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How To Make a Weighted Companion Cube

I made a real life weighted companion cube. Out of cardboard. It took two days of cutting and accidentally burning myself with a glue gun, but I did it. I showed my friend Tom and all he said was that it should be a foot bigger and it is the wrong color. 

As I was making this, I should have taken step by step pictures and remembered exactly what I did, but I wasn't really thinking straight.

You need to get 4-5 hours of your favorite music and a ton of cardboard and hot glue. I don't know exactly how much, I just had a lot of boxes with fairly big sides. And get a lot of hot glue. Like, maybe 20-30 sticks. And last, but not least, a piece of pink construction paper. 

1. Measure (and cut out) 6 squares of cardboard that are 10 inches by 10 inches.

2. Using the hot glue, glue them into a cube shape. If you have to tape the first few together in order to glue, tape on what will be the inside of the cube.

3. Now for the corners. You need to make 8 corner pieces. Believe me, that is a lot. They are made up of 4 different parts each. If you really want to, you can do the math. I thought it was too depressing.

4. The pieces look like this:

The white lines are where you score and fold. The smaller pieces fit in to the corners if the larger pieces. If you see the pieces in front of you and look at the very first picture, it should make sense.
5. A few hours later, after you have made 8 of those, you glue them on to the cube. You should probably put glue on one edge, stick it on, and then glue the other edges.
6. The easiest part of the cube is the pieces on the edges. Just cut out 12 rectangles (3 by about 1.25 inches), fold them in half, and glue them on to the cube.
7. You can paint the cube basically however you want. Use spray paint, acrylic paint, any kind of paint. Hell, you can even leave the cardboard like it is. This step is just to make it look good.
8. Now, cut out 6 hearts out of the pink paper. Try to make them roughly 3 by 3 inches. If you want to make a weighted storage cube instead, you can print out an aperture science logo.
9. When the paint is dry, glue the hearts on to the cube. You can go into more detail with the stripes, different colors, etc., but now, you have a weighted cube of some sort. It will not threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak.


If you make one of these, post pictures of it in the comments or something.


*EDIT*


I had some time, so I finished up the paint and it looks a bit better. I replaced the picture at the top with the new one. This is the original: