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+author: admin
+categories:
+- Uncategorized
+date: 2024-11-05
+tags:
+- machining
+- hack-a-day
+title: 'Hack-a-Day, Day 05: Milling an Aluminium Soma Cube (FAILED)'
+---
+
+As on [day 02](https://blog.za3k.com/hack-a-day-day-02-acrylic-soma-cube-failed/), I tried to make a soma cube, this time milling it out of aluminium on a milling machine.
+
+![caption: The Soma Cube is a 3D, tetris-like puzzle -- picture credit 2ndlook.nl](soma-cube.gif)
+
+I picked up some aluminium from a local supplier, and headed to [Hive13](https://hive13.org/), the local hackerspace, to use their milling machine.
+
+![caption: The Hive13 metal mill](mill.jpg)
+
+After about 7 hours, despite hard work, I had almost finished cutting the blanks, and that was it. Milling is no joke, especially for a beginner!
+
+![caption: correctly sized blanks to make the pieces](milled-metal-cubes.jpg)
+
+And had to call it a night, both because I was tired and because the weekly meeting was starting. I was feeling pretty rough after this one -- three, nearly four failed projects in a row is not a great start to a hackathon.