I 3D printed a frame and mounted three ULTiM8x8 panels into a half cube.

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I 3D printed a frame and mounted three ULTiM8x8 panels into a half cube. I have it fully 3D mapped, and have it scrolling noise and palettes in any direction!

If you’d like to build and play around with one of these, please consider supporting their crowd-funding campaign: https://www.crowdsupply.com/maniacal-labs-wyolum/ultim8x8

Code: https://github.com/jasoncoon/esp8266-fastled-webserver/tree/ultim8x8
Frame: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2309657

*Disclaimer: I have backed the project, and they did send me a set to play with, but I have no other stake in this campaign.
https://youtu.be/kPwJ5k1VUr4?list=PLUYGVM-2vDxIhR9NnYLd4la8zq47jKtvi

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Thinking outside the half box. Nice Jason.

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Send Jason another 3!

=)

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@Chad_Eby yeah! Or another 21 and I’ll make a 16x16 cube! :slight_smile:

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@Chad_Eby , help us spread the word so we can supply @Jason_Coon !

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I like that cube very much. I haven’t done any RGB LED designs in over a year now but that creation is teasing me to get back into it. Great work Jason !!

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Thanks @JP_Roy ! The code should be fairly easy to adapt to other sizes, as well as truly 3D cubes like yours. I have a 6x6x6 L3D cube that I’m trying to get to work with FastLED, but it uses a STM32F103 like the Maple that’s not yet supported. I’m going to try to hack a ESP8266 into it. :slight_smile:

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@Jason_Coon Did not know they had 6x6x6 cubes.

I will have a quick look into that code and see if/how I can ‘borrow’ some of your animations. Not sure how I will pull that 3rd dimension out of it though…

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@JP_Roy yeah, the 6x6x6 is new, doesn’t use the Particle Photon, or have Arduino connectors like the 8x8x8. In fact, they don’t even have the LED0 pin exposed on a jumper/header.

You should be able to just enter the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the LEDs in your cube here, and everything should just work: https://github.com/jasoncoon/esp8266-fastled-webserver/blob/ultim8x8/Map.h

Here’s the quick diagram I drew of mine that I used to do the mapping: http://i.imgur.com/vzyETUd.jpg

And here’s the spreadsheet I used to enter all the LED indices and X, Y, and Z coordinates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14pZNTbChgENK_V_HDVS14rkKrOspDqO1k8RXZEsKztA/edit?usp=sharing