Please continue with your puzzle designs! The puzzle designer community really needs people like you who are able of fascinating people a day inspire them to get into puzzles!
You should think about putting magnets in the puzzle to align the layers. it's subtle but noticeable. It's what a lot of us speedcubers use in our speedcubes
@@MakersMuse magnets might be difficult to add to your puzzles though. Most magnetic twisty puzzle (possibly all) have multi-piece cubies(segments) so the inside can be accessed. Just fyi
Please make more twisty puzzles. It's really fun to see a part of the build process in such high quality. I think the cubing community really needs someone like you to grow 3d-printing. And the 3d-printing-community to grow making twisty puzzles
You should check out Oskar Van Deventer. He's a puzzle designer, who designs and has his puzzles 3D printed by Shapeways. He set the record for the highest order Rubik's Cube, with his "Over The Top Cube" (aka the 17 x 17 x 17).
+Skallos Oddly, Corren didn't submit his puzzle to Guinness World Records to make the world record "official", but obviously he still beat Oskar's. And, yeah, Greg's puzzles are INCREDIBLE.
I made a picture collage into a rubik's cube with several pictures of myself and my best friends, where each of the six faces had nine different pictures one person each. This was a few weeks before Angus made these rubik's cube videos, so I thought that was a cool coincidence!
After I learned how to solve regular rubix cubes, I put it down. But this has me antsing to jump back in with some funky shapes! Thanks buddy!! Looking forward to it!
Having pieces that fit in different orientations can also make a puzzle harder, since it can introduce parities into the solve. The Meffert's Morph Egg has many pieces that can work in multiple locations, and this makes solving the puzzle much more difficult if you don't know where that piece belongs.
I think there is a more fundamental (higher symmetric) equal width solid then the one showcased here. Specifically I am referring to the one that one gets when intersecting four spheres with centers on the edges of a virtual tetrahedron. One gets a tetrahedral shape with bellowed out surfaces. For "cookie cutting" this one into a Rubiks cube the four tetrahedral corners should face four of the eight cube corners to preserve maximum symmetry.
The pineapple would probably benefit from a nice paint job so that you can see the textures better and know its supposed to be a pineapple at first glance.
Hi @Maker's Muse Me and a friend collaborated and made an extremely well working 3D printed rubiks cube about 1 and a half years ago. It's quite a bit better than the run-of-the-mill Rubiks brand cube, as it has a custom spring system and a carefully designed mechanism. Regrettably we never published it anywhere, but if you're interested in seeing it I'm sure we can share the files or a video.
Hey Maker's Muse! Could you do a video about Ironing? :) I saw that there is an option to enable ironing in cura, which let's the hotend go over the surface an additional time without extruding material to melt it up to make the layers smoother and stick together better. This will probably double the printing time, so I was wondering if this was worth to do! Thanks a lot and keep up the great work! :3
Nice job on the puzzles! You should continue the series and maybe learn how to solve it and join the community! Try posting these on the r/cubers subreddit for tips and recommendations, they are very helpful and just a great community for anything twisty puzzle related
I like the cookie cutter concept. I came up with the same idea ( and gave up part way through the project because of distractions ) ages ago when I was doing my daily selfie 3D body scan project, in order to try and make my own action figure. The problem I had was that it was a massive mind F**K to draw the negative space for various joints. Your method of using the part as a tool to boolean subtract from a block to make the cookie cutter is inspired. Keep up the good work
Hi Angus. The process you described in BForArtists is the same you would use in Blender :) Blender it´s not harder, it´s just you have to selct things with the right button (it helps against the carpian tunnel problem, I noticed it since we, in the studio, shifted from Maya/Max to Blender). If you want some help learning a bit of modelling in Blender, just tell me, we can arrange some live streamings or something to talke about it and let others to learn from your experience learning it :), my channel is rather small, but it´s focused in Blender users and Max/Maya users that want to shift to Blender, and the workflow is pretty different from Fusion360 of course, it´s a different kind of modelling :) (I also have exprience with 3D printing, and I learning everything at the begining from you a pair of years ago, so we can focus it towards 3d printing :) ) BTW if you go into the channel and you see a lot of spanish streamings, don´t worry, I also do English tutorials, I just have to reboot the production of those tutorials because I´ve been short of time lately with projects in the studio. Cheers and thanks for your videos!
Two comments: 1. The idea of 3D Printed 3x3s with their own appearance reminds me a bit of RedKB’s Yoda cube. Maybe you should check that out. 2. The Pineapple Cube reminds me a bit of the QR Code Cube (which, again, was showcased by RedKB). But at least on that Puzzle you could have the advantage of a QR Code scanner. On the pineapple you wouldn’t even have that!
You should try to make a 5x5. pretty much the same concept but you have a smaller edge and a smaller corner that fit into the middle 9. I'm sure you could find some good photos online showing inside the mechanism
@@fr4n_c13 the one he made was slightly different then an axis cube. An axis cube has the point of the inside triangle at the edge while his had the point slightly closer to the center. Definitely similar though😁
Fantastic job, good thinking to make the negative solid of the puzzle. Little plugs for the screws holes would be a nice addition. Why couldn't you use F360 to create the pineapple puzzle?
I've suggested a gts 2 and gts 3 in the previous video, but today I want to suggest that you should try making a cube in abs or nylon, as the friction properties will be different.
Very cool! Great work, Angus! The hexasphereicon is my favorite. How about modeling a head to the 3x3 mechanism? That could turn out some disturbing permutations. BYW, love the Hypnotoad shirt! It is awesome!
How did you draw 3x3 cutting file? You can't cad negative space in fusion as you would be able to in tinkercad, so did you draw the inverse of the shape to combine it with another and subtract the intersecting area to be left with the pieces of the cube? Also, did you ever post the file for that on your website?
I am just getting back into 3D modeling and I am finding that techniques I learned for animation ages ago do not necessarily translate to modeling for 3D printing. I notice that some of these puzzles have some really wild surface detail and I am stumbling over that right now. What is the best way to get surface detail? For example, if you were modeling a wooden door or a tile floor, if it were just for computer rendering I would make a normal map or a gray scale displacement map and apply that to a surface. Because who wants to go in and boolean cut wood grain grout lines? My primary application is table top gaming models. Any input you have would be greatly appreciate.
It's exactly the same way I use to make shapemods, I use the negative of the puzzle, the 3x3 need bigger fillets to work Smoothly, i also made a Sphericon 3x3.
I had cubes since the 80ies, but one of them was just a simple ball. It had the same difficulty of alignment as you mentioned for the pineapple, but without the spikes. So it was even worse to work with: it slipped, and I had to be very careful to align it. Often, it threw me off the algoritm I was applying, basically having to start over... Normal cubes take me usually 1-2 minutes, the ball takes me up to 10 minutes to solve... :-)
Have you learned how to solve a 3x3 yet? If you don't have a decent 3x3 then get one. Helps keep the mind focused on the solve and not the sticking puzzle.
Please continue with your puzzle designs! The puzzle designer community really needs people like you who are able of fascinating people a day inspire them to get into puzzles!
you need a scan of your head and cut that into a puzzle cube
so rgh it
The hair might be a bit of a hazard :D Nice technique, Angus, on that negative model. Thank you for the tip!
he totally should
Peter Ellens great idea!
Great idea - beat me to it! Only on a good hair day though.
Nice to see new people getting into cubing!!!
Yeah
You should think about putting magnets in the puzzle to align the layers. it's subtle but noticeable. It's what a lot of us speedcubers use in our speedcubes
Yeah good idea! I thought I saw something about magnets, some people even tried using them instead of springs too in the vids I saw.
Yeh, Tony Fisher used magnets only when he created the 'impossible' 1x5x5 puzzle
@@MakersMuse magnets might be difficult to add to your puzzles though. Most magnetic twisty puzzle (possibly all) have multi-piece cubies(segments) so the inside can be accessed. Just fyi
@@tjp1806 its easy, you just make a cavity to put the magnet in
Gabe The Modder yeah like on the x
Please make more twisty puzzles. It's really fun to see a part of the build process in such high quality. I think the cubing community really needs someone like you to grow 3d-printing. And the 3d-printing-community to grow making twisty puzzles
0:48 My 2 favourite things in one: Pineapple 3x3
Humuhumunukunukuapua'a
Angus, another great idea with the cookie cutter !
Can't wait to see more 😎
You should check out Oskar Van Deventer. He's a puzzle designer, who designs and has his puzzles 3D printed by Shapeways. He set the record for the highest order Rubik's Cube, with his "Over The Top Cube" (aka the 17 x 17 x 17).
Haha yeah well aware of Oskars awesome work!
+Maker's Muse Awesome stuff! Let this comment be aimed at all of your viewers then! :P
If you think Oscar's 17x17 is impressive, check out Gregoire Pfennig's 33x33
Since then that record has been beaten twice. With CorrenPuzzle's 22x22x22, and now Greg's 33x33x33.
+Skallos Oddly, Corren didn't submit his puzzle to Guinness World Records to make the world record "official", but obviously he still beat Oskar's.
And, yeah, Greg's puzzles are INCREDIBLE.
I made a picture collage into a rubik's cube with several pictures of myself and my best friends, where each of the six faces had nine different pictures one person each. This was a few weeks before Angus made these rubik's cube videos, so I thought that was a cool coincidence!
I really like that black one it is cool.
That's an insanely smart way to go about doing this sort of thing. Super clever
I don't give out compliments often but... brilliant Angus
Sure, the pineapple puzzle is pretty impractical, but it looks fantastic. Do we have more 3D-printed fruit in our future?
This is really outstanding work Angus, well done!
After I learned how to solve regular rubix cubes, I put it down. But this has me antsing to jump back in with some funky shapes! Thanks buddy!! Looking forward to it!
Extraordinary talent my friend!
Having pieces that fit in different orientations can also make a puzzle harder, since it can introduce parities into the solve. The Meffert's Morph Egg has many pieces that can work in multiple locations, and this makes solving the puzzle much more difficult if you don't know where that piece belongs.
Great plug for Blender!
I keep thinking about about the endless possible choices for design. It is such an amazing tool, without limitations.
This is such an awesome idea I'm blown away. Thumbs up.
I think there is a more fundamental (higher symmetric) equal width solid then the one showcased here. Specifically I am referring to the one that one gets when intersecting four spheres with centers on the edges of a virtual tetrahedron. One gets a tetrahedral shape with bellowed out surfaces.
For "cookie cutting" this one into a Rubiks cube the four tetrahedral corners should face four of the eight cube corners to preserve maximum symmetry.
LOVING these puzzles! and the cutter is awesome! I like solving 3x3s, so it would be fun to print one. Maybe a pickachu?
To loosen up the puzzles you can sand down the edges with a nail file (unless they’re too hollow)
Thank you for mentioning bforartists. I struggled so much learning blender. Now i gone give bforartists a chance.
AWESOMENESS
I love your creativity mate!!!!!
cubers be like
"this is nothing. you don't know the meaning of afraid"
Lol
The pineapple would probably benefit from a nice paint job so that you can see the textures better and know its supposed to be a pineapple at first glance.
Hi @Maker's Muse
Me and a friend collaborated and made an extremely well working 3D printed rubiks cube about 1 and a half years ago.
It's quite a bit better than the run-of-the-mill Rubiks brand cube, as it has a custom spring system and a carefully designed mechanism.
Regrettably we never published it anywhere, but if you're interested in seeing it I'm sure we can share the files or a video.
The black one , then the pineapple are my favorites.
Hey Maker's Muse! Could you do a video about Ironing? :)
I saw that there is an option to enable ironing in cura, which let's the hotend go over the surface an additional time without extruding material to melt it up to make the layers smoother and stick together better. This will probably double the printing time, so I was wondering if this was worth to do!
Thanks a lot and keep up the great work! :3
Angus man, you are on your way to becoming a some kind of a legend.
Puzzles are not my "cup of tea" but wow, quite clever Angus. You have some serious design talent.
Nice job on the puzzles! You should continue the series and maybe learn how to solve it and join the community! Try posting these on the r/cubers subreddit for tips and recommendations, they are very helpful and just a great community for anything twisty puzzle related
Awesome idea with the cookie cutter!
Very nice!! Cool approach to the problem - to make a 3d cookie cutter. Thanks for your excellent content time and time again.
May favorite is the large one with the inserted colors. Would love for you to make a "fully functional" one.
i love the pineaple, i make cubes like that with solid works
This guy's a Genius.
Corn starch will help it turn a little smoother. You can use graphite but it will turn everything black :)
I'm just waiting for the next impossible puzzle to be 3D printed! We love anything happening in the 3D printing world!
Hi! Great video indeed!
Is it possible to download/buy the stl files you presented in this video?
TIA!
Great vid, Angus, thanks
I like the cookie cutter concept. I came up with the same idea ( and gave up part way through the project because of distractions ) ages ago when I was doing my daily selfie 3D body scan project, in order to try and make my own action figure.
The problem I had was that it was a massive mind F**K to draw the negative space for various joints. Your method of using the part as a tool to boolean subtract from a block to make the cookie cutter is inspired.
Keep up the good work
The ultimate example of "because I can"
Awesome. I like the variations on the initial Cube design but I thought the Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen hype was over 😉
Does this mean you’ve now mastered/learned the 3x3? Otherwise I can only imagine the pain of these being scrambled all the time!
Hi Angus.
The process you described in BForArtists is the same you would use in Blender :) Blender it´s not harder, it´s just you have to selct things with the right button (it helps against the carpian tunnel problem, I noticed it since we, in the studio, shifted from Maya/Max to Blender).
If you want some help learning a bit of modelling in Blender, just tell me, we can arrange some live streamings or something to talke about it and let others to learn from your experience learning it :), my channel is rather small, but it´s focused in Blender users and Max/Maya users that want to shift to Blender, and the workflow is pretty different from Fusion360 of course, it´s a different kind of modelling :) (I also have exprience with 3D printing, and I learning everything at the begining from you a pair of years ago, so we can focus it towards 3d printing :) )
BTW if you go into the channel and you see a lot of spanish streamings, don´t worry, I also do English tutorials, I just have to reboot the production of those tutorials because I´ve been short of time lately with projects in the studio.
Cheers and thanks for your videos!
Two comments:
1. The idea of 3D Printed 3x3s with their own appearance reminds me a bit of RedKB’s Yoda cube. Maybe you should check that out.
2. The Pineapple Cube reminds me a bit of the QR Code Cube (which, again, was showcased by RedKB). But at least on that Puzzle you could have the advantage of a QR Code scanner. On the pineapple you wouldn’t even have that!
This looks so cool! I almost bought the files, then remembered I CAN'T SOLVE A 3X3! LOL
You should try to make a 5x5. pretty much the same concept but you have a smaller edge and a smaller corner that fit into the middle 9. I'm sure you could find some good photos online showing inside the mechanism
Dude, your design ideas are epic, how you come up with them is amazing. My favourite has to be the Hexasphericon
The first cube is known as a slice cube Angus.
BeatlesCuber I think it’s also called an axis (axel) cube
Jack Pilutti the axis cube is basically "fishering" a cube 3 times. This is a slice cube which is a cube that is "fishered" twice
@@fr4n_c13 the one he made was slightly different then an axis cube. An axis cube has the point of the inside triangle at the edge while his had the point slightly closer to the center. Definitely similar though😁
That's awesome! Love the cookie cutter 3x3 template. Maybe a worse one than the pinapple would be barbed wire??
The pineapple one looks pretty easy to solve to me. Compared to a ghost cube
3x3x3 to be correct but what a cool idea ^^
Great video Angus!
cool axis cube!
I've got a feeling that it might be time for Lady Muse to stage an intervention.
She does not approve of the cubes lol :P
Maker's Muse Does not matter, we do ;D
Awesome job Angus!! So cool.
Some of the new speed cubes index with magnets, I think that that would much better then the detents in the core.
Dude, that's awesome! When I saw the thumbnail I thought something had gone wrong with the print lol.
Use UV paint on the pineapple to help people solve it with a blacklight.
Fantastic job, good thinking to make the negative solid of the puzzle. Little plugs for the screws holes would be a nice addition. Why couldn't you use F360 to create the pineapple puzzle?
Fusion has a very low limit on how complex a mesh it can import, the scan even after reducing is still way too large for it to handle.
Brilliant! Good fun.
Getting into cubing I see, that's very nice!
I can’t unsee what looks like the inside of an ear in the middle of the print in the video thumbnail.
And that's how the journey to madness starts
And that pineapple could be painted with a slight gradient from top to bottom, that would make it prettier and easier
Pineapple puzzle on Banggood in 3...2...1... :o)
Honestly, that'd be cool !
Brilliant. You should check out some of the following people, that 3-D print Rubik’s cube design:
NK cubed
Oskar Vandeventer
RC pongo
I've suggested a gts 2 and gts 3 in the previous video, but today I want to suggest that you should try making a cube in abs or nylon, as the friction properties will be different.
I'm puzzled.
Very cool! Great work, Angus! The hexasphereicon is my favorite. How about modeling a head to the 3x3 mechanism? That could turn out some disturbing permutations.
BYW, love the Hypnotoad shirt! It is awesome!
you are great!
Good puzzles for the blind
How did you draw 3x3 cutting file? You can't cad negative space in fusion as you would be able to in tinkercad, so did you draw the inverse of the shape to combine it with another and subtract the intersecting area to be left with the pieces of the cube? Also, did you ever post the file for that on your website?
You should try a intersection cylinder based core instead of a spherical core like you have right now, it works far better
I am just getting back into 3D modeling and I am finding that techniques I learned for animation ages ago do not necessarily translate to modeling for 3D printing. I notice that some of these puzzles have some really wild surface detail and I am stumbling over that right now. What is the best way to get surface detail? For example, if you were modeling a wooden door or a tile floor, if it were just for computer rendering I would make a normal map or a gray scale displacement map and apply that to a surface. Because who wants to go in and boolean cut wood grain grout lines? My primary application is table top gaming models. Any input you have would be greatly appreciate.
3:25 I'll never know unless I never try? interesting take on life ;)
Very smart man
where have u put the cut out
And great job
im a speedcuber so when i saw this video i was like hell ye that would be so sick
Did you put springs in it
yes he did
Amazing puzzles dude, btw I love your tshirt ;)
yooooooo sick i salved a 3x3 in like 24 hours first time
Try to make a cube printed with sla or dlp 3D printing, i think it would work better.
Can I have a link to the 3x3 cookie cutter?
Hi Angus great video 👍 fantastic work. Have a great day
So when is this "Cookie cutter" going up on Gumroad Angus? Of the things I've seen, I would pay for _this_ of all things.
Nathan will cut the pineapple into 3 floppy pineapples. 45 degree cuts because it can't be any other way.
Im so keen to make some of my own puzzles! Could you set a download link for the Hexasphericon? I'd be happy to pay $2 or so for it :)
Cheers! Yep it'll be out soon just need to finish the printing tutorial because it's a little complex.
Awesome! i cant wait, Thanks heaps for all the content! Keep up the amazing work you legend!
Maker's Muse Excellent! That gives me time to get not-black filament in. (Possibly the only way to make the pineapple more evil: make it matte…)
Oh my, we’ve created a cuber
It's exactly the same way I use to make shapemods, I use the negative of the puzzle, the 3x3 need bigger fillets to work Smoothly, i also made a Sphericon 3x3.
I don't suppose you would be willing to share that pineapple cube stl?
try to make a speedcube, if you can.... ( and you can use the Boolean modifier in blender..)
blenders cool man hit me up next time
Can you do more 3D scanning
I had cubes since the 80ies, but one of them was just a simple ball. It had the same difficulty of alignment as you mentioned for the pineapple, but without the spikes. So it was even worse to work with: it slipped, and I had to be very careful to align it. Often, it threw me off the algoritm I was applying, basically having to start over... Normal cubes take me usually 1-2 minutes, the ball takes me up to 10 minutes to solve... :-)
We’re can I download the cookie cutter?
What if it is submerged in acetone?
to bring out the texture on the pineapple you can give it a blackwash
Have you learned how to solve a 3x3 yet? If you don't have a decent 3x3 then get one. Helps keep the mind focused on the solve and not the sticking puzzle.
Took me over a year to solve the axis cube. I kept getting an awful parity on the last layer.