Looks awesome! Wish i could have one of these in my room!

it is entertaining to watch and sure is a conversation starter!
although it is incredibly bright, so maybe it being in your room would make it harder to sleep :P

i found instructions to make something like this on youtube

there are instructions for things like this all over the web :3
I used a template for the layers but neglected to follow any specific instructions, but for those who wanted to there is no reason not to! :3

haha awesome, but why? xD

ah, why not? :D

I dunnow, takes up space? although, I'm guessing it's worth it xD

it is kind of large, but its fun to look at! id say its worth it!

agreed

How do I use a shit register?

there is a really nice arduino library called shiftOut that can handle all of the complicated things for you, and its really the best route. find the article and read up on it, its not too complicated :3 for me, i just wrote binary values (1,2,4,8,16,32) to it to turn on the pins, but i also deconstructed the shiftOut example a bit.

still, start there and you should be able to figure it out :3 the 595 is the register you'll need, and they are very common!

You should read my reply, I was being coy to your misspelling.. "it has 7 shit registers"

oh, my bad!

indeed, and thank you!

i love those. I've always wanted to make one but I lack the skills in hardware and soldering :(

it was very extensive work, no doubt about it! and the construction of the cube itself is indeed not for the faint of heart :P just make sure that if you do try it, test each LED before putting it in! :P

im assuming you ran in to that problem xD

Thankfully, no. I wasn't going to make that mistake! :P

VIDEO!

Sheeeeiiiiiit..... I rememeber these as high-school projects when the most advanced technology was 74LS
(feels old)

LOL! You had low power schottky why, when *I* was a colt we had ECL! and we had to carry the electrons on our back to get 'em where we wanted 'em! Up hill! Both ways! IN WINTER!!!

Ahhhh, but ECL was clocking into the GHz (as scanner prescalers), while the best 74S could make 70MHz

I know!! Good stuff.. Need to count at 250MHZ? No problemo.. :) Though that shit did run *HOT* oh my god hot. Had a mil spec one that got *HOT*, and like a tardnugget I was touching ic's to see if any were running too hot. Yeah, that one was, so hot that when I touched that metal cap of it, the solder that was holding the cap in place had reached tectic an the lil fucker came up, stuck to the end of my finger.... did you know finger tips smell like bacon when they get seared???

LOL my friend just threw in the garbage a ton of those old TTL's when he did some house cleaning the other day. Most of them are not even available anymore. Why one would bother when all you can do is just replace the part with a programmed microcontroler that cost a fraction of the original one and can do a billion more things. Not only that but way back, one had to drive the thing with a computer like a commodore 64 in order to have some action. And it was slow as hell if the program was not in machine language. Those old computer were clocking at a whopping speed of 2 Mhz!!

Lots of reasons!! Mostly because they just want the old machine up and running and don't want to do a full blown redesign with new parts. That pile of old ttl probably could have sold on ebay for a surprisingly high amount of money. I have a Kim I that I have to futz with this weekend. IF it works, that thing ought to fetch over $500 as an antique computer. Crazy stuff. also, they still sell simple gate logic. It's mostly used for external signal conditioning and very simple external logic when you want to do things like feed preconditioned signals into a cpu so that you don't have to screw around with writing code for monitoring a particular line, or in the instances where you need a super low response time.

I make things with vacuum tubes. I make a f**ktonne of money making things with vacuum tubes. A friend makes a good deal buying, selling, trading unobtanium chips like the ones you disrespected

I can probably link you to my vine account, which has some videos of it, if that works :3

Dude, this is VERY VERY cool! I've wanted to build one for a while, but have just *ZERO* spare time to do so! Awesome build!! now make a few pics and turn 'em into an animated gif for your icon!! ;) Also, if you can provide some you tube links to see it in action? that would be pretty sweet.

Thanks!

I can probably link you to my vine account which has a few videos of it in action :3

That'd be cool! I'd like to see it running. :) I <3 stuff like that and have actualy been wanting to build my own 3d led cube, but just have not had the time.

wow, i completely forgot about this! ^^;
if you still wanted to see it in action (if you havent already :P) these are the two videos i have of it doing all of the patterns i have coded for it.

https://vine.co/v/MjJ6A3dlD2z
https://vine.co/v/MjKXerHVJrB

Niiice! :)

:3

and since I posted that comment, I have done another revision to the code, which added more patterns to the cube, among other things. Im getting pretty close to the maximum amount of code a person can burn to a 328! (mind you, i could probably clean up some parts of the code A LOT)

Cool. :) Yeah, code can always, it seems, be cleaned up some.

Very cool and nicely done. Something I also want to do in the future.

He nice. That is definitively something that I'll want to build eventually. Where do you get the time... I can't hardly do a tenth of all the stuff I want to do... Hell just cutting the grass this spring is almost a full time job. If you look at it I can swear that you can see it growing. LOL
I've been thinking about it ever since I saw those huge one they have in shopping mall. Not only that but those had three color leds and are about two feet by two feet!!

He he... you're certainly getting the chat going. LOL In just the time it took me to wrote the above message I think the message content here have double.