This is my first try to get something out of my 8x8x8 RGB LED cube. I build the cube using a pre-release version of a kit from hypnocube.com. That required soldering more than 500 LED's (that is 57 times more than for the popular 3x3x3 cube but less than the impressive monochrome 10 x 10 x 10 cube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMgoNGlIY0 )) as regular as possible.
The nice black case (hard to see in the video) needed precise holes for the wires, so I did that in our local FABLAB (http://www.fablabgroningen.nl/). The music comes from Kevin Macleod (CC license, incompetech.com). The raw data comes from 3dleds.com. I converted their data to images and imported those in adobe premiere. There I could mix them any way I liked and change the colors. Next step was to render the result back to images and convert it back to a format I could send to my cube using my own tiny little program.
What didn't work very well is to record the movie using my photocamera. When making movies all settings are on automatic, causing the leds to be overexposed.
Next step is to make live animations matching the music.
1-nov-2011: just interfaced it with the kinect. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgtUwYGlEx8
17-nov-2011: added some walking lemmings. see http://youtu.be/EC2MzMsi1YM
