Inverted 3x3x3

DLitwin · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:18 pm

My Inverted 3x3x3 is finally ready to show. I have been hinting at in other threads (here and here) for a while and was able to cut some stickers for it last night.

A bit of a silly puzzle but designed with a few things in mind:

1.) I'm a bit tired of pillowed things. I like them, but sometimes you have to take another path.
2.) Just inverting it a bit wasn't satisfying. I could do that by just grinding down a DIY. No, I wanted to invert so far you couldn't start from a DIY base, inverting past the mechanism circle that the piece feet hold on to.

So this is what I would up with. It is a bit fragile, but moves OK. Here is a video of its movement:
Inverted3x3x3 Movement.

Here we have the 36mm DIY cube circle:

Here we have the 30mm of exterior center to center width:

I will follow up with a puzzle building thread later.

Enjoy,

Dave

Steryne · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:25 pm

First to say: Great puzzle!

Door · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:26 pm

Be careful not to poke your eye out on it! :lol:

Looks great! Did you cut it down too a smaller cube then add printed extensions on, or did you just cut into the shape to start with?

-Mark-

Bigandrewgold · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:34 pm

diabetics can use this along with the 2x2 to poke there fingers

very nice puzzle, i hope that you make even bigger ones

DLitwin · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:01 pm

Door wrote:

Did you cut it down too a smaller cube then add printed extensions on, or did you just cut into the shape to start with?

I'll answer that when I post in Puzzle Building. Until then... I'll leave it a mystery

Dave

funmonkey54 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:14 pm

Awesome job!
I sincerely hope that a 4x4 is in the near future.
A nice family of these would be pretty sweet!

Jeffery Mewtamer · **Joined:** Sun Nov 23, 2008 2:18 am

Hyperbolic Cubes are awesome, but it raises the question: When are the rest of the hyperbolic platonic solids going to be made into puzzles?

Kelvin Stott · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:43 pm

Door wrote:

Be careful not to poke your eye out on it! :lol:

That's exactly what I was thinking. Anyway, looks like a great job, well done!

Kapusta · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:19 pm

DLitwin wrote:

Thomas wrote:

But Dave, the Inverted 2x2x2 is just plain silly. :-)

Silly? You haven't seen silly. I'll show you silly on my next project. Then you'll look back and think how serious the Inverted 2x2x2 is in comparison.

To quote "Batman Begins" (with some modifications):

"You aren't silly. You're practice!"

Dave

This line's been bugging me for a while, and I'm glad it's now satisfied.

Although, I must say this didn't prove the 2x2 to be serious. All it proved is that the Inverted 2x2 was silly, and that this is a higher order of silly. :wink:

Wow, how many puzzles in one day?

DLitwin · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:49 pm

Kapusta wrote:

Wow, how many puzzles in one day?

These have been waiting on stickers, and I finally got around to a bit of vinyl cutting at the TechShop last night.

That was right before using the laser cutter to cut a few new Elemental designs. More on them soon...

Dave

Taylor · **Joined:** Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:16 pm **Location:** SLC,USA

I'm positive that it's made from one of those good 3x3 "minis."
Do I win one do I win one!!?!

Fractangle · **Joined:** Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:41 am **Location:** Earth

How silly!

Silly puzzles are awesome, this just raises the bar for awesome silliness. (Or is it silly awesomeness?) :lol:

DLitwin · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:43 pm

Here are a few better pictures:

Dave

Jared · **Posted:** Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:22 pm

Taylor wrote:

I'm positive that it's made from one of those good 3x3 "minis."
Do I win one do I win one!!?!

And if it's not... then someone should make one that is, so that it can be inverted even more! :lol:

Zaxef · **Joined:** Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:43 pm

That looks amazing, like a spider hehe :lol:

Kelvin Stott · **Posted:** Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:27 am

3 posts above - are those pictures of it actually WALKING? :shock:

That's incredible!

:lol:

Frank Tiex · **Posted:** Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:57 am

..and another highly aesthetic puzzle from Dave. It looks really stylish. Great! So, when can we expect the Inverted Void Cube and the Inverted (Holey) Megaminx?

Fantastic work!

ender9994 · **Joined:** Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:21 pm

wow, great puzzle. Please say it can hold the 7x7...that would be awesome.

Danny Devitt · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:34 pm

Looked great at the competition, looks great now.

ender9994 wrote:

wow, great puzzle. Please say it can hold the 7x7...that would be awesome.

Probably. See here and here.

Inverted 3x3x3

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