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LEAP#322 Fidget Cube Cordwood Controller


A colleague gave us all Fidget Cubes, I think mainly to keep idle hands from causing too much mayhem in the office. After building Boldport Club Cordwood Too, I was trying to think of interesting controls for it, and started wondering if the Fidget Cube could be converted into a workable controller. Answer is: Yes! It was a bit finnecky, but I managed to wire up most of the controls on the cube, and even secret a power converter inside. As always, all notes, schematics and code are in the Little Electronics & Arduino Projects repo on GitHub Here’s a quick demo: