jolliCube – 8x8x8 LED Cube (SPI) DIY Kit

Name: jolliCube – 8x8x8 LED Cube (SPI) DIY Kit
SKU: 6467
Price: 28.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.49 (18 reviews)

(18 Reviews)

Single color 8x8x8 LED Cube (SPI) DIY Kit

Designed by jolliFactory in Singapore

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Single color 8x8x8 LED Cube (SPI) DIY Kit

Introduction jolliFactory have designed a single color 8x8x8 LED Cube aptly named jolliCube. It is designed for entry level hobbyist who wants to take on the challenge to build a bigger cube rather t…

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Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.61)

Documentation: (4.39)

Shipping: (4.44)

Communication: (4.50)

Florin | April 8, 2024

Nice product, timely received

Nice product, works very well, and received on time. It was fun playing with it.
Communication was not actually needed, the documentation provided is well structured.

John | Dec. 30, 2019

Love it! Top Notch & Patient Service

This was my first LED cube and first purchase from jolliFactory. While I'm a programer, I'm not an engineer & still trying to learn electronics. This project helped my understanding and I leveled up several skills. Nick was *extremely* patient. I may have e-mailed him five or six times, sometimes twice a day, and he always replied by the next day, which was so nice as I was able to complete the project over a holiday break. Other vendors might push such inquiries off to a forum, but Nick answered every one - really unexpectedly top tier. Deserves more than 5 stars! He was very kind to explain things in diagrams, examine photos & videos I sent, and helped me sleuth out any goofs I made when completing 1,000+ soldering connections. The animations are up & running, although I still have a few more things to do - straighten out my wire frame, 3D print a base, and put inside an acrylic cube I bought on Amazon - but I've already ordered my second kit, hoping to do the side-by-side sound equalizer. The two build videos linked in the Instructable were very helpful. It helps to have patience and the time not to rush the build. When done, you'll be rewarded with a very cool display. I'll definitely be trying other products from jolliFactory in the future!
Here's a link to my running animations before the final polish:
https://youtu.be/1h4Y7SL9Sjo

Warren | Sept. 11, 2019

Outstanding Cube Kit in all aspects

This 8x8x8 cube kit is great. Everything about it is excellent. All the parts are packed nicely, individual bags as needed, and nice quality. The control pcb boards are very well done, laid out nicely, high quality, and really simplifies interfacing to all those individual leds. I also got the 8x8 wood jig, which was high quality, well done, and really helped a lot. I also added the nano and the leds, so basically the kit was complete with everything. The leds were good quality, with a nice supply of extras leds to be sure there would be enough in case bad ones were found. All the leds I received worked and were bright, but it was nice not to worry about that since they included the extras.
The instructions are very nice, though it seems daunting when you first start. It is very nice to have both the written instructions to get the basic idea and some details, and then with the videos showing exactly what and how to put it together. Eventually it all becomes understandable and you get a feel for what you are doing, and the result is fantastic. The software for testing and demonstration is very nice, works well, and shows off the cube immediately. The software is also great for showing examples from basic to fancy animations and is great for learning how to program your own animations. It's a lot of soldering and a lot of tiny detail work bending led leads and building each matrix, but the result is amazing. It was my first, so I was slow, checking leds at every step worried I would burn one or break it bending, etc., but never had any problems and the final result was worth the time.
Great communication with JolliFactory. I had problems with the post office on my end and they were very quick to respond to questions and helped resolve the problem, so 5 stars for service.

Jovi | Nov. 17, 2017

Excellent DIY Kit

Thanks for this DIY Kit. It was fun assembling the led cube. It looks great with a uniform jig.
Thank you also for the extra led. All led seems to work properly. Neat project.

Pavel | Oct. 12, 2017

Fast and good

1st time i've bought it 1 year ago. but 1st pancake is bad. this time i have enough time to make the cube as perfect as possible.
a bit disappointed by wood form, but i guess it's ugly only because of weight limitation.

Kevin | July 11, 2017

Package took a long time to arrive (Canada)

Exercise caution if ordering from Canada; my package was ordered on May 25th but did not arrive until July 12th. This is not the fault of Tindie or the vendor; it is simply the reality of shipping overseas, customs delays, etc.

Charles-Edouard | May 24, 2017

Verry good product and seller

Thanks for very fast shipping. It is a very good product. Very good documentation in the web site.
To recommend this shop.

Hair | Nov. 8, 2016

Thank you, I have received the product satisfactorily

Things to improve on the purchase, it would be good to get more information on jf stereo spectrum, for example list of components for this, but otherwise very complete. Many thanks from Bogota, Colombia

Pierre | Nov. 4, 2016

Commande du jolliCube

-Le temps de livraison est tres rapide part avion moins d'une semaine.
-L'embalage est parfait mais pour le montage il pourrait rajouter un peux plus de fils.
-Pour l'assemblage tres bien explique mais manque de petite precision sur le sens d'installation du panneaux de LED sur la plaque electronique (si erreure tous s'affiche a l'envers), attention a bien suivre le sens des fleches pour la connection 5 pin, et installer toute les puces meme pour les essais.

Ralph | Oct. 13, 2016

Led cube PC board Assembly

This is my second order placed on March 2020 real fast shipping, the first one that I ordered back in October 2016 was fun to assemble that I order a second one and the assembly is going along great. Easy to assemble and to wire up. Great product. Keep it up.

Michael | July 15, 2016

Nice product, easy to setup..add-on part a little subpar.

The boards are well made and the setup video was easy to follow. There is a lot of soldering so not a first time project, recommend building a smaller cube. I also bought the component add-on kit and jig. I have had 50 - 60 LEDs that were bad right out of the bag. I have had to order additional LEDs to complete the project, Kit should provide a large amount of spares(include at least 600 leds instead of the 520(add-on said 540, but I only received 520)). Because this board uses the MAX7219 chip, it is a little harder to find other examples to understand the code, there is a nice library MD_Cubo that uses MAX72xx and has some nice docs to add functionality...overall a nice product, fun to build...just not happy with led quality (still waiting on additional LED to finish the project)

Response from jolliFactory | Sept. 3, 2016

Sorry for the late reply and the quality issue you face with the LEDs. We were quite shocked to learn that more than 10% of the LEDs in your kit set were found to be bad out of the bag and that you received only 520 LEDs instead of the stated 540 LEDs.

Our usual practice for this kit is to pack the LEDs in 2 separate packs. One contains 500 LEDs which is machine counted and packed and another is manually packed with 50 LEDs. This gives a total of 550 instead of the 540 LEDs as stated. The LED cube requires only 512 LEDs and the additional 38 LEDs should normally be sufficient for replacements.

We carried out sample checks on our current LED stock and did not find any quality issues with them. We thought we could have a batch of bad LED stock and so we waited to see if there are more similar feedbacks from other buyers. It has been almost 2 months and so far, we did not receive any feedbacks regarding LED quality issues. We hoped it is an isolated case of bad LED quality.

Currently, we only source our LEDs from one vendor. We will not hesitate to look for other vendors if we discover there are quality issues with their supply.

Hope you like the LED cube and we are sorry once again for the bad experience you had with regards to the LED quality issue.

Sudheendra | July 11, 2016

Super fast delivery

Have the kit in hand within 2 business days. Clean and professional packaging. Seller very responsive.

Robert | June 29, 2016

Fast delivery, good packaging - A good choice

With a fast delivery, a very good packaging, I have received my order in a quite fast time and without damages.
I can only recommend this vendor so far!

Ugo | June 6, 2016

acrylic enclosure

Hi, i love jolly cube i still haven't received item, but i'd like buy its acrylic enclosure, i have not found anywhere ,let alone in your site.

Response from jolliFactory | June 6, 2016

Thanks for your your interest in our LED cube. Currently, we do not sell the enclosure and do not intend to sell it in the near future. You may build one yourself if you are a handy man or have it custom made which may be quite costly.

We will let you know where to purchase one if we are able to find it.

Yan | April 20, 2016

Asking MORE effects for Jolly Cube.

Hi Jolly Cube,
I am just a hobbiest of led cube. My first cube is 4x4x4 with arduino. I like using arduino IDE because of easily unstandable programmer. But my knowledge is very limitted to writing codes with C or any other languages. This time i try with 3d8 cube with jolly's kit. I do assembly myself and tested yesterday with your demo code. Amazing! I went through all instructed steps during assembling time. Very convenient to finished the job , ofcourse take time abit. I need to request you to create more EFFECTS for your cube and distribute from Instructable. BTW, you can get the return from the user for your sharing, teaching and generousity with millions thank.

Response from jolliFactory | April 26, 2016

Thanks for taking time to write this review. It gives us a great sense of satisfaction to know buyers are happy with our products.

We hope your review will encourage hobbyist to take the plunge and build this 8x8x8 LED cube though it may look like a difficult project to handle.

We will try to update with more effects for this cube in the near future.

Chris | April 4, 2016

Fun to build, great instructions

I had no trouble following the instructions, the videos really helped understand exactly what to do.

The only thing I had to put some thought into was making Jig#4. I have no drill stand, so I opted to carefully mark out an 8x8 grid with a very sharp pencil, steel ruler and set square, this worked out well with good accuracy achieved. I then drilled the holes with a battery drill, first with a small pilot drill, then with the 3mm drill. I found it hard to drill holes absolutely vertically, resulting in the leds not quite being vertical, but when viewing the cube running, this is not noticeable.

I also successfully ported the code to run on a Particle Spark Core, so I can wirelessly control the cube.

Response from jolliFactory | April 12, 2016

Thanks for taking the time to write this review.

Glad you managed to successfully complete the LED Cube and even ported the code to run on a Particle Spark Core. We may offer jig#4 as an option for purchase in future for those who may not have the means to build one themselves or do not want to take the trouble to build it.

Andrew | Feb. 22, 2016

Great kit- good documentation

I bought this kit so I could build an LED cube. This is my first cube and I like the fact that its basically built and ready to go. A little bit of soldering is needed (and obviously you have to build the LED cube), but other than that its a great product. I would like my next one to be built from the ground up so that I can better understand how everything works, but the instructable for this does a good job of that. Overall, I am happy.

Response from jolliFactory | Feb. 24, 2016

Thanks for taking the time to review our jolliCube 8x8x8 LED Cube kit. Glad you are happy making your first cube.
Hope your review will encourage potential first time LED Cube builder to take up the challenge to build an 8x8x8 LED Cube instead of building a small LED Cube for a first cube.

William | Jan. 30, 2016