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DrBubba
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Apr 14, 2015
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Maybe a stupid question but other than making it flash pretty colors, are there any practical uses or applications for this?
Apr 14, 2015
thisisthesongisingforattention
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Apr 14, 2015
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DrBubbaI think this kit is more about the DIY experience than the final product. The final product is cool looking and can be an interesting conversation piece, but it seems secondary to the fun of the build in this case.
Apr 14, 2015
AlexPk
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Apr 14, 2015
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DrBubbaMostly what @thisisthesongisingforattention said. It's a fun way to introduce some beginner electronics and coding to either yourself or someone you want to get into it. Put it together, run the demo script and see the colors then you can play around with the code and get immediate visual feedback based on tweaking various bits. I like to think of LEDs as the gateway drug to DIY electronics.
That said, it's still an Arduino at its core so I have no doubt you could hack it to make the cube flash different colors for received email or maybe respond to weather reports. You could maybe simulate rain drops or something if the weather called for rain. If some real intrepid coders posted some fun projects I would love it.
Apr 14, 2015
Iacoizumi
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Apr 15, 2015
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DrBubbaPersonally, I was going to see if I couldn't hook it up to a daemon that regularly checks stock performance and associate each light of one layer with a given stock (perhaps allocate each layer of the cube to a specific sector of the market?). Alternatively, I was thinking about bringing one into the office and associating each light with a server's heartbeat/usage (white/blinking: offline, blue: online / idle, green: online / 10%<=utilization<30%, yellow: online / 30%<=utilization<50%, orange: online / 50%<=utilization<70%, red: online/70%<=utilization<100%). I bet it'd make a really nifty music visualizer as well, come to think of it.
But hey, worst case scenario it's a conversation piece, right?
Apr 15, 2015
AlexPk
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Apr 15, 2015
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IacoizumiMusic visualizer was my first thought, but I haven't had time to build it :(
Apr 15, 2015
Iacoizumi
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Apr 16, 2015
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AlexPkBuild it at the office! You guys are selling it now, it can't hurt to make a build guide for this like what you did with the ergodox (https://www.massdrop.com/ext/ergodox/assembly).
Apr 16, 2015
AlexPk
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Apr 16, 2015
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IacoizumiActually a build guide isn't a bad idea. I'll see if I can talk photo into helping me document it
Apr 16, 2015
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