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Rubik's Famous Magic Cube in Lego Form
addaon writes "I just came across a successful attempt to construct a Rubik's cube entirely out of Lego. It's an interesting companion to the Lego Rubik's solver featured some time ago."
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Great, now I have to paint each individual lego.
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
Now when I have almost finished with my old (simplified) Rubik's cube after years of frustration, now I will have a new thing to "play" with. Thanks a lot!
Sincerely,
Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
"Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
I bet it would be really easy to solve...
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The thing weighs 3kg! Maybe you could build up your wrist muscles while solving this thing.
Oh, I know I have nough, white, yellow, red, grey, black, blue, that's a lego rubicks cube waiting to happen!
And this would be more entertaining then just trying to build riduiculasly tall freestanding towers (my records have been limited by ceiling height) or ridiculasly long suspention bridges (using legos as cables and all)
My record on that one was a 9 foot span that held a couple of pounds!
Of course it would not be as entertaining as building the lego airplanes as smashing them into my bedroom walls to se where all of the passengers ended up in my room!
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Next, we need to create The Cube out of lego and abduct people to put into it.
Please ignore my previous post.. I didn't realize I was replying to Ford Prefect
Please don't leave me behind when the Vogons come!!
What does it mean? I've managed to figure out a couple words individually, and obviously it's a play on 'cogito, ergo sum', but when I try to put it together I can't make any sense of it (possibly because I don't know Latin).
'Man is and thinks therefore smells profanely vulgar and desire'?
Scramble it in anyway you want!
I can solve it under a minute.
They didn't need to go to such lengths just to have a Rubik's cube that can be dismantled and rearranged when nobody is looking, the original thing had stickers that were easily peeled off and reglued to solve the cube.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
I'm failing to see how this thing can turn about all three axis -- the pictures only show it being rotated about the horizontal axis, what about the other two planes? The fact that it is build using the circle on the inside seems to me that it would only be able to turn about one axis rather than 3.
He hasn't created a working Rubix cube. The gigantic monstrosity which requires belts on every movement layer to prevent it falling apart is not a working Rubix cube. At best, and the site openly admits this, it is a model or a prototype.
I usually solve rubix cubes by just relocating all the color stickers. With this invention, I can just do it by taking the cube apart and putting it back together without the hassle of peeling stickers! ...now where did I put that blue 2x4 Lego piece...
If the professor of Gilligan's Island had legos, he could have built that nuclear reactor in 1 day instead of the 3 it required with coconuts.
Table-ized A.I.
I bet this would be a little easy to snap the colored bricks off and put them in the right spot... cheaters delight
Just use only green lego blocks for it!
I believe the ones where all the faces were the same colour were marketed as "stupid cube" here.
Just pop off the flats and rearrange...
Should take about 10 minutes, which is about the time it takes me to become frustrated with the real thing and chuck it across the room.
Don't Crease the Weasel!
I took all the stickers of the original, easily solved.
The author of the article calls himself an "adult fan of LEGO". Well, I'm a fan of adult LEGO!
Just when I think the nerd community cannot surprise me any more, along comes something like this article. Not only is there a CAD system for building with LEGO, there are enough of them to justify a common graphic interface for them. Jeez Louise.
Perhaps the universe has a reason for giving us such lousy social skills. If we ever really worked together, turned all that creativity and ingenuity to a single purpose, we'd have already built the Earth Mark II by now (probably from LEGO), and uncovered the Ultimate Question: How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?I figure by 2030 or so my 6-digit UID will be something to brag about.
More uniquely, the same guy also has what is probably the world's only complete page on lego logic circuits.
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As an aside, we built a robot that images and solves cubes here at the university of our own. It is rather crude looking but we have video to prove it works.
http://osutodd23.tripod.com/Rubiks/RCSR.jpg
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"A famous recent puzzle is Rubik's cube invented by the Hungarian Ern Rubik. Invented in 1974,patented in 1975 it was put on the market in Hungary in 1977. It did not really begin it's infamous popularity until 1981. By 1982 10 million cubes had been sold in Hungary, more than the population of the country. It is estimated that 100 million were sold world-wide."
That is for the facts, otherwise from the brain twisting solution, there is another way to solve it, as few noted before, to strip all the cover from the cube, making it entirely black, which is a valid solution according the rules of the game.
Oh boy its one of the rare moments im proud to be a hungarian, when there is a discussion about hungarian inventions, that is...
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I don't know. I've been educated, so I'm pretty one cornered. Maybe a more four cornered person could do it.
- The axes in the centre are not strong enough to hold everything together: gaps appear, big enough for corner- and middle- pieces to drop.
- Partial solution: strapping belts makes the cube much easier to handle
That's a partial solution all right. All in all, I thing this looks like a fun hack, but it might need some more polishing...Just because you're butt-hurt because you can't get a date and you're at home putting the proof to my statement tonight doesn't mean you should mod my above post "Overrated". This one is offtopic, go ahead and mod it down. Then, please go read the moderation faq, especially the part that tells you to concentrate on positive moderation.
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Theres is a mechanical automatic transmission made of lego that is pretty clever too. It is the only one I've ever seen that doesnt use the mindstorm controller to shift up and down. It just uses springs. It make make the base of a good Sumo Bot for next year's contest.
(when i was a 12 years old) My previous neighbur could solve one in (almost) a blink. He was fond of the game. Whenever I was over at theirs place, i'd try it every time but never ever got it just right. So i dicided to relocate some color labels, once i found out how to click them loose. It wasnt easy. But i didn't finisch the job, i had to go suddenly. After that, it was unsolvable, and he didnt realize. He went crazy whenever he was playing with it.
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While the physical cube can currently not be built, you can solve it through the portal of your computer screen. Try it: Magic Cube 4D
sorry it had HTML set here is the readable version..
(when i was a 12 years old)
My previous neighbur could solve his one in (almost) a blink.
He was quite fond of the game.
Whenever I was over at theirs place, i'd try it
every time but never ever got it just right.
So i dicided to relocate some color labels, once
i found out how to click them loose. It wasnt easy.
But i didn't finisch the job, i had to go suddenly.
After that, it was unsolvable, and he didnt realize.
He went crazy whenever he was playing with it.
I don't know why the submitter posted with that link, when the guy just finished this:u bik_Cub e_Small.htm
http://users.skynet.be/maarten.steurbaut/R
much more compact and friendly. you can even hold it in one hand!
Redundant? That isnt redundant (at least that ive seen in this thread), its awesome. Someone made a lego device that solves a rubiks cube.
Oh god now i feel like a complete idiot.
If any of you are interested in Rubik's, you may be interested in buying a Dogic. It's a 20-sided puzzles that's going to be re-released by Meffert's if they get enough pre-orders.
s eaction=browse&pageid=108 for more information.
See http://sites.webec.com.hk/meffert/index.cfm?id&fu
http://www.henrylim.org/Harpsichord.html
Yes, it's what the html filename says it is. Some of the pics appear to have jaggies from aliasing, but a closer look shows they are actual Lego blocks.
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The majority of *my* Legos never made past the following: The void under the couch cushions, family dog (think chewed or untouchable...), vacuum, the day I took a few Legos outside, that heating vent in my bedroom, road trip to the east coast, your younger brother, superglue, hacksaw, driveway gravel, and "lending them to a friend."
One more comment for anyone still reading the comments to this article, this book by A. K. Dewdney (one of several who wrote the recreational column that replaced Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" in Scientific American, ISTR it was "Computer Recreations" when Dewdney wrote it) may be of interest, the full title of the book is "The Tinkertoy Computer and Other Machinations." This book appears to be out of print, but many used copies are available from used/out-of-print sellers on http://amazon.com/ and through the book metasearch engine http://www.bookfinder.com/.
Also, I'm endeavoring to write shorter sentences than the first on in this comment.
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