Carlitos’ Contraptions

Nao's Packing Picture

I joined Aldebaran’s developer program and now my Nao is coming (much faster than I expected). They even sent me a picture of the box prior to shipping it.

This is an amazing experience and you can be sure I’ll be sharing all of it in here.

Stay tuned for more Nao news!

As the first Carlitos’ Project, I put together a 4x4x4 RGB LED Mood Cube. This cube is composed of 64 RGB LEDs that can generate any colour you can imagine.

RGB LED Mood Cube

The main idea is to display colourful patterns and nice animations in this 3D LED matrix. In order to do so, the LEDs are controlled by a Rainbowduino, the lovechild of an Arduino and an LED driver. The Rainbowduino can power up to 192 LEDs which is exactly the number required for this project (4x4x4x3 = 192).

See the instructional video below if you want to put together a cube of your own. Be prepared to watch me do a lot of soldering at 10x speed.

In order to access the full instructions and documentation for this project please visit the RGB LED Mood Cube project page it put together over at GoRobotics.net.

RGB LED Mood Cube Kit

If you want to make your own cube and are prepared to solder a lot, you might want to have a look at the full RGB LED Mood Cube Kit we put together at RobotShop.

RobotShop in collaboration with Carlitos’ Contraptions is creating a series of videos about DIY electronic and robotic projects.

For these projects, I’ll be putting together some electronic kits along with instructional blog posts and videos at GoRobotics.net. The main idea is to create more complex gadgets form off-the-shelf components.

So far, I have some projects in mind such as an LED mood cube, a mini automation web-server, and a speech-controlled robot to name a few.

Stay tuned for the upcoming projects.