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."

turnable?

[slimak]

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.

Re:turnable?

[WolfWithoutAClause]

If you read the article more carefully, you see that the designer went to great lengths to make the design completely symmetrical, (for example figuring out how many bricks thickness are needed to make cubical parts and such like) so if it can rotate one side, it can rotate all of them; just like the original Rubik's cube.

Re:Successful?

[mod_critical]

It's SUPPOSED to be like that! Can't you see that this is an open expression of the Microsoft Server platform??? It is built with fixed, proprietary parts that, while they connect well to each other, cause the final product to only operates in one out of the three ways you'd expect it to, require external help to keep it from falling apart, and weigh much more than and be much larger than what would actually work! Geeze go take an art appreciation class.

sorry, I couldn't help it =$

A few words about the Rubic cube...

[A beautiful mind]

"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...