Forni Cube (a.k.a Deep Cube) is a make-over of the
Bingo Cube. Bingo Cube was invented and built by Evgeniy Grigoriev, with support from Aleh Hladzilin based on an idea posted at the
Twisty Puzzles Forum. It can be considered a two-layer variation to the
Dual-Fold Floppy Cube by Sigurd Wedel.
Forni Cube is a so-called "
deeper-than-origin-cut" twisty puzzle. Other examples are David Pitcher's award-winning
Rotoprism 2 and
Enabler Cube. Forni Cube has a big hole to show the core. This helps understanding the mechanism. Only two faces can turn, namely those not interfered by the big hole. Two layers always turn together because of the deeper-than-origin mechanism.
Forni Cube has a mechanism that locks and unlocks faces, similar to Bingo Cube. Whereas Bingo Cube has a special edge piece that unlocks the two centers that it is adjacent to, Forni Cube has locking pins in all edge pieces to locks faces together that are opposite the big hole. The mechanism of Forni Cube is similar to Enabler Cube, where the "enabler" piece disables rotation of opposite faces.
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YouTube video.
Read at the
Shapeways Forum.
Read more at the
Twisty Puzzles Forum.
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