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Title: Rubik's Cube Solver Post by: CheshireCat150 on July 12, 2011, 12:05:24 am Mindstorm robots that solve Rubik's Cubes never fail to amaze me. I can only imagine how complex the programming is... and even building it to be that fast, efficient, and accurate must be a challenge. However, many people have done it. Recently I found a video of an amazingly fast robot created by Mike Dobson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRcWB3jwMo&feature=player_embedded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaRcWB3jwMo&feature=player_embedded) Title: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver Post by: mtmerrick on July 12, 2011, 03:59:18 am There's an android app I had that shows how to do this. Looked at the source code the Dec posted, and it was beyond me. Porting that into NXT code, and adding motors and other peripherals into that code is just incredible.
Title: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver Post by: CheshireCat150 on July 15, 2011, 12:50:11 pm Yep, I think just being able to solve a Rubik's cube or build an NXT robot is a feat in itself. Combined, it is AMAZING.
Speaking of which, does anyone here know how to solve a Rubik's cube? Title: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver Post by: Jayko on July 15, 2011, 01:45:27 pm I can solve the Cube, and I made a robot that could flip and twist it. But the programming is beyond me . . .
Title: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver Post by: mtmerrick on July 15, 2011, 02:29:25 pm I solved mine using an android app :P
Title: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver Post by: CheshireCat150 on July 15, 2011, 02:34:34 pm I can solve a Rubik's cube too. I never bothered to build an NXT that can manipulate a Rubik's cube because I knew the programming would be impossible. I doubt it's possible to program an NXT to solve without having it communicate with a computer, and I don't have a computer program that would allow me to do that anyway.
Title: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver Post by: MsRowdyRedhead on July 15, 2011, 02:54:18 pm Here is an old post from 2009
2Mak07 built a mindstorms robot thing that solves it last week... so fun to watch. Even tho it never actually succeeds because he is missing one sensor It was much like this one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fAn5A0HbhU Title: Re: Rubik's Cube Solver Post by: Jayko on July 15, 2011, 06:06:19 pm I can solve a Rubik's cube too. I never bothered to build an NXT that can manipulate a Rubik's cube because I knew the programming would be impossible. I doubt it's possible to program an NXT to solve without having it communicate with a computer, and I don't have a computer program that would allow me to do that anyway. Yea, I was bored one day, so I made it. I was able to program it to solve a pre-set scramble. |