Tetris Ice Cubes

Make your own tetris block silicone ice cube tray.
The mold created in this project can be used for much more than just ice cubes- try making Jello tetris pieces, or tetris soap, tetris Popsicles, or even tetris ground beef squares!

Mmmmm ... ground beef squares

Step 1: Materials

The materials and design for this project are somewhat flexible. The idea is to create many different 1" cubes, and piece them together in the form of the tetris pieces. The tetris pieces are then assembled on a board, creating a positive for liquid silicone to be poured on.

1. 1" thick wood (or any other solid material you have the ability to make the cubes out of; ie acrylic or metal can also be used)
2. Saw
3. Ruler
4. Sander
5. Wood glue
6. Molding Silicone
7. Hot glue gun
8. Exacto knife

Comments

[M4industries]

A prototyping material. Some was used in MAKE: 16 SpyTech.

Dont rely on me. Just google it.

[sharlston]

thanks

[moo of the cow]

you must really like tetris

[lawdog323]

I would love to know where you got your yellow box to make your mold with. If you could provide me with a link I would appreciate it. Thanks so very much! Robin

[qwertyboy]

i think that he just glueed some pieces of acrylic together to form a box shape

[zatek]

Cool, but seriously, the tetris bricks will only have the cut corners on one side and still being sqare on the other...

[Nox Caulis]

http://www.smooth-on.com/Silicone-Rubber-an/c2_1113_1136/index.html

Here's the stuff he used for the mold.

[siferion]

For those asking about the silicone to use, try to find something that is acrylic based, most hardware stores carry both oil based (toxic) and acrylic based (harmless in small quantities). Acrylic silicone is the same stuff they use in toys and the like.

[Zack999]

You could do just about any shape with this method. I would do diamonds ruby's and other expensive stones so when you have your drink on the rocks...

[a.nony.mouse]

well, if that's how you wanna go around impressing girls..... but hey, she'll probably get a good laugh out of it

[Zack999]

thats not my only trick and when it comes down to it little things shell remeber let her think of me in a good lite

[Brother_D]

Tee hee.

[EPL]

haha cool they look like gushers fruit snacks in the shap of a square

[naruto the ninja13]

make sure you use food grade silicone

[matbh]

oh my god! its a hard work cut the edges of tiny cubs... u can paint the wood cubs too...

[Pyrotechnic-Robot]

Love it
What type of silicone did you use?
Brand
Where You got it.
.(). He likes it too

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[maxgork131.hotmail.com]

Pretty cool

[rofus]

nice idea

[plzspoilme25]

um obviously u can get it the author of the 'ible used it....use any flexible food grade molding stuff, silicone should not be hard to find, The silicone rubber material comes in two components that mix by a volume ratio of 1:1 did search on google for two part silicone systems and one for food grade two part silicone system i came up with lots of links from all over the place

[plzspoilme25]

btw forgive me, i didnt think to look to see that this was made 2 years ago, maybe the silicone couldnt be found everywhere then.....but it was an easy search from Google for me.... thanks again for the i'ble

[plzspoilme25]

not sure i'll get around to making ice cubes, but thanks for the i'ble, its just what i need to make the mold for my seed flat tray that i've been looking all over for, thanks a million.....

[Very Keri]

psh, forget food dye! I would use juice or kool aid so i have tasty little tetris popsicles :)

[plzspoilme25]

koolaid or use straight fruit or veggie juice....many colors and good for u too

[Tetranitrate]

Mmm ... delicious sweaty tetrisicles.

[m1n1j1mmy]

it sound a little like testicles lol :-P

[Pyromaster951]

funny lol rotflol. tetriscicles. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha(*sniff*)hahahahahaha

[IDONOTHINGBUTKNEX]

you should really think about making and posting a Rubiks cube ice cube

[venomireland]

Weird, I removed those comments myself when I realised I was wrong. Nice 'ible, easy to read( but not to do :)) and well written out

[smashbob]

your smiley has a double chin. lol

[pyro1324]

I LOVE TETRIS

[venomireland]

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[madhops0620]

where can you get this molding silicone? I've looked everywhere online for it and have only been able to find a few things, and I don't think they're food grade

[Yerboogieman]

Is that tropical punch koolaid in the corner?

[cd41]

there's also parmesian (like on spaghetti in case you don't read that right) cheese and onions apparently

[Yerboogieman]

Not sure, if, anyone cares. And i did spell Koolaid Correct.

[mynameisjonas]

oh yeah!

[Shut Up Now]

dunno if someone noticed this, but u may want to make sure it is food grade silicone. "yum! ice cubes that taste like rubber!"

[red-king]

lol... yeah... thats a good idea there.

[LMO]

Muchos kudos.

[yutzwagon]

so much win. i must make this this summer.