Tony Fisher's Chinook puzzle

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

A while ago there were some questions about Helicopter Cube transformations. For various reasons none as far as I know have been made public so far but this one can be.
The obvious name for it would of course be Siamese Helicopter Cubes but I decided to go with Chinook.
The video will be added in a day or so.

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Chinook

Robert111 · **Joined:** Sun May 30, 2010 5:29 pm **Location:** England

Very nice, I like the Chinook over the traditional siamese.

Robert

Sharon · **Joined:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 8:25 pm **Location:** Israel

Very nice =)

A 2x2 + helicopter siamese cube would be even nicer. lol

Sharon

alaskajoe · **Joined:** Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:52 am

cool. Could one build up the indented edges like on your skewbrick puzzle without having to add additional moving parts? I just can't really figure from looking at it but I think it woul work wouldn't it?
EDIT: I am sure it is not possible without adding parts unless the cuts are not planar/of one plane anymore.

Luke · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:25 pm

Very nice. I would have wanted to have made one myself, if I had two spare Helicopter Cubes at hand. But your's looks beautiful. Great work.

Mister Kibur73 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:06 am

Siamese Helicopter! Very well!

Greetings from your fan!

Adman234 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:45 pm

Best puzzle name EVER!

I'm glad that somebody has finally revealed a helicopter cube mod, I too was surprised that nobody else had ever made one...

Looks good, but one question. Did you do any cutting before gluing or could you simply remove pieces and glue together?

Monopoly · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:48 pm

Amazingly simple mod! Did you just disassemble, saw down the core arm and glue? :lol:

Kind of off topic but I think it would actually be really easy to make this turn along the 'fully functional siamese' line (albeit probably would need to be printed.)
It would make it much more difficult and interesting to solve.

gingervergo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:23 pm

Very cool.

I only had you beat by about a year to make the first transformation!

Andreas Nortmann · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 1:06 pm

I am glad to see that I am not the only one contributing to this database-section. :roll:

Well made.

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

gingervergo wrote:

Very cool.

I only had you beat by about a year to make the first transformation!

Ah, so there was one. Recent discussions suggested there hadn't been any.

APJ · **Joined:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:09 pm **Location:** My House

Cool puzzle, I like the name.

Alex

Jared · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:02 pm

I take it that the puzzle doesn't turn around the middle "cut"? If so, maybe using square stickers to cover it up would be good.

Either way, awesome! I had a feeling you'd be making one of these.

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Jared wrote:

I take it that the puzzle doesn't turn around the middle "cut"? If so, maybe using square stickers to cover it up would be good.

Either way, awesome! I had a feeling you'd be making one of these.

I considered that but thought it looked better with identical triangles through out.

rubikcollector123 · **Joined:** Fri Nov 05, 2010 2:20 am

wow nice! does it still jumble? (it probably does.)

and someone should make one of these, but the middle cut can turn.

make a vid ASAP!

Ender Delphiki · **Joined:** Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:55 pm **Location:** Montana

Nice! I like how you left the triangles like that- it makes it look like you could just take them apart.

I may be missing something, but does a FF Chinook even make sense?

kastellorizo · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:19 pm

LOL I cannot even think of any other puzzle which had a more appropriate name!
Spot on Tony.

:lol:

Pantazis

Adman234 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:28 pm

Tony Fisher wrote:

gingervergo wrote:

Very cool.

I only had you beat by about a year to make the first transformation!

Ah, so there was one. Recent discussions suggested there hadn't been any.

Another member also pointed out to me kindly via PM that Claus made a helicopter ball (called the lotus?). Just thought I'd remind everybody.

Tony Fisher · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:37 pm

Video now added. I have started an auction and will give link in market place.

c1829 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:20 pm

It looks very nice. You might need to tighten the tensions a little though.

mitchblahman · **Posted:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:16 pm

hey that's pretty cool...wait a sec chinook?
aaaaaah i get it!

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