Hypnocube

The Hypnocube. What can we say about it? Well, this is the 4Cube version, with 64 3 colour RGB LEDs (thus a total of 192 individually addressable LEDs) with 16 levels per colour channel. Therefore the 4 Cube can display 4096 colours!
Switch it on, and you get a light show that lasts for hours and never repeats!
There is a lot of technical stuff behind this toy, which is an 'after hours' project by Chris Lomont and Gene Foulk.
They started playing around with ideas of building a large LED cube back in 2006, and have just released their first retail product.

[@grandillusions]

Go to hypnocube (dot) com

[@ruffles886]

Do I have to?

[@Conklin03]

@@ruffles886 yes.

[@aloskss]

@@ruffles886 yes.

[@lemmmakestunes8312]

@@ruffles886 yes.

[@phosphophillitegemstone1568]

@@ruffles886 yes.

[@Okoii]

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOCUBE.

[@javiersds8081]

Xestantial I thought of exactly the same joke when I read the title xD

[@ethansnyder3754]

48mmk 8mmk y&

[@Kids_Scissors]

No. ALL HAIL THE SENTIENT CLOUD.

[@liamade4826]

Gotta love Futurama

[@WickedJ133]

I would pay a ridiculous amount of money for Tim to narrate audiobooks.

[@yxnglxcy]

NO Morgan Freeman

[@ender691]

@@yxnglxcy why not both, there can be more than 1 audio book narrarator

[@Jason0binladen]

The cube is commanding me to pour water from the nile

[@SrKing-dm4ku]

What vid is this referencing?

[@Jason0binladen]

Pitchers and something else IDK if you search pitchers grand illusions you find it

[@CounterNerd]

+Jason Miller Searching "grand illusions water from the nile" works too. God people are lazy. They need help with the smallest tasks. No surprise, majority of people are borderline retarded nowadays.

[@MMR_LM]

Vases and Pneumatic toys.

[@ethansnyder3754]

O thy

[@2Cerealbox]

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOCUBE

[@rockerseven]

Ryan N the hypnotoad is going to be upset that he has some competition

[@johndou423]

Fuck, I came here to post this exact comment

[@Kids_Scissors]

They should make a music visualizer in the form of the hypnocube. Just imagine having those next to your monitor with your gaming setup or on your speakers when you have friends over. It would be an asset to society.

[@naram-sinofakkad3156]

As an electrical engineer and someone who is very easily amused, this gives me a lot of pleasure to watch.

[@discrepancy666]

ALL HAIL HYPNOCUBE

[@Applesgosh]

HYPNOCUBE IS OUR ONLY MASTER

[@chowdown]

CLAP. CLAP. CLAP.

[@Blue_]

My cousin has one, very cool indeed, we tuned the lights off, even better.

[@Sean_735]

Hypnotesseract still has more swag. 4 x 4 x 4 lights? Booooring. 4 x 4 x 4 x 4, get with the times.

[@Blue_]

how i that even possible?

[@DanTheStripe]

This is one of those things that I want on my desk, right NOW.

[@thiscannotbeyourname]

I humbly and urgently request a ten hour video of this, please.

[@TheaForg]

it hypnotised and told me to buy one

[@TonecrafteLuthiery]

My pupils were constricting and expanding so fast when the lights would cycle from dull to bright that I could physically see the room I'm sitting in getting darker and brighter. For anyone who doesn't know, when you're pupil constricts they restrict the amount of light entering your eye, and the room around you will therefore appear darker. Just as how in the dark, your pupils become larger, allowing more light in and allowing you to see better after a few moments in complete darkness. That switch from light to dark was happening so quickly on my screen that the room around me was rapidly getting darker, then brighter, then darker again. It was actually pretty incredible.

[@HayziFromOz]

I don't know, I don't think it would really be as mesmerising without the narration. I was staring at my screen for about 5min after the video ended just waiting for Tim to start talking again.

[@Zekurity]

This is not only a beautiful thing too look at, but also a way of showing the 4th dimension.

[@windyhd1277]

Lmao Lyl u don't know jack shit about muh grilled cheese

[@Falcrist]

Having a basic understanding of embedded systems engineering and the Arduino micro-controller in particular, I have to say I'm far more impressed that someone programmed several hours of lightshow than I am with the RGB LED cube itself. This is actually not an uncommon kind of project for aspiring engineers.

[@JohnSTF72]

All it needs it's some disco music.Hypnotizing.

[@lukehillman7480]

It would be cool since its 4X4X4 with the LEDs if you could plug in an aux cord and it would have green red yellow and orange bars jump up and down depending on how loud the music was

[@Nyllsor]

+Luke Hillman Yeeesssh!!! :D

[@MuradBeybalaev]

I like how you can't see the toad overlord hiding behind it at all.

[@OvhanDevos]

+Murad Beybalaev what?

[@MuradBeybalaev]

Sean Anderson Exactly!

[@SeanDS89]

I was hoping there'd be a futurama reference in the comments section :)

[@MuradBeybalaev]

AddictedFort1E You're welcome.

[@soundslave]

To make in Minecraft, you'll need a stack of LEDs.

[@UntrackedEndorphins]

soundslave just a reminder that you wrote this

[@marioisawesome8218]

I Sleep that's cruel of you

[@eddotron1224]

ooh, I wonder what Tim is going to show us toda- ALL HAIL THE HYPNOCUBE

[@michaelvandeheyii5145]

The Hypnocube AND a strobe light....people would go NUTS!

[@PlayingwithP0W3R]

There should have been a jumpscare at the end lol. That would catch ya' off guard

[@shapes9495]

P0W3R i know what you mean it god unlawfully quiet near the end

[@Z1601J]

Tim's adjectives are outstanding

[@ShitMist]

You spend 20-30 minutes watching this? this thing is legit, I'm buying 3 and a bag of weed. See y'all next month!

[@eyeplastereyelad3634]

The great things you have done.

[@henryvoon8605]

His videos are so calming. It helps me with my anger issues

[@gavinthomas214]

I have one of these and it's great. It doesn't repeat the complete sequence, but it does repeat programs after a while. Even though we've had it for at least a year I still notice what appear to be new patterns once in a while (or it could be my poor memory). Worth the money.

[@adlsfreund]

No more lack of ideas for christmas gifts with this channel. :-)

[@MrGetonyourbike]

very clever

[@AntifoulAwl]

Dammit, there was no 'heh' at the end :(

[@mayonnaiseeee]

Well, it did its job...had to break out of the little trance it put me in

[@Hanni93472]

Hypnocube was the inspiration for the hypnotoad :D

[@calumhm]

This guy seriously needs to try the visualizer 'Milkdrop'. Winamp has it as standard, but it can be installed for many media players. Honestly, it blows anything else out of the water. If he thinks THIS is hypnotizing, he's in for a treat!

[@crownvetch92]

that would be fun to watch as a livestream

[@HunterRodrigez]

i just looked this thing up online... its like 150 bucks... for a handful of LEDs and a circuit board ? what the hell ?

[@falconmick]

thats waaay to expensive... I baught a kit (less fancy, it's just a board which has rubber legs and mounting positions for $50 that you assemble yourself.. and thats AUS not USD, so you should get for $30-$40

[@HunterRodrigez]

falconmick iam talking about the exact model shown here, and that costs 150$

[@nambinhvu]

I think the bulbs alone are over $60 because those aren't the standard single colored LEDs, they use LEDs which each contain multiple colors.

[@CarlosPerez-qm3ls]

Bitch please, look at the magic mirror

[@eloscuro7]

***** Right, so you either spend $50 on the parts and spend a few hours soldering your LED array, and then a few days programming and debugging your microcontroller, OR you spend $150 for someone to do it for you.

[@kaybrann]

Reminds me of a room of lights in the Camera Obscura, Edinburgh. Highly recommend this place if you are in Scotland :)

[@wollf92]

At our college in The Netherlands, we had a homemade one just like this. They're fun to make and program if you are into electronic engineering. :)

[@JamesPlace]

if this thing was turned on at the dawn of the universe of course it would not have repeated itself even to this day--it would be in oblivion.

[@JoRoWi83]

Improve it by placing some silvering on three of the inside walls and have yourself and groovy infinity mirror.

[@CherryNobody]

Extraordinary

[@Jaraz93]

I have one of these, made it myself. It's actually pretty easy and simple if you have the proper equipment and the knowhow. :)

[@armaanshah9842]

No one : Literally no one : This guy : its extraordinary!

[@JaronOdele]

Neat. Might be something i'd like to pick up in the future.

[@spacepirateivynova]

These are pretty cool projects to make on your own.

[@4SomeLegoOneTwoThree]

+ReddmanDGZ he didnt make it he bought it?

[@spacepirateivynova]

I know. I'm just saying, much more fun to build your own, and you learn a lot of various techniques in electronics by doing so. Forgive the tardiness of my reply :)

[@christianhardwick6530]

Your voice is hypnotic. I love it.ove watching your vidis

[@antoniusralfdemontpincon7186]

An advance form or writting could use the cube as paper and the lights as ink. 3D communication. Our brains could read entire pages of books in seconds.

[@oliviatang29]

I'll sit there for 7 hours to see the whole show.

[@Psyched_Crow]

So I stopped listening to what Tim was saying because I was watching the Hypnocube. And then Tim stopped talking and I didn't notice until it was almost over. I think we have an apt name right there.

[@antieye555]

This was uploaded on my b-day

[@rickyc2651]

antieye555 happy birthday

[@pierrevillemaire-brooks4247]

Very nice decoration indeed :-)

[@islphrs1350]

You should have turned the lights off.

[@xxxdlscarmp]

it never repeats itself

[@gonzaloayalaibarre]

Looks like it is more effective irl.

[@grahamwaldo331]

Because that has randomized colors and speeds, it would take literally billions of years to repeat

[@Ol-Gabe]

id party with this guy

[@jbolo5378]

Back in my day, all we had was a Lite-Brite

[@sotosj9]

I wish I could have all of your collection

[@nolanbarnes9236]

I had a toy once that utilizes the same technology as what was presented in the video only the light display was much smaller and purple but had these knobs and dials attached used as controls to let you control which ones light up to make your own 3d pictures. Although now that I think of it it's not so much like what was in the video but more like those clocks that have a wand that moves back and forth only this toy was comprised of a few strips of lights shaped to conform with the clear plastic purple dome that encloses it. It creates this illusion with a spinning motion. I guess I am making this comment because I see spatial similarities between what's mentioned in the video and the toy I'm thinking of. In my opinion both are equally amusing but in their own unique way.

[@VoltisArt]

That's what f0rensicfreak said. Cuboid is any box shape including cubes and non-cubes.

[@ninjashaw5991]

i have an awesome idea, get the inner surface more reflexive and you can see more pattern!

[@legoperson57]

Well this will be on my Christmas list

[@kevinolesik1500]

that's brilliant ! ... i want one

[@VicariousReality7]

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOCUBE Might actually buy one

[@kamakazy13]

We should get like 100 of these and assemble them in a separate cube

[@Nay-kp6uu]

Why does he always say, "Extraordinary?"

[@clutch1141]

80 bucks on amazon.

[@samhyde6395]

John Lacy was looking through all the comments for this one. Thank you.

[@hlodog]

Good thing the video is so short or I might have been lost in it for hours

[@mmorpg2248]

You said "a few hours". If this thing was turned on at the dawn of the universe, it still wouldn't have repeated itself. At least, I think...

[@SidneyJupiter]

I feel like Tim is a raver when he brings this to the party

[@1whoDoesSimply]

IDEA. Make these your floor. Buy several hundreds of em or maybe a really large one, and make it your floor, but only out of layers of acrylic. Look down? Trippy show.

[@Dinictus]

You know, I'd actually buy this.

[@jay_dmp]

Reminds me of vat19, they advertise and sell these kinds of stuff too! ;D

[@GabrielKnightz]

I like it, and i think i would. I wonder if there's a tinted glass version.

[@Thee_Sinner]

I gotta sub so I can come back to this when I’m high lmao

[@MrSuperBriggs]

I would love to go to one of his parties

[@segura2112]

Very cool!

[@gardad91]

It isn't all hail, it's all glo.. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOCUBE.

[@ChrisGloomTube]

It was actually first discovered in the late 1600s by the inventor of the LED, Frank Lloyd Wright. Around 1672 if I remember correctly so if you're talking about the 1980s then you're about three centuries off, give or take eight years.

[@machinepuppy]

it looks like earthbound PSI animations in a box and its great

[@charlesedgar6001]

If you turned it on at the beginning of the universe it still would have not repeated, it never repeats

[@lowfrequencyfilms]

Such beauty

[@GuruOfGreatness]

Haven't blinked for the whole video.

[@Trancelistic]

R.I.P Cristmas tree. Buy a bunch a cubes and build/shape it like a xmas tree^^

[@terrandroid]

that's very cool!

[@riffatshaikh3808]

it hypnotized me

[@FilmoreAlvarez]

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOCUBE!!!

[@MoonLiteNite]

people make these that are like 128*128*128 freakn crazy!

[@gabrielthechosenone8356]

all glory to HYPNOCUBE

[@Polaf3456]

This dude seems pretty chill I would smoke a blunt with him.

[@GabrielKnightz]

Would make a nice night light.

[@Dleet3D]

ALL GLORY THE HIPNOCUBE !

[@MartijnKuilema]

This is like 65 years old? 🥳

[@drealrocknrolla4341]

I would put two mirrors on the side to create a further effect

[@Falcrist]

They're hand assembled from components in small quantities. That combination always results in an inflated price.

[@extradterrestrial]

What am I doing still watching these? I work at 5 a.m. Help.

[@jeremyallen5632]

You can find them at ThinkGeek as well. There are many websites that sell kits for this. Just google hypnocube and you'll find plenty of places to get them.

[@namibuburderoch3965]

I could almost see shelling out $100 for this, but the lack of a built-in power supply (just a battery would be fine) or USB port is pretty much a deal-breaker for me. Maybe I'm just spoiled. :P

[@ben9820]

They need to make this except 50 x 50 x 50

[@zeroquanta6130]

WHY, didn't you turn the lights off??????

[@trulyinfamous]

My relative made something just like that before on his own.