Not really an arcade project, but more of a gameroom decoration project. A few weeks ago, i finally learned how to solve a rubik's cube, which made my inner 8-year-old very happy. Since then, i've been fascinated with them. My kids started asking me to teach them, so i figured i'd look for a few more cubes. I found some at my local Dollar Tree store for $1. they are a little larger and poorly made. they have shiny metallic looking stickers on them and are incredibly stiff and difficult to turn....not a good learning tool for my kids, so i tossed them in a box and forgot about them. I eventually picked up another good cube at a goodwill for the kids to use. Anyway, i stumbled across a picture during a google search where someone used rubiks cubes to make pixel art. This appealed to me greatly. The biggest problem is cost. It takes a ton of these things to make anything substantial and at $5 to $10 a peice, that is more than i spend on something so trivial. So, i revisited the dollar store cubes. It took me a few weeks and stops at 6 different dollar trees to eventually find enough of them. (they dont seem to ever restock them)
I determined that a 6 x 6 cube grid of them should be enough to make a decent selection of pixel art creations (18 pixels x 18 pixels)
Tonight, i finally got around to doing it. I started off with a 6ft 1x3 pine board. The cubes are 2.5" so i built a wooden frame that was 15 and 1/8" on the inside to give myself just a little wiggle room. I screwed it together and fastened a picture hanging bracket on the back.
next i found a nice pixel art picture of mario that someone else made out of cubes to use as a template.
then i unwrapped the 36 cubes and started changing them around to fit my pattern. i should have created a better template on my PC, separating the individual cubes to make it easier to look at.....that will be for the next time.
anyway, i turned all of the cubes into the right configuration and placed them in the frame. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out....and when i get sick of it, i can just take them out and convert it to something else. I will eventually paint/stain the frame, but i was excited to see what it would look like, so i didn't want to wait for that tonight.
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