Lego Rubik’s Cube
Published on 6 May 2007 at 3:25 pm.
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I stumbled across a working Rubik’s Cube made from Legos. The design is by Maarten Steurbaut, and it is an impressive compact design (his second version). Below is a MLCAD/POV Ray image of the inner workings of his cube.
His first design was much more complex (below), and I find the images to be quite impressive. Its interesting to me that I am more impressed by the complex design, while a design that relies on simplicity takes a lot more ingenuity and effort.
Surprisingly, Maarten was not the first to make a working Lego Rubik’s cube. Martin Howard had also constructed a Rubik’s cube with a more compact design.
J.P. Brown took a different approach and created CubeSolver, which is a Lego Mindstorms machine that solves Rubik’s Cubes. His written documentation about the design challenges that he faced is full of excellent ideas.
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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