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When Lego Meet Rubik

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-a-good-face-on-things dept.

Credit goes to memepool for bringing you word of Lego robot that solves Rubik's Cubes. This is one of the most jaw-dropping things I've ever seen. Dedication is defined as rebuilding "left and right grabbers six times (and the bottom grabber four times) trying elastic bands, Technic shocks, and pneumatics" in order to grasp that little cube.

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  1. LEGO Mindstorm Professional, v8.2 by ptutko · · Score: 5, Funny

    September 7, 2006: Billig, Denmark, (AP) - LEGO announced today version 8.2 of the popular Mindstorms robotic kit, targeted for the home consumer. Previous versions sold to industry have had great success in automatic pencil sharpening robots, latte-fetching robots, and the now popular PDA-linked Mindstorm with vision sensors that can manuver underneath desks (link to: Corporate Workers Protest Upskirt Robots).

    This version of the Mindstorms robotic kit comes with grapple features including metric socket wrenches, screwdriver, and air-hammer attachments. LEGO hopes that these new features and applications for home repair use can continue to spur the market need for these "little home helpers," as the New York Daily News called them.

    "Who knew," said Margaret Whipple, mother of three and currently a stay-at-home, neighborhood, home owners association attorney, "that when I bought my initial Mindstorms kit to walk the dog, that I could now have a second kit to rotate the tires on my car!"

    LEGO sees the home repair market as enormous, according to Lars Ulford, managing director of LEGO's newly formed Mindstorms For The Home division. "You will be able to download home repair programs over your wireless PDA, and uplink them to your home robots. These little buggers can then fix your faucets, rewire the electrical panel, and change lightbulbs. All this frees the consumer from those dreary, everyday household tasks."

    In a related story, LEGO denies the rumors that they have developed a semi-sentient Mindstorms "dog" that attacked the CEO on a walking tour last week. "It was just a minor electrical short," says LEGO technician Hans Trachet.

  2. Rubik links by uigrad_2000 · · Score: 5, Informative
    First, a Yahoo club to discuss the fastest algorithm to solve the cube.

    Second, a best fast algorithm for solving the cube with downloadable source code

    And last, a Description of how a 4d rubik hypercube would function along with a solver program for the hypercube.

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  3. Re:That's the hard way of solving the RB by Puk · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for instance, did my rubik's cube three times in the two minutes it took me to write this post. Without looking. Beat that.

    I've had sex. With a girl.

    In the two minutes it took him to write that post? Definitely slashdot material.

    -Puk