March 2026
Time to make: 3 hours
Finishing: .5 hour
Original design: Bill Macfarlane
3D file: 3 Cube Gears by BB8blazer
March brings a good many Merit Badge Universities and one of my favorite classes to sit in on is the Engineering. Along these lines, I fascinated by gears that oddly work together in unexpected ways and this is one of those times. The corners of the cube turn together in different rotating in ways to form shapes.
I printed three of these cubes (red, white and blue filament) using the FDM printer and mixed the parts to assemble these cubes. The loops are connected to the center piece allowing the cube still to function
