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."

Besides removing the labels...

[thedogcow]

Great, now I have to paint each individual lego.

Thanks a lot

[Pan T. Hose]

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!

Re:Besides removing the labels...

[Rand Huck]

I wonder what's more difficult, solving the puzzle or figuring this construction out? I think after finally constructing it, I've spent the last of my sanity... which defeats the purpose of the Rubiks cube in the first place.

Cool

[nounderscores]

Next, we need to create The Cube [imdb.com] out of lego and abduct people to put into it.

Re:Massive

[drinkypoo]

Methinks there are some other problems slashdotters are more likely to solve which also build up your wrist muscles.

All that work for nothing

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

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.

Re:Scramble it...

[satanicat]

by picking the the colored plates off it and placing them on in order?? =)

Re:Massive

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Not to worry, if the thing doesn't work as a Rubik's cube, the builder can always stick this Lego creation [mac.com] next to it and reenact Picard vs the Borg.

Solving

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

Gilligan

[Tablizer]

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.

Now a Rubick's cube for military!

[WetCat]

Just use only green lego blocks for it!

Adult (fan of) LEGO

[Anonymous Coward]

The author of the article calls himself an "adult fan of LEGO". Well, I'm a fan of adult LEGO [corrupt.net]!

Ye gods.

[Fortran IV]

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 [lm-software.com] for building with LEGO, there are enough of them to justify a common graphic interface [ldraw.org] 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?

Re:Massive

[DrewCapu]

Maybe you could build up your wrist muscles while solving this thing.

You must be new here. It's common knowledge that just about every /.'er has at least one wrist that gets plenty of exercise already.

Re:Scramble it...

[Usquebaugh]

OK,

half of it is in London, the other half in San francisco.

Re:Gilligan

[acvh]

it's not often that I get a glimpse of the future, but I just had one.... hundreds and hundreds of "Gilligan/professor/coconut" posts on Slashdot.

(or have I been missing something all along?)