Thanks for sharing this project, have just completed mine after being stuck on a few issues, which you have explained in full. Very much appreciated, don't think I could have finished it without your step by step instructions. Keep making vids similar to this one with simple steps to help novices like myself as all the other tutorials assume you have some experience.... Big thank you from the UK

I have one of these very same kits on my desk now. Thanks for answering a couple of questions I had.

Thank you so much for making these videos!

Thanks for putting this video together. Very good information.

Thanks Mate i brought a 4x4x4 kit with no instructions and learnt from ur vid :)

Thanks for posting!

Thank you very much. This kit came without instruction, so this video helped me out. But I think I will solder the LED's to a bigger cube and connect it with some wire to the board.

Great video, I think I will try it. What about the programming, can you tell us where you got it or can you make a video on getting and installing it. Thanks

The first leg is the by the on/off toggle switch?

Thanks a ton!! Ordered this kit got the parts and thought, "huh, now what."

Thank you very much. It works fine

Hey! hopefully you see this, I just started this project and wanted to ask what type of plies you were using for this and where I can get it online. and is there any other way to properly assemble the LEDs without using a drill haha, I have a very limited access to one at the moment. Thanks for the video by the way!

Hi there have you got a video on how you have made the wooden base template for the LEDs Cheers

hey there when you are connecting it all together the front row of pins which are the ground does each hole have to be connected to a 8x8?

I also purchased the same kit disappointed to find no instruction had to look on you tube to see how to make the LED cube your video also helped as with your other instruction for the electronics but I noticed you did call the capacitors resistors. Also do you know if the long nine pin resistors need to be in a certain direction? I have never seen this type of resistor.

Hello, I only have one led panel left to solder up and I will finish this 8x8 cube project, I bought the same one you have. I do have a few tips and a question. First make sure before you solder in the IC sockets you have them all in the correct places, it's a real pain to unsolder the 18 pin socket once it's soldered into a 20 pin location. Also if you watch another video showing in better detail of how to solder up the LED make sure you have the positive legs of the LED's pointing down they go into the board, the other video has the negative LED lead going into the circuit board. My question is do you know or can you direct me to where I can get some information on how to reprogram this board with different patterns?

Hey, great tutorial. I'm following along, doing my build. Small correction, the two components next to the crystal are ceramic capacitors. Not resistors.

Hi Andrew, I enjoyed this video very much but I need to know more about building the cube. I heard you say on this video that you made a video that goes into detail on soldering the LEDs together. I have gone all through your videos and can't find it. Can you tell me the name of the video, please? Thank you, Thom Mulford

How much long wood did you use? What kind of wood did you use? What I have to pay attention to the LEDs when I am soldering?

This is a fantastic project. Is it programmable through the USB cable? Or does it run a preset pattern all the time?

what are your supply voltage parameters? and what about the programming?

THX for the tutorials! - fyi my kit contained a smaller electrolytic, the bigger one goes near the power switch - you REALLY need to specify which direction that resistor array goes (dot on package near squared hole) - brightness will be messed up if you get it in backward - the switch can be put in backward so down is off/up is on, hard to tell without a DVM. not terribly important if you get it backward - those are not "two little resistors" left and right of the crystal, those are small capacitors. (my kit only had one) - don't forget to install all the sockets with their indicator matching the board, so no chips get installed wrong

THANKS MAN

This videos is a big help thanks, just one problem, I was going around the board checking for bad solder points and once I finished the cube refuses to work. The red start up Led is no longer on and it seems to be short circuiting somewhere, any idea where?

There are 4 pins on the board, labeled J3, that have VCC, ground, P30 and P31. P30 goes to pin 10 of the STC, which is the RX of the STC chip, and P31 goes to pin 11 of the STC chip, which is the TX. It seems like this cube could be controlled via an arduino or computer. If someone knows how to do so, they should post it here. I am going to play around with it. BTW, thank you for the video. The only thing that tripped me up that your video helped with was orientation of the chips, which now looking at the printing on the board makes sense (the little notch symbol).

Wondering if you have reprogrammed this cube yet. I built this cube (Thank you for the great video, it would have sucked building the cube without your instruction) but am not that happy with the default programming. Have you hooked this up for reprogramming?

Thank you a ton for the explanation. I'm very frustrated tho, when I plug the first row of "test" leds as you recommend at 7:00 I only get 3 leds lit and that's all, no blinking, nada.. I have checked dozen times all the components I have soldered (i'm not a beginner) and everything looks fine. The board is powered and all components seem to be ok. However, one of the 20 pins chips is different in the package, it's marked "7CAY76KE4", do you think that could be the cause of the problem ? (not talking about the little 18 pins one) ?

ITS VERY NICE

Inoticed S3 S2 indications on the PCB could this be to install buttons to regulate speed of the animations. (which is not include in the kit.)

really cool project but where did you buy this from ebay? and was everything included?

If you were to add an external power source to this, what would you use?? 9 volt battery, or...???

I also made a cool cube. Works great. I'm also trying to flash, but I can not control the effects from the computer. does not work . and where you can download effects for the cube

Any suggestions on where to find the correct power supply?

Key Kite. I just bought this kit . Can you tell me if there is a way to custom program these please . I assume i would need something to read the chip with ? An ic programmer maybe ?

Hi, the resistor A103J array should be soldered in with the white dot towards pin marked J1 on the board.

ANDREW I JUST FINISHED MY PROJECT I HAD A QUESTION .I SEE YOU CONNECTED THE NEGATIVE TO THE POSITIVE AT THE BOTTOM. AS I MOVE DOWN THE LINE CONNECTING THE LAYERS DO I HAVE TO BRING THE WIRE UP ONE LAYER AS I GO .KINDA LIKE STAIRS LOL OR DO I JUST CONNECT TO THEM DIRECTLY TO THAT FIRST LAYER ON THE BOTTOM? I WATCHED A DIFFERENT VID THAT SHOWED A GRAPH ON HOW ITS SUPPOSE TO BE CONNECTED BUT IM NOT SURE IF THAT RELAVANT TO THE CUBE WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER.

How long would you guess someone not that experienced with electronics will take to complete this project? I've heard anything from 10 hours to 40 hours

have a problem getting it to work properly.. the board is OK, but the led layers connecting to the board confuses me.. the side with all the positive legs goes to the main pins in the board right? what about the negative legs? the row market c1 to c8 connects to where?

Hey I just got the exact same thing on Ebay for the same price 😆

I've built this kit twice now and have the same fault on both. (I thought I'd cocked the first one up so ordered a second as they're only £12) Do you have access to an oscilloscope by chance so you could tell me what waveform you have on pins 21-28 of the microprocessor ? These pins are the clock enable for each of the LED drivers so in my opinion should have a positive cycle of 1/8th of the total on time on each leg. I'm getting a much bigger waveform on one of the pins which ties up with the fault I'm seeing. One row of the grid hardly goes off.

Where did you buy this kit?

Did you place the cathode or anode into the circuit board?

Hi Kit Army. I love it. I wanna make it by myself. I had buil led cube, but I don't have code. Could you share me this code. Thank you so much!

One of my sockets is for a 16 pin chip. But it needs a 18 pin socket of course! Can i solder the chip without the socket?

Why don't you show how to connect the layers at the end? I don't know how to connect the negative terminals at the end. Also I'm a little confused about the power cord you colored grey, where does it go? I can't see in your video.

I have the exact same kit. I was working on the chips 3:40 and after i put all 8 chips in the bases which are connected with the pcb i found out that they were all placed in the wrong direction. I had to take m all out en turn them around. Whilst doing that one leg of a chip broke and is still inside the "base" i just put the chip on top of it for now. Is there still a possibility that the led cube will work evn though one little leg of one chip broke?

The graphic insert at the beginning of the video (0:15) shows Red Green Blue (RGB) color. But the LED's only have 2 pins. Is this a RGB LED Cube or not?

I bought one of these, followed every step as mentioned, but for some reason my LED's even go on when only the positive legs are connected. I have checked every single led and they are all working how it should. When they are all together instead of one single led the whole horizontal line of it goes on...

Nice video I make also Led videos

Do you need an Arduino board to build this?? And did you use Arduino to program it?

what's the name of the motherboard?

hello apology where I get the plate to put the LEDs

we're did you get that kit?

Sir, My 8x8x8 Led board is working well but a person to whome I had gifted damaged it due to wrong voltage supply. Can it be repairable.

please give me the link of led soldering video to a cube as you mention in this video

how much does it cost on an average can it be any cheaper?

6:01 capacitor not resistor

Please man, I'm doing this for a project.

What was the total build time ?

Where can I buy this kit?

What are the dimensions of the wooden gauge plz ?

I recently got the same kit and after almost freaking out over not having any instruction I find your vid here. Thank you sir! I did actually also find a downloadable instruction set as well on ebay with p.d.f. files and color photos too. I really enjoy these types of projects. If you like, check out hypnocube.com for a 4x4x4 rgb led cube, I built that one and it is B.A. utiful! Thanks again for the great vid!

You say: "Here's my 8 by 8, i will show you how to solder in another video." Where is it? Im stuck by soldering the leds...

Hi, does anybody know how to control this kit with an arduino?

Pity that the crucial part, how to connect the leds, is out of focus and then time lapse. I still can't figure out from your video how the LEDs should be connected. i.e. which lead connects to which..

You can get this kit from Banggood.com for about 12.00USD.

guys please share effects for the cube!

Mate this is like watching paint dry.....

Hey Everyone If you are following the Instructions from Banggood's Downloaded Instruction It will tell you to place the Negative legs in the header pins , This is INCORRECT !!! Place the positive legs in the Header pin or you cube will not functions correctly I Know from this Bad mistake ...

Wow and I thought the one I built looked like shit.

Question. I am actually in the process of putting one of these together. I have 5 of the panels completed and soldered into the board. I have been letting it run as a final test of the LEDs while working on each successive panels. With panels 4 and 5 I have noticed non-geometric type shapes showing up in the patterns but wasn't quite able to make them out...that is until just recently. I realized that the non-geometric shapes were actually "I U" in succession, but problem is that they are upside down. The only solution that I can come up with is that at ukposts.info/have/v-deo/cXeapYNwnaZ9rHU.html, the wires for each layer should have been tallest to shortest instead of shortest to tallest as depicted in the video Did anyone else have this issue or am I the only one.

Can I program this cube??

Calling capacitor's resistors lol

How is this a one of a kind project?

200th

build it yourself dont cheat!

Great video NOT REALLY..... a few things your TUTORIAL/How to Build video are missing. Please explain the measurements for the board you use to build the LED grids. Your explanation of how the LED's are soldered together is incomplete and out of focus, you do not explain at all how the second row is soldered to the first much less how any of the following rows should be connected to the preceding... your explanation of installing the grids is also grossly incomplete and out of focus. It is bad enough when the manufacturer of these kits fails to provide complete and understandable instructions, and then you make a video and label it HOW-TO-BUILD.... really? why put out a video at all if is not going to be helpful or complete.....

please give me the link of led soldering video to a cube as you mention in this video