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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."
You can use trademarks as adjectives. The rest of the world uses them as nouns and verbs. Get over it.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
They probably didn't debug it much, but in actuality - most of it is pattern recognition. If you look straight down the corner of one Rubiks cube, you will see 3 faces of it, and that is all you actually need to solve the Rubiks cube. All the pros merely remember the patterns and the steps required to solve each pattern. Rotate the cube 90 degrees and the pattern still exists, even though things are in a different shape.
Really, the programming side of this isn't that impressive once you know how Rubiks cube solving is done. I'm more impressed at the speed, which I've normally found Lego technic and Mindstorm products to be a little laggy in commands and slow to operate, keep in mind though, that was the stuff I used like 7 years ago.
The only people who care about that pointless distinction are trademark lawyers.
For the rest of us, they're simply called LEGOS.
I have one I HAVEN'T solved in 30 years. Young kids, always wanting to do everything in a rush...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.