Comments on: Gear cube

By: sam.green

sam.green — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:26:00 +0000

What’s truly remarkable about 3D printing is that it produces these objects in single shot with no need to assemble the various pieces together.. read more on my 3D printing blog at http://www.objetblog.com. Also, if you’re intrested in more 3D printed things of beauty and wonder check out the amazing Gomboc – http://blog.objet.com/2011/12/11/the-gomboc-worlds-first-self-righting-object-is-created-using-3d-printing/

By: Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:41:00 +0000

For the record, this video shows the original papercraft model by Haruki Nakamura. The poster of this video just re-posted his original. See http://www.geocities.jp/kamikara1967/paperart.htm

By: Logolepsy

Logolepsy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:08:00 +0000

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkAlP9W0PM0 for a video demonstration of the 3d printed version that Oskar made before mass producing it with Mefferts.

By: abdi bro

abdi bro — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:15:00 +0000

amazing.. i want

By: zgz

zgz — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:44:00 +0000

Wow amazing. especially it was done 3 years ago, what can they do now?

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:46:00 +0000

I was thinking the Borg telling us that resistance was futile.

By: bkuehner

bkuehner — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:16:00 +0000

The always-impressive Oskar van Deventer has made a similar form into a twisty puzzle:
http://www.mefferts.com/products/details.php?lang=en&category=13&id=492
To make it more interesting as a puzzle, his version can separate on any of the three axes, allowing the halves to scramble independently.

By: Nathaniel Akin

Nathaniel Akin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:22:00 +0000

Fantastic. I had the same reaction as others here. ”That can’t really turn.. That’s really turning!”

By: HahTse

HahTse — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:21:00 +0000

*want*

By: Nadreck

Nadreck — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:18:00 +0000

Are you sure he didn’t just import these from Bizarro World?

By: morcheeba

morcheeba — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:12:00 +0000

I met the guy who did the 3d-printed geared heart … it’s available for purchase: http://www.shapeways.com/model/29355/

similar in aluminum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkhSKzNpgkw

By: Joe The Wizard

Joe The Wizard — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:44:00 +0000

How long until we see gear versions of people’s World of Warcraft characters?

By: Roderick Villanueva

Roderick Villanueva — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:30:00 +0000

Did anyone else expect Pinhead and his Cenobites to suddenlty appear?

By: Gaucho85

Gaucho85 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:05:00 +0000

That’s the first thing I thought! Sign me up for one.

By: Alisdair Cameron

Alisdair Cameron — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:02:00 +0000

Hooray, some billed as having gears, which does indeed have movable gears, which work. Very nifty indeed. I’d buy it.(I’d buy a 3D printer, but for the cost)

By: cholten99

cholten99 — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:53:00 +0000

OMFG :-)

For those of us that don’t happen to have a 3D printer on our desk there would be /such/ a market for this.

ThinkGeek should start selling them at once!

By: twency

twency — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:48:00 +0000

I glanced at the thumbnail and thought “that looks kind of interesting but it’s misleading to call the parts ‘gears’ since they probably interlock in a way which prevents them from moving.”

Then I watched the video. Whoa.

By: CH

CH — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:42:00 +0000

That is so… so… I’m at loss for words here… cool isn’t quite it, neither awesome… awesomly cool? It’s a bit like watching Dark City when the houses start moving.