Lee T. 谈他和Meffert 如何合作生产空心五魔方

sokoban

原文见 http://twistypuzzles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=13896 49楼

摘要：
1，受到冈本的空心魔方的启发，Lee T. 首先造出一个空心五魔方。他从未见过冈本空心五魔方
内部结构，独立设计的。(事实上, Lee T. 08年2月左右做出空心五魔方时，Void Cube 还没有量产)
2， 2008年的 Dutch Cube Day 之后，Geert Hellings 介绍 Lee T. 和 Meffert 认识。他俩开始
合作生产空心五魔方。
3，Lee T. 把大部分功劳归于 Meffert 。因为他的原设计不够结实和不易组装。Meffert 的人员重新设计，
更易于注塑和组装。


Hi all,
I am slow as molasses at getting things written, but I wanted to post a few comments. Most of the credit goes to Uwe Meffert for getting the Holey Megaminx puzzle out there. We have been about 6 months working on it. Geert Hellings introduced Uwe to me after DCD. Thanks Geert! Uwe wanted to try to manufacture it. I knew it was going to be a challenge when we started, as the mechanism is different than other puzzles out there, and was never designed with manufacturing in mind. It was inspired by Katsuhiko’s Void Cube but is a very different mechanism (I had never seen the Void cube mechanism at the time and came up with what I though it might be). My original core was not as strong, nor as easily assembled as we would have liked and Uwe’s people came up with an alternative, which worked well. Same shape, but more injection molding and assembly friendly. This required new molds. Making molds is both expensive and time consuming. Then the turning was too tight and then too loose. Uwe throughout the process was awesome. He had great communication, always kept me in the loop, and remained optimistic. I have a better appreciation for what it takes to get something new manufactured now. I hope you understand why people try to keep these things secret until the bugs get worked out, in case things do not work out. I hope everyone enjoys the puzzle!

We all owe Uwe a debt of gratitude for taking on the risks and making all these new puzzles affordable and available both for modding and playing with. (I wonder how long it will be before Tony makes a sphere out of it?). I hope you enjoy it and look forward to finding out what else Uwe has been working on, like every one else.
Regards
Lee

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sokoban

很有可能是 Meffert 持有吧