8x8x8 PICAXE LED cube project

Buzby

Senior Member
Following on from the hijacked thread in the forum, I decided to open a blog (ugh!) to carry it on in.

My background is in software development, and while I like the electronics (altho I'm not very good at it) I'm going to get as much of a kick out of designing the patterns as I will out of actually making a big cube that works.
Did you look at cubesense ?

It seems that it is just one of many tools to let you program routines in VB or C which generate patterns.
The example I opened was a 'text train effect', with the letters coming towards you as if out of a tunnel.
It can also save the the resulting patterns in a file with some kind of standarised format, which can be read by various commercial 2D or 3D display hardware.

I've not played with it much, and the idea of writing VB/C for patterns doesn't appeal to me anyway, but there are libraries of pre-written stuff available anyway.

Now that I know I don't have to write code I have had a re-think. Don't hold your breath, but I'm going to have a bash at building an 8x8x8 !.

From the picture design point of view it doesn't matter if the LEDs are Charlixed, Multixed, or direct driven, a standardised file can be translated into the required format.

I am going to try Charlieplexing first, but the actual LED cube is going to be easily re-configurable as a standard multiplexed design.

LEDs on order as we speak !.
 
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