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Initial Project Description
The LED cube will use multiple micro-controllers to control the
LED diodes. These diodes will turn on and off, as well as change colors according
to what shape they will be making as a whole. As previously mentioned, it will
have no functional use and is intended to be strictly a visually pleasing piece
of art.
Our group hopes to create a cube that displays still images, moving images, and
perhaps even some sort of animation. The still and moving images will not be hard
to display, and will consist of letters, numbers, and various objects that will
be able to "move" around the cube, change colors of the object, and scale between
different sizes. We foresee animation taking a little more time to master due
to the fact that we will be using multiple micro-controllers to control different
portions of the cube, so getting them all to work in a synchronized fashion will
take some time and effort. We have seen animations that range from a rain-drop
effect where the pixels "rain" down through the cube, explosions/implosions of
a sphere, and even a flying phoenix on a larger scale model.
Even though we are using LED diodes which are low heat and energy efficient,
we will be using a large amount of them, so we must take into consideration
the power consumption. We are intending to keep it simple and run it off a
simple DC outlet, but we will continue to monitor our design and adapt to whatever
changes might occur.