{"id":484,"date":"2014-04-08T03:37:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T03:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/?p=484"},"modified":"2016-01-08T03:39:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T03:39:46","slug":"helicopter-3x3x3-42014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/2014\/04\/08\/helicopter-3x3x3-42014\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter + 3x3x3 &#8211; 4\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following article is taken from the original announcement on TwistyPuzzles.com in 4\/2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Heritombo Cube was actually designed and printed after I started to doubt this design for a Helicotper 3x3x3 would work. After waits for a few missing parts, and a design tweak, it has turned out that I&#8217;m revealing the original design after the Heritombo Cube.<\/p>\n<p>I made the cuts shallower first as an experiment, but when I saw the face pattern, I immediately started shooting for a 3x3x3 hybrid. In the event that someone makes a flat cut Helicopter 3x3x3 that doesn&#8217;t use shallow cuts, I&#8217;ll rename this one.<\/p>\n<p>This was completely designed on a flight to China, and even uploaded to Shapeways somewhere over the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>This is now on <a class=\"postlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/model\/1843414\/helicopter-3x3x3-cube.html\">Shapeways<\/a> for $85.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=blH0O9VTQqQ\">Video Here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20001.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20002.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20004.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20006.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20009.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20010.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20012.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20016.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/images\/photos\/twistypuzzlesposts\/Helicopter3x3x3\/Heli3x3_smaller\/puzzle%20018.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20140428_214515.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-486\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-486\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20140428_214515-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"20140428_214515\" width=\"350\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20140428_214544.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-487\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/20140428_214544-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"20140428_214544\" width=\"346\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/puzzle-004_mech.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-488\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-488\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/puzzle-004_mech-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"puzzle 004_mech\" width=\"358\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following article is taken from the original announcement on TwistyPuzzles.com in 4\/2014. The Heritombo Cube was actually designed and printed after I started to doubt this design for a Helicotper 3x3x3 would work. After waits for a few missing parts, and a design tweak, it has turned out that I&#8217;m revealing the original design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-designs","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puzzleforge.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}