Making your own: 17x17x17 like Oskar's?

[rasiel]

I'm guessing not but if you have a 3D printer, the printing file and a big chunk of plastic "ink" is it as easy as clicking on the print button?

 

[AllTheCubes]

No, pieces utilized in the 17x17 are very precise and can't be so easily created with just a regular 3d printer, not to mention the inner mechanisms.

 

[qqwref]

If your 3D printer is good enough and you have enough ink, then yep, that's all. Of course it'll cost you... When that puzzle was made they got Shapeways to 3D print it, and I believe it cost them two or three thousand dollars at the time. Unfortunately, nowadays Shapeways charges extra money per piece so it would be a lot more expensive to order it from them.

 

[Akash Rupela]

And then you assemble it

 

[brian724080]

You'll definitely need a very high quality 3D printer

 

[rasiel]

How long could it take to assemble, an hour?

Stickering? Nah, I'll just spray paint the thing ;-)

 

[AlphaSheep]

I think it would take a lot more than an hour to assemble... Have you ever tried assembling even a 6x6 or 7x7?

 

[brian724080]

I think it would take a lot more than an hour to assemble... Have you ever tried assembling even a 6x6 or 7x7?

7x7 is easy to assemble. 6x6 on the other hand....

Odd number cubes like 17x17 shouldn't be too difficult, but the pieces can break easily.

 

[EMI]

I believe it cost them two or three thousand dollars at the time.

I highly doubt it, it was like 1.500 at their online shop. So propably only a couple of hundreds of production cost (depending on your definition of that, but I think the price is mosty due to the time it takes to make one)

 

[Chrizz]

I highly doubt it, it was like 1.500 at their online shop. So propably only a couple of hundreds of production cost (depending on your definition of that, but I think the price is mosty due to the time it takes to make one)

Oskar said he didn't make any profit by selling his puzzles, and the manual work often wasn't fully covered by the price of the products (It does now, that's why they made the new pricing-sceme.)
So I think the puzzle would cost more than a couple of hundreds but less than 1000.

 

[penguinz7]

Stickering? Nah, I'll just spray paint the thing ;-)

plz no