LED Cubes
In 2014 cube-mania struck the space.
pycubedemo contains driver for the various cube boards, a cube emulator and a repository of demo patterns.
The Cubes
Mini 4x4x4 cube
A mono cube made of 64 charlieplexed 5mm LEDs (4x4x4), completed around the end of April. Constructed by pbrook.
Firmware: charliecube.
Connection is over USB. Talk to it with python cube.py -P /dev/ttyACM0 -s 4.
Martyn's desktop cube
An 8x8x8 cube of 10mm RGB LEDs in an acrylic case. Split into four independent boards, each driven by an ATMEGA328 and 3 PWM driver chips.
Connection is over wifi: when at the space it has hostname "cuboid". Talk to it with python cube.py -P cuboid:3000.
Firmware and protocol is here.
LED Array
Not a cube at all, 32x8 RGB LEDs in a rectangular array. Made around June.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajtag/14503776395/
Über Cube
The big one, about 2 metres on a side. Each pixel is a strip of 6 RGB LEDs inside a pair of nested plastic drinking cups, driven by an ATtiny (one per pixel!).
Firmware: lightcube.
Exhibited at Leeds City Museum on Friday 3rd October as part of Light Night 2014.
Matt talking about the cube and the space: Hackspace Cube.
References:
Tweets
- First Mention of Uber Cube on Twitter
- Setup in Leeds City Museum
- Leeds HS Advertising
- Round of applause
- Tinman
- Emma Cheshire 2
- Tom Forth
- Keith Watson
- Paul Connell
- York Hackspace
- Light Night Leeds
- Leeds Data Mill
- British Art Show 8
- Leeds Art Crawl
- MPI Agency
- Dominic Hopkinson 2
- Wilf
- CO9
- Mike Wallis
Youtube