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Lego Mindstorms Robot Solves Rubix Cube

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Submitted by mark on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 19:18.
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via Geekologie.

Every time I sit back and think of how nerdy I can be, I encounter something like this magnificent MINDSTORMS creation that affirms my normalcy. While I can't claim that I don't think this is insanely cool, I can say that I'm glad that someone else is dedicating their time to such useless pursuits while I plug away at work and occasionally at this very website.

Back to the robot though, this thing can solve a cube in an average time of just around 6 minutes, which includes 1minute for scanning, just under a minute for calculating, and the remaining 4.5 minutes for solving.. Now if I could just learn how to solve one of these goddamn things period...




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I am a grown-ass man and I

Submitted by Bryan on Mon, 07/28/2008 - 20:37.

I am a grown-ass man and I badly want a Mindstorms set. I will build a set of robot hands capable of playing Jordan in Guitar Hero 2 on Expert at 100%. This is my goal.

As for this video, I caught this a little earlier today and am as impressed as you. The shit that Mindstorms is capable of is amazing to me. Even the things that don't even involve Legos. Someone made an operating system called LegOS with the programming language that Mindstorms works on.

As for this piece of gimmickry, that's downright amazing. My immediate conclusion was that someone built a robot with that solve-all routine programmed in. There's a series of turns that you can do with a Rubik's Cube that can solve it no matter what the configuration. I've never ventured to check it out. That's how you see videos of people sovling them in record times with a blindfold on. But this. This is something else, entirely.

That robot actually looks at the cube and does the turns based on what it sees. Amazing.