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Lego Robot Solves Any Rubik's Cube In 12 Seconds
kkleiner writes "Cube Stormer is the latest creation from Mike Dobson, aka Robotics Solutions, and not only is it made entirely out of Legos, it can solve any 3x3 Rubik's cube in less than twelve seconds. Often it can finish in less than five! This thing looks bad-ass and is incredible to watch."
And heres me expecting to see a robot that can quickly rearrange the stickers.
Cool, just make sure it doesn't mistake your head for a Rubik's Cube. :)
of our new Lego robot masters.
That thing got four arms. Come on, that is cheating.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
All I needed was 6 different paint brushes dipped in 6 different colours.
"loosers"? What are "loosers"? The opposite of "tighters"?
Only losers use the word "loosers". :)
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Legos my egos. Leggo my eggo. Let go of my eggo waffle. Biznatch.
Am I the only one who thinks it looks a bit like ATLAS from the LHC??
Which makes it even more AWESOME.
You put it in and it snaps shots of the 6 sides of the cube. Those are interpreted by the computer which probably uses a standard solving algorithm. The solution is translated into movements for the robot, and off it goes.
I'm stunned. And here I was thinking it worked by magic. Is that REALLY how it's done?
Sorry, I'm just feeling rather cynical today. Pffft.
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Once, I peeled off the three decals on the corner of a cube and stuck them in different places to try to stump it. It just peeled them back off and stuck them on in the right places.
~Loyal
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Allow me to bring you some Kleenexes; your weeping protestation is piteous.
Maybe a couple of aspirins for your headache?
Reality must really piss off language prescriptionists.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
For the rest of us, they're simply called LEGOS.
The world is divided into two groups, those that call them Legos and those that make fun of the first group.
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Are you sure? Just about every Asian I know can do it that quickly, and they make up about 30% of the world's population.
That's because in China they use The People's Cube
"loosers"? What are "loosers"? The opposite of "tighters"?
There's a website for that....
I am one of those people who can solve a brand-new, just-opened Rubik's cube blindfolded. Let me tell you, it's not all that difficult.
To make it easier on all of you pedantic types how about if instead of pluralizing Lego to Legos. We'll just abbreviate "Lego Bricks" to something that rolls off the tongue a little easier. How about "Legos"?
in fact the Rubics Cube being a *cube* one could simply say "a 3".
Atari rules... ermm... ruled.
If I were you, I would delete all the "it's dishonest!" comments from youtube and slashdot. I saw the Rubik's Cube Robot and Schwarzenegger heading over to your house...
Um
It's made of LEGO dude.
Being made of Lego raises the coolness of an object to it's own power. So if a machine solving a Rubik's Cube had a coolness factor of say, 100, then a machine solving a Rubik's Cube MADE OF LEGO would be 100 ^ 100, or:
100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
I mean I don't even care if it's fake... it's still epickly cool.
I always called them "Lego brand building blocks". As in, "Hey Timmy, want to come to my house after kindy to play with my Lego brand building blocks?". Timmy never came to my house though.
On an unrelated note, my father was a trademark lawyer.
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Pervert.
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