{"id":1066,"date":"2019-12-29T20:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T20:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2019-12-29T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T20:03:53","slug":"8x8x8-led-cube-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"8x8x8 LED Cube Complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe how smoothly this build went. The component board was almost problem free, just the usual socket\/IC pin alignment issues but of course untested so I completed one grid, as shown in the previous post, to test and it was working. Good sign so far!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After that I got to work on the grids. Each took about an hour to complete and test, and that was with interruptions. There was momentum involved, once I got into the rhythm it was straightforward, but after the third of the day, fourth in total, I ran out of solder. I had planned to take a break at this point though so that wasn&#8217;t a problem. New solder ordered using Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solder arrived at a decent time (on a Sunday) so I got to work with the remaining grids. Once all were installed it was time to connect them all together, which meant another 64 joints (don&#8217;t get too excited, not <strong>that<\/strong> sort of joint) to solder, along with 8 connecting wires. Once connected I tested and noticed a few LEDs not lighting but that took seconds to find and fix the loose solder joint. The result is in the video below. Well worth it and I feel a job well done \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\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=\"Hobby Components 8x8x8 LED Cube\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ku2FBbf5cmw?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>8x8x8 LED Cube Working<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe how smoothly this build went. The component board was almost problem free, just the usual socket\/IC pin alignment issues but of course untested so I completed one grid, as shown in the previous post, to test and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1066\">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-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}