Maarten Steurbaut - Rubik's magic Cube
Maarten Steurbaut - Rubik's magic Cube: "When I had my first fast DSL internet-connection installed (end 2001), I could finally start searching the web. But what should I search for? Because I'm an AFOL (adult fan of LEGO), I simply entered the keyword LEGO in my search engine. The first webpage I encountered was of course the official LEGO website. I wouldn't find anything interesting there, in fact I wanted to find other AFOL's showing their creations on a webpage. There were lots of them, some of them even better than others. The best webpages I encountered in this early stage of web-searching were LEGO trucks and heavy equipment built by Dennis Bosman (some of his models would fit in the 'Model Team' series), Original Technic Models by Jennifer Clark (the best of the best, considering my own interest in LEGO Technic), and Eric Harshbarger's LEGO pages (some of his models would really fit in one of the LEGOLAND parcs). In a later stage (after I bought my own Robotics Invention System) I also discovered JP Brown's Cubesolver.

When I saw JP Brown's Cubesolver I wondered why he built something this difficult. Why didn't he - or Eric Harshbarger - build Rubik's Cube first? That would have been much easier. At least I thought it would have been much easier before I tried to build it myself. In fact, their webpages inspired me to create something special out of LEGO elements: Rubik's famous magic Cube. I can tell you: it sure was a challenge."
- posted by Gp @ 12:57 PM