Designing an LED cube
As mentioned before, the main focus of this chapter is on soldering. In this section, you will learn how to design an LED cube, which will have intense soldering, and creative elements like LED control and Arduino programming.
Required components
Before getting into the cube design, make sure you have following components for this project:
- Arduino UNO
- 64 LEDs: You can use any color LED. Although 64 LEDs are required for this project, I would recommend you to buy at least 100 LEDs in case some LEDs get burned during the soldering process.
- 16 resistors: These must be appropriate to your LEDs. If you are not sure which resistor to purchase, get 500 Ω/1k Ω resistors.
- Connecting wires
- A printed circuit board
- Thermocol
- Soldering iron and solder wire
Principle behind the design
Before you read this section, make sure you have the listed components or have already ordered them. This section is the most important part of this chapter as it explains the key principle behind...
