Apparently Impossible Cube
Description
You can find the original at puzzlewillbeplayed.com/444/IwahiroAIC/1/
Instructions
The pieces have been designed with a small bevel on the edges and a slight offset to give a snug fit (but this may vary on your printer).
You can watch a video of the puzzle in action (including the solution, so don't watch it if you want to try and solve it yourself) at youtube.com/watch?v=1J8fA3t3Y78
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This is really good! I am so pleased with this thing for two reasons. First of all it is a great puzzle (not that I am any sort of expert when it comes to puzzles!). I give it to people fully assembled and ask them to take it apart before putting it back together - how easy is that? (Not very!). Secondly, after much tweaking with my RepRapPro Huxley and its 0.3mm nozzle, I got this printed and working without very much filing at all. (Must admit that in order to satisfy myself that I had tuned my printer properly, I took a peek at the YouTube video - excuse is that there was no point twiddling with these four pieces if the printer hadn't done its job properly .... am I excused?
Had some trouble getting figuring it out......even more frustration getting it apart. Well worth the effort though. Liked it so much I printed two - scaled the second one up 1.5. Took about 30-35 minutes to print each scaled up piece on a TOM with default settings.
The set screw on the driver gear of the stepstruder let go half way through one of the pieces - that's the half finished one in the background. 3 minutes left in the print - GRRRrrrr :)
This is a great puzzle to give to friends/family!
This is awesome! I printed all the pieces, but apparently my printer isn't calibrated very well and I'm having a hell of a time fitting them together (even with sanding). I don't suppose by chance this you created this in OpenSCAD or something similar so I fiddle with settings?
Still awesome though, I will be vigilant and keep sanding until it works (:
Great puzzle took me a while and I resisted looking at the youtube video :)
Printed at .27 layer heigh / .4 nozzle on a Replicator fits together without any sanding.
Great little puzzle. Everyone in the house says thanks for the challenge/frustration..
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Sorry that I asked before searching; pretty noobish of me :-(
I found a very nice video demonstration about acetone finishing by andrewupandabout here: http://youtu.be/r3nJbU9OInk.
I am curious about your method of finishing with acetone. How do you apply it; with a cloth or in a "bath"? Can you describe the result? Will it be like chemical deburring of cast metal parts?
I love so it was super fun to just print this out and try and figure out how it goes together with no idea where to start.
Awesome, nice job. Took me a fair while to puzzle it out, but I got it together.
Great fun!
I printed this on my ToM with 0.5mm nozzle. No problem but it is a bit of a tight fit. It will be a great challenge for my friends.
this is fun, needed a tiny bit of tidying up with a sharp knife (0.5mm nozzle) but works great :)
I've "Liked it" Now I'm printing it right now... Results to follow =-X
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Worked 1st try with PLA on our MakerGear M2, but a really tight fit. Too tight.