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Online Experimenting with 3D LED Cube

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Smart Industry & Smart Education (REV 2018)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 47))

Abstract

The paper illustrates how 3D LED cube can be used for remote experimenting and for gaining basic programming skills. For this purpose two different realizations of the cube were used. Both of them have 512 (8 × 8 × 8) LEDs and use Arduino motherboard for influencing the behavior of LEDs (their switching on and off).

The aim was to control the LED cube remotely. Therefore it is connected to the web server where the supporting web application is placed. The interface for the user is very simple – one text area serves the user for entering the control code.

The developed application enables to test own codes and to learn how control loops and conditional commands work. The feedback for user is offered by video channel.

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Acknowledgements

Author thanks to Patrik Novotný and Daniel Melo for their help with the cube realization, application implementation and fruitful discussions. Their help is gratefully acknowledged.

This work was supported by the Slovak Grant Agency, Grant KEGA No. 025STU-4/2017.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Katarína Žáková

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  1. Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria

    Michael E. Auer

  2. Competence Center Automation Duesseldorf (CCAD), Duesseldorf University of Applied Science, Duesseldorf, Germany

    Reinhard Langmann

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Žáková, K. (2019). Online Experimenting with 3D LED Cube. In: Auer, M., Langmann, R. (eds) Smart Industry & Smart Education. REV 2018. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95678-7_31

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