Walter’s Radio by Dee Dixon

Dee is simply dominating the puzzle box world right now with highly imaginative designs, I’m very impressed by his skills!

Here’s Dee’s description from DEDwood crafts:

“Walter’s Radio is the newest sequential discovery take-apart puzzle from DEDwood Crafts. It resembles a handheld communications device from the world of Angry Walter, furthering the story begun with Walter’s release. Walter's Radio is made from iroko and jatoba woods. It measures 4.5 x 6.5 x 1.75 inches. With multiple tools and more than 20 steps, this may be DEDwood’s most complex puzzle yet!

Backstory

When a wave of Angry Walters waged war on the world, we fought back valiantly, seeking to remove the cold fusion generators that fueled his robotic rage. Some of us succeeded, disabling the power sources in support of the sapien resistance; others struggled to make sense of the robotic systems, their patchwork patterns too puzzling, too complex to understand. The robots exploited this gap, continuing to grow in numbers as we humans faltered in the face of their fury. But the Walters soon faced a new dilemma: as they grew, so too did the need for an infrastructure that could sustain the new robotic world order. As humanity sought refuge online, sharing stories of the underground at war with our new overlords, offering advice to those who could not overcome the Walters’ power, as we banded together, the Walters’ world frayed at the edges, humanity chipping away at the cracks within. The Walters scrambled to fill in these gaps, developing new communications technology that allowed for the instantaneous transfer of information between synthetic minds. Such profound development rested on the invention of the Dimensional Electronic Divergence Chip (DED chip), a small component that disseminated data through tiny wormholes connecting the radio devices.

Humanity’s hope faded as the radios allowed the robots to respond quickly to each battle, each spark of resistance snuffed out as soon as it surfaced. Humanity learned that the removal of the DED chip could turn the tides of the robopocalypse, diminishing the Walters’ ability to communicate. But they knew that any such success would come at a great cost, and so they ensured that the removal of these chips would not be such a simple task. After humans stole what copies they could, they discovered that the removal and manipulation of the DED chip allowed them to transmit their own data, indistinguishable from that sent by the Walters, creating the opportunity to subvert their communications to humanity’s own ends.

 Human fighters recently secured a shipment of radios that are being shared across the global resistance movement. We must find our way through the robotic defenses built into the devices to remove the DED chip and undermine the Walters’ newest weapon in the war for our world’s future. Go forth and answer Walter’s Radio!

 

Special thanks to Tye Stahly and Brent Hessel!”

Five Sinatras has an excellent blog post.