more of the glue blooms I spoke of here - you can see the Duco Cement what caused these blooms in the background

All magnets for the center piece are in place in this shot.

Applying green labels to the cube. These are Rubik's brand PVC labels - the only good ones IMNSHO. The other kind they sell get air bubbles under them in a day or two, and then it's just a matter of time before they're peeling off and crumbling to the floor. I debated whether or not to put the labels on this cube, or just leave it all crystalline, but spinning clear cubes is only fun for so long. I'll probably get around to building another of these anyway, so it's no big deal that I hide my sloppy first-gen work under some nice, machined labels.

All the project result info is here.

This is fun.

more of the glue blooms I spoke of here

info on this piece here

The 6 edge pieces have their central axle magnets in place, and with the center piece's 6 magnets in place, I can finally start to see some things taking shape. I really would like a workshop of some sort, especially if its in my own house. I'm in a small apartment, and could only drill a few pieces a day very late after work. I didn't want to keep drilling for a full hour with an upstairs neighbor at 11pm. It just wouldn't be fair to them. So, I did a handful of cubes a day from about 9-10pm, and just had to settle for the whole process taking about 3 days total. It should have all taken under 3 hours total, and added up, it did.

These are the 108 magnets shown with their polarities, with the cubes in place, touching, but invisible.

i met luís at the skatepark, he solves the rubik's cube in less than one minute. and he just did it several times for me to believe him aha.

raquel fialho 2009

more info here

Here are some of the magnets ready to be glued into the 6 edge pieces. The edge pieces all stick to the 6 faces of the center piece, and represent the only axle connections of the cube. All other movements by all other cubes are slide displacements w/ rotation in relation to each other. As such, I really need to beef up the size of these central magnets. The 4 other holes that surround these center face axle holes are for connecting in the edge pieces.

This is the craziest example of the blooms I spoke of here. For whatever reason, though the cracks went all the way to the faces of the cube, they never penetrated through. If you reflect light in the faces, they remain unbroken, and the cube is not brittle or in any other way seemingly compromised. It's a neat effect, but in my next cube, I'll choose a glue that doesn't do this to the acrylic.

Still waiting to drill the corner pieces and install their magnets. All the other magnets are in place and ready to go.

Another shot of one of the cool conical blooms I detailed here.

I think that's enough drying time. Let's finish this thing up finally.

more of the glue blooms I spoke of here - you can see the Duco Cement what caused these blooms in the background

Spotted this guy on the Tube - quite incredible. Watch the video here: www.flickr.com/photos/textlad/4742630115/

To put this in context according to Wikipedia, the current world record for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube is 7.08 seconds with the best average solve time at 9.21 seconds.

Anyone know who this is?

more info here

more info here

1983 of Rubik's Cube patent. You are free to use the patents on your website. Please credit www.patentswallart.com

This is a nice shot of one face with one center face piece in the bottom foreground. You can see the crazy bloomage of the glue through the cubes, where it cut a path, and then resolidified in place.

another view with 4 edge pieces removed to create intersecting layers

These are the 12 edge pieces. These have 2 magnets each for connecting between two center face pieces, 2 more for joining to two corner pieces, leaving 2 faces for colors to wrap around 1 edge of the cube each. This of course means that there are 48 holes drilled here, of the 108 total.

described in a previous image

You can really see how inexact the cubes are in this shot. Look at the one on the left - it's a rhombus, with a climbing left top corner, and the top face is no better. The right one is slightly trapezoidal, and the bottom is clearly a bit undersized. Ah well - they still look pretty if you aren't glaring in close proximity, and the overall result works fine as intended.

All the project result info is here.

more info here

a view without 4 of the edge faces - still playing, still waiting for the next day when I would be able to drill the 24 remaining holes in the corner pieces

Hey, magnets mean no center needed! Magnets rule. This is a slice out of the center of the cube.

I'm just showing how the magnets can be pulled apart. One benefit of this cube idea is how easy it will be to fix a cube back to solved, without all the prying and exploding of regular mechanical cubes.

described in a previous image

It sure looks homebrew in this shot. It looks much better when it's all assembled and not magnified under backlighting as it appears here.

The cube can be disassembled fairly rapidly.

Solved and Photographed by Vijay Nandula, on the 40th anniversary of Robik's Cube few days back..

Comparison shot with an official black Assembly Cube.

Check it out, you can mix them up the same way. My magnetocube prototype has passed its final test. Time to go release it into the wild and hope for the best.

If me peeling label applicators off of Rubik's Cubes is your thing, you'll love more of the same over here.

an explosion diagram of the cube, sans corner pieces

Another shot of one of the cool conical blooms I detailed here.

more on this here.

Another shot of one of the cool conical blooms I detailed here.

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another shot of the bendiness

One face down, and the centerpiece.

La Générale | Avenue Parmentier 08/06/2011 17h37

At this gallery Invader is having his exposition "INVADER 1000" celebrating the 1000th space invader of Paris.

Rubik Cubisme is a hot item on this exposition. Inside this mega Rubik Cube 100.000 normal sized Rubik cubes are used to form 6 color low fidelity art objects made by Invader.

LA GÉNÉRALE (14 Avenue Parmentier)

Expostition of the work of Invader from 1998 till 2011 including PA_1000 and even PA_1001 (!).