This Netbook and Lego Solves Rubik's Cube in 12s

[Marcus Yam]

Still not as fast as a human can do it.

This Netbook and Lego Solves Rubik's Cube in 12s : Read more

 

[amd_guru]

I cant even get one side to match up lol!! One step closer to terminators!

 

[amd_guru]

Shit i cant even solve one side of one of those...

 

[nachowarrior]

it's all in the programing... the speed of the ser\/o's is going to be the real limitation once they finally get the programming down pat. I can see someone getting motors so fast one day, that it actually busts the cube.

 

[zoemayne]

i doubt it..... how are the sensors set up for this?

 

[foody]

Once again, computers doing very simple algorithms.

 

[sliem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_zjWssn2g&feature=related
6.57 s

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]zoemayne[/nom]i doubt it..... how are the sensors set up for this?[/citation]

There's a Lego web-cam in the center, right behind the cube. All it needs to do is get quick snapshots of the faces of the cube in the software, create a plan to solve it virtually, and send the commands to the servos. My brother has those servos, and they are quite fast.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Why a Netbook? Near any desktop could do it faster.

 

[buwish]

I'm sure there are plenty of chips out there that could do it faster. However, they build a mechanical "solver" out of legos...how cool is that?!

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]Why a Netbook? Near any desktop could do it faster.[/citation]
I am guessing the solving is easy and netbook is really all that is needed, the bottleneck would be the servos moving the cube really.

 

[dj1001]

[citation][nom]Gin Fushicho[/nom]Why a Netbook? Near any desktop could do it faster.[/citation]

it probably doesn't require much processor power at all

so that intel atom is most likely overkill for the task

 

[MattBauer09]

Maybe solving a Rubik's cube with that nifty machine in Overclocking Tournaments should be incorporated

 

[ph3412b07]

lego actuators are slow compared to a skilled human operator. with some real hardware you could probably get it done in a second

 

[CBaca]

Pretty cool. I would like to see how long it would take to solve a Super Rubik's Cube (can't remember if that was name of the one that had twice as many squares on each face). I had both when I was a kid. They are probably still buried in a closet somewhere.

 

[gekko668]

That's cool. I want to see it assemble a jigsaw puzzle.

 

[zanraptora]

It would really be interesting if they could scale this down to use a micro-controller... Perhaps they should also try to program for the 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 cubes!

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

Something tells me he'll be getting a military 1 billion dollar contract to make thousands of those!

 

[fflam]

http://www.wrongway.org/cube/solve.html

you can wright the software so a web page can solve a cube in milliseconds. a net book dedicated to the task is WAY overkill.

 

[Guest]

Robot with servos solves in about 6 seconds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwWDBRQ5rPc

 

[rags_20]

Why does it say 12 when it did it in less than 11?

 

[drip50291]

that is freaking sick

 

[israil]

My roommate in college could solve one behind his back, so I'm not even sure you need sensors. There might just be some mathematical algorithm that'll solve any randomized cube.

 

[cookoy]

if you use an IBM super computer, it would solve it in 1 nanosecond. Then it would skeptical of the result ("Must be a trick question somewhere") and spend the next second reconfirming the result a billion times.

 

[masterasia]

That's cheating.