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
Posted under Fun, Inventions, Lego, NXT, Robotics
This post was written by drknuth on May 6, 2007
