Tactile puzzle cube

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By Collin Cunningham
Posted 2008/03/07 @ 2:48 pm
Category Fun & Games

Interesting shots of this touch-oriented Rubik’s cube-alike from Flickr member Danny(aka hoakyman). Unfortunately there’s no description on the photo. A Rubik’s for the visually impaired, perhaps? – Link

Update:
It turns out this was constructed for use by the blind. It was built @ MIT’s Fab Lab and apparently the maker is an avid cuber – completing this one blind in around 5 minutes. Thanks go to commentors Alec and Tea for the info!

“I made a Rubik’s Cube for blind people” on Lemmingtrail – Link

Boston Fab Lab @ MIT – Link

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4 Responses to Tactile puzzle cube

Alec Resnick on March 7th, 2008 at 6:02 pm said:

Danny used the Boston Fab Lab [1] to laser cut those pieces and double-sided taped them to a Rubik’s cube. He’s fantastically good at the Rubik’s cube, and wanted to learn to fly it blind (apparently, he’s already done it blind in ~5 minutes).

[1] – http://bostonfablab.mit.edu/blog/about/

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Tea on March 7th, 2008 at 6:50 pm said:

It was made for blind people, there is more information in a post here:
http://board.lemmingtrail.com/t.php?id=117808&r=77

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Collin Cunningham on March 7th, 2008 at 10:36 pm said:

Thanks!
(post updated)

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Danny on March 7th, 2008 at 10:39 pm said:

Hi! It’s me. As Alec said, I used the laser cutter at Fab Lab to make those pieces. They’re my prototype pieces just so I could get a feel for what shapes feel like under my fingers. Ideally I’d like to eventually make molds for the pieces and cast them in plastic, just to get really clean and smooth lines.

I made the cube for myself, really, to play with with my eyes closed but would really like to get it into the hands of some blind people so they can tell me what they like and don’t like about it.

Also, I added some flickr descriptions. Sorry about that!

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