The Checkerboard Cube
How do you make a checkerboard cube out of magnet balls? We’ll show you! Watch the video or check out the step by step guide below.
What we used:
512 Speks of two colors.
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Read the steps
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Step 1
Create a chain of 16 speks in alternating colors, following a 4-2-2-4-2-2 pattern. -
Step 2
Close the chain into a loop and pinch it together to create 2 rows as shown.
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Step 3
Repeat steps one and two to create a second pair of rows with the opposite color on top, then attach it to your first.
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Step 4
Keep making and attaching rows in alternating colors but do not flip the 5th, 13th, 21st, and 29th pairs as shown.
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Keep Going.
I believe in you.
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Step 5
Next start folding your sheet 8 rows in. Make sure the fold is aligned, not interlocked.
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Step 6
Continue folding the sheet back and forth every 8 rows until the cube is complete.
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Ta-da.
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