Awesome led cube

Step 6 Time Travel!

Use the cube to slow, stop, or reverse time, or even turn ordinary technology into transformers. Your choice.

It looks the best in the dark.

Comments

[mlaís]

Nice result dude... =]
i will make one :D

[escobar]

can i put in the water??

[Delo97]

Of course you ca- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHRGHHRAAAARGHHHHHH!!!!
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[technoguy94]

It would be cool if you could get the LED to flicker.

[maniacse]

Simple blinking or switching of two LEDs (or one dual color LED) can be realized by astable flip flop with transistors (see image) or from integrated flip flop like NE555. (images from google, 1st is 100% working)

[serrano8246]

if you get the LED module unit it does, iv only seen them in red flickering light but you could switch out the LED and rewire/solder it in.

[sug552]

thank.

[sparky9898]

how would i go about making the LED pulse inside the cube?

[technoguy94]

I think you can get LEDs that have a pulsing circuit inside them, i.e. it looks like a normal LED, but when you apply power to it, it turns on and flickers. I have an LED tea light I got somewhere with one in it.

[chafman]

There's an easier solution to the motor one (and maybe, cheaper) but you have to know some electronic basics (just reading diagrams and perhaps soldering). You have to build a timer circuit with a 555 IC, a couple of resistors and capacitors. You can find the schematics almost everywhere in the web. Good luck!

[HardCoreHacker]

 Get a motor and connect a wire to the end of its hand. If you did it right, the current moving the motor, will go threw the wire and when the wire gets in contact w/ a battery, flash. More complicated and probably not exactly what you were wanting but its the basic idea

[arodri35]

Just wondering..where did you buy your switch? i was looking for an push on/push off one

[budhaztm]

you can get them at some radio-shacks and if not there i dont know ,because all we have is a radio shack in our little town

[survivletroop]

my freinds think im from the futre

[applecake]

What are the deminsions of the cube???

[Kryptonite]

Looks 2 inches by 2 inches to me.

[jobergy]

well technically you could make it however big you want.... but with the lights he has i would not go over 5 X 5 

[Kryptonite]

You could make it how ever big you want, but you would need more lights; and batteries.

[jobergy]

a cool idea is to paint the metal with rustoleum metal effects in an aerosal can. i think it wuld look cool with the hammered copper one, it makes it look ancient and rustic kinda... OH! make a rubix cube out of several of these! that wuld be crazy! 

[Kryptonite]

That would look really cool, wouldn't that be a wonderful surprise for a Rubik's Cube enthusiast to open up on Christmas day?

[jobergy]

hellz yes! one of my friends has a Scar Face 5 by 5 Rubiks cube!!! its pretty epic, he got it from spencers lol...browsing through instructables i have found a couple rubiks cube instructables to make your own... so if some one has the knowledge and the will to put these 2 instructables together im very sure its do-able. might have some kinks you run into ofcourse, but what DYI enthusiast doesnt lol

[Kryptonite]

That'd be a little difficult to make but with some planning I imagine it would turn out brilliant.

[muruganantham]

how do you turn them off

[Glockenator]

the switch is on the outside

[Bigwar13]

how do you turn them off

[Kryptonite]

The same way you turn them on; with the switch.

[Chromatica]

the switch

[Valeil]

a placebo to replace the pain of not knowing how to turn them off ;3

[Chromatica]

 You made a funny.

[cwix09]

*like*

[Valeil]

Thank you.

[TCInc]

For those that finished, how did you get past step 3? In what order did you solder the LED , resistor,  and switch together?

[M4industries]

Positive side of battery to resistor (polarity doesnt matter) other lead of resistor to the led's negative, led's positive goes to switch and switch to negative of battery.

[thoraxe]

shouldn't it be positive terminal>resistor>switch>positive of led>negative terminal?

[Kryptonite]

The switch and resistor don't mind where they go, they're just happy to keep the circuit working.

[M4industries]

The switch can go wherever, It merely opens the circuit.

[christian2927]

do you get the switch at radio shack too

[iluvmusic]

i think so i was there and they had swiches

[Artanus]

I TOTALLY want to make one of these, but I have no idea where to buy the electric parts. Could you give me any advice on where to buy the battery, the button, and the LED?

[TFElite]

Radioshack my friend. They have everything but the hot glue gun and Plexiglass. For those, go to Home Depot or Lowe's. All in all, it come out to less than 10 bucks depending on where you get your supplies from.