LED Cube/Understanding The Electronics

This page is meant to give you a understanding of the workings in your LED cube. We will try to avoid common electronics slang, thus this is especially suitable for you if you are not familiar with electonics. If you are, however, you are probably better of simply having a look at the schematics and your cube itself - it is not complex in any aspect.

The Cube Structure

We will first explain the cube structure and then work our way to the USB connector. First of all, some basic understanding on how you work with LEDs.

LEDs are very handy and mostly nice-looking devices which is the reasen we chose to create this cube kit. Usually, if you connect a LED to a battery, there is a characteristic of the LED you have to take into consideration. For batteries with very low voltage ratings, your LED will not emit light. If you slowly increase the voltage, for example by using different batteries, or, if you are more used to electronics, use a variable voltage source, you will see that at some voltage, current will start to flow through the LED and it lights up.