52 Things R&D Lab

LED Cube is complete. Took a little time to troubleshoot some issues with my breakaway sockets. They don’t breakaway very clean and I lost a few pins. I didn’t need all the Arduino pins so it was easy to rearrange the socket so I had access to the pins I needed for the cube. Could use a little more power than I’m getting from just the power brick. When I have the USB port plugged in the LED’s run brighter. With the first project done I can get a few things done for project 2 which is going to be a simple mod for a case I use at work.

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Started the LED cube yesterday. I know all the real Makers made them 2 years ago but I was busy then. I’m a pretty decent solderer so the assembly was pretty straight forward. This is a good project for novice solderers to practice on.
The design is pretty straight forward. 27 LED’s 3 transistors and a few resistors. I’m going to use the Arduino to control the circuit for now. As a future project I’ll probably put together a one chip Arduino and mount it directly to the board.  I could also use an Ardweeny from Solarbotics.  For now I don’t need the Arduino for anything else.

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