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Ring-a-Week 3: January 21, 2011.
Sterling silver, patina
Marquise elements freely rock back and forth
I've posted this cube on MOCpages in May 2014. With the recent hype about "fidget toys" more and more "copies" of this cube are appearing (and even sold) in the web. So I decided to publish (what I consider) the original with it's story on flickr, too:
After some other 3D Lego Puzzles I had the idea to build a "magic folding cube". Cubes like this are often used for promotional or merchandising purposes. I have a picture cube from the first "Lord of the Rings" movie which works the same way. It's not really a puzzle when you play with it, but it was a puzzle to build ;-)).
The idea was to build it as small as possible with an edge length of two studs for the eight "sub cubes". The only possible hinges for such a cube were 1x4 / 2x2 hinge plates. I analysed the position of the hinges on my picture cube and tried to transform them into a working Lego model. I tried a lot of SNOT elements which all didn't work. Then Lego released a new inverted 1x2 / 2x2 SNOT bracket and the folding cube worked with it ;-)).
I wanted to put a black and white "checkered" pattern on the cube, just like I had done with my Soma Cube before. But the brackets only existed in black, grey and red, so I chose a black and red pattern instead. For that I seperated the hinge plates and recombined them.
On MOCpages since May 2014
Instructions (LDD LXF file) can be downloaded there.
That you're lying motionless on the frozen ground.
I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I have to poke you with my nose and lick your face until I get you back on your feet.
A Magic Folding “Fidget” cube with the design of a micro scale space ship in a Classic Space blue/grey/trans-yellow colour scheme.
The Borg Cube was my first idea for a magic folding “model” cube, a CS space ship was the next one. Being a fan of the first generation as I am, the colour scheme had to be blue/grey/trans-yellow.
Lego versions of a 'Magic Folding Cube', also known as a 'Photo Folding Cube' or a 'Yoshimoto Cube'.
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To make the large cube, you will need a total of:
32 x 32014 - Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Angled #6 - 90 degrees
32 x 10197 - Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Hub with 2 Perpendicular Axles
8 x 43857 - Technic, Liftarm 1 x 2 Thick
16 x 2780 - Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise With Center Slots
Building Instructions to make the large cube can be found on my YouTube Channel:
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To make the small cube you will need a total of:
16 x 41678 - Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Perpendicular Double Split
8 x 2780 - Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise With Center Slots
16 x 32062 - Technic, Axle 2 Notched
8 x 43857 - Technic, Liftarm 1 x 2 Thick
Building Instructions to make the small cube can be found on my YouTube Channel:
And also in this image:
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If you don't already have the Lego pieces required to build the small cube, you can buy a limited edition kit online at:
www.brickloot.com/products/magic-cube-fidget-cube
If you would prefer to buy the pieces individually using the part numbers listed above, you can go to:
www.bricklink.com or www.brickowl.com
I am not affiliated with any of these vendor websites.
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The Building Instructions (MLCad files) and Inventories for the three sizes of my Magic Folding Cubes are available at Rebrickable.
www.rebrickable.com/users/slfroden/mocs/
Photos showing my Magic Folding Cubes can be seen at:
Videos showing my Magic Folding Cubes can be found on my YouTube Channel:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY5_lYb67lhE9KTOzy0Y0ibDwL...
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Music:
"The Complex" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Than to tangle with Mouse, but Fidget decided that she wanted BOTH bowls of Molly's doggie delight egg dinner.
Mouse puts up with an almost unlimited amount of Fidget's growling and posturing, but this time Fidget bit her on the haunch.
Hard.
It wasn't long until Mouse had a solid hold on Fidget's face.
Playing with my brand new Sony a7ii while sitting in my 'thinking chair'...my books, phone, fidget spinner, thinking putty and water cup all vying for space on my small tabletop.
Fidget and Mouse interrupted their dinner to check out a noise from the woods.
(And it was a good dinner, Molly's chicken-vegetable-rice doggie meat loaf.)
Mouse, at left, always gives her laser-lock stare in the direction of the noise. Fidget is more of a scanner, looking from left to right with a furrowed brow.
I saw two foxes the other morning standing on the ice on the pond, eating some fresh snow. They're really on the move this time of year, really hungry.
They keep well clear of the poultry pasture.
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Made from recycle materials display at Marina One's central concourse during Christmas Tree MOments for fund raising.
These things are all the rage. Developed for children with ADHD, they have become the "it" thing to have. Teachers are collecting them from students because they are saying it interrupts the learning process in the classroom. This one was printed for me by my daughter on a 3D printer.
WEEK 31 – TRUBeContinued (II)
Beyond the nursing chairs – behind that makeshift dividing wall seen in the previous photo – you've got a fairly large selection of disused shelving units, blocked off by some caution tape. Now, since everything inside the store was supposedly on sale as a result of the bankruptcy, logic would dictate that these ought to have been included in the fixture sale, and had simply already found buyers and were therefore roped off until the store closed and said buyers could come pick the fixtures up... but at the same time, I don't remember seeing any sale tags (let alone “sold” ones) here, so who knows.
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
"Fidget, you're eating snow again. Every survival book I've ever read says that eating snow lowers your core temperature so much that it will kill you."
"Well Boss, I'm just the dog, but lets do the arithmetic. It takes about 80 kcal to turn a liter of ice into a liter of water. Since I drink about half a liter per day, that's 40 kcal per day that I spend melting ice."
"Uh, OK, Fidget, go on."
"Now a cup of dog food has about 400 kcal, so I'm using 1/10 of a cup a day to melt ice. And you give us as much food as we want in cold weather, so it's no big deal." It only takes one extra mouthful a day to melt the ice
"Well, Fidget, I'm not sure I follow the math, but it sounds like you do. I was just worried about you."
"Boss, worrying isn't good for you. Just chill out and have some snow."
At least from Fidget's point of view. We're heading to 25F (-4C) tonight, a record for the date. (Previous record was 30F in 1906.)
She came in tonight for a bit and then asked to go out again. :)
Lego versions of a 'Magic Folding Cube', also known as a 'Photo Folding Cube' or a 'Yoshimoto Cube'.
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To make the large cube, you will need a total of:
32 x 32014 - Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Angled #6 - 90 degrees
32 x 10197 - Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Hub with 2 Perpendicular Axles
8 x 43857 - Technic, Liftarm 1 x 2 Thick
16 x 2780 - Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise With Center Slots
Building Instructions to make the large cube can be found on my YouTube Channel:
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To make the small cube you will need a total of:
16 x 41678 - Technic, Axle and Pin Connector Perpendicular Double Split
8 x 2780 - Technic, Pin with Friction Ridges Lengthwise With Center Slots
16 x 32062 - Technic, Axle 2 Notched
8 x 43857 - Technic, Liftarm 1 x 2 Thick
A quick video can be found in my Flickr Photostream:
Building Instructions to make the small cube can be found on my YouTube Channel:
And also in this image:
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If you don't already have the Lego pieces required to build the small cube, you can buy a limited edition kit online at:
www.brickloot.com/products/magic-cube-fidget-cube
If you would prefer to buy the pieces individually using the part numbers listed above, you can go to:
www.bricklink.com or www.brickowl.com
I am not affiliated with any of these vendor websites.
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The Building Instructions (MLCad files) and Inventories for the three sizes of my Magic Folding Cubes are available at Rebrickable.
www.rebrickable.com/users/slfroden/mocs/
Photos showing my Magic Folding Cubes can be seen at:
Videos showing my Magic Folding Cubes can be found on my YouTube Channel:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY5_lYb67lhE9KTOzy0Y0ibDwL...
Fidget has started laying down her winter coat. This doggie makes hair like clouds make rain.
She looked like this just three months ago.
Fidget just started a low-dose prednisone taper for some hot spots that made a late summer appearance. She has had far less trouble this summer than in previous years, so the whole allergy regime seems to be working.
I have always been a fidgeter... spinning pens, tapping tabletops, and generally unable to keep focus unless my hands were busy doing something. While not everyone is a fidgeter, these fidget cubes are like catnip to people like me.
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E.T. Phone home:
Having my mobile phone service recently flake out on me specifically during a time in which I very direly needed to call home, set me off on a self-portrait photoshoot tangent (pausing work on the costume I've been creating).
This light-hearted miniseries of portraits is actually a hint at a costume/character I've brainstormed; touching on how alienating and hollow technology dependence can be: how we are all connected but we are all so not connected and missing the essence of life that makes us humans and not robots. On another level, it's also mocking the tinfoil hat trope, and even mocking aspects of myself. I also just realized afterwards that the two green lights on the heat pump could look like cameras to the eyes of a mad tinfoil hatter - Big Brother is always watching!
Inscribed in purple foiled eyeshadow above the eyes are the ubiquitous WiFi symbol/soundwaves/vibrations/ the sonar "technology" that bats use for movement.
As in the children’s story book with Stellaluna the lost baby bat raised by a bird family who expect her to live like them: sleep at night, don’t hang upside down; this alien is urged to erase traits intrinsic to her nature, in order to assimilate.
So this empathicalist* extraT, let’s call her Astrid, has forged some armour to block hostile vibrations* because sometimes people try to say that living true to your own nature is bad attitude/bad behaviour just because you don't make a fool of yourself trying to be like them simply to make them feel validated when you know that your sonar senses are the thing that you can truly trust. “…if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
The fidget spinner kept handy on her wrist is to symbolize the anxiety epidemic resultant from an ambitious overworked world where people are too busy on the grind and not truly connected – stressed out beyond belief, taking it out on each other and causing rifts. Consistent uber-stress threatens the very fibre of our being to the point that we become who we are not, distorted caricatures of success and glamour. She’s kinda like this bizarre alien ninja with her Inspector Gadget-esque sometimes-weaponized fidget spinner. A protector, a lover, a renegade fighter against societally-institutionalized bad vibes. Good vibes only zone. Live love laugh, motherfucker. (but in a creepy gothic and scary kinda way)
When life gives me lemons I say "wtf i ordered lychees!" and I don’t stop ‘til I have those lychees, cuz lychees rule. In other words, I stop my crying and make a costume and tableaux vivant (living picture/visual narrative).
*Quote from Funny Face movie
After lengthy deliberation, Fidget dug her hideout on a shady, well-drained ledge near the porch. She can see the front half of our property from there and it's hard to see her because she's tucked into the edge of a thicket.
She was lying there drowsing, but snapped to attention when a neighbor opened his front door 200 yards away.
(Aerial view below.)
Fidget and Bella.
Both of these sweet girls are no longer with us, but I just found this picture again and had to post to share my cheerio bandits.
Mouse takes off to chase somebody, probably a fox or coyote, away from the south end of the pasture.
Fidget thinks that one Pyr on the chase is probably enough.
A basic "skeleton" for new design variations based on my Magic Folding "Fidget" Cube.
First of all I analyzed the design of the cube looking for the parts that were really needed to make it work. The result was a working "skeleton" of the cube which wasn't more than the hinge plates, the SNOT brackets and a few plates as "connectors" between them.