Tiny metal Rubik's Cube requires tweezers

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Originally published at: Tiny metal Rubik's Cube requires tweezers - Boing Boing

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That’s an odd way of putting it. Lots of things are assembled by hand, on large and small scales. It would have been more impressive to me if they had somehow built a special machine just to assemble this one cube.

I wonder how small of scale such a cube could be made? Tiny graphite cubes might be able to slide against each other at microscopic scales, but at a certain scale it might be impossible to use any pigments on the cubes.

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Nano scale textures that can be picked up on a SEM?

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It was a fucking annoying toy at full-scale.

(Annoying to me, admittedly, because I never cracked the trick).

But at this scale?
Now I’m of the age I need reading glasses?

That’s a double fuck-right-off from me.
:slightly_smiling_face:

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Wowzers, that’s some precision work.

At the end, the suggested links contained this beast - a 13 x 13 cube ?! :exploding_head:

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