So there's a story behind this one:
I was in Borders Books last night looking for some 3x3s, and it turns out that they have Eastsheen 4x4s (Taiwanese brand, good for modding, epic hard to find in the States). $14.99? Hell yes in a can. I came home with it, and later that night I happened upon the original design of the babyface cube. Amazement got.

Explanation: this is like a 2x2 Rubik's cube, except the individual faces can also rotate. You can see this in the third image. The idea is to just get 4 of the same color panels on each face, but it's easy to make interesting patterns with as well, stuff you couldn't ever do with a 2x2.

Four hours of work today, some tin snips, and plastic sheet resulted in:

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This next one is an example of something impossible to do with a 2x2 cube.

You can see the old stickers in the back of these images. Odd stickers - ice cream cones, cars, butterflies, planes? I dunno. REMOVED WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE BY MY NOW HALF PEELED-UP FINGERNAILS.



Here's a view of the mechanism. It looks like some kind of sci-fi incendiary device.

Scrambled picture. You can take off all of the panels and put them back on at random, and it's always solvable.


Whut does you thinked? Expect to see a lot more of these in the near future. Smashy got a bunch of 3x3s and a bone saw, and he's not afraid to use 'em.

...I came. Looks awesome on the inside. I'd just leave it open like that on my desk.

I would love to do that, but I don't want to be gluing the panels back on if they break off. I have a regular 4x4 that I can do that with - zero breakage.

I dont really get how it differs from a regular 2x2 cube.

Have a look at this one. Notice that it's turned normally like a 2x2 in the middle, but also the top and bottom faces can turn. That basically means that the stickers on any face can rotate.

You can put 3 of each color at one corner, making an orange-orange-orange corner, for instance. Not possible on a 2x2.

I see now :D

This is inspiring me. I'm going to get a Eastsheen 4x4 and screw around with it.

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This is inspiring me. I'm going to get a Eastsheen 4x4 and screw around with it.

For reals? Borders Books seems to be carrying them right now, in PA. Ebay will be more expensive, because of shipping, but they're sold there.

Hey, who are you? I'm not up on recent events right now. Kveyo?

Sell that shit.

Wouldn't being able to twist the individual faces make solving it much easier?

Yep. Another thing that makes it easier is that there's 4 of each color tile, and any colored side can be anywhere. You don't need to have white across from yellow, or any of the standard color arrangement. In fact, there's an easy way to switch 2 adjacent faces: R U2 R2 F2 R

I have a 5v5 cube somewhere.

Il go find it.

HEY I MADE A SECOND ONE GUYS

I made this for my cousin, who picked the color scheme for it as well. Click for larger image.

All 6 faces of the new cube ^ and v

Colors comparison: first cube at left, new one at right

Scrambulated

I'm sure this has been asked before in one of the many threads you've made for your little creations, but: How do you make them? Like where do you get the parts and how do you know how to make them?

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For reals? Borders Books seems to be carrying them right now,[SIZE="7"] in PA[/SIZE]. Ebay will be more expensive, because of shipping, but they're sold there.

Hey, who are you? I'm not up on recent events right now. Kveyo?

Oh Christ!! Where do you live???

I'm in NE PA

:O

And I love the cubes, man. Have you thought of pyramid designs? Spheres? Tridecagons?

I wish I had the time to make things.