For a long time I’m addicted to blinking LEDs, so it was only natural to buy a LoL Shield by Jimmie P. Rogers. I ordered it at Watterott and – as usual – they delivered very quickly. With trembling hands I unpacked the parts – and decided to wait until tremor disappeared. After reading some descriptions of the assembly and watching this recommendable video from Super Awesome Sylvia. I started to solder the 126 LEDs; a good exercise.
This is a new version of the evil spider. I’ve replaced the LED in the head with two smaller LEDs in the eyes. This way the brightening is easier to see.
Some close-up photos are at the end of this post – if you fear spiders, scroll slowly down to the image with breadboard 😉
Finally my birthday present arrived: the Cube4, a 4x4x4 RGB LED cube by freetronics.The assembly was rather simple due to the good instructions an the freetronics site and the detailed video. Because I’ve been a little impatient, the cube is not 100% rectangular. The first own skteches were no problem. It’s a lot of fun to view the colourful cube.
Unfortunatly I cannot upload sketches since yesterday evening. I’m in contact with John from freetronics. So a word concerning the support of freetronics: wonderful! Quick and competent.
The patterns are:
drops: falling drops in different colours;
lines: rotating diagonals;
loop: a sort of a fountain;
defColours: show all pre-defined colours;
fill: all LEDs white, then change to random colours;
plane: shift planes from bottom to top;
single: random LEDs with random colours;
RGBCube: show RGB values from #000000, which has coordinates (0, 0, 0) to #FFFFFF, which has coordinates (3, 3, 3). Red on x axis, green on y, blue on z;
defColoursBlink: blink whole cube with pre-defined colours.
If this intro has finished, the patterns repeat in random order.
If someone has an idea how to make a better video, please let me know.
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