LED Cube Shield for Arduino

Introduction

The 4x4x4 Light Cube shield uses 64 LEDs. It can be driven by pcDuino/Arduino directly.

Note: This is a kit and soldering is required.

The LED color will be blue.

Features

Parts list:

• 64 LEDs
• 40-pin header
• Empty light cube shield PCB
• 1P female socket for LED anode connection.

Schematic

• Schematics

Specification

• View-able planes" 5
• Pixel： Every pixel is represented by a LED.
• Distance between pixels: 14mm
• Number of pixels: 4 x 4 x 4
• Sockets to hold the cube: 20
• Size of PCB: 52.98mm x 77.81mm

Usage

Hardware Installation

Assembly Instructions:

• Bend LED's Cathode leg (the shoter one)
• Divide LEDs into 4 layers, connect all cathode legs within the same layer
• Connect Anode legs between layers
• Finally connect anode legs of different layers to the shield.

Programming

Sample code can be downloaded from here.

Support

If you have questions or other better design ideas, you can go to our forum to discuss or creat a ticket for your issue at linksprite support.

See Also

Other related products and resources.

Licensing

This documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Source code and libraries are licensed under GPL/LGPL, see source code files for details.