Oh wow holiday time already? Must be because there's presents under the Tippi Tree
Tippi Tipmas everyone it's Devin here with Make Anything and I'm really excited about today's
video because it's my first time participating in the Puzzle Advent Calendar. The Puzzle Advent
Calendar is this really cool collaboration put together by some of the greatest puzzle makers
on the internet and across YouTube and the way it works is that we have created 24 unique puzzles
that will be released day after day across various YouTube channels so today is day number three I'm
presenting my puzzle which I'm super excited about and while there's still a lot to go so I'll put
a link in the description for the advent calendar playlist where all of the various puzzles will be
added. Next up tomorrow we've got OGRE Cubes with a really cool puzzle that i already got a peek at
so make sure you subscribe to his channel if you want to see what the next puzzle is but for today
we're talking about my puzzle. It's this little Toy Box Puzzle it may be small but I packed a lot
into this tiny little box so keep watching and I'll show you what it's all about.
cool!
Yes this is my Toy Box Puzzle and this is what's known as a packing puzzle which basically means
we have all these pieces that we need to fit together into a very confined space
in this case our container is this cute little gift box and to go with the holiday theme our gift
box is filled to the brim with a bunch of little toys so let's set aside our little scene here and
pull up a freshly printed set so i can introduce this lovely line of toys. First up we've got this
charming little doll sitting up in your standard doll pose and all of my toys are designed to print
without support material so this little doll is printed lying on its back like so. Next up we have
our space shuttle and I really like this one just because it's got a fun blocky chunky feel
it reminds me a lot of a little Lego prop and then there's this dinosaur although I guess depending
on what color you printed in it could be a giraffe or some other animal. I call it a dinosaur he's a
little derpy but I love him. Next, what's a toy box without a teddy bear so here we have our little
winter teddy bear wearing a nice scarf flowing in the wind and next is our train. It's a short
little train--only two cars--but it's still pretty fun because it's got this print in place hinge
that allows it to swivel a bit so it's got a nice bit of articulation as it swoops around curves.
For a less terrestrial toy I've also included this little alien great for our space shuttle
to visit I suppose and here's another part with some print in place action with this little
pickup truck that's got working wheels these wheels should be able to spin nice and freely
which means you can actually roll this truck around just like any other toy truck. Next up
we've got this fun lizard and this is one of the bigger pieces so maybe it's a komodo dragon.
Then, printed in this lovely Polyalchemy Gold PLA we have our mysterious science machine
great for all sorts of experiments with our aliens and giant lizards. Then we've got this
lovely little fish with some nice details on the fin there it's quite an interesting shape
and also one of the bigger pieces and that's followed by our tiniest pieces, our little pet here
It might be a dog it might be a red panda. I guess it's up to you
Then there's our second tiniest piece with this little handheld camera, great for filming
all of the little antics that go on with the other toys. Printed in Filamentum's Wizard Voodoo PLA
we have this really cool crystal. I'm not sure if you can call a crystal a toy generally but
I was always a big fan of interesting minerals. Tthen we'll finish off our toy set with this big
voxel worm and this guy's about as big as the train so maybe it got a hold of our science
machine. Anyways those are our 15 toys and then the final part of this puzzle is our gift box
and I used a simple filament swap part way through the print to get this nice two-colored effect.
As you can see the box is printed as several flat pieces and well these panels might look
familiar to you and that's because I borrowed my Polypanel connectors to make this a hinged
box so that means just like with all of our Polypanels we can easily snap together each of these
panels. We've got four side pieces that connect to the bottom and they all fold up to create our box
which is held in place with the lid and printing this box as poly panels was actually kind of an
afterthought because I realized it would be pretty hard to assemble this puzzle only accessing it
through the top so by using these Polypanels you can individually fold down one or two sides and
easily access any side of the puzzle while still having some of the container to hold it together
and this ended up being a really handy feature which I'll probably use in future
packing puzzles as well it just works so well for this type of puzzle
On top of that it's especially perfect for this gift box because it kind of folds up in the
same way that you might wrap a gift. I think it's a super fun design and, well, I'm always
happy to recycle my old concepts into new ones so bringing the Polypanels into here was really nice
Alright so there we have all the pieces of our puzzle it's pretty straightforward but I hope you
appreciate all the fun little shapes I made in the cool assembly of the box and well I do want
to assemble the puzzle for you right now and show you some of the design process but of course that
will involve some spoilers so if you do have a 3D printer and plan on trying this for yourself you
might want to pause this video and watch it after you've given this a real shot. You can download the
puzzle at MyMiniFactory for free right now and print it out. Alright so let's put this together
So of course I created this puzzle so this is less of a solution attempt and more of a
solution guide but let me show you how I go ahead and fit all of these toys into the toy box. So I'm
gonna start by just folding down two sides and keeping two up to create this corner and
a good natural starting point is our bear here which fits right in the corner. Then we've got
our doll which kind of links arms with the teddy bear. Next I'll grab my alien and my lizard. These
two pieces kind of hug each other like that and then that rests against this back wall
right there. Next let's grab the train. That's an easy one, it just fits right like so across
the bottom and our pet here is a pretty tricky one so let's get this done sooner than later
It kind of tucks in with the lizard and its head goes on top of the train just like that
Then we've got our crystal which goes ahead and completes that back panel filling in the
gaps where the lizard is and our science machine lays flat on the back and also covers some of the
bottom there. Next up is our worm it goes on top of the science machine and our doll. We'll take the
fish and put it right here near the front. That's a big piece so it fills up a lot of that front panel
then there's another little tricky piece, our camera. It kind of fills in that little gap in
the fin of the fish and it balances on top of the worm until we add the space shuttle which
pretty much locks it into place. Finally our last two pieces are the truck which rests right there
on the bottom and the dinosaur fills the remaining space. Now we can close up our two panels and look
at that we've got a nice packed puzzle box and the lid slips on top finally we'll give it a
nice rotation which officially turns it into a twist puzzle. Alright there we go puzzle solved
Easy! What can i say, i'm a champion. Not really, I probably couldn't solve half of these Advent
Calendar puzzles but of course I made this so I knew exactly how everything fit together
I am interested in seeing how much of a challenge this presents to people who are good at puzzles
I think it'll be pretty tricky for one thing the pieces are just so small that it becomes a bit
of a dexterity challenge to keep everything in place and yeah that's going to be tough
Plus unlike other packing puzzles I've made where it's just cubes fitting together and you pretty
much know when something's meant to fit together well with these toys the shapes are a little more
abstract and sometimes it's not a perfect fit so I think that actually adds to the challenge
and I do want to show you in Fusion 360 how I designed these pieces. So here we are in Fusion
360 and as you can see all my pieces here are already assembled in place and that's actually
how I designed this entire puzzle. So if we go back to the beginning of my creation you can see that
everything starts with a single unit which is this cube that is 4.7 millimeters in every direction
and then I used a rectangular pattern to create a grid with five millimeter spacing which basically
leaves a 0.3 millimeter clearance between each cube. I'll pattern that vertically as well and that
basically creates the volume of our puzzle. From there I'll start extruding faces on these cubes
and joining them together to create larger shapes so as you can see I'm basically just joining the
cubes together everything stays very blocky so the process is pretty much the same as just
creating any kind of puzzle cube and you can see my old tutorial on how I made those in the past
The difference with this puzzle is that I had to make sure every block can turn into some kind of
toy so I've got to be pretty thoughtful in how I block this out. Another thing that was always on my
mind was printability. For example with this teddy bear I knew I was going to have to print it lying
on its side and that's why i have this 45 degree overhang for the foot so it can print without
support material. So coming up with this puzzle is actually a puzzle on its very own and that's
why designing puzzles can be so fun. So in this case the puzzle for me was to make every block
look like a toy, have them print without support material, and I also wanted to leave as little
extra space as possible so that's why I kept all these toys as blocks at first
and then once I had things more or less figured out I started isolating the individual pieces
and sculpting them to look a bit more like the respective toys that they're meant to be
and you'll notice there's very little curves. I tried to maintain a kind of faceted blocky
look so that all my toys look like they belong together in some sense. Of course the wheels on
the truck are going to be round as well as the living hinge in the train. If we do a cross section
we can kind of sweep through that and see how I created that print and place hinge and here I'm
using a 0.4 millimeter gap between the parts which i've found to work pretty well on most 3D printers
so that's more or less how all of my pieces were created starting out as blocks to make sure it's
a good puzzle that all fits together nicely and only then did I start adding some more curves and
chamfers to make each part look more like its respective toy. Alright that wraps it up
for the Toy Box Puzzle. I hope you guys enjoyed the presentation and you like the design of my puzzle
I'm really excited about how it came out because all the little toys are so fun on their own
and it all comes together to make this little puzzle which is quite challenging. So hopefully
you and the puzzlers in your life will enjoy this puzzle yourself. Like I said you can print it out
for free at MyMiniFactory following the link in the description. Oh there's one other thing
There's another puzzle that's been here the whole time... you just haven't been looking. For a slightly
easier challenge I've actually turned the Tippi Tree into a puzzle of its own with these Tippi Tipmas
presents that go underneath the Tippi Tree. So all of these presents are actually designed
with special cutouts on the bottom so that they fit onto the roots of the tippy tree
in a very special and unique arrangement. So there's really only one way to get all of these
presents to stick onto the roots of the Tippi Tree. Um... well it was here the whole time so hopefully I
didn't spoil it for you but if you want a bit of an easier puzzle and you already own Tippi Tree
go ahead and download my Tippi Tree Tipmass Tree Puzzle--I haven't actually named it yet. Anyways
that's it for today so I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Subscribe if you like what you're seeing
make sure to follow the Advent Calendar Puzzle playlist. Like the video if you enjoyed this puzzle
but until next time that's all so happy holidays, take care, I love you all, and stay inspired!