of developing those animations.
You've earned my respect and i strive to be like you.
I'm an amateur maker and this is the ultimate build. You are an inspiration. I watch this video at least once a month.
My wife asked why one would build this. My answer: just because it can! Hell of a job but I guess it must be quite pleasing and satisfying to build something this cool and make it to this level of perfection.
As someone who has built 2 4x4 LED cubes before (and struggled a lot) I can appreciate just how monumentally impressive this is. Good job.
Thanks, time to upscale now? I promise with my jigs it will be easy 😁
This is mad, I'm so thoroughly impressed with the magnitude of this project simply for art. Found myself smiling due to the complexity & perseverance needed to complete this, it's inspirational. Someday down the road I'll attempt this myself, but for the time being I'll simply admire your beautiful work.
The fireworks blew my mind. Amazing work.
Mirrors on the two back walls would add an interesting effect. What a project! I've downloaded your git repository, thanks for sharing. I'm headed down the rabbit hole!
After seeing how much work went into a different project of 8x8x8 led cube.
For 16x16x16...I just click Subscribe, no questions asked.
Thanks, 8x8x8 is nothing to sneeze at 👍🏻
Perhaps some people may see this as just technology, but it's indisputably much more than that... this is ART!
That's terrific. Much cooler than I thought it would be. Thanks for this!
I love my share of doing repetitive tasks while just vibing. But preparing 4096 LEDs? AND writing drivers for it? Good lord, I wouldn't do it if someone wasnt paying me for it. You are a man of Focus, Commitment and Sheer fucking WILL.
I started a 5X5x5 single color cube 3 years ago, still not finished lmao and you did a 16x16x16 RGB and completed it!
I admire your patience and tenacity. And omfg, that fireworks effect is amazing! Good job!
Stunning! Great video and absolutely LOVE the resulting piece of art ... well done!
That's just so ******* sick. If you made a kit with everything included plus instructions, I'd buy one and assemble it.
It would be cool if there was an animation of someone dancing inside. I don't know how quality it would look on a 16×16×16 cube due to the density and general size but it would make for an interesting proof of concept for a larger scale "hologram" box with full 3D animations
Cat vs 4096 LEDs. What could possibly go wrong? Fabulous project. Beautifully crafted together. Respect.
i remember thinking a while back just randomly “imagine a 3D screen” and this is exactly what i thought of, great execution
Boss, I'm gonna level with you, I didn't understand a single fucking thing in a technical sense. But sweet mother of Odin the process you took and the end result are fucking gorgeous. Stellar build
Thanks 😂 Sköll 🍻
Man, all the animations are so cool! Great job. I would love to see an effect where it looks like the snake from Snake where it like chases an apple around in 3D space
wow! meticulous build detail, custom drivers, fine tuning and stunning visualizations!!!
Class build. Good seeing someone so happy to share all of their designs and build secrets!!! Love it!!!!!
Wow, congratulations, very well done! I like the perfect alignment of the LEDs, because it makes crystallographic axies visible! (You have essentially a cubic crystal). Now I would imagine to use it for visualisation of scientific models, e.g. diffusion or atomic orbitals. For the latter one could demonstrate the dynamics as well, something that has never been demonstrated. Would like to have such a cube ...
Fantastic build! You truly created a beautiful work of art, engineering, and wizardry here. The extreme attention to detail and design of the process (like the LED jig for bending the leads) is inspiring! Keep it up!
Can’t wait for 1080p cube of this
This is absolutely amazing, I just bought my first arduino kit and I'd be ecstatic if I ever manage to make something like this. Inspirational.
Now, using a leap motion or similar, track your hand and display an approximated 3D model of it inside the cube that follows your movements in real time. Or use it to interact with the cube in any way actually
Much respect. The time and effort into making this is incredible.
this is truly one of the most lovely videos on LED cubes.
Want to see an animation of the solar system, or the earth with the moon orbitating around. Should be awesome!
Great job ! Very impressive !
I lost it at the Malt Wiskey PCB label using the Walt Disney font: 12:03. Great work.
Thanks for pointing that out. I had not noticed it.
Made me laugh too! My eyes saw 'Walt Disney' then realised the 'D' wasn't right........ Ohhhhh 'Malt Wiskey'! 🤣Very clever tag name
I have printed some t-shirts with my logo and getting this reaction in real life is priceless 😂🤣
This feels like the early days of holographic technology. I'm just imagining this tech with much higher led density, with smaller leds and it would be an amazing 3D display. They went from small B&W tvs to 4K flatscreens, they could do similar progress with this.
Great thinking! That would be incredible. A "high resolution" human size display. Or even just a smaller cube as presented above. It would be interesting to see a "video" being played through the cube. A tree whooshing in the wind. Or even a tabletop "zoo"
This has the spirit of demo making :) The firework effect is awesome !
Need to see this inside a box of two way mirrors. An inimity cube. 😳
Please someone make a proper voxel rendering engine for it ! This deserves a lot more than simple maths patterns. 🙏
Imagine this with high-resolution, like 500x500x500 or above, and realy small and transparent components. Imagine a game in that "screen". Awesome project, looking foward for future ones.
this thing already uses 4kW when all white O.O
I’m used to seeing these being built with single-color LEDs, so I was blown away to see a multi-color led in a cube (and all the additional bends and connections)
This was the project (8x8x8) that I wanted to take to the final exam many years ago, but I wasn't able to find all the necessary hardware components. Fantastic job
This seems like something that could be mass produced by encasing the LEDs in clear plastic and having standard connectors so you can put as many together in any configuration you want.
Name your price.
You said it. I want a house made of this thing.
@@thetruthexperiment😂😂🎉
@@sonus289ya ' but I'm calling for your cars extended warranty sir '
$69
Awesome and trippy, want to jam on some Pink Floyd
This looks like a nice project for someone with 400 spare hours on hand. Or someone with 400 spare hands and an hour.
If anyone is wondering how you can set the colour of each individual LED:
It uses "addressable" LEDs. Each LED actually has a tiny chip inside. They have four legs: power, ground, data in, data out. The data is passed from one LED to the other, the first one takes its own value and passes the data on to the next LED which takes the next value and so on. I'm not sure on specific implementation but for example the data might look like this for three LEDs using [R, G, B] values where the first LED is to be set to red, the second green and the third blue. The first LED receives: [[255, 0, 0], [0, 255, 0], [0, 0, 255]], it takes its own value [255, 0, 0] which is red, and passes the rest [[0, 255,0], [0, 0, 255]] on to the second LED etc. There will also be a brightness value but I've ignored that for simplicity.
I believe that probably, due to response times, he is not using addressable LEDs, as handling such a large quantity could create a potentially visible delay. In his case, I am more convinced that he is using the following:
"In the case of 4-pin RGB LEDs without an integrated controller, a common method to control them is by using a microcontroller and shift registers. A shift register is a digital circuit that can be used to expand the number of output pins of a microcontroller. It allows you to control multiple LEDs using a serial connection."
you should totally run a fluid sim inside of this
admire the patience for wiring up 4096 LEDs x 4 wires.....
That firework effect was awesome ! Wish this was sold as a kit.
The wiring was as much a work of art as the output. Great work man. I'd like to see a rotating galaxy with a few random super nova's.
I am speechless. Astonishing.
Assuming those leds can show any color, I would think it wouldnt take a lot, to write some code that could downsample a video to 16x16 pixels, and then convert the colors of the bitmap to the leds. Then as you rapidly change each led to match the video, you could rotate the coordinates for each pixel, and literally see the video rotate along for example the Y-axis. Additionally, you could convert a text message that is shown in the pixel matrix.
a work of art, patience and knowledge
Stunning work!
A 3D audio visualizer would be pretty sweet.
Absolutely awesome. I will build this as a birthday gift for my daughter. Thanx for sharing! Thumbs up!!
Absolutely amazing build. Just beautiful and mesmerising to watch the finished product. Joyous!
This is gorgeous and telling of the creator's skill and passion. Bravo.
Imagine the further we advance in technology, and if led lights got as small as a grain of rice or sand
There could be "Hologram" animations!!!!!
We're not too far away! I'm sure it will involve optic lights!
IDEA... if you find LEDs where the resin coating is as clear as possible then find the matching resin you could solidify the whole matrix into a block of clear resin therefore making the led resin casings invisible and you'd only have the visual impedance of the wires and diodes. Furthermore, I was thinking if you can find a resin that had the same refractive qualities of water it would theoretically be possible to make a water electrolyte and micro canals in said resin to make the wires invisible. Then you would only see some light refraction within the matrix block itself and the individual diodes... granted all this would require some new special equipment and manufacturing processes but holy crap... with small enough diodes you could theoretically achieve a very high fidelity translucent led matrix with very little visual obstructions. it would be a quality volumetric display.
The basic version of hologram, like in iron man movies...😂😂😂
This is insane. I am speechless to see such beautiful creation.😍
Truly a thing of beauty. Totally mesmerising, I was thinking how something like this would look at the size of a room, it would blow people away.
It did blow people away when trailer-sized ones were an attraction on plenty of Burning Man festivals. You could lie under one on your back and look up at all the "moving" lights.
I showed my very tech-afraid grandma this and she said, "It's too weird for me" 😂
Makes me wonder what it'd look like with reflective tint on the insides. Basically those infinity cubes/mirrors but with an addressable LED cube array.
Love from India…one of the best projects I have ever seen. Great job buddy.I have no words to express this .Hats off to you brother.
That cube is absolutely totally awesome! It gorgeous!! I would so buy one of those. It's amazing that you were able to build this thing yourself. Good for you. So cool.
You could totally play 3d snake with this thing that would be cool. Or at least a light sequence that looks like it
This is one of the coolest things I've seen.
Now connect it to Home Automation as a visualization of your voice assistant looking like a magical wisp, pulsating with each and every word they say.
Truly magical
Wow, just WOW!!!! What a fantastic project. Absolutely awesome. Thank you for sharing.
having one of those as a room lamp has to be cool
This would probably be really fun on Acid
This is phenomenal. Imagine this on a bigger scale. Well done
Now this is impressive. Multi-discipline mastery. I love it!!!
Absolutely terrific. Saw this on Reddit and thought it might be a good project. However having just bought a soldering iron, maybe after I get a few more under my belt.
It's not a bad soldering project. Just a lot 😂
i have seen some of these but nothing in this kind of quality holy shit that is stunning
you got some nerves man
keep up the good work
maybe modular for diy and then sell the kit
Those fireworks looks amazing. good work!
Absolutely amazing! I made a 3x3x3 and it took me forever :) What you have done is a work of art and an incredible achievement.
As an LED programmer myself, color me impressed!
I see what you did there
Thank you Dave!
I’m a big fan of your channel. In the beginning i came there mostly for led related topics. But you can even make changing light bulbs or Windows topics interesting although i switched to mac years ago ;)
This is absolutely amazing, I'm not sure I have the skills to make this myself... But nothings stopping me from trying.
Do it! Just watch out for cats.
Absolutely love this - amazing idea, design, work, persistence and video. Thank you for sharing.
Stunning. It must be amazing to watch in person.
One of the, BEST, videos on TH-cam. Takes me back when content was actually good and inspiring.
Wow.
A game of classic snake might be a fun in a 3d array like this
I've watched video's about these cubes a decade ago. I finally need to build my own one :D
Spectacular build Daniël. I’m in awe simply of the patience required to prepare all of the LEDs!
And every creator should have a Wesley to supervise their builds! 😻
I have 4 cats now, and 2 of them aren’t afraid of my fume extractor. One of them even attacks it when i power it on… Only work i can get done when they are asleep 😬 I also use a lot of decoy wires that will throw their attack sequence off 😂
@@MaltWhiskey 🤣 Great strategies there!