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World's Largest Rubik's Cube
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Above is Jig used to weld together corner mounts. Finished corner cube mount to right.
Metalworking to make internal aluminum and steel frames for middle and center cubes. the fiberglass pieces bolt directly to these structural frames. Middle cube internal below left and two completed center cubes below right.
Guinness World record Coming Soon!!
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Building a completely functional Rubik's Cube that could potentially break the current largest cube world record. Dubbed the 'Cooper Cube'.
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Dimensions are 6 ft across on each face with a total weight of over 800 lbs.
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Internals are 60 hand crafted fiberglass tracks bolted to 6061 aluminum frames. Assisting the motion of each cube are a total of 216 roller bearings mounted via stud bolts and custom machined steel tubes.
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The centers are 6 in. ID ball bearings bolted to a 1/8th in steel octagon seated inside more fiberglass. The cubes themselves are wooden for now and measure 2 ft on each face.
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Hopefully to be complete soon!
Casting Fiberglass parts in custom plaster and concrete molds (left). Above are 4 finished parts for a center cubelet.
Left and below are some completed internal bearing assemblies. That's a lot of roller bearings!
Let the woodworking begin! Corner and middle cubes assembled out of pine boards and wood frames. Yes, those cubes are 2 ft across (pictured left and below left).
Above is the steel pipe skeleton the cube will be on. Left is the first test of the center spinning capabilities. Featured are L. Mei and B. Yudin.
All Middle Cubes completed, edges sealed with construction adhesive, and faces and all screws sanded to a nice smooth finish. Only after a whole year...(right)
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All Corner cubes done as well (left). Again, after a whole year of just woodworking.
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C. Mignano taking a rest before the big move up to the 7th floor for a higher ceiling (right). Cube sitting with all its centers attached awaiting its travel (left).
E. Lima and C. Mignano checking preliminary assembly details, as the cube starts to come together (right)!
The partially assembled cube sitting in the 7th floor lab (left). A look inside the cubes is mesmerizing (right).
We got 16 out of 26 cubes on, need to make a few adjustments before a retry (above)
With adjustments, a new rotational method was adopted (left).
Assembled cube as much as the ceiling will allow (above right). E. Lima and C. Mignano working hard to prepare for transport to the Gallery (above left).
Cube transported to Basement Gallery (left). Give it some color (above).
Full finished and colored cube in the Gallery (below left and below).
Colored stickers covered in preparation for transport featuring A. Njeim and H. Codiga (above left). The cube and myself (above right).
C. Mignano, myself, E. Lima, E. Dushaj, and B. Yudin wondering what the next steps are.
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