Similar to one of those hand-held-slide-puzzles-with-one-square-missing (what are they called?), except it's a bit bigger and you need a powerful motor and some cleverly wired pulleys to rearrange the blocks.

If you want to move the water feature to the bottom of the garden, simply perch yourself in a big tree and manipulate the wireless handheld puzzle controller and the garden will follow suit.
-- Trodden, Mar 13 2003

Office Block Chess http://www.halfbake...ice_20Block_20Chess
Similar idea, but more ambitious. [hippo, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]

Modular Garden http://www.bbc.co.u.../merrist_wood.shtml
[thumbwax, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]

Cool.

You could have a system of rails and wheels under the blocks in order to make moving them about a bit easier.
-- DrBob, Mar 13 2003


Glorious.
-- brenna, Mar 13 2003


This is inspiring!!
-- Pericles, Mar 16 2003


or you could automate it... Some kind of random pattern generator. Wake each morning to a new garden layout.
-- RockHopper, Mar 16 2003


And when they're arranged in a certain pattern, a big smiley-face results.
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 16 2003



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