"CUBERT" - 512 NEOPIXEL CUBE

"Cubert"

Cubert (@LMcUnderwood - Lorraine Underwood's )

This NeoPixel wonder is an amazing project by Lorraine Underwood consisting of an 8x8x8 Cube of 512 RGB lights (3 in each semi-opaque sphere). Nearing completion (April 2018) it is now seeking light display ideas to make good use of this amazing output device.

To help test out ideas Lorraine's husband and partner in project has created a Python Simulator.

Below are some test scripts I developed building on the Cubert simulator. The code is far from finished - more a proof of concept.

Projects:

"Purple Rain"-fall - adapting one of provided demo's to experiment with coloured rainfall.
ReadPNG - NEW: added features to i) load a sequence of 8x8 pixel art images and then ii) draw them on the Cubert face.
Font 8x8 render
1. V1 - NEW: added features to i) create an 8x8 pixel font, then ii) display text messages on Cubert.
2. V2 - NEW: re-written (a few times) to enable scrolling text in various colour combinations. A good refresher in using bitmaps, bitwise operators and shifts.

"Purple Rain"

"Purple Rain"-fall - adapting one of provided demo's to experiment with coloured rainfall.

rainfall colour.py.mp4

Filename: rainfall colour.py - adapting one of the provided demo's to experiment with coloured rainfall.

READ PNG

2. ReadPNG - NEW: added features to i) load a sequence of 8x8 pixel art images and then ii) draw them on the Cubert face.

cubert2_readPNG.py.mp4

Filename: cubert2_readPNG.py - load images from PNG files (in this case 8x8 superhero characters).

Font 8x8 render

3. Font 8x8 render - NEW: added features to i) create an 8x8 pixel font, then ii) display text messages on Cubert.

V2 - Now with sideways pixel scrolling as well as static text methods of displaying text messages.

font8x8_render (v2).py.mp4

V1 - Most of initial work on bitmap fonts and display text messages as sequences of single letters (one at a time).

font8x8_render.py.mp4

Filename: font8x8_render.py (V2) - displays messages on Cubert using the converted public domain 8x8 bitmap font. Text messages can flash single letters sequentially or by sideways pixel scrolling.

Filename: font_basic.py - conversion / adaptation of public domain 8x8 bitmap font.

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