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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."
Next, we need to create The Cube out of lego and abduct people to put into it.
Methinks there are some other problems slashdotters are more likely to solve which also build up your wrist muscles.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
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
by picking the the colored plates off it and placing them on in order?? =)
How Now Brown Cow
Not to worry, if the thing doesn't work as a Rubik's cube, the builder can always stick this Lego creation next to it and reenact Picard vs the Borg.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
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.
Just use only green lego blocks for it!
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.
OK,
half of it is in London, the other half in San francisco.