Light Emitting Diode
Each custom Cree LED package contains a red, green, and blue LED. Each LED is driven with 50mA of current at a 10% duty cycle, contributing to the high intensity of the cube at full brightness
Senior Design Day
Team: Can't Undo Bad Electrons with Dr. Richie, associate EECS chair and Senior Design professor. Group 15 presented their project at the annual UCF Engineering and Computer Science senior design event.
Senior Design Day
Joshua Moyerman explains to an interested viewer the details of the LED cube operation. Josh was responsible for all of the control hardware in the LED cube, one of the most unique aspects of our design.
Senior Design Day
Andrew Smith explains the modular nature of the LED cube design. Andrew, responsible for all software development, created a full software suite entirely independent of the cube design - fully capable of integrating with any LED cube that supports the common sACN lighting control protocol.
Project Description
The 3D RGB LED cube is a 10x10x10 three-dimensional array of LED's. By utilizing an innovative control structure, as well as a robust LED driver structure, the brightness and color of each LED is able to be precisely and quickly controlled by the user. By only lighting up one plane at a time (multiplexing) the number of control lines in the cube is drastically reduced. Each layer of the cube is refreshed every 1ms, achieving a cube refresh rate of 100Hz. The 3D RGB LED cube functions both as an aesthetic instrument as well as a proof-of-concept of joint FPGA/Microprocessor control of many LED's in an environment with precise color and timing requirements.
Team: Can't Undo Bad Electrons (CUBE)
Luke Ausley
Luke will graduate Summa Cum Laude with his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) in May 2014 to pursue a career in his field of interest: Optics. He has accepted employment with the Air Force Research Lab as an research engineer.
Andrew Smith
Andrew will commission into the United States Air Force (USAF) as a 2Lt when he completes his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (BSPE) in May 2014. He will work for the USAF as a Cyberspace Operations Officer pursuing his passion for cyber security and defending the nation's network assets.
Joshua Moyerman
Josh anticipates graduating with his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (BSPE) in May 2014 to pursue a career in the field of embedded development. Joshua is currently working for Stellascapes, a company responsible for the sponsorship of this project, and will continue working there after he graduates.