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Xeni Jardin at 6:29 am Mon, May 14, 2012

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Genius animator Joaquin Baldwin, whose 3D-printed projects I've featured here before, says:

For the fans of the Portal games, this is the latest 3d-printed weirdness I made, a puzzle box. It was much harder than I expected, went through 2 prototypes to get it to work out, and I still had to fix a lot of things with a knife and sandpaper to get this model to work just right. Not for sale though, unless you wanna do the delicate carvings to fix it yourself :)

 
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Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • bcsizemo

    Whenever I read “puzzle box” I always think about these:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbGozPL5BeA&feature=related

    • http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC

      GlaDOS: We have such sights to show you! Including cake!

    • thermoplasticity

      You opened the box- you will suffer the consequences……for science.

  • http://twitter.com/rykineffect The Rykin Effect

    Aw. I was hoping this was going to be some interesting Rubix/Companion Cube hybrid.

  • http://twitter.com/rykineffect The Rykin Effect

    Aw. I was hoping this was going to be some interesting Rubix/Companion Cube hybrid.