LED Cube Project
The Multiple LED Cube Controller will have 3-4 light emitting diode cubes will come to life and interact with each other to create dazzling displays of art and beauty. The dazzling displays that it will emit include shapes, words, and possibly in the future interactive games like Snake, Tetris, or Pacman. Each cube will consist of 5x5x5 LEDs, which is 125 LEDs in total. The LEDs we will possibly use include the following: 4-pin red green blue LEDs, 2-pin pulse width modulation bi-color LEDs or 3-pin bi-color LEDs. A wireless chip will control communication among the cubes and with the main computer. The wireless chips we have in mind include the Zigbee or some generic bluetooth communicating chip. All cubes will be inside of a protective casing along with magnets that will connect cubes to each other. The casing will probably consist of plexiglass, transparent plastic or some other cheap see-through and sturdy material. Screws or special glue should hold the casings in tact. The magnets will interact with the hall effects sensors included in each cube. We will be using flat and thin magnets to keep the cubes together when interacting. The hall effect sensors we have in mind will basically cause the LED voltage to change according to which magnetic pole is reacting with the hall effect sensors. The power supply for each cube will consist of regular batteries. The batteries will most likely be generic AA or AAA cells depending on our hardware specification requirements. Oregon State University is our senior project sponsor. The total budget for this project is minimal, so cost effectiveness is key to the success of our project. Our target audience is everyone and the purpose is for entertainment and perhaps other applications as well. We hope that our project will facilitate more ideas for different projects and solutions to the engineering problems we face today and in the future.
Feel free to contact the members below using the corresponding e-mail links (replace NOSPAM with oregonstate):
Thao-Trang "Valerie" Hoang - [email protected]
Patrick Miesen - [email protected]
Douglas "Alex" Dziggel - [email protected]
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Team Name: "The Tesseract Terrors"
Motto: TEARIN' IT UP!
Another thanks to our sponsor, Oregon State University, as well as our mentor, Donald Heer.
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