Programming a 4*4*4 LED cube

Having done the hard part of soldering, let's get into Arduino connection and programming. Before connecting the positive leads, connect four negative layers to Arduino analog I/O ports A2 (bottom layer) through A5 (top layer). After that, 16 LED control pins needs to be connected to the Arduino board. Connect the first 14 pins to Arduino digital I/O ports 0 to 13. The remaining pins 15 and 16 need to be connected to Analog pins A0 and A1. See the following diagram for connection reference:

Programming a 4*4*4 LED cube

There are a few things that you should understand before programming your cube:

  • To address a single LED use a plane (layer) number ...

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