LED cubes are really nothing new, many of us consider the building of a good sized one almost an electronics rite of passage that not so many manage to find the time or have the skill to pull off.

We see all kinds of projects come across the news desk at Hackaday. Sometimes it’s a bodge, neatly executed, that makes us laugh out loud at its simple ingenuity. Other times, it’s a case of great ...

In short, we are building an LED cube. This is intended to be primarily an artistic piece: a 3-D light sculpture. The cube will be 8 by 8 by 8 nodes (the node spacing will probably be 7 inches).

A few strips of LED lights can do a lot to lighten up a room, and YouTuber Darbin Orvar shows off a project that mounts a set of LED-lit cube shelves onto a wall. This isn’t just slapping some LEDs ...