Alternating Cube By Oskar

Hi iMaterialise fans,

Alternating Cube was suggested by Bram Cohen at the Twisty Puzzles Forum as follows: “Hey Oskar, can you design a 2x2x2 which must alternate clockwise and counterclockwise quarter turns?”. Bram suggested to use the core of

as a basis. To this, Oskar added the concept of the

. One corner, the “enabler”, moves through the core in a CW-CCW fashion. The mechanism inside the core pins one of the corners to the core opposite of the “enabler”.

Watch the YouTube video of the original version.
Watch the

of the new version.
Buy the puzzle at my iMaterialise Shop.
Read more at the Twisty Puzzles Forum.
Check out the photos below.

Enjoy!

Oskar

P.S. Here is a question for the solving specialists: how many moves does it take to make a 180-degrees turn?

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