LED Cube Using 4020 Ic and 555 IC

This circuit drives a 3x3x3 cube consisting of 27 white LEDs. The 4020 IC is a 14 stage binary counter and we have used 9 outputs. Each output drives 3 white LEDs in series and we have omitted a dropper resistor as the chip can only deliver a maximum of 15mA per output. The 4020 produces 512 different patterns before the sequence repeats and you have to build the project to see the effects it produces on the 3D cube.

in 4020 IC the reset pin should not be left free it must be connected to the ground with 100 nf capacitor.If it is not connected the IC will reset again  and  again there will be no output in the output pins.

The speed of the LEDs is controlled by a 10k variable resistance connected to the 555 IC
And the capacitor connected to the 555 IC is 22 uf .

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