{"id":1061,"date":"2019-12-27T19:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1061"},"modified":"2019-12-27T19:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:17:34","slug":"8x8x8-led-cube-build-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/12\/27\/8x8x8-led-cube-build-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"8x8x8 LED Cube Build &#8211; WIP!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My Christmas present from my good lady wife this year was a Hobby Components 8x8x8 LED Cube Kit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I started to build it. I was originally going to live stream on Twitch but had a feeling I&#8217;d be interrupted a few times during the build and I wasn&#8217;t disappointed \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started with the component board according to the instructions <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.hobbycomponents.com\/\/viewtopic.php?f=105&amp;t=1969\">here<\/a> and once that was complete I started on the first of the grids. The build for this was slightly different due to using a supplied 2 row template, but the end result is the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I have so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"979\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-1-1-979x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-1-1-979x1024.jpg 979w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-1-1-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-1-1-768x803.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-1-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><figcaption>It&#8217;s upside down due to the first grid installed to the board.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-2-642x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-2-642x1024.jpg 642w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-2-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-2-768x1225.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-2-963x1536.jpg 963w, https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/cube-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption>The grid side of the board with one grid installed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"8x8x8 LED Cube - Work In Progress\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ypqfj8I79ng?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s the first test showing 100% success so far.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m giving it a rest for today, but will continue to build the remaining 7 grids over the next few days. I&#8217;ll post again once complete \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Christmas present from my good lady wife this year was a Hobby Components 8x8x8 LED Cube Kit. Today I started to build it. I was originally going to live stream on Twitch but had a feeling I&#8217;d be interrupted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/12\/27\/8x8x8-led-cube-build-wip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}