Absolutely incredible project, what a work of art! I'm really curious what it would look like with one way mirrors as a case around it, it would be the coolest infinity-mirror cube ever!
You could potentially even make it able to polarize between clear and one way, forgoing the need to swap back and forth. Not sure if this is possible with one-way mirrors but it is with regular ones
@@MaltWhiskey I thought it uses something like 1.2 kW, so it should be noticable. Or did I misread? Ah wait, that is probably the power reserve that you need in case all LEDs go full power at the same time, so the average dissipation will be far less.
I am at glad i found this. Absolutely amazing and EXACTLY what I envisioned in my mind! I am so happy you shared your knowledge and hard work. Thank you!
It's like the perfect fusion of technology and art. This and the game The Last of Us are the most incredible examples of technology as art I've ever seen. I mean like when it's so profound and touches you and you know it's genius beyond 99.999999 percent of earth's population. I'd love to see that in person. What do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking?
Would not recommend a pi for this project. As @Malt Whiskey said, you don't know what the OS is doing. If some thread takes priority in the middle of outputting data to the LEDs, the effect will glitch out. If you want high level control from the PI, you're better off using the pi to generate animations and sending those to an MCU for output.
Amazing! I am imagining this done with smd leds and using much more leds (32x32x32) although I can imagine the complexity of soldering everything together and the power consumption at full load
Bruh, that mario thing just made me want to make this simply so I can have a floating mario coin. If only I knew how to do any of this 😂 This is crazy man, mad props and respect to you
I watched the build video. I'm astounded at how amazing this looks. The time the patience. The knowledge. Honestly amazing work. I would much rather buy one off you than attempt to build myself as I fear I'll be left bald and 1/3 of my manhood left in tact.
I know even an 8x8x8 can be hard to build. This is the insane cousin. But i cheated a bit by not using rgb leds but addressable leds instead. Makes the electronics a lot easier. And much brighter.
I've been wanting to build one of these and use it as a Xmas decor in my front-yard for years, but I completely lack the skill level required to actually build one :( Mad respect for you for having actually built one of these!
If you put mirrors on the bottom , and one of the left and right side of the cube, making 3x mirrors in total you would get an infinity mirror and it would create the appearance that the animations continue to move to an interdimensional space beyond our realm. the wave and warpdrive animations would have appeared to continue infinitely. very cool project
I would love to build one of these, but it's a little outside of my comfort zone with the current amount of instructions. I'm mostly unsure of the wiring between the even/odd stacks, and how they interface with the "PCB". If you make something like a PDF instruction booklet with details and diagrams, I'm sure people would be willing to pay for it! I know I would. This is an incredible project.
I wonder how one of these would look inside an infinity mirror? That would be interesting. Also, this is the most unique and convincing 3D imaging device I have ever seen. Other devices may be capable of producing higher quality and detailed images, but this is the only one I've seen that truly gives the impression of being 3rd dimensional.
I have a 4x4x4 infinity version and building a 9x9x9 right now. Maybe i will make a new video of those in the summer holiday. Making the 16x16x16 an infinity mirror would be too expensive, the 2 way mirror glass costs an arm and a leg 😕
Cool! So, if you shrunk down the arrows and add tail fins and eyes then you would have a fish bowl! You could even use the depth to your advantage by having fish swimming behind and in front of each other...
Just stunning. Have you tried using a slightly darker acrylic case. I think the leds would be very visible but the the structure would be less visible. Something like a smoky grey. Thanks.for this its such an obvious labour of love.
This might also reduce reflections and make the Mario animation more clear with some luck. Really tempting to try this glorious cube, maybe I'll start with a more manageable size :D
Really enjoyable results. I love the Helix and warpdrive as so many do. The fludity of it all is beyond good. And this project is fastly becoming a behavioural experiement for feline improbable sittings ;) Great work. Kuddos for sharing the code for the files pcb and so on. I do hope this Open hardware mouvement is going to make real change on how people view innovation. Shame such an array of programmable leds is still so expensive. Could you recommend a 'downsized' version 8x8x8 for trying out ? (my bad for the spelling approximations)
This project is down scaleable. Just make 4 towers half as high. I have made a few different sizes 4x5x4 for example. And instead of the teensy and the pcb i used an esp32 on a stripboard with a level shifter. The code can be changed to use the fastled library and use 8 channels instead of 32, my animation code is also easy to scale and has (mostly) adaptive timing so if you use a slower or faster microcontroller i will still play at the same speed. (A trick i learned from game development) I haven’t seen any usable open source/hardware cubes using these kind of leds. I have a video where i make the 4x5x4 but it’s over 6 hours long and right now i can’t edit this. I can make a few pictures of the stripboard with level shifter and help you a bit when you have a tower ready.
@@MaltWhiskey First off, incredible project! I'm curious about something though, you mentioned you made a smaller one using an ESP32. This is exactly what I want to make (5x5x5 probably, using WS2812B LEDs or similar), but I'm struggling to find the firmware. Most good ones, e.g. WLED, don't have 3d support, and pixelblaze (one that does), is way too expensive. Did you just use the firmware for the teensy on the esp32, with some modifications? Or did you write a new one, or something else? Any details would be appreciated (and if you could share the fw, that would be even better!). Thank you!
@@thetechy9442 It can be as easy as this github.com/MaltWhiskey/Technasium/blob/main/Tech%20Cube/Software/Easy%20Example/src/main.cpp (4x4x4) Or a bit more complex (9x9x9) also on esp32 github.com/MaltWhiskey/Technasium/tree/main/Tech%20Cube%209x9x9/software/Infinity%20Display/src
@@MaltWhiskey Oh awesome, didn't realise it was all already available, thanks! A couple of questions though, for the 4x4x4 cube, there's all the different firmware's (advanced example, animation example, easy example, webpage etc), what exactly is the difference? I'd love to be able to control it from a webpage, but I'd also like a few built-in animations, since I can't code. Which version is best to use? And also, can I just download the folder, open it in VSC and click upload on Platform IO? Or do I need to do some more configuration? Thanks! (and sorry for all the questions)
@@thetechy9442 Open the folder in vscode and upload, easy as that. Those links are only examples, you can do whatever you want in your own code. But the more complex versions have all kinds of “ballast” like animation frameworks. If you just want to start simple take the easy example and make it your own.
You still got this cube? I wonder how is look like if you put miror at the side (corner that facing the wall) and at the bottom.. just found your video, and start looking for other.. some put mirror on it.. great job.
Dude, if I haven't overlooked it, what's missing there is a good _fire animation,_ like with Dave's Garage "my shop's on fire" - but he has only 2D, how cool must this look in 3D, best electric fireplace in the world possibly (and similar energy requirements, lol)
This is incredible! Very impressive! Me thoughts that it might be interesting to visualize 3 body problem. Imagine infinity chaotic dance of 3 objects. Might be very addictive to watch
This is amazing and beautiful! Animations might look a little clearer if reflections on the wall were eliminated. Maybe a couple pieces of black posterboard? From the dollar store if you have them there. And remove the shields. Maybe when Wesley's down at the pub? To minimize reflections from the base you could thread strips of black through. Curious to see the results, if any.
Removing the shield would be quite the risc since Wesley is one of my 4 cats 🫣I agree on the black background, but i also have a smaller 9x9x9 infinity mirror version. And when intended those reflections are amazing 🤩
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This is such a cool project and I would love to make one myself but I'm afraid it's outside my skill level for now. An interesting animation idea would be to have a simple gravity simulation, with a few spheres orbiting each other, I think it could look very nice. It might be hard to make sure the orbits stay stable though.
Don't think it needs to be a precise physics simulation to look cool, just give the spheres a path and a speed (or speed gradient trough the path) and it should look convincing enough
ive made one of these! from icube smart !, took me months, the built in software for the patterns is great, but the download hardware on it will not let me connect to any p.c port for downloading and installing other code !, ive tried different ports, even different p.c with no joy !. could an external adrino nano be somehow connected to the circuit board to run off that!
Is there smaller light's and thinner wire e an if is dimmer to refuse the visibility of the wires and lights. It might need a frame to hold up the week thin wire structure
You could also go much further and do a game on this cube like space invaders! Its very hard i guess but since u are this talented im sure you could get it done! Nice work and greetings from Germany!
This is amazing. With the spectrum analyser, is it possible to use FFTs to show a waveform for each frequency channel in each one of the 16x16 vertical planes? I'd love to see one at double density (32x32x32) with bottom and two rear sides painted matt black for better contrast. How much did this cost to build?
Fft transforms the composite wave form from the time domain to the frequency domain. So you can generate 16 pure sine waves from the frequency domain and display that on 16 planes. Not sure if it looks good, but it sounds interesting 🤔
This would be awesome for looking at vektor fields and level fields, I need one of those, I have to check if I can get my school to give me all the materials xD
All the new animations were incredible but the spectrum analyser was out of this world. Loved it
The cat was amazing
I can hardly make any video without the cat in it. The cube is his favorite spot 😂
😂😂a los gatos les gusta la electrónica
@@MaltWhiskey hello Brother, can you make cube LED with low watt (around 500 watts ^^)
There should be an aquarium animation just for him
Absolutely incredible project, what a work of art!
I'm really curious what it would look like with one way mirrors as a case around it, it would be the coolest infinity-mirror cube ever!
You could potentially even make it able to polarize between clear and one way, forgoing the need to swap back and forth. Not sure if this is possible with one-way mirrors but it is with regular ones
You are invented the really 4D... For movie, photo, records, video-calls.. Impressive.... Amazing.. 😮🎉🎉🎉😮
Wesley enjoying the warmth while we enjoy the visual spectacle...
It isn’t really warmer than the rest of the room. It’s just that he “helped” build it and now he owns it 🤣
@@MaltWhiskey I thought it uses something like 1.2 kW, so it should be noticable. Or did I misread? Ah wait, that is probably the power reserve that you need in case all LEDs go full power at the same time, so the average dissipation will be far less.
Dang that’s incredible! I think there’s a lot of LED/DIY stuff on RUclips, but this is one of the absolute coolest ones I’ve seen.
I'm late to this build but a rain falling affect seems like a completely amazing chill animation for this thing!
I went for more pronounced effects with this one, didn’t even try rain, but it’s one of my favorite effects in my smaller cubes.
a jelly fish might suit too
Does it try to begin with a one point at the center and then gow it up to a sphere?
@@MaltWhiskeythat's basically what the warp drive is tho
I am at glad i found this. Absolutely amazing and EXACTLY what I envisioned in my mind! I am so happy you shared your knowledge and hard work. Thank you!
It transports me in another dimension. So amazing! What a great work.
Amazing display, you can literally watch this all day!
This is such a great project, I want to do something simillar just with raspberry pi's and mutch smaller, I'll see how it turns out
I have no clue how to do this with a Pi. I’m more for direct hardware manipulation, instead of wondering what my OS is doing 😂
@@MaltWhiskey Im excited to look at the code once it pushed up! This kind of stuff is out of my skill level but still eager to see what I can find!
It's like the perfect fusion of technology and art. This and the game The Last of Us are the most incredible examples of technology as art I've ever seen. I mean like when it's so profound and touches you and you know it's genius beyond 99.999999 percent of earth's population. I'd love to see that in person.
What do you do for a living if you don't mind me asking?
Would not recommend a pi for this project. As @Malt Whiskey said, you don't know what the OS is doing. If some thread takes priority in the middle of outputting data to the LEDs, the effect will glitch out.
If you want high level control from the PI, you're better off using the pi to generate animations and sending those to an MCU for output.
Amazing! I am imagining this done with smd leds and using much more leds (32x32x32) although I can imagine the complexity of soldering everything together and the power consumption at full load
So beautiful, great work!
Wow, so well done. I am genuinely in awe.
I see the beginnings of 3D TV.
Well done. An absolutely fantastic achievement. Looks like you got Wesley’s approval too.
I love the pictures of Wesley on the wal! It's so cute.
Bruh, that mario thing just made me want to make this simply so I can have a floating mario coin. If only I knew how to do any of this 😂
This is crazy man, mad props and respect to you
I watched the build video.
I'm astounded at how amazing this looks. The time the patience. The knowledge. Honestly amazing work.
I would much rather buy one off you than attempt to build myself as I fear I'll be left bald and 1/3 of my manhood left in tact.
Having only completed the 8x8x8 this week I am confident that the 16x16x16 is the ultimate for me. You built yours with RGB leds! 😱
I know even an 8x8x8 can be hard to build. This is the insane cousin. But i cheated a bit by not using rgb leds but addressable leds instead. Makes the electronics a lot easier. And much brighter.
Respect ❤
Thanks for sharing your talent 😊
I've been wanting to build one of these and use it as a Xmas decor in my front-yard for years, but I completely lack the skill level required to actually build one :( Mad respect for you for having actually built one of these!
Wesley took ownership of the cube, absolutely amazing work, thanks for sharing 🙂
You could greatly increase the dramatic appearance by adding matte black panels to cover the two sides facing the walls. Huge difference.
That’s actually a very good idea. You are the first to suggest this and i also didn’t consider this before.
what if there were mirrors?
If you put mirrors on the bottom , and one of the left and right side of the cube, making 3x mirrors in total you would get an infinity mirror and it would create the appearance that the animations continue to move to an interdimensional space beyond our realm. the wave and warpdrive animations would have appeared to continue infinitely. very cool project
Don’t you also need 1 way mirrors too?
Stunning Cube 🤩🤩🤩🤩
I can imagine how much effort and time you have spent on building this 👍👍
Love from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🙏🙏
I would love to build one of these, but it's a little outside of my comfort zone with the current amount of instructions. I'm mostly unsure of the wiring between the even/odd stacks, and how they interface with the "PCB". If you make something like a PDF instruction booklet with details and diagrams, I'm sure people would be willing to pay for it! I know I would. This is an incredible project.
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‘Wow’ seems like such an understatement, but…….wow!
WOW, no words sorry.
Just amazing
This is so beautiful. I feel like I am travelling in the vast interstellar space. 🌌🛸🚀 ❤❤❤❤❤
I wonder how one of these would look inside an infinity mirror? That would be interesting.
Also, this is the most unique and convincing 3D imaging device I have ever seen. Other devices may be capable of producing higher quality and detailed images, but this is the only one I've seen that truly gives the impression of being 3rd dimensional.
I have a 4x4x4 infinity version and building a 9x9x9 right now. Maybe i will make a new video of those in the summer holiday. Making the 16x16x16 an infinity mirror would be too expensive, the 2 way mirror glass costs an arm and a leg 😕
this is breathtaking. let's see how far can you take this .
such a sick animations . I think a fish tank scene would look cool or like a yin and yang swimming around each other
Loved the double helix!
Cool! So, if you shrunk down the arrows and add tail fins and eyes then you would have a fish bowl! You could even use the depth to your advantage by having fish swimming behind and in front of each other...
I could stare at this all day long.
Looks sweet, thanks for the update! Time to ask my wallet nicely and see if I have the space for one before I even think about building this.
You can build a smaller one 😉
Amazing project!!! Very impressive.
1:06 that cat went to final stage of meditation with this cube
A screen saver icon bouncing around would be funny
Daniel, you're a badass!!! Please more of this!👏👏👋😁👍
Just stunning. Have you tried using a slightly darker acrylic case. I think the leds would be very visible but the the structure would be less visible. Something like a smoky grey. Thanks.for this its such an obvious labour of love.
That may look good. In time the copper wires will oxidize to black so that may improve things also.
This might also reduce reflections and make the Mario animation more clear with some luck. Really tempting to try this glorious cube, maybe I'll start with a more manageable size :D
Love how your cat just chills on top of the cube.
Ever thought of doing fire works? Thanks for sharing all your hard work!
He did it in his previous video
Really enjoyable results. I love the Helix and warpdrive as so many do. The fludity of it all is beyond good.
And this project is fastly becoming a behavioural experiement for feline improbable sittings ;)
Great work. Kuddos for sharing the code for the files pcb and so on. I do hope this Open hardware mouvement is going to make real change on how people view innovation.
Shame such an array of programmable leds is still so expensive.
Could you recommend a 'downsized' version 8x8x8 for trying out ?
(my bad for the spelling approximations)
This project is down scaleable. Just make 4 towers half as high. I have made a few different sizes 4x5x4 for example. And instead of the teensy and the pcb i used an esp32 on a stripboard with a level shifter. The code can be changed to use the fastled library and use 8 channels instead of 32, my animation code is also easy to scale and has (mostly) adaptive timing so if you use a slower or faster microcontroller i will still play at the same speed. (A trick i learned from game development)
I haven’t seen any usable open source/hardware cubes using these kind of leds.
I have a video where i make the 4x5x4 but it’s over 6 hours long and right now i can’t edit this. I can make a few pictures of the stripboard with level shifter and help you a bit when you have a tower ready.
@@MaltWhiskey First off, incredible project! I'm curious about something though, you mentioned you made a smaller one using an ESP32. This is exactly what I want to make (5x5x5 probably, using WS2812B LEDs or similar), but I'm struggling to find the firmware. Most good ones, e.g. WLED, don't have 3d support, and pixelblaze (one that does), is way too expensive.
Did you just use the firmware for the teensy on the esp32, with some modifications? Or did you write a new one, or something else? Any details would be appreciated (and if you could share the fw, that would be even better!). Thank you!
@@thetechy9442 It can be as easy as this github.com/MaltWhiskey/Technasium/blob/main/Tech%20Cube/Software/Easy%20Example/src/main.cpp (4x4x4)
Or a bit more complex (9x9x9) also on esp32 github.com/MaltWhiskey/Technasium/tree/main/Tech%20Cube%209x9x9/software/Infinity%20Display/src
@@MaltWhiskey Oh awesome, didn't realise it was all already available, thanks! A couple of questions though, for the 4x4x4 cube, there's all the different firmware's (advanced example, animation example, easy example, webpage etc), what exactly is the difference? I'd love to be able to control it from a webpage, but I'd also like a few built-in animations, since I can't code. Which version is best to use?
And also, can I just download the folder, open it in VSC and click upload on Platform IO? Or do I need to do some more configuration? Thanks! (and sorry for all the questions)
@@thetechy9442 Open the folder in vscode and upload, easy as that. Those links are only examples, you can do whatever you want in your own code. But the more complex versions have all kinds of “ballast” like animation frameworks. If you just want to start simple take the easy example and make it your own.
Sir please upload new project.your skills are amazing.
You still got this cube? I wonder how is look like if you put miror at the side (corner that facing the wall) and at the bottom.. just found your video, and start looking for other.. some put mirror on it.. great job.
"ART" right there😍🙌
Absolutely amazing!
Cat: "dude, I've got this spot i go hangout after blazing some dank catnip"
Dude, if I haven't overlooked it, what's missing there is a good _fire animation,_ like with Dave's Garage "my shop's on fire" - but he has only 2D, how cool must this look in 3D, best electric fireplace in the world possibly (and similar energy requirements, lol)
You should try putting mirrors on the two sides that are against the walls, it might add a really interesting infinity effect
Absolutely spectacular.
Good job, I get more inspiration from your videos. 🎉
This is incredible!
Wooooow vera maari vera maari🔥🔥
This is extremely cool. Wow
Awesome Effects and Cat-Proofed ;)
This is incredible! Very impressive!
Me thoughts that it might be interesting to visualize 3 body problem. Imagine infinity chaotic dance of 3 objects. Might be very addictive to watch
I wanna buy THIS =)
The cat knows that you made it for him. It is his illuminated throne, lol
This is amazing and beautiful! Animations might look a little clearer if reflections on the wall were eliminated. Maybe a couple pieces of black posterboard? From the dollar store if you have them there. And remove the shields. Maybe when Wesley's down at the pub? To minimize reflections from the base you could thread strips of black through. Curious to see the results, if any.
Removing the shield would be quite the risc since Wesley is one of my 4 cats 🫣I agree on the black background, but i also have a smaller 9x9x9 infinity mirror version. And when intended those reflections are amazing 🤩
Nice work man. I've always wanted to build a large LED cube, but it's so much work :/
Maybe one day.
Echt heeeel gaaf hoor!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😃Super!!!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🙂en de Ambient muziek past ook heeel goed bij je nieuwe programma's voor je Gave Led Kubus indd!👍🏼👍🏼🙂Top!!!😎
It would be awesome to have a spectrum analyser that was a ball and pulsed from the centre outwards in different directions! Great work though!!!
tak sanggup saya melihatnya sangat, sangat luar biasa 👍👍😍
i really want to buy this
absolutely beautiful ❤
This is such a cool project and I would love to make one myself but I'm afraid it's outside my skill level for now. An interesting animation idea would be to have a simple gravity simulation, with a few spheres orbiting each other, I think it could look very nice. It might be hard to make sure the orbits stay stable though.
Don't think it needs to be a precise physics simulation to look cool, just give the spheres a path and a speed (or speed gradient trough the path) and it should look convincing enough
I'm absolutely amazed by this creation! Congrates mate. Can you tell me which types of LED you used and give the overall circuit (if possible)?
All is shared on github. The “leds” are pl9823, but ws281x would also work.
@@MaltWhiskey I'm glad you are still here. You haven't posted in a great while. Hope you are happy.
The cat recharges it energy’s from the cube 😂
ive made one of these! from icube smart !, took me months, the built in software for the patterns is great, but the download hardware on it will not let me connect to any p.c port for downloading and installing other code !, ive tried different ports, even different p.c with no joy !. could an external adrino nano be somehow connected to the circuit board to run off that!
came for the animations, stayed for the cat
what about cutting the distance down between LEDs and do a 64x64x64 or would it be too cluttered? 32x32x32 might work too
try using a polariser when shooting video of the cube. see what happens
Is there smaller light's and thinner wire e an if is dimmer to refuse the visibility of the wires and lights. It might need a frame to hold up the week thin wire structure
Amazing cat bed!
Indeed 🤣
Nice cube and BGM
Thanks, i did really put in an effort to find good royalty free music.
It's amazing!
Very nice!
that cat is livinnnnnnn
Try to put 2 mirrors at back for more impact ! Or make an infinit mirror for it 🎉
so cool
Hi Matt
Nice video! Did you use java to programm the leds?
how much it will be cost if i want to buy this one??
You could also go much further and do a game on this cube like space invaders! Its very hard i guess but since u are this talented im sure you could get it done!
Nice work and greetings from Germany!
Game of Life one was the best usecase I have seen yet :). Is there a Tomagachi'like ai that can be run? a digipet in this 'cage' would be insane.
I wish these were available to buy. If you could mass produce these, I'm sure you would sell many.
Perfect for me ❤️👍
absolutely beautiful. *wipes manly tears*
This is amazing.
With the spectrum analyser, is it possible to use FFTs to show a waveform for each frequency channel in each one of the 16x16 vertical planes?
I'd love to see one at double density (32x32x32) with bottom and two rear sides painted matt black for better contrast.
How much did this cost to build?
Fft transforms the composite wave form from the time domain to the frequency domain. So you can generate 16 pure sine waves from the frequency domain and display that on 16 planes. Not sure if it looks good, but it sounds interesting 🤔
Awesome 👍
This would be awesome for looking at vektor fields and level fields, I need one of those, I have to check if I can get my school to give me all the materials xD
May I ask what the AC current draw is? Curious to know what the DC current requirement is too.
ughhhh so good
Please try turning this into an infinity cube using one-way mirrors like your rhombic dodecahedron. Maybe with mirror foil on acrylic to save money.
are there assembled ones to buy?
You should definitely add a fishtank animation with some algee
Hello,I wanna know a few things.This animation is changed in code?and I wanna this 16*16 led code I want,please,where can I get
where does one buy this
And I thought only dutch guys were crazy...
Well... I just saw that someone even outclassed me haha!
And i’m dutch so point proven? 😂
I love this but not able to build this and was wondering if you'd build one and be willing to sell it because I would love to purchase this