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How to build a 8x8x8 led cube (English version) by agofi (/member/agofi/)

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Needed tools:
- Soldering iron
- Soldering tin alloy
- Hot glue gun
- Jigsaw

Needed materials:
- 512 leds of your favourite colour
- 1 40 pin flat cable (to connect the IDE hard disk to the pc)
- 1 34 pin flat cable (to connect floppy disk to the PC)
- 1 prototype board
- 1 plywood board 20x20 cm, 8 mm thick
- Electric wire suitable for soldering (thin, flexible, and resistant)

Building:
Draw a 7x7 square grid (2.5 cm side) on the the plywood board. At the crossings of
the grid lines drill 64 holes with a mesh diameter as the led size, generally 5 mm.
This board will be the basis on which all the leds will be soldered. By this solid grid
the leds will be evenly spaced and perfectly aligned. As explained in the intro, the
cathodic contacts of each layer will be joint together. Insert the 64 leds in the board
holes and bend the cathodic (-) terminal to obtain an interconnected grid.

SEE IMG. 02.1 AND 02.2

Let go out the board holes only one led terminal. It will control the layer.
Attention! Each time you finish soldering a layer, test each single led. It is
convenient to discover early if a led is burned out or not well soldered.

SEE IMG. 03.1 AND 03.2 AND 03.3

Make 8 identical grids, paying attention that the led terminals going out of the board
have a different orientation for each layer.

SEE IMG. 04

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