Chen Lu shared an LED edge lighting project using Adafruit NeoPixels: 2.5D Edge Lighting Pixel LED Cube, on Instructables.
LEDs are awesome, they are so tiny but bright, colorful but easy to control. Many of us start to know LED since our first lessons of electronics. And my love to LEDs started at the same time. Once I showed a LED demo to my friends at work. A girl said:I love LEDs, I gonna marry to LEDs. (she said that for real :)) I believe many of you share the same love,too.
One LED by itself is cool enough, but by the nature of human kind, we are making LEDs cooler and cooler. LED strips made one spot to a line, Matrix made it a 2D surface, some genius made LED Cubes to light up 3D space(search LED Cube projects on instructable, or check out this video, my favorite. You can even buy a 3 x 3 LED Cube kit in Radioshack for 20 bucks ).
These fancy cubes blew my mind when the first time I saw them. I knew I want to build one instantly. After some online research and messed with radioshack kit for a while. I feel it is not a easy job for me to build a big(at least 6x6x6) single color LED cube, let alone the cool RGB I want. You need pretty good soldering skills to make it work and looks nice. A lot of wiring and complicated coding.
Don’t be discouraged by me though, there are good enough tutorials for you to go through. And some practice can make perfection. I just don’t have enough time and effort to build this ultimate LED challenge(for me). I just want to build something nice before my girlfriend’s birthday(not a whole lot time), as a gift.
