After spending a lot of time learning to play the guitar I felt the urge to start building my own guitars. I saw a movie called »It might get loud« where Jack White is nailing a pickup to a plank of wood, hammers nails to hold the strings and jams along. It didn’t seem too […]
After all those blogposts on how to build an LED cube it was time to actually do it. A few weeks ago I build a 4x4x4 cube. Although it is my goal to build a 8x8x8 or even larger cube, I still wanted another prototype to play around with. In case something goes wrong, I […]
There are many good websites about getting started with Arduino. Here are two of them: First of all the Arduino website itself which contains a lot of tutorials, reference documentation, schematics of the Arduino boards and more. http://www.arduino.cc/ The second resources is a tutorial PDF which is available for free and covering all the basics. http://www.earthshineelectronics.com/files/ASKManualRev4.pdf
Building the 2x2x2 cube was really easy. We literally bought the Arduino, a couple of LEDs and cables (as described here), put it together and it worked. Of course we wanted to go to the next level immediately, just like in a video game. With the same principles we built a 3x3x3 cube but this […]