This is HypnoCube » 8Cube http://hypnocube.com Things that go blink in the night Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:32:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 8Cube Pics http://hypnocube.com/2010/01/24/8cube-pics/ http://hypnocube.com/2010/01/24/8cube-pics/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:52:32 +0000 Gene http://hypnocube.com/2010/01/24/8cube-pics/

]]> http://hypnocube.com/2010/01/24/8cube-pics/feed/ 11 General Updates On Our Activities http://hypnocube.com/2008/01/24/general-updates-on-our-activities/ http://hypnocube.com/2008/01/24/general-updates-on-our-activities/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:59:05 +0000 Gene http://hypnocube.com/2008/01/24/general-updates-on-our-activities/ We received the new 4Cube boards from the fab house today. The new version isn’t dramatically different than the old, but will feature USB connectivity to the PC to allow hackers & artists to control the cube without having to deal with low level microcontroller programming. It will also feature some basic controls on the cube itself to navigate visualizations (pause, forward, back, etc.) Should be available sometime next week.

The final 8Square boards have been sent to the fabbers recently as well, and they should be arriving in a few weeks. Expect kits to be available in about 4-5 weeks.

The 8Cube has been on the back burner a bit while we wrap up the new 4Cube and 8Square, but with the recent soldering juju (posted below) we should have a fully operational RGB battlestation 8x8x8 cube, at least insofar as the the electronics is concerned. Hopefully Chris will get it dancing soon.

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Gumstix adapter closeup

Gumstix adapter

(Incidentally, this is a module to mate the gumstix to the 8Cube controller. It’s basically a big breakout board.)

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