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Ha! Yeah, you got a bit of a hand-wave explanation this weekend in our COVID-friendly-under-the-trees-event 😄. I will shortly be uploading instructions on how to use it. But for now:
Firstly: the mini Cube (technically its an M5 ATOM MATRIX device) has a slightly different USB chip inside it, so you need additional drivers for Windows to give this mini Cube a COM port. You can download and install the 32bit version that the 2-in-1 tablets typically use from https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%20v2.12.36.4%20WHQL%20Certified.zip. Anyone else reading this in the future that doesn’t have a 2-in-1 tablet or doesn’t know what I’m talking about, you probably want the normal 64 bit version of the driver from https://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%20v2.12.36.4%20WHQL%20Certified.zip
Then: to enter programming mode …
Unlike the normal Cube that has a touchscreen and shows you the screen where you can tap Flow then USB to enter programming mode, the mini-Cube only has its LED matrix and a single button to interact with. So:
Starting with the mini Cube unplugged from your computer, push down the screen of the mini Cube to make it click; and without letting it go (un-clicking it? 🤔) insert the USB cable into the mini Cube (the other end of the USB must be plugged into your PC). You will see the LEDs of the mini-Cube start cycling through colours – release the button when the LEDs show blue. That puts the Cube into programming mode.
You should now be able to program that bad boy in UIFlow as normal – just be sure to select the right COM port and most importantly select this new type of Cube so that UIFlow can program it correctly – its the first device in the second row with the grid-like display.
Let me know how it works out for you! Even better, be the first to post a project with it! You will see some cute blocks under the UI menu to make different patterns appear on the Cube’s LED grid.
In future I will also write up some projects where the mini-Cube can talk to the big Cube (imagine, for example the mini-Cube connected to a servo motor and mounted on your room’s light-switch so that you can remotely turn the lights on and off 😊)
Instructions have gone up at https://edu.quantumcrayon.co.za/posts/mini-cube-atom-matrix/ 👍
Did u program it ?
cool