How would you build a Rubik's "sound" cube?

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This would be like a normal Rubik's cube but with the same color on all sides.

So the question is how would you use sound (and perhaps touch sensors, an accelerometer, etc.) to make this work exactly like a Rubik's cube?

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You need 6 flavors of sound (1 for each color) and a mechanism for distinguishing the colors on 9 squares on each face, I think? This is assuming we're only listening to 1 face at a time.

Perhaps I'm thinking about this too linearly. You could touch one square to hear its color, and its immediate neighbors would sound as well, with stereo/spatial effects to indicate their relative position.

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