Nice to see how you did this. I found this project back in a box after I bought it in 2014 or so and never finished it. All I did was solder the PCB, like you did, without a manual. Seeing how you did it gave me a little extra confidence 👍🏼 So now I've designed and printed a special bending jig with two rulers especially designed for two different heights. These are printed as well and it works really well to bend the LED's this way. It's just a lot of work 😅 I guess I'll get to soldering tomorrow. Our kits look identical, so I expect the same results.
Great to hear that the video helped someone! Hope you manage to get yours working! It is a lot of work to put the LEDs together in a way that looks neat.
This was a huge help for me! I bought the same cube with the same missing parts. I contacted the seller and was sent instructions in Chinese for a different board. They never said anything about the missing parts, but they were easy enough to obtain.
I'm late to the party and have only just started building my LED cube ! Would love a follow up video on your experiences trying to program it ! ???? Its 3 years later ofc and you have most likely forgotten and moved on !
Yes, this cube should be able to display letters and numbers. I've been looking into programming it over the past few days. It seems like the Arduino route is a lot more complicated than they made out on the product page. I might just go with the traditional C route, there's a lot to be learnt here.
How long to complete this project from start to finish ? Did you look at other RUclips videos of these being made ? I saw one that had a cardboard template being used.
I started it on Friday evening and finished on Sunday morning. I'd say it took around 7-8 hours of work to complete, including making the template. I looked at a few write-ups online for guidance. I also saw the cardboard template, and some people have used a strip of wood with holes drilled into it, I combined the two to make an MDF template. It's a bit more rigid and durable than the cardboard.
Nice to see how you did this. I found this project back in a box after I bought it in 2014 or so and never finished it. All I did was solder the PCB, like you did, without a manual. Seeing how you did it gave me a little extra confidence 👍🏼
So now I've designed and printed a special bending jig with two rulers especially designed for two different heights. These are printed as well and it works really well to bend the LED's this way. It's just a lot of work 😅
I guess I'll get to soldering tomorrow. Our kits look identical, so I expect the same results.
Great to hear that the video helped someone! Hope you manage to get yours working! It is a lot of work to put the LEDs together in a way that looks neat.
This was a huge help for me! I bought the same cube with the same missing parts. I contacted the seller and was sent instructions in Chinese for a different board. They never said anything about the missing parts, but they were easy enough to obtain.
Yeah these kits are a bit of a gamble, the sellers are very seldom helpful when you've got any problems with them.
I got the same kit and couldn't get it to work ao I got a new one from icubesmart. That worked, perfectly.
Can’t wait to see a follow up video!
I'm late to the party and have only just started building my LED cube ! Would love a follow up video on your experiences trying to program it ! ???? Its 3 years later ofc and you have most likely forgotten and moved on !
I also have a cube with no program on it. Please let us know how to do that. I got a usb to ttl.
An 8 by 8 matrix might be able to display letters and numbers. Could you consider this type of program - that is to make a led presentation ?
Yes, this cube should be able to display letters and numbers. I've been looking into programming it over the past few days. It seems like the Arduino route is a lot more complicated than they made out on the product page. I might just go with the traditional C route, there's a lot to be learnt here.
Did the switches do anything?
How long to complete this project from start to finish ? Did you look at other RUclips videos of these being made ? I saw one that had a cardboard template being used.
I started it on Friday evening and finished on Sunday morning. I'd say it took around 7-8 hours of work to complete, including making the template. I looked at a few write-ups online for guidance. I also saw the cardboard template, and some people have used a strip of wood with holes drilled into it, I combined the two to make an MDF template. It's a bit more rigid and durable than the cardboard.
good craft!
Hi i need thes code for cube 8*8*8
Do you have an email i could send pictures of my cube and get some help, I've got the layers wrong and my lights are dim
There’s an email in “About” which you can send to.
How long assembly time
It took about 6 hours to make up the LED layers, including templates etc and then another hour or so to solder the components to the board.