8x8x8 Led Cube Help!! Uno R3

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Hi guys im new to this and I am currently building a 3x3x3 as a starter. I am looking to do the 8x8x8 next but I want to do it with my uno r3. Issue is every kit and tut is saying to build a board and program it. So what im asking is what do I have to cut out exactly of the list I need to get this bad boy built. I will be following the indestructible's tut. I have searched for a answer online for the past 3 hours but cannot find anything.

Thanks in advance

Here is the list

Here is what you need to make a LED cube:
512x LEDs (plus some extra for making mistakes!)
64x resistors. (see separate step for ohm value)
1x or 2x large prototype PCBs. The type with copper "eyes", see image.
1x ATmega32 microcontroller (you can also use the pin-compatible ATmega16)
3x status LEDs. You choose color and size.
3x resistors for the status LEDs.
8x 74HC574 ICs
16x PN2222 transistors
16x 1k resistors
1x 74HC138 IC
1x Maxim MAX232 IC
1x 14.7456 MHz crustal
2x 22pF ceramic capacitors
16x 0.1uF ceramic capacitors
3x 1000uF electrolytic capacitor
3x 10uF electrolytic capacitor
1x 100uF electrolytic capacitors
8x 20 pin IC sockets
1x 40 pin IC socket
2x 16 pin IC socket
1x 2-pin screw terminal
1x 2wire cable with plugs
9x 8-pin terminal pins
1x 4-pin terminal pins, right angle
2x 16-pin ribbon cable connector
1x 10-pin ribbon cable connector
Ribbon cable
2x pushbuttons
2x ribbon cable plugs
9x 8-pin female header plugs
Serial cable and 4pin female pin header
Piece of wood for template and base
8x optional pull-up resistors for layers
5v power supply (see separate step for power supply)

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Hi

Rather than starting with an 8x8x8 and cutting that down, it's probably far more straightforward to run with a 3x3x3 design from the start. There are lots of examples of a 3x3x3 that you could use and several kits like this one and since only 12 pins are needed to drive one of those that's well covered by the standard I/O of the Uno. Once you get bigger, and 8x8x8 is certainly bigger, you run out of IO and have to use additional components, eg 74HC595 shift registers to drive all those additional pins.

All the best ! Geoff

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virtualcarnage:
I am looking to do the 8x8x8 next but I want to do it with my uno r3.

LED Cube 8x8x8 - Part 1, Theory.
http://jacksonliam.blogspot.gr/