The Amazing ARM Powered Android Speedcuber

[anhmiuhv]

My friend can do it faster

[IAssemble]

@anhmiuhv Has your friend seen CubeStormer II? ;-)

[Kevansevans]

Make one of these, but one that solves a megaminx.

[IAssemble]

@Kevansevans already done ;-) See "Android Megaminxer" on ARMflix - watch?v=P-S30fS944M

[59qwertyqwertyqwerty]

stuck on a rubiks cube there's an app for that

[derheinzi1987]

yeah it did but i guess rather because of the mechanics of the robot than because of the phone xD

[IAssemble]

@derheinzi1987 actually the 1.2GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor in the Samsung Galaxy S II did help us save a valuable few hundered miliseconds to make CubeStormer II as fast as it is. But you're right that Mike did an amazing job to make the mechanical design so much faster than Speedcuber! ;-)

[naamloosweetnix]

samsung galaxy s 2 did it in 5 sec :)

[RommelBMmCod]

Do you guys work for apeture?

[Dombardman]

Portal music would fit here perfectly

[kizillu]

Iphone4s did it 24 flat

[IAssemble]

@kizillu CubeStormer II with Samsung Galaxy S II does it in under 6 seconds ;-)

[brufino89]

@IAssemble they know, they made it :)



[IAssemble]

@brufino89 "they"? ;-)

[Offy284]

@IAssemble This is made by the same people.

[IAssemble]

@Offy284 not quite... Speedcuber was made by one person (me) and CubeStormer II was made by two of us (me and Mike Dobson) ;-)

[IAssemble]

@Offy284 my observation was about the fact that all the LEGO solvers on ARMflix (apart from CubeStormer II) were made by "one person" not "people" ;-)

[kizillu]

Iphone did it 24 flat

[advsoft]

yeah... nice commercial but Intel are getting to android phones soon and I bet there would be good surprises in the performance :)

[sideofrize]

lets see an iphone do that.

[epb1243]

On their phone instead of their PC.

[epb1243]

And to think, a Droid isn't even the most powerful smartphone. Imagine if we pooled the computing power over every smartphone in the world. And folded proteins with those. It would help tremendously. Considering the ridiculous number of smartphones. They may be weaker than a normal PC, but considering I'm betting more people would be willing to fold proteins in the phone than of, it might be the thing we need most.

[LifesVoyager]

In 1987, ARM made the utterly brilliant Acorn Archimedes pcs using fast 32 bit RISC processors and an OS way ahead of anything else at the time. Fast graphic user interface, 32 bits, mouse and a windows desktop environment in 1987 !

[lolvarun]

*gaping mouth*



[ACABB1]

GO PC processors !!!!!!!!!!!! ARM

[CXnikos]

Wow...

That is awesome...

Congratulations

[corvettelover10]

hey you can use technik power functions motors and adapter cable to make it faster!!! i saw it was a little slow, the motors.

[604joe]

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[TradingCardsDude]

Holy shit, An android and legos are smarter than me o.o

[TrumanTehSupraTiger]

o_0 This is the most impressive thing I've seen since reading the WordPress instructions earlier today.

[biggerben2010]

Thats why this is Droid. Android made by Google

[uut0]

i bet some asian kid can do it faster lol

[touron4]

@uut0 Feliks Zemdegs in 6.24sec

[uut0]

@touron4 I knew I was right n_n.

[computermasterjr]

Thumbs up if kept looking at the skateboarding android in the corner

[uptohisneck]

so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it.

[thesmellyfish9000]

OH. MY. GOD



[carterson2]

is there a website? I don't think the author is responding here???

[alexodon]

I know the NXT has an ARM processor inside, but the movie made is seem like it was the Droid that was ARM based.

[IAssemble]

@alexodon - from the spec of the DROID by Motorola from Motorola's website: "Arm® Cortex™ A8 processor 550 mHz"

[alexodon]

@IAssemble You're right, my post made it seem like I denied the Droid its ARM. I intended to say "only the Droid that was ARM based". ARMs are so pervasive now. I remember when the Acorn A5000 came out we were all impressed by the ARM 3

[alexodon]

@IAssemble You're right, my post made it seem like I denied the Droid its ARM. I intended to say "only the Droid that was ARM based". ARMs are so pervasive now. I remember when the Acorn A5000 came out we were all impressed by the ARM 3

[IAssemble]

@alexodon - yes, even the big LED timer in this video was created using an ARM processor - a Cortex-M3 ;-)

[jbperez808]

*Seems* like a cool machine except the video editing sucks. It keeps changing the view of the shot and makes it seem like some cheating is going on. A continuous machine solving shot is what would be impressive, but perhaps the machine keeps choking on the cube and has to be manually reset, hence the need to switch views.

[waldropij]

@jbperez808 theres a continuous shot in the corner...

[sk8filmpjes]

holly shit tahts is nice i want one

[lusciousmiss]

where can you buy the whole system?



[moses1202]

This is an awesome machine I've ever seen!

But man solves faster!

[therbertme]

RESPECT

[jmurray97]

while I beleive this video is true - this could be a hoax by reversing a video of a robot scrambling up a completed rubix cube. what do you think?

[IAssemble]

@jmurray97 - ok - I'll bite - how did the robot "drop" the cube in reverse at about 1:01 ? ;-) (Note the continuous picture-in-picture in the top left-hand corner)

[TheNdoki]

I'd love to see an iphone do that.

[Marco9603]

how many NXT motors does it require to build ?

[IAssemble]

@Marco9603 - this solver uses two NXTs controllers each driving three motors so there are six motors in all. There is one motor to rotate each "hand" and one to move each opposite pair of "arms" in and out.

[pokemonn98]

amazing this must have been hard to set up

[IAssemble]

@pokemonn98 - thanks! There were a few challenges but it was great fun ;-)

[Wesleytjuh1234]

Wow :p

[legofunny1]

Can you send me the most important photos by e-mail??

can you give me the name of the programm for the nxt??

[BluePi1313]

How do you build those anyways?

[IAssemble]

@BluePi1313 - thanks for asking how I build these robots. Several people have asked, so I am considering the possibility of publishing software and plans in some form in the future. Feel free to subscribe to ARMflix or IAssemble or follow me on twitter @DavidGilday if you'd like to be kept informed.

[BluePi1313]

Some cubers can actually beat that time, but i'm not one of them. I average only about... 30-40 seconds.

[o0AndromedaB0o]

whuts the background musix O.o

[IAssemble]

@o0AndromedaB0o - the music is listed in the credits at the end of the video

[o0AndromedaB0o]

@IAssemble thx

[floryzzz]

Thats even faster than my record(30 Sec)

[vcrmagician]

What lego kits did you use to make this? I would love to have the same set up... How much for the app???

[IAssemble]

@vcrmagician - thanks for your questions. This was constructed using LEGO pieces that I have collected over many years from a number of kits including, for example, the Fork Lift Truck Technic kit #850 from about 1977! And of course two Mindstorms NXT 2.0 kits. The app is not currently available but I may consider publishing it in some form in the future. Follow me on Twitter @DavidGilday if you'd like to hear if and when this happens.

[raziel2222]

Amazing...

[killah014]

iphone?

[jeshan25]

@killah014 lol..

[cssing]

Lego + Android 真係好好玩~

[girishthegreat]

I love the green android mascot dancing in the corner

[ZukoScout]

@girishthegreat

Me too.. I was actually watching this most of the time instead of the "cube solving Robot"

Anyway. Great job.. I want to make one too and maybe i will and post it. nxt are lots of fun.. :)

[IAssemble]

@ZukoScout - thanks. It's great that you're inspired to create your own - I'll keep a look out for it. Have fun with your NXT kit :-)

[TrumanTehSupraTiger]

@girishthegreat ...on a skateboard... *snerk* It might be a statement about varying degrees of questionably applied technology. Or not. Who knows.

[iOsasu14]

Wanna solve a rubik cube? Theses an app for tha...Oh wait...

[rvasquez6089]

@iOsasu14 yeah iphone suck on it lol >D

[NisansaDilushan]

Simply Wow!

[dharmok]

so wheres the android app that lets you solve rubiks cubes? :3

[IAssemble]

@dharmok - thanks for asking. A number of people have expressed an interest in the software I developed. I am working on a number of other projects at the moment but may consider publishing it in some form in the future. Feel free to follow me on twitter @DavidGilday to receive updates about this.

[dharmok]

@IAssemble wow, yeah, although given that not everyone has a mindstorm thingy, i'd hope you could apply it to some kind of software that instructs you to do it by hand?

[noisykungfu]

Great job guys...geekin' out here...makes me wanna pull out my Legos!

Two questions: What method is it using to solve the cube? What's the time frame for processing the moves after scanning the cube?

[IAssemble]

@noisykungfu - thanks. It's great that you are inspired - go and get your LEGO bricks out and have some fun!

The algorithm for solving the cube is my own design. It is a pattern-matching, table-driven approach - essentially a more sophisticated version of the method I developed to solve the cube myself when it was first produced back in about 1980 :-)

After scanning the cube, the Android app uses this algorithm to search for the best solution it can find in about one second of processing time.