Automated Rubik's Cube Solver - NIWeek 2007

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There's been some activity over the past year or so where people have been trying to create automated machines to solve the Rubik's cube. At NIWeek 2007 that took place this past August, I had the chance to interview an Applications engineer form National Instruments who described the system they put together to achieve this goal. As you can see from this video, the process is very involved. It requires imaging of the faces, processing the solution and executing the moves to produce the final completed cube. The hardware is expensive, the mechanics problematic and in the end, the demo fails to do the job. On the other hand, it's a cool way to spend some time with some motion control hardware.

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• automation
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• game
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[tomandharry]

nice job!