stoic
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Seriously, though: great work. This looks amazing. Keep it up!
could the magnets losing strength over time be an issue?
This is very exciting stuff!! I love neodymium magnets, I have a large collection of them including some quite high grade ones. I actually tried to put some small weaker ones in my fangshi once, but like you say, it's nowhere near as simple as that with all the torque considerations. I didn't even attempt to pursue real research into it, but I'm so glad to see that you have. I just placed my order on the cubicle 3 days ago though. I wish I'd known about this, I would've held off on it ):
Hopefully the price goes down from 50 dollars or I'm not probably getting one. Interesting concept, has great potential.This is literally the most interesting thing to happen to 3x3 cube design since pretty much the AoLong came out. Thank you for doing something different!
I'm not unfortunately, and my discounted shipping came in at almost 40$ ):If you're in the US, you'd get free shipping. Discounted everywhere else.
Many people are choosing to not order these, and likely use premium cubes. So, no.so are the cubicle premium cubes now obsolete?
This is pretty awesome. I had thought of this, and even posted something about it a couple of months ago, probably after you started working on it. I'm having trouble imagining that it would make as much difference on a 3x3 as on 5x5+, but maybe I'm imagining wrong. I'm also having trouble imagining what could possibly be the next big step after a little bit of refinement of this idea.
Have you thought about sq-1 at all for making a special version? I found some magnets in my room and threw them in the slice layer, was pretty effective but I feel like if you worked hard enough to figure out a way to do the U and D layers with magnets, that still worked off of any orientation, so probably a ring of 12, it could be really good I imagine.
This is really awesome, keep up the excellent work! Any chance those ideas include megaminx?Once we've finished releasing a few products and stabilize the work flow and have more time, we've got a few SICK ideas. I believe we're not even close to the limits of speedsolving.
Years ago, we thought it wouldn't get any better than the zhanchi, and we were wrong. Optimism about puzzles tends to be correct!
I actually have an idea on how to make the Sq-1 work now.
Brb O_____O
Once we've finished releasing a few products and stabilize the work flow and have more time, we've got a few SICK ideas. I believe we're not even close to the limits of speedsolving.