Hypnocube 4Cube Instructions v 6.5, December 2013
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Appendix 3: Troubleshooting.
If this part passes on the first try, then you are doing great. Quite often you need to find a loose solder joint, fix
shorted wires, or find some other missing or poor connection to get the cube flawless.
Congratulations! You have one plane attached, and have passed initial testing!
For each of the next three grid planes, follow these steps, rereading the above as necessary:
1. Select the remaining grid with the shortest drop wires.
2. Place it adjacent to the previous grid IN THE SAME ORIENTATION.
3. Make sure it is aligned nicely relative to previous grids (LEDs level, in a nice cubical lattice).
4. Insert all drop wires through the proper holes.
5. Only solder the two end wires.
6. Check placement. If correct, solder rest of leads and clip.
7. Do ground wires. The order of the ground wires (lowest to highest) should match previous planes.
8. Run the testing code to make sure all LEDs are functioning properly and that you have them ordered
correctly. If there is anything out of order you want to fix it before adding more planes in order to have
easy access to the internal wiring.
At this point you should have a working cube, though not yet in the case. Relax, and let it run a while to make
sure it looks good. It is designed to hypnotize you into buying a few dozen for all your friends, family, and
neighbors.
Mmmmm, pretty shiny blinky lights…………
Now you should have a working LED cube that properly passes the testing routines, and then starts running
visualizations.
The testing routines always run on power up, and are useful if you ever jiggle a lead loose and need to fix it
(you can skip the test routines in the future by pressing either of the buttons we are about to do in the next step.)
There are also other testing possibilities described in the User Manual, based on switch settings on power up.
Get the User Manual from the Hypnocube site for further details.
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