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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I think I have enough colors!

[multi-flavor-geek]

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!

Slightly less enormous lego cube

[jerkface]

I know a guy who did a slightly smaller cube based on a different design. His page includes a short video showing the cube in operation.

More uniquely, the same guy also has what is probably the world's only complete page on lego logic circuits.

Re:All that work for nothing

[benhocking]

The simplest unsolvable swap is to swap the stickers from both sides of an edge piece. Then, simply twist it a few dozen times to mask it.

However, if the solver is as gifted as he thinks it is, he'll probably get it to a similar configuration fairly quickly at which point he should be able to confidently proclaim that it cannot be solved. (Those who are experts in the cube, which I definitely am not, should also be familiar with its parity states.)

Another cool lego design

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

That's nothing, check out THIS Lego item

[antispam_ben]

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.