Hey guys, it has come to attention that there are some people out there that are trying to sell fake LED cubes using my video above. Note I have not given authorization for this and I have nothing to do with their scam. If you are looking to build your own cube or get involved with a community effort Ross Harvey is working on a very interesting project for that here: forums.parallax.com/discussion/172696/p2-p2-cube/p1
Yes just saw an ad on Facebook at a really cheap price. Knew it was too good to be true. Reverse image searched which brought me here. Will report when the ad pops up again on my feed.
Yes, I dreamed about this some some time ago, only it was post-apocalyptic and they were just relics. Eventually someone puts bluetooth in there and it becomes a holographic gesture interface game, with some cubes quite large, smaller pixels though. Then the world collapses...
It's just no a real project until you make a trip to Bunnings, then back again for more bits and more bits. So love Bunnings. Well done mate, great job. Love Your Work
Hi Michael, I have only just seen this video and I am blown away with it. It's another deep rabbit hole that I must resist going down. I am certainly going to have a look at your other stuff. Thanks for sharing, and I hope mother and baby are doing well😂😂😂
@@MichaelCannUk haha if you don't do it someone in China will knock it off eventually. Remember what happened to Bill Parker, the inventor of the plasma globe.
Incredible !! 😲 I've seen many LED (Project ideas) snooping UA-cam.. Visual Displays Cubes and Curtains.. And This I think blows them all away.. (AWSOMLY) Cool.👍
that is so sick. something to be really proud of that you created this. You should definitely add an n-body simulation. Easy to code, easy to scale how computationally intense you want it, and would look amazing.
In my office, I always have the most unusual cool toys. I HAVE TO MAKE THIS!!!! This may be the coolest things I've seen in years. Congrats in making me drool like I did as a 7 year old waiting to open Xmas gifts!
Love the idea of a separate control app on the phone. I ordered some panels on Aliexpress recently and was just searching for assembly ideas when I came across your blog. Thanks for this detailed video.
Well done on completing the cube...I like the sprinkles and the prospect of showing 360 videos. People don't appreciate how much time it takes to build projects like this. I have built three 8x8x8 RGB cubes and each one took me months. Have a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.
I was actually talking about how surprising it is that Nintendo had not come up with a Nintendo 3D game cube and we were talking about the concept of how you would play with it, this video is the closest I have seen to that concept, awesome work. Congratulations on the kid, I'm sure that this project among others will be excellent teaching tools in the upcoming future.
Impressive. I too have the "LED cube" on my todo list, because I've always been fascinated with the flowing particle demos on those LED panels. I think it'd be a neat idea to render cupemaps of a scene in OpenGL and display them on the cubes faces. That way you could leverage accurate physics simulation to have the particles flow around the cubes faces (amongst other things). Congrats on the baby!
@@MichaelCannUk Well, I don't know about better, you've done a pretty good job already, but I'll eventually get my own LED cube done and try to improve on those that came before me. And yeah, writing texture mapping from scratch for a 3D surface can be a bit daunting - but that's also the first step in setting up compatibility with a 3D engine, which in turn will enable so many more cool things. Like adding a small camera that peeks out of one edge to display a realtime cubemap of the environment on the LED panels. Anyway, I've subscribed to you, in case you ever do decide to tinker some more and share the results.
There's just not enough words dude. It's just amazing! Thank you for making the video. I do wish however that you had done a cost and materials breakdown. Great job!
Right! I was wondering the same thing! This guy needs baby stuff for the new baby and electronic components so he can make more awesome stuff/videos! I definitely liked and subbed.
These things only grow by the UA-cam algorithm feeding it to people who it thinks might enjoy it (to which our [dis]likes, subscribes & comments all contribute), and by direct word-of-mouth (so we should all share it with our friends/followers/bots on all the social media network platforms we care about & use regularly).
hey love this cube wish I could make my own 1 but was wondering if this with 4k or possible oled panels . this is really awesome is there any new technology 4 years later on that u like to trey redo this . thanks wish could get one build have it made it wireless would be so awesome. do you have any thoughts of making another one thanks
I havent looked to be honest. I think the biggest problem with non led-matrix panels would be finding square displays, there isnt many other industries that need them, thus they arent on the market. Yes there are lots of things I would like to have added to it but ran out of time.
Incredible! I want to do a similar thing (with 16x16 led pannels and Arduino) but yours is phenomenal. Congratulations for your "cube child" and for your human child !! Sure, you'll be a great father
This is brilliant, I made a led 8x8x8 cube as youngster with a diy pic programmable controller, this is whole new level. I would love to work together on building a 2.0 got a 3d Ringer here for some prototyping and maybe do a bit Korean custom PCB design to optimise the internals. Il have a go a building this prototype in the next few months. Hope to see more development on that app it’s absolutely brilliant work you doing their.
Plot twist: the most amazing thing that i learned from the video is the way you mounted your dremel at 6:36 . this is brilliant! I literally paused the video and made that setup myself and now I am writing this comment. If you are available on Instagram, please let me know, I'd like to tag you in my story.
This is brilliant mate, seriously. Here's an idea. How about a rotating stand, just a thicker base with a motor inside? Gyroscope stand would be awesome for the particles
If you could find a way to have an object appear in the center of the cube, but always have it oriented the same way in space no matter the cube's rotation, I think that'd be pretty cool. Imagine you're holding a glass cube, and inside that glass cube is a model of a goldfish. The goldfish's body never changes position, dorsal is always up, ventral is always down, anterior is always towards you, posterior is always away from you, and the lateral axis is always parallel to the ground/horizon. Yet no matter how you manipulate the cube, the central goldfish is never manipulated. I know in a program, like Blender for example, you would just need six cameras, one for each face of the cube, then manipulate the object. I just don't know how you would translate that kind of operation to a program that can run on low-spec hardware and make it power efficient. As for manipulation of the object, inverse the gyroscope's input, that way the object inversely moves as the cube moves, producing the effect of the object not moving while the cube moves. If there's a way to pull it off, it'd be a cool effect. Probably not the most practical effect for something like this, but a cool party trick nonetheless.
Dude. You should develop this into a commercial product...I could see this being an AWESOME photo cube, or a lamp, or even just a really neat monitor...and having the app and everything too...thats would be AMAZING
This is awesome, now I want one great. Don't really know what I would do with it. It would be really cool if you could randomly draw a maze with a random start-and-stop point and use the accelerometer to navigate something around.
7:33 Wait, wait, wait... The panels have depth, they are about a half-inch (~12mm) thick which would prevent them from going together like you show and have the LEDs reach the edges. You would have had to remove a portion of this depth from at least some of the panels for your cube to come together as shown, yes? I haven't read your blog on this project, maybe it's mentioned there. Regardless, great project, it looks stunning.
This is what i meant by when I tell people, youtube can make you or break you. Great Work, I need martix to refresh image at lease a 1000 time a seconds. about 150 image
It looks like with the more complex stuff around 19:00 you're programming it as animation based on the pixels themselves. I can't help but wonder if you could get a better result but initially only processing the cubes orientation in space doing whatever processing for animation and then translating that to the whatever the pixel location is on the cube based on the last step...I don't know if that was clear or convoluted.
Hell yeah man, awesome project and a huge Congratulations to the little one!! Best wishes for the pregnancy and hope there are no complications! Next time you should use the triangle panels to make a Duodecahedron (12 sided object). I think even though there are more panels the particle flow would look much nicer if it could be done.
Do you think making an aluminum frame that attaches to shelf slides would be easier? That way you could attach the electronics and batteries to the frame and be able to work on it outside of the cube. Sort of like how the motherboard and computer internals attach to the inside of a computer case. You weren't kidding that it's not for the beginner. It would be a good playground for graphics algorithms or sorts, a* search. Anyway, looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing it !
wireless is not going to charge that battery in short time. but u could use "metal contact point" like ceiling track light or switch or ipad and its magic keyboard. at those edge, leave left and right 2 metal point to contact the base for charging will do. u may need insulation sticker or paint behind those "charging contact point "
You should look into kickstarting and mass produce that. Make it wireless charge and allow user made apps. Think it would sell like crazy as long as build quality was high
Nice work! Things I would suggest: You've got a serial input from the Micro:bit to the RPi already, so you could just use the Bluetooth on that for phone comms, then you don't need internet. The v2 microbit also has a microphone built in, again, trivial to add sound support by streaming a "Volume" variable via serial too. Future extension: Add a bass speaker!
Since it has a raspberry pi 4 in it I wonder if it could to some form of 3d. Like maybe the cube could show particles or balls in it as if it was a box. Or it could show wire frame from different angles depending on what side of the cube you are looking at and what data the cube has from the motion sensor.
It looks amazing. You did a great job. Maybe an idea I really thought would be cool is to draw like a planet on the cube with the leds. Kind of Minecraft style or something. Great vid
Hey guys, it has come to attention that there are some people out there that are trying to sell fake LED cubes using my video above.
Note I have not given authorization for this and I have nothing to do with their scam.
If you are looking to build your own cube or get involved with a community effort Ross Harvey is working on a very interesting project for that here: forums.parallax.com/discussion/172696/p2-p2-cube/p1
Yes just saw an ad on Facebook at a really cheap price. Knew it was too good to be true. Reverse image searched which brought me here. Will report when the ad pops up again on my feed.
@@stevensmith1788 I did the same, I have the link to the scam FB insta shop. How best to report this for exposure? (Already reported the ad on fb)
i've stopped buying anything i see on facebook
thank you for comfirming this as i was about to purchase it but the price was too good to be true
I just saw this on FB with your video. I reported it as scam. Awesome piece btw
Hey hey, I'm the guy that wrote the code mentioned at 16:23! ✨This is amazing work, man!
Awesome! Thanks again for all your hard work with your library!
amazing project. you need to program a fish swimming inside of a cube.
Yes, I dreamed about this some some time ago, only it was post-apocalyptic and they were just relics. Eventually someone puts bluetooth in there and it becomes a holographic gesture interface game, with some cubes quite large, smaller pixels though. Then the world collapses...
Oh that would be awesome! Ill have a think on that :)
That would be Dope
It's just no a real project until you make a trip to Bunnings, then back again for more bits and more bits. So love Bunnings. Well done mate, great job. Love Your Work
Imagine taking this back 500 years in time and declaring yourself a wizard.
Hi Michael, I have only just seen this video and I am blown away with it. It's another deep rabbit hole that I must resist going down. I am certainly going to have a look at your other stuff. Thanks for sharing, and I hope mother and baby are doing well😂😂😂
Just so you know, your video was suggested in my feed by UA-cam. Glad I watched. Thanks for making it!
I was wondering why I have suddently started to get a bunch of views
How much will you be selling them for, and how many can you make an hour? :D Seriously though man...this thing looks amazing! I am ALL LED! Love it!
Haha making a manafacturable cube has been attempted and unfortunately abandoned :( squarewave.io/
Innovation the chinese dont have
OP: "it took months and months of work"
comment: how many can you make an hour ? O.o
@@MichaelCannUk haha if you don't do it someone in China will knock it off eventually. Remember what happened to Bill Parker, the inventor of the plasma globe.
@@antiprismatic Innovation the Chinese haven't stolen.
Incredible !! 😲 I've seen many LED (Project ideas) snooping UA-cam.. Visual Displays Cubes and Curtains.. And This I think blows them all away.. (AWSOMLY) Cool.👍
Awesome job. Thank you so much for sharing. Lots of love and respect from here in Iran 🇮🇷
that is so sick. something to be really proud of that you created this. You should definitely add an n-body simulation. Easy to code, easy to scale how computationally intense you want it, and would look amazing.
LED cube turned up to 11!
Great work, awesome!
In my office, I always have the most unusual cool toys. I HAVE TO MAKE THIS!!!! This may be the coolest things I've seen in years. Congrats in making me drool like I did as a 7 year old waiting to open Xmas gifts!
Deadmau5 wants to know your location
Perth Australia if he wants to come DJ here ill show him around :)
this is the most goated comment
Beat me to it 😁
neat.
Don't give up easily, this is why. Amazing Led cube!
Love the idea of a separate control app on the phone. I ordered some panels on Aliexpress recently and was just searching for assembly ideas when I came across your blog. Thanks for this detailed video.
OMG , that's fantastic. I built an 8x8x8 cube and I was so proud, now I'm sooo jealous. Great work Micheal.
if this was a commercial product it would be in my cart immediately. good luck with the baby. subscribed.
Wow. That's putting out some serious Mesmer! Definitely raises the bar for blinkenschtoff
That is absolutely amazing. Totally inspired to try and play around with some LED Screens now. Awesome stuff.
Well done on completing the cube...I like the sprinkles and the prospect of showing 360 videos. People don't appreciate how much time it takes to build projects like this. I have built three 8x8x8 RGB cubes and each one took me months. Have a Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year.
My congratulations, it's so beautiful.
It looks like a blast from the Future and very, very hard and strong work.
Reminds me of Cube V3
Finally a UA-camr in my own back yard! Perth REPRESENT! Great work.
🤜
I was actually talking about how surprising it is that Nintendo had not come up with a Nintendo 3D game cube and we were talking about the concept of how you would play with it, this video is the closest I have seen to that concept, awesome work.
Congratulations on the kid, I'm sure that this project among others will be excellent teaching tools in the upcoming future.
Deadmau5 would love this :D!
wow nice talking point on a desk. very well done!!!!
Impressive. I too have the "LED cube" on my todo list, because I've always been fascinated with the flowing particle demos on those LED panels.
I think it'd be a neat idea to render cupemaps of a scene in OpenGL and display them on the cubes faces. That way you could leverage accurate physics simulation to have the particles flow around the cubes faces (amongst other things).
Congrats on the baby!
Getting my head around the cube mapping math was hard. Would love to see someone else tackle it better than me :)
@@MichaelCannUk Well, I don't know about better, you've done a pretty good job already, but I'll eventually get my own LED cube done and try to improve on those that came before me.
And yeah, writing texture mapping from scratch for a 3D surface can be a bit daunting - but that's also the first step in setting up compatibility with a 3D engine, which in turn will enable so many more cool things. Like adding a small camera that peeks out of one edge to display a realtime cubemap of the environment on the LED panels.
Anyway, I've subscribed to you, in case you ever do decide to tinker some more and share the results.
Not quite working on the same project but definitely helpful and detailed in regards to resources. Thanks a bunch.
Awesome project, I hope you come back to it and add those extra features. Cube mapped video would also be awesome.
I bet it would look pretty cool to view a scaled down skybox on that.
A brilliant art object you made there. Thumb up!
Amazing. Congrats! very interesting project.
There's just not enough words dude. It's just amazing! Thank you for making the video. I do wish however that you had done a cost and materials breakdown. Great job!
Cool for baby pics! Thanks for sharing the development process.
Awesome, why this channel is not popular.
Right! I was wondering the same thing! This guy needs baby stuff for the new baby and electronic components so he can make more awesome stuff/videos! I definitely liked and subbed.
@@mikehensley78 Ya this must go on and grow.
These things only grow by the UA-cam algorithm feeding it to people who it thinks might enjoy it (to which our [dis]likes, subscribes & comments all contribute), and by direct word-of-mouth (so we should all share it with our friends/followers/bots on all the social media network platforms we care about & use regularly).
although, if he doesn't produce content this channel will probably not get popular, sadly.
@@MrFurriephillips yeah 👍
hey love this cube wish I could make my own 1 but was wondering if this with 4k or possible oled panels . this is really awesome is there any new technology 4 years later on that u like to trey redo this . thanks wish could get one build have it made it wireless would be so awesome. do you have any thoughts of making another one thanks
I havent looked to be honest. I think the biggest problem with non led-matrix panels would be finding square displays, there isnt many other industries that need them, thus they arent on the market.
Yes there are lots of things I would like to have added to it but ran out of time.
Incredible! I want to do a similar thing (with 16x16 led pannels and Arduino) but yours is phenomenal. Congratulations for your "cube child" and for your human child !! Sure, you'll be a great father
The way you’ve displayed the cube on that corner pedestal, reminded me of “The Allspark”
or the tesseract
This is incredible man! Keep up the fantastic work!
Congrats on the new addition to your family!
Looks awesome! Nice Job! Congrats on the baby!
Awesome!
Suggestion: map the earth on it. Maybe have clouds and thunderstorms, and day and night.
Oh nice idea! A minecraft like world would be awesome on it :)
@@MichaelCannUk doom would be amazing too
@@AndroidFerret 6 player doom. Everyone gets their own screen
That's INCREDIBLE!!!!!!
Megatron knows where you are and is coming for your energon cube.
Amazing build! Sharing on The Awesomer.
Cool :)
I'd like to see that cube portraying a borg ship!
awesome looking cube.. thanks for sharing the work flow.. some time might attempt the same.. very Inspiring..
Killed it bro. Nice job! You really took it to the max!
Brilliant! I look forward to your next project - a sphere! Not that you'll have any time for anything with the kid.
13:58 Conway's Game of Life
I keep coming back to this, it looks soooo cool
This is brilliant, I made a led 8x8x8 cube as youngster with a diy pic programmable controller, this is whole new level. I would love to work together on building a 2.0 got a 3d
Ringer here for some prototyping and maybe do a bit Korean custom PCB design to optimise the internals. Il have a go a building this prototype in the next few months. Hope to see more development on that app it’s absolutely brilliant work you doing their.
Thanks for the kind words mate :) Would love to see your progress! Email me: mike.cann@gmail.com :)
Plot twist: the most amazing thing that i learned from the video is the way you mounted your dremel at 6:36 . this is brilliant! I literally paused the video and made that setup myself and now I am writing this comment. If you are available on Instagram, please let me know, I'd like to tag you in my story.
Lol I wouldnt say this was a reccomended technique but it works if you need an extra pair of hands :P instagram.com/mikeysee/
@@MichaelCannUk thanks
This is brilliant mate, seriously. Here's an idea. How about a rotating stand, just a thicker base with a motor inside? Gyroscope stand would be awesome for the particles
If you could find a way to have an object appear in the center of the cube, but always have it oriented the same way in space no matter the cube's rotation, I think that'd be pretty cool.
Imagine you're holding a glass cube, and inside that glass cube is a model of a goldfish. The goldfish's body never changes position, dorsal is always up, ventral is always down, anterior is always towards you, posterior is always away from you, and the lateral axis is always parallel to the ground/horizon. Yet no matter how you manipulate the cube, the central goldfish is never manipulated.
I know in a program, like Blender for example, you would just need six cameras, one for each face of the cube, then manipulate the object. I just don't know how you would translate that kind of operation to a program that can run on low-spec hardware and make it power efficient. As for manipulation of the object, inverse the gyroscope's input, that way the object inversely moves as the cube moves, producing the effect of the object not moving while the cube moves.
If there's a way to pull it off, it'd be a cool effect. Probably not the most practical effect for something like this, but a cool party trick nonetheless.
Excellent job! Regards from Curitiba, Brazil.
Absolutely beautiful and amazing work!
Dude. You should develop this into a commercial product...I could see this being an AWESOME photo cube, or a lamp, or even just a really neat monitor...and having the app and everything too...thats would be AMAZING
Unfortunately this was already attempted and failed :( squarewave.io/
Absolutely epic project mate. New subscriber
This is awesome, now I want one great. Don't really know what I would do with it.
It would be really cool if you could randomly draw a maze with a random start-and-stop point and use the accelerometer to navigate something around.
this is really amazing. in-depth documentaries like these are precious gems. looking forward to more projects like this
Amazing work man, congrats on the little one!
Awesome, we need IMU inside it so that it can detect its own orientation and then display accordingly
Huge work my dude. Congrats on your little one
Well that is something I didn't know I wanted till now. Really fucking sweet man.
Great job.. I'd suggest adding 4 more accelerometers. Fix each one so it's centered and square with each box.
7:33 Wait, wait, wait... The panels have depth, they are about a half-inch (~12mm) thick which would prevent them from going together like you show and have the LEDs reach the edges. You would have had to remove a portion of this depth from at least some of the panels for your cube to come together as shown, yes? I haven't read your blog on this project, maybe it's mentioned there. Regardless, great project, it looks stunning.
The panels do indeed touch all around the edges, yes I mention it in the video but I had to remove a bunch of that plastic frame from the panels
This is what i meant by when I tell people, youtube can make you or break you. Great Work, I need martix to refresh image at lease a 1000 time a seconds. about 150 image
I need this cube in my life, So awesome man.
Looks good, nice work. Hope you and your new family are doing well.
Killer Cube. Great work.
This is god tier levels of awesome, you totally smashed it this project, you earned another sub, great work!
It looks like with the more complex stuff around 19:00 you're programming it as animation based on the pixels themselves. I can't help but wonder if you could get a better result but initially only processing the cubes orientation in space doing whatever processing for animation and then translating that to the whatever the pixel location is on the cube based on the last step...I don't know if that was clear or convoluted.
Really awesome project Michael. Still baffles me how you could fit all the components in the cube
sir I must say you did an amazing job! this is very cool !
Hell yeah man, awesome project and a huge Congratulations to the little one!! Best wishes for the pregnancy and hope there are no complications! Next time you should use the triangle panels to make a Duodecahedron (12 sided object). I think even though there are more panels the particle flow would look much nicer if it could be done.
Simply brilliant!
If it was sound reactive that would be pretty awesome! I'm imagining plugging in a video synth and having it react to sound.
Great build man, very impressive!
Do you think making an aluminum frame that attaches to shelf slides would be easier? That way you could attach the electronics and batteries to the frame and be able to work on it outside of the cube. Sort of like how the motherboard and computer internals attach to the inside of a computer case. You weren't kidding that it's not for the beginner. It would be a good playground for graphics algorithms or sorts, a* search. Anyway, looks like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing it !
wireless is not going to charge that battery in short time. but u could use "metal contact point" like ceiling track light or switch or ipad and its magic keyboard. at those edge, leave left and right 2 metal point to contact the base for charging will do. u may need insulation sticker or paint behind those "charging contact point "
This project deserve 10million views atleast
Awww thanks mate
battery monitor telling how much juice left, and design such a way that its wirelessly charge.
and you got a ultimate product
looking like a alien cube which is their in Transformers movie.
it was looking cool man.
You should look into kickstarting and mass produce that. Make it wireless charge and allow user made apps. Think it would sell like crazy as long as build quality was high
Nice work! Things I would suggest: You've got a serial input from the Micro:bit to the RPi already, so you could just use the Bluetooth on that for phone comms, then you don't need internet. The v2 microbit also has a microphone built in, again, trivial to add sound support by streaming a "Volume" variable via serial too. Future extension: Add a bass speaker!
Awesome, ye you are totally right. I could have added a little bluetooth usb device to the pi too.. Maybe for a future extension :D
@@MichaelCannUk the world waits with bated breath =) looking forward to your next version!
Amazing dude! You're awesome!! I'd love to teach my son to build that kind of stuff
Great video and the cube looks awesome!
So beautiful! You did an awesome job! 🥰
Wow that looks amazing! so much work gone into that, this definitely deserves more views. I wish I knew a little more about arduino.
Hi good morning.
Excellent creation .
How can I make it.
That is absolutely amazing. I'd love to own one of these. If you do ever start to sell these then please add me to your list of buyers.
Since it has a raspberry pi 4 in it I wonder if it could to some form of 3d. Like maybe the cube could show particles or balls in it as if it was a box. Or it could show wire frame from different angles depending on what side of the cube you are looking at and what data the cube has from the motion sensor.
It looks amazing. You did a great job. Maybe an idea I really thought would be cool is to draw like a planet on the cube with the leds. Kind of Minecraft style or something. Great vid
Oh man you're from Perth too, I hell want to build one
What a great project, really well explained.
Looking forward to seeing your dodecahedron version! 😄
Wow... So cool mate that's seriously awesome thanks so much for sharing
That cube is awesome!
Well done sir. very impressive work.
Looks like something my childhood me would think of making