Positioning systems question

[Loiloiloi]

Why are positioning systems used on pyraminx but not on any other puzzle? Is it just that no company has experimented with this, or is there something about the geometry that makes positioning systems better?

 

[aybuck37]

Wait is this about moyu's magnetic pyraminx?

 

[Loiloiloi]

Wait is this about moyu's magnetic pyraminx?

When I say positioning systems I mean ball-bearings or magnets. Or any other device that allows the cube to click into place that I'm unaware of. As a kind of alternate question, why are positioning systems so important in pyraminx? I know that when people remove them the cubes become unstable, but what if someone set up their cube a specific way or had a very stable turning style, would this make it plausible?

 

[aybuck37]

ohhhh. Ball bearings are in skewbs and a few other cubes like 4x4. I guess it makes the turning more clickier.
I know that dayan zhanchi springs are magnetic but idk about complete sheets of magnets like in the pyraminx.

 

[4Chan]

??????????

 

[Daniel Lin]

It's been in the works for months.

what?

 

[stoic]

I'm pretty sure that my V-Cube 6x6 has ball bearings or similar.
Sometimes you have to deliberately overshoot a turn and then go backwards until it clicks.
It's very annoying.

 

[aybuck37]

I'm pretty sure that my V-Cube 6x6 has ball bearings or similar.
Sometimes you have to deliberately overshoot a turn and then go backwards until it clicks.
It's very annoying.

Yup so I guess ball bearings make cubes more clicky