Rubix Cube Chess 3D Printer Model

License: CC BY-SA
File formats: stl
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Summary

A quick "chess" concept I modeled for a design challenge. The rubix cube faces are remixed to house these magnets from K&J Magnetics in each face. I've also included a small pawn model that houses the same magnet in the base. You'll need at least 54 magnets for the cube (6 faces * 9 magnets per face) and an additional magnet for each of the pawns you decide to play with.

The basic idea is that you'll be able to play some variation of "pawn only" chess on the faces of the cube, the magnets ensuring that the pawns don't fall off when they're on a non-upward-facing plane. The gimmick of course being that you can rotate the board itself, creating interesting opportunities in gameplay. Besides that, I have NOT come up with any rules to this game whatsoever. So I'd love to see what anyone comes up with.

Additionally, I have not printed this out for myself yet. So this model will share any quirks of the original design. Regardless, it should print with little hassle(in theory). Each magnet hole has an additional 0.3mm of tolerance, which should be plenty if your printer is decently precise. You'll need to add layer pauses before each magnet hole closes so that you can install each magnet. Due to the nature of magnets, I recommend that you space the pieces as far as you can from each other on the build plate so that the magnets do not interfere with each other during installation. Make sure that the corner and edge pieces are oriented so that the flat end of the magnet holes face off of the build plate.

Mag_Chess_Center.stl 193.2KB
Mag_Chess_Corner.stl 130.3KB
Mag_Chess_Edge.stl 135.7KB
Mag_Chess_Pawn.stl 681.4KB