Our team of scientists have developed a new device, completely on our own mind you! specifically for weighing down those pesky buttons. The guys in the lab also whipped up a version to accompany you through your life enrichment simulation! Doesn’t it look like it loves you?
Alright, alright, so maybe our Robot Overlords stood on the shoulders of giants here and artfully recreated some science… But for good reasons! These awesome weighted storage & companion cubes are designed after the greatest non-fiction immersive history video game series of all time! Portal (a creation from Valve Corporation). But enough about that! Cube and button-based testing remains an important tool for science and the Overlords need you to get back to helping us, help you, help us all!
Unlike Aperture Laboratories, many of us humans don’t have warehouses full of these “worthless” cubes. Our Robot Overlords wanted to help you construct your own! These cubes measure 140mm and if printed using our supplied G-Code, come in at an impressive 800 grams! Be careful of scaling the STLs as tolerances are tight and things might not fit exactly.
Begin fabrication:
Now that you have all of the components necessary to fabricate a cube printed it's time for assembly! This model is intended to be glued together using Gloop! Get your Gloop! here: https://3dgloop.com/shop
Assembly made without using Gloop! may result in the need to prepare for unforeseen consequences… One of our indentured… Uh, quality employees prepared an assembly video you can check out here:
Cake and grief counseling will be available at the conclusion of this assembly!
NOTE! If you want to increase the weight of your cube, we suggest using steel BB’s and fine beach sand commonly available at Walmart’s and other farm/home supply stores. For our “Activated” Weighted Storage Cube, we used about 10,000 BB’s and roughly 500g of sand. The result is a cube that weighs 5.2kg (11.5lbs). Alternatively, you could just use around 2000g of sand as we did for our companion cube for a total weight of 2.8kg (6.2lbs).
Thanks so much for checking out our edition of the Portal Weighted Storage & Companion Cube. Let our Robot Overlords know if you’ve printed one (or hundreds) for yourself! An escaped employee has released the source files of the design (Solidworks 2020) available in the downloads. There are plans for revisions and additions in the future so please feel free to share your ideas with us! Cough cough** (1500mw Aperture Science heavy-duty super-colliding super-button) *cough… Excuse us while we dial back our human mannerism emulator.
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