CubeStormer II

CubeStormer II solves the Rubik's Cube puzzle faster than the human world record.

This ARM Powered robot was designed, built and programmed by Mike Dobson and David Gilday, creators respectively of CubeStormer http://youtu.be/eaRcWB3jwMo and Android Speedcuber http://youtu.be/ylFb4pqAUd8.

The mechanics are constructed entirely from LEGO, including four MINDSTORMS NXT kits, with the addition of a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone running a custom Android app as the robot's brain. Both the MINDSTORMS NXT kits and the Samsung Galaxy SII use a variety of ARM --based processors.

The app uses the phone's camera to capture images of each face of the Rubik's Cube which it processes to determine the scrambled colours. The solution is found using an advanced two-phase algorithm, originally developed for Speedcuber, enhanced to be multi-threaded to make effective use of the smartphone's dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 1.2GHz processor. The software finds an efficient solution to the puzzle which is optimised specifically for the capabilities of the four-grip mechanism. The app communicates via Bluetooth with software running on the ARM microprocessors in the LEGO NXT Intelligent Bricks which controls the motors driving the robot. During the physical solve, the app uses OpenGL ES on the phone's ARM Mali-400 MP GPU to display a graphical version of the cube being solved in real time.

Human speedcubers' solve times only include the physical manipulation of the cube and don't include some time which is allowed to "inspect" the cube beforehand. Times recorded by CubeStormer II are for the total solve including: image capture, software solution calculation and physical solve.

Want to see it in action?? Check it out at ARM TechCon 2011 in Santa Clara, California Oct 26-27th http://www.armtechcon.com.

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[paul qwettuyu]

what if you put your dick in there...

[gigaslave]

I welcome my new brother born in a body of LEGO then.

[geh kacken]

y u mad though?

[Bruce6335]

I thought I gave you a headache I'm happy I have real friends and people to talk to all day unlike you that only stays on youtube annoying people

[geh kacken]

Your tears are delicious.

[Bruce6335]

You're a stupid internet person... If I give you a headache stop commenting I was gonna stop after the last one but just because I feel like it I'm commenting. You are a little lonely nerd that only uses his time to correct grammatical errors on youtube, what are you? A failed teacher? Do you feel pleasure when you correct people? It's just stupid. You sir, are not worthy of MY time! Goodbye! To all the bitches that just replied to me correct me, you all honestly have problems!

[geh kacken]

* it´s

* didn´t or did not

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And the fact that you actually checked my feed to come up with a comeback just shows me that YOU are indeed the little lonely nerd. Now please leave me be, stupid internet people like you give me a headache.

[Shawn Morrison]

What do you want for it? no joke

[Bruce6335]

" You are not worthy of my time" you just do that just answer to people on youtube just to criticise then fuck off 

[Bruce6335]

Oh my fucking god leave me alone you people have nothing else to do except annoy some guy on youtube that just commented on a video. I can get my fucking grammar right, BUT ITS YOUTUBE!!!!!! NOT FUCKING SCHOOL YOU ARE A LITTLE TURD THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS FUCKING LIFE GO DIE A BLACK PIT! I DIDNT FUCKING READ IT OVER WITH MAX ATTENTION CAUSE ITS NOT IMPORTANT YOU ARE A FUCKING LITTLE TURD PROBABLY A LITTLE LONELY NERD THAT HAS NO FRIENDS

[MrSteelsole]

holy shit thats awesome