EDIT: I got some more resin and finished it up today. A sign shop sold me a huge load of vinyl for $20 so I made my own stickers. It is stickered in 6 colors.

Pics:




Dino Cube?


Nope!


The innards


Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpgF7QHmMA

Here is another work in progress build that I started on Friday. I don't think it has been built before, at least not with this mechanism.

I call it the Rhombiminx. Right now I have 14/24 parts casted. The puzzle is quite a beast, since the pieces are casted solid, and it is sucking up quite a bit of resin. I may not finish on this bottle of resin, so I figured I'd post a Work In Progress thread here to show what it is in case it is a month or so until I get more resin.

Next time I will make the parts hollow or partially hollow. I tried to do that before but it just wasnt working too good, and with the solid parts I get at least a 90% success rate.

It wooks good. Can't wait to see it stickered. If I'm thinking correctly this has been before by Ton, but his had corners on it and I haven't seen it fininshed. http://www.speedcubing.com/ton/newpage11.htm

Depends how it turns.

Mine functions like a 2x2x4 extended on all sides. In other words, its just like solving the centers of a supercube.

Mine is different from Ton's, as his has corners. Mine is similar to an extended Babyface cube.

Great idea, but it looks the same as LaurentB's Rhombic Dodecaedre.



Thomas

It has also been made before.

Congratulations on a nice build.

I finished it today! I uploaded a video on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpgF7QHmMA

Now I need to take some stills.

It turned out really nice. It also has a cool name

It is not the best quality but it is still amazing.

Original post updated with pics.

Look for this on ebay soon. I want to make another one with better pieces (ie. less gaps)

I think it would make it look really good if you sprayed it black, because the pieces look quite rough where they're sanded

That wouldn't really fix the sanding marks. I have a neighbor with a bench grinder/polisher that I'm going to talk to about smoothing out the parts. That would mean ruining the stickers though

I suppose not, but because sanding dulls the shinyness of the plastic, spraying it black again gives more contrast between it and the stickers and a more glossy look.

I used my neighbors polisher to get rid of most of the sanding lines. I also redid the stickers. Now the puzzle looks great! I am probably going to sell it soon, and I have an idea on how to make the octahedron version of this puzzle.

This puzzle is now on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Rhombiminx-RARE-Cus ... dZViewItem

wow there have been a lot of rhombic dodecahedrons these days: tony fisher selling his skewb one, the.drizzle's Toru, and now this!

nice work, it looks great