Last week's Wednesday Evening Training: Building a programmable LED cube

In last week's Wednesday Evening Training (apologies for the delayed publication of this post) we learned how to build a programmable LED cube and program it with Arduino.

So, what is a LED cube anyway?
A LED cube is a cube constructed with LED's. It can have any size from 3x3x3 to 10x10x10. You can buy such a cube but building one yourself is more fun. However, behold: a 10x10x10 cube consists of 1000 LED's. That takes quite a long time soldering. Therefore we restricted ourselves to building one of 3x3x3 LED's. Programmed by an IoT device like Arduino, a LED cube is a really cool device that enables you to see in three dimensions and get some depth perception. You can create some nice 3d animations with it.
For a demo, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6P3jcxKh-k

Aishwarya Dhall, one of our IoT champions, arranged the materials and gave us instructions how to proceed.
Also thanks to Harrie van der Plas (UWV), for helping!

In our continuing quest for the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine (see my post http://hansrontheweb.blogspot.in/2018/04/this-weeks-wednesday-evening-training_26.html) we could use our LED cubes to interact with eachother, to their environment and to other IoT applications. We will see where all this is going to lead!


This week's Wednesday Evening Training
In this week's Wednesday Evening Training (today), we'll get a nice session on PowerShell. Thanks in advance, Niloufar Markazi and Carl in ‘t Veld, for preparing this!


Further reading
Want to read more on LED cubes or try buildin one yourself? Here are some links...

Instructions to some nice handson labs:
http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-LED-Cube/
http://www.pyroelectro.com/projects/8x8x8_led_cube/

And, if you can spare the time for some more soldering: some giant LED devices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7toXDJZfxug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVHP7Nhsn4E


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