The cube itself is controlled with an Arduino Mega 2560. For each frame in memory, the Arduino reads and bit shifts 49 bytes of data for an encoded duration.

An Arduino can handle running a small LED cube on its own, but if you’re planning on building something big, eventually you are going to run out of pins. For something like an 8x8x8 cube, odds ...

We’ve seen hundreds of Arduino and Raspberry Pi machines that can solve a Rubik’s Cube, and we’ve seen an equal amount of interesting lighting projects, but never the two put together.

This is a pure 3D display -- unfortunately done at a resolution of just 8 x 8 x 8. It's a hand-built LED cube created by Nick Schulze, powered by Arduino, and driven largely by Matlab.

Here, however, we have a light cube that puts on a next-level spectacle using more than 4,000 LEDs. And all we can say to the cube’s 3D rainbow display is whoa.