INTRODUCTION:
This is the most simplest of the Designs you would get for a GOOD perfect 4*4*4 LED cube. LED cube Project uses Arduino and the design is simple enough that you can complete in around about 2 hours.
The CODE is available at the bottom as well.
One might think that aurdino has only 14 I/O pins but we can also use 6 analog pins, So with them we have enough pins to make our LED CUBE of ( 16 columns + 4 layers = 20 I/O pins )
LED CUBE Project just involves a bit of soldering so we will guide you on that through out this project.
WHAT DO WE NEED:
1- 64 LEDS Any color you want
2- Connection wires
3- Aurdino Demulionove
Optional
1- 32 male pin strip
2- PCB prototype board
3- Fine Grit (400 +) sand paper
Your choice
64 resistors or 16
you can get 64 resistors which will help by keeping all the lights at the same light out put regardless of how many are on but it will be considerably more work.
Tools:
1- Computer
2- Soldering Iron
3- Solder
4- thin nose pliers
I used GREEN LEDs so i used 100 Ohms Resistors you can use any other color and consult this website CLICK HERE FOR RESISTOR VALUES for your resistor values.
SOLDERING AND ASSEMBLY:
In this step you will need the board and the wiring. First you will want to map out were all the wires will go and then feed the wires through the board. Don't mind the LED and resistor note on the picture for now.
NOTE: I recommend you use Different color wire just because you won't get confused which wire is which.
DEFUSE THE LED:
The reason i recommend you to defuse the LED with a sand paper is that after defusion the LED's light will be uniform and will look better , all you have to do is just rub it with sand paper. A small piece will do the job. ITS OPTIONAL THOUGH!.jpg)
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HOW TO CONSTRUCT THE CUBE:
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Now there is the Easy way to do this and that is to connect all the (--) in one layer and then the columns (+) to the resistor and then board. (Look at picture diagram below) what happens is when you turn it on (all of them) the lights are dimmer then when one is on.
My solution to this was to solder a 100 ohm resistor to each LED. (Follow picture instruction on how to do it.) Everything is done in the same way only now you solder all the resistors to the column which is a piece of Ethernet wire. (See picture)
HERE IS THE CODE FOR THE LED CUBE:
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE LED CUBE CODE
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