The Rubik's Cube Mechanism - 3D Printed!
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2018
- Have you ever wondered how a Rubik's Cube works? Well I did, so I reverse engineered the original mechanism by Erno Rubik and #3DPrinted my own version of this iconic #puzzle.
Where are the files!? Not released yet, some refining to do still, sorry!
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As a kid, I always solved a Rubik's Cube by breaking it apart and snapping it back together. I WAS SMART.
When I first asked my dad how to solve a cube that's what he told me :D
Still,cheating requires some level of intelligence
Make a giant one!
Yup.
r/iamverysmart
Fun fact: Out of all the possible states a 3x3x3 cube has people will often say there is only 1 solution. However a normal cube has a couple solved states. The center pieces can rotate independently of the other pieces, on a normal cube this can't be seen as it's all solid colors so all these states are still counted as solved. If you were to mark the rotation of the center pieces you will need a few extra steps to solve the centers and then you will only have 1 true solved state.
This blew my mind. We take position and orientation in to account with the other cubies, why not the center cube too? the positions are static but the orientations are not (If I got that right) although it's not visually necessary of course for the cube to "look solved"
William Meisburger-Iwata exacte, there are cubes like picture cubes that do require you to make sure all centers are rotated correctly
Yeah and the 3x3x3 cube that has a little arrow on each cubie, including the center ones that force you to get the center oriented too ... hard as.
just like anything else on these puzzles once you know the algorithms it's easy
>Put arrow on center piece
Thanks for showing twisty puzzles to your huge community! Unfortunatelly, these puzles are not as well-know as they should be and having designed twisty puzzles for FDM-3D-printing for quite some time, I found this to be one of the most fascinating uses of 3D-printing in general. It enables everybody to come up with new ideas and create an intelligence toy that you then can play around with to challenge your mind even further.
I'd be really happy to see you dive even more into this sector of designs and would love to see your first unique twisty puzzle design!
This looks so awesome!!! Can't wait to see the finished product!!! Keep up the fantastic work Angus!!!
as a rubiks cube and 3d printing fan, this is awesome
Oh wow thanks for the mention! I watch and love your videos all the time, so this was a big surprise to see.
If there is anything I can help you with feel free to ask.
"more sophisticated and better approaches to create this movement"
_Rubik's brand_
Nice project Angus - well chosen! This one really looks very interesting from a number of different aspects
Loved this video. I so enjoy figuring how things work. You remind me of what I was as a kid, always taking things apart to see what makes them tick.
I absolutely love the Rubik's cube, I've been designing twisty puzzles for a while and there are so many different and weird puzzles you can make.
Wow Angus this is so impressive. You'll be at 500K and then 1 million subscribers with content like this. Amazing. Well done and congrats on all of your success.
Cheers
Ben 😀👍
Speed Cube is the next challenge.
Or a 2x2 or 4x4, those are harder because they have an invisible center layer.
eh 2x2 and 4x4 look more complicated then they actually are
@@niccster1061 the 2x2 is literally just a 3x3 without the center pieces lmfao
@@dabirdie1797 and the edges are also gone
@@dabirdie1797 I also use Ortega Method
@@TheLetterJ10 Yeah
I love this so much, fantastic project. Well done.
Thanks Angus, great stuff. The springs are ingenious and it makes total sense...now
OMG - I foresee a desk-sized Rubik's Cube in Joel's future - LOL. He's going to need some muscled-up friends to drop in and help him wrestle it around in order to solve it. ;-)
Thanks Angus. Really cool.
Ron Floyd that actually does exist! There's a mass produced 3x3 cube that's 18 centimiters, which can always be extended... Hehehe
+EGGO -- Only a 7" cube? Nah! Too small for him to bother with. LOL.
I see him aiming more toward a 120cm, 4x4 cube! But, then again, he might need a forklift to move it around. ;-)
Awesome job! Great video!
7:26 Not sure about the new design, but on the old one to take it apart you twist the top layer and get the middle edge piece out, not the corner
Can confirm that on the old one you have to pop the middle edge piece.
Yep doesn't seem to work for the middle either, the new design is fairly clever it seems!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I HAVE BEEN WONDERING THIS FOR QUITE SOME TIME!!!
Wow, Angus! Amazing work! Pretty complex stuff to be able to replicate in 3d software and on a 3D printer! Jealous of the skills! :)
Fantastic. Looking forward to more
I have an original Rubik's Cube from a couple of years ago. It has the same mechanism/form as in the patent.
Also, the corner pieces don't pop out too well, like you showed at the end of the video. The edge pieces come out much more easily in that position!
You've probably already heard this a million times, but inspired by your channel and Devin's I just bought my first 3d printer (an ender 3) and while I watched this video I was printing my first benchy in PETG. Cheers!
Great video Angus! My Grandson (9 yrs old) learned to solve the Rubik's Cube from watching CZcams videos. Thanks for sharing with us. Always enjoy your videos.
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR SO LONG
That is awesome thanks Angus!
Ever since I first heard about 3d printing, I'd wanted to make a rubiks cube. Glad you made one!
Great video. Keep them coming please.
I was trying to think through how the turning mechanism worked the other day, and I'm delighted to see that the conclusion I eventually came to was pretty close!
really cool man well done
Angus fantastic video. Great you have put the time into doing this. Good luck with solving the cube. I also started to learn the patten. I gave up after getting some of it sorted. 🖐
Love the video. I have many cubes and average 30 seconds per solve. Great designs Angus!
I love this video! I'm a speedcuber and collector (and I modified some cubes like Nathan Wilson), and the only advice that I can give to you is that design the edges with "torpedos" (a little piece that give it stabillity and for avoid that the cube disassembly itself). And watch the videos of RCPongo, Nathan Wilson, Oskar Van Deventer, NKCubed, Gregoire Pfenning and Illatsion Cubing in Instagram, they are some of the BEST brains on the cube community.
Best regards from Argentina! Sorry for my bad english haha
I love your channel so much and i just saved up a bought a 3d printer (the tronxy x1), keep doing what your doing!!
Congrats! I'm sure you'll have tonnes of fun with it.
Maker's Muse thank you, I owe a big thanks to you for inspiring me to save up for 6 months
i'll so print this when you release it I tried a model before and it failed also very excited for the files good job
btw my best time solving is 38 seconds ;)
I'm taking a 3d printing class in high school soon so this is pretty helpful.
totally awesome!
Awesome video!
now just design your own original twisty puzzle and my life will be complete :D
Woah, 3d printed mechanisms still blow my mind
FDM printing is super useful for making twisty puzzles like these, and there's a lot of awesome community-designed puzzles. It's really awesome to be able to design a puzzle on your computer and turn it into something functional in real life.
The pros (such Grégoire Pfennig & Vladi Delimollov) take it a step further and use SLS to create insane-looking puzzles, far beyond the limits of what can be done in FDM.
That's impressive. I might print one just for fun.
I can solve it using the classic, slow method from bottom to top layer instead of the quicker 2x2 method. It's not difficult to memorize the algorithms once you've done it enough. Then you start coming up with your own moves once you understand it fully.
The clunkier, two-toned coloured cube looks fantastic just to sit on a shelf but my god, no post processing on the red and blue one and it works that well? Phenomenal.
Cube Theorist
Sorry, not that much into it.
(Sees the yellow next to the white)
HERASSY!!!
Cool video
Very Cool
Cool!
Probably the most factually correct video about the Rubik's Cube from a non-cuber.
A bit late to the party, but I've been doing this too! I have a few versions of a 3D printed speedcube documented, including one I'm able to do sub 14 averages on.
As someone else already mentioned, might be worth trying to design a speedcube mechanism, and see how good you can make it.
Amazing work Angus !
Just watched a tutorial by the cubic.us and this guy explained how to solve a cube in a way that even a dummy like me could understand ! I never had a cube when i was a kid - just looking at them gave me a headache !
Nice! 😊
You should add little wings to your edge pieces to go over top of the corners to reduce the puzzle from falling apart.
I know a lot about the Rubik’s Cube, I was into speed solving they for about 2 years and have learned how many of them function.
Very nice rubricing
You should check out both the qiyi sail and the qiyi warrior w to see how slight modifications to the design can greatly affect the cube
Yay !! Atlast the Rubik's Cube.
Hey makes muse fun fact I 3d printed your markers 3d puzzle cube and gave it to my dad, since he loves 3d puzzles, and he thought it was pretty cool. And I was surprised that it even worked being printed on a davinci jr 1.0, and it took 20+ hours to print, I also live streamed it but I put jazz music in the background and it got paused for a good 3 hours at the 16 hour mark, and there's no CZcams backup so yea
Nice, I recommend getting your hands on cubes meant for speedcubing, there's a huge community out there and I'm sure you could refine your design by tearing apart some of the designs used out there
I really love this video. I think you should take a look at new speedcubes designs, they are more articulate, but i've seen people succeding with sla or sls printing.
My first and only 3D print I ever made (3 years ago) was 30mm rubics cube that has cross interlocking with center pieces, so no screws and fully 3D printed. It worked pretty well. I gave it a few solves, untill the cross-center locking mechanism fall appart. I've redesigned it, but unfortunetly Lost acces to any 3D printer
Finally someone who knows something talking about cubing without a cubing channel
I became a cuber because i was fascinated by the mechanism, then 3d printed my own. I saw no reason to have that and not be able to solve it, then i got addicted
Seems like a perfect use case for smoothing. Maybe that alcohol smoothable PLA or traditional ABS smoothing. That's really the key to a good cube. I had one in the 80's, probably still have it somewhere. It was somewhat loose and butter smooth. The newer ones felt like crap to me but I understand that the competitive people have many techniques for making good cubes.
Fun stuff. Never could sold the damn things 😀
Finally a practical use for 3D printers!
do you have your design posted/ shared anywhere? I want to model and print my own cube and it's hard to find a 3D model as a reference.
you should try to make one that turns decently, with springs on the core/rounded corners/vapour smoothing etc
Hey Angus, my friend was literally designing his own speed cube based off of his mfrs2 cube, and then this came out! Just a suggestion, try copying speed cube parts, they just work better. 50x50mm are the normal sizes for cubes aswell
Hi, I recommend to you Greg's puzzles here on youtube. He has some videos showing his process of making them, and in some of his videos there are 3d printed puzzles aswell.
While I love all your videos this one drew me in. Nice
2:32 - *Cube explodes*
"But the mechanism definitely does work"
If you say so, Angus. xD
Rubiks cubes and other twisty puzzles have only had springs in them for about 15 years. They make a world of a difference though.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 it's freaking awesome 3d printed Rubik's cube. Hey Angus which printer did you use to print the cube ?
Cheers! I used the Prusa Mk3 and the Cetus 3D.
You should take a look at some more modern mechanisms. Like a speedcube like Aolong. Also take a look at 4x4 and higher puzzles. Shengshou makes cheap higher puzzles that are well worth the price. And really the only option if you just want it for the mechanism
I m literally like whoah! Im drunk of 3d printing:-) .Those are incredibly cool projects
The new cube has tabs on the interlockings to eliminate the chance of popping when the tensions are looser, alowing it to run faster
That newer mechanism that you're seeing with the ball in the center goes all the way back to the 80s. I know because that's when I took apart my dad's.
Great work! Did you share the files?
Proud to be a hungarian :P and so funny to hear Ernő with aussie accent :"D
Cool :)
the 3d models to the dayan zanchi which is a great
turning cube are provided for free i think
That patent that you showed has been floating around the internet for years now. But it's been miss-labeled as the original 3x3x3 patent. But the patent is more for the 3x3x2 Magic Domino puzzle. Also with the more modern day 3x3's they're made and aimed at Speedcubers like me. But then again if you look hard enough you can still buy brand new 3x3 that are made today with the old classic 40 year old mech. I've been into cubing( Playing/solving rubik's cube type of puzzles) for over 10 years now and I've seen what many of the different 3x3 mechs their are over the past 10 years. But today many speedcubers lube their cubes with some silicone lube like Traxxas 30k.
The world hasn’t moved on from the original mechanism. Most speed cubes still use a 6 stem system very similar to that of the original Rubik’s cube. However they have added things like grooves and magnets
I was planning on printing about 50 speed cubes for practice
Actually, the new Rubik’s brand cube mechanism was made so that beginners would have trouble taking the puzzle apart and cheating. Good mechanisms for 3x3 puzzles are normally found in speedcubes.(Qiyi sail is a speedcube with a simple mechanism but it turns amazing)
Dude, you should have a go at printing it in smaller with SLA!
I was intrigued by the guy who could juggle three Rubik's cubes while solving them at the same time. My brain doesn't even work in his universe.
But... Angus, you're awesome. You've been subscribed for a while. I'm slowly becoming a 3D printing nerd. Not as good as you or Joel Telling who lives only 30 miles from me, but I have to take him to lunch one day before you, so sorry :(
I have two favorite Aussies on my subscribe list. You and Ozzyman.
-Dave
And yes, modifications noted... 0.1mm tolerance, chamfers, springs, silicone spray. [File] [Save]
How has the design of this gone? I’m wanting to print myself a new rubix cube but so few choice out there. If you’d made no progress I might just have to give it a try.
id love to see a video on how to design it, it doesn't seem that difficult but i suck at cad!
so instead of looking up "rubiks cube internals" or just dissasembling the cube that you had you looked up the patent?
Would you be able to design it where the cubies are hollow to fill them with cake?
does anybody know if and where the files were uploaded?
And in case I was just to stupid to find them, please share a Link.
Thank you in Advance^.
Any speed cubers here???
Yup :)
*peeks in*
sadly
Well hello
hello
The best way to solve a rubik’s cube take it apart and reassemble in the right order
Best is very tight and sand ( hot water ) especially with flat surface because every one can print it.
You'd be surprised at how interesting these mechanisms get, I got a few speed cubes from a couple years ago and they work great. Lube em up and they spin great and are very forgiving towards over and under rotation (cutting ability of a cube). The best 1 I have would be my stickerless dayan zhanci which was used in some former world records. The mechanism they use whilst still on the same basic principle it looks wildly different. Back then this was 1 of the most common cubes used and was considered top tier. I guess they have probably moved on a considerable bit though now, I forgot how to solves the cubes I have here but I was able to solve a 2x2x2, 3x3x3, 4x4x4, 5x5x5, pyraminx, megaminx, windmill/fisher cube, and 2 others I can't quite recall the name but those gave me some troubles at times. I should learn to do so again as my collection is just gathering dust at the moment.
I'd be interested to see if you could manage to 3D print a viable speed cube and solve it sub 30sec in the future :P
Zhancis are very old now, you should try a new cube. It's also sad that dayan doesn't really make any popular puzzles. It's mostly moyu, gans, and qiyi
MG_Anon if I get a new cube now I first need to learn to solve 1 again and get sub 30. Tried solving 1 earlier and it was a disaster, just took the top layer out and assembled it again XD
I stopped for 6 months or so but I still remember 2 look oll and full pll. I am pretty good with muscle memory.
yeaaaah for me it's been like closer to 4-5 years. You know you're rusty when you even have to think about your F2L moves :P
Hey Angus you should try to create a mirror cube it's a Rubik's Cube but instead of colors its sizes it's hard to describe unless you see a image but I think it would be pretty cool because there are no colors in it.
You should model a speed cube instead of the on brand rubiks cube to make a better cube
I've recently seen a 3d printed watch mechanism, that could be an interesting video, but maybe a bit too complex...
I cube aswell and am getting a anycubic i3 mega as my first printer!
Don't worry Angus! You'll get the beginner algorithms down in a couple hours of work (spread over a few days for retention) :D
Can it be printed all in one go?
Amazing cube great job!!! But please put get the color Scheme right it hurts my head when it is like that