Want to turn your living room into a rave for the holidays? All you’ll need is a $300 L3D Cube and about half an hour.
The L3D Kickstarter project delivers a crude 3D display in a DIY kit, allowing you to build what the L3D Cube team calls a “volumetric” display. It looks like an animated 3D lightboard. After you construct the box, you can then download visualization apps to it or program your own. Less than 24 hours after it launched, the Kickstarter campaign is more than halfway to its goal of $38,000.
The standard kit takes about 30 minutes to build, says Shawn Frayne, president of Looking Glass Factory, makers of the kit. Each L3D Cube comes with 64 7-inch-long “reeds” with eight multicolor LEDs embedded in each, or 512 lights total. Plug the reeds into a Spark system board, cover it with the cube-shaped acrylic case, and then use an app to connect the device to your Wi-Fi network.
You program the Cube by downloading visualization apps to it via Wi-Fi. Each cube comes with a microphone, so it can change patterns and colors based on the volume and frequency of music or your voice. It can also work with motion sensors such as the Microsoft Kinect and the Leap Motion 3D Controller…Read More
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