UPDATE:
Please express your Love and vote for cubeXControl here – Thanks!

UPDATE2:
Apparently the current Version doesn’t work with Windows. I’m very sorry for that, but at the moment I don’t have any Win machine to test this. So please feel free to try yourself and fix it! Thx!

I’m proud to present a first version which was on my this years TODO list for so long, but due to all the changes therefore very less time never got startet. But thanks to the Seeedstudio Rainbowduino Carnival 2010 I got a big motivation boost and found some time to get my fingers dirty again. So check this out, my this years contribution for the carnival:

cubeXcontrol – a Rainbow Cube Editor

Well, you know the mtXcontrol, the Rainbowduino Editor and the awesome Seeedstudio Rainbow Cube I mentioned here ? Now it’s time  to bring them together:

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cubeXcontrol is an editor to control and create patterns for the 4x4x4 RGB Rainbow Cube powered by a rainbowduino. It comes with an extra window showing a 3D model of the Cube, allowing to rotate in all directions and to zoom. Click on boxes to set the LED color easily.

The editor is of course heavily based on the latest mtXcontrol version, with the latest rainbowduino firmware. Both are unfortunately still in beta stage, but come with great new features like auto port detection.

Get the sources here:

https://github.com/rngtng/mtXcontrol/tree/cubeXcontrol

And the Rainbowduino driver:

https://github.com/rngtng/rainbowduino/tree/master_slave

Happy cub’ing!

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More on this here: http://www.squidsoup.org/stealth/

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The key is, I’m switching the LED on & off very fast which appears the human eye as it’s on all the time (similar to a LED Matrix). Now, I change the time period between switching the LED on and off. Is the off period time longer, the LED lights low, is the off period time short, the LED lights high. Fading the period time, makes the LED pulse… nice!

Check this (still quite ugly) code:

int ledPin = 13;      // LED connected to digital pin 13
int value = LOW;    // previous value of the LED
long cnt = 0;         // will store last time LED was updated
long low = 0;         // interval at which to blink (milliseconds)
long high = 1000; // interval at which to blink (milliseconds)
int op = 3;
long a = 0;

void setup()
{
  pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);      // sets the digital pin as output
}

void loop()
{
  a += op;
  blinkl( a+30, 10 );
  if( a > 200 || a < 0 ) op *= -1;
}

void blinkl(long low, long high )
{
  int c = 5;
  while ( c > 0 ) {
   blink( low, high );
   c-=1;
 }
}

void blink( long low, long high )
{
  long period = 4000;
  long pt = period * high / (low + high );
  int value = LOW;
  digitalWrite(ledPin, value);

  while( period > 0 ) {
    if (period < pt && value == LOW ) {
      value = HIGH;
      digitalWrite(ledPin, value);
    }
    period -= 1;
  }
}

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More examples and source code soon to come…

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That my first proper Arduino test, controlling a 10 LED running light. I attached a small button via interrupt as well to start & stop the light. More to come soon, stay tuned!

Here the (very,very ugly) source code:

int ledPin = 3;      // First LED connected to digital pin 13
volatile int stop = LOW;

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(38400);
  for( int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
     pinMode(ledPin + i, OUTPUT);
  }
   attachInterrupt(0, stopit, RISING);    //Button attached to Pin 2
}

int i = 0;
void loop()
{
    for( i = 0; i < 7 && !stop; i++) {
      blink(ledPin + i);
    }
    for( i; i >= 1 && !stop; i--) {
      blink(ledPin + i);
    }
    for( i = 0; i < 10 && !stop; i++) {
      blink(ledPin + i);
    }
    for( i; i >= 3 && !stop; i--) {
      blink(ledPin + i);
    }
    for( i; i < 10 && !stop; i++) {
      blink(ledPin + i);
    }
    for( i = 9; i >= 1 && !stop; i--) {
      blink(ledPin + i);
    }
}

void stopit()
{
  delayMicroseconds(1000);
  stop = !stop;
}

void blink( int pin ) {
      digitalWrite(pin, HIGH);
      delay(120 - abs( pin - 8 ) * 20);
      digitalWrite(pin, LOW);
}

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