We got some love from Craig Crossman over at The Seattle Times (you can read it here.) Which promptly brought our little server to its knees 
. If you couldn’t access our site today, that’s why.
Thanks Craig, we’re glad to hear you like the cube!
General Updates On Our Activities 13
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.
Hand soldering 0.5mm SMT is no fun 10
It ain’t pretty, but it’s progress.
(Incidentally, this is a module to mate the gumstix to the 8Cube controller. It’s basically a big breakout board.)
New 8Square Pics 5
Here’s some pics of the current 8square, in its frame. This should be very close to its final form – the only planned change is that the PCB will be black.
And here it is with a diffuse acrylic face plate.
The acrylic dims the LEDs too much to look good in well lit areas, but it looks pretty slick in the dark (I’ll grab a pic later, but I was in a rush.) We’ll include both the glass and acrylic so you can choose which you prefer.
We’re not dead yet! 1
Wow, it’s been months since the last post. Oops.
Things have been going somewhat slowly, but progressing nonetheless. Nothing major to announce yet, but I figured I should post something so y’all don’t think we fell off the ‘net.
I’ve got some (relatively) new pictures I’ll post here shortly.
8Square Prototype 9
We’ve got our first 8Square board up and going. It’s not as novel as the cube, but it should be a lot easier to build, and we’re putting in USB so it can be controlled via a PC.
Almost there… Reply
AdSense in, some nifty plugins for contact and FAQ in, bunch of little tweaks in… I wonder if all this stuff works on bad ol’ IE6 :p
Google Checkout Reply
I used Google Checkout for the first time today to buy something, and it occured to me, hey, we might be able to use it too! And so now we have an alternative to Paypal. And as a bonus they have lower processing fees too.
Phew Reply
Videos moved and looking nice. Getting a line break in WordPress is a bitch. Besides that plugins for videos and stuff is nice.