CubeStormer Strikes Again !

Cubestormer returns with an added feature, the NXT cube loader. Improved IR message timing gives CubeStormer the ability to scan and solve many cube combinations in under 10 seconds. Still using the amazing "Cube Explorer" software by Herbert Kociemba to scan the faces of the cube and very quickly produce a solution in around 20 moves. Don't miss the Out-take after the credits...it still makes me laugh..

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• rubik
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• solver
• robot
• technic
• rcx
• nxt
• nqc
• explorer
• speedcuber
• rubik's
• sub
• 10
• solving
• puzzle
• mindstorms
• robotics

[Blacklava5238]

How do you know how to make robots?

[RoboticSolutions]

@Blacklava5238 just by playing around with the LEGO Mindstorms kits you can do cool stuff like this :-)

[lliiffee123]

Dude, that's awesome!!!

How did you use Lego mindstorms to scan the cube colours?

[RoboticSolutions]

@lliiffee123 Thanks, it uses frames captured by the Lego Mindstorms USB webcam, read by the colour recognition part of Herbert Kociemba's "CubeExplorer" software.

[lliiffee123]

@RoboticSolutions Ok, and how did you get Cube Explorer to interface with the lego set?

Thanks

[RoboticSolutions]

@lliiffee123 That was the tricky bit, some custom "C" code running on the netbook takes care of the communication between Cube Explorer and the LEGO RCX's. It was expertly written by a very good friend of mine.

[RoboticSolutions]

@xTheDarkSide100x It would fail !!

The scan routine needs to see the position of every single square an invalid cube combination would be detected..at which point all motors activate at full power until the cube is destroyed (jk)

[RoboticSolutions]

@lacsapix I can set the software to wait until a 20 move solution is found, the only trouble is as it can take up to 30 seconds to find the perfect solution for some cubes eg. the "super-flip" for that reason ive set the upper limit to 21 as it only takes a fraction of a second to calculate. the extra move can be completed by cubestormer in less than a second....its a no-brainer really!

[17salvador]

where I find the music rockcube , please?

[boeingrules000123]

cutest thing ever !!! <3

[boeingrules000123]

awww, its so cute (/^o^)/

[hakawalker]

Awesome

[MrStickmanSteve]

lol at the end after the credits, it was all like, "Man fuck this shit"

[MrStickmanSteve]

damn machine can solve it faster than I can

[amidget159]

I'm gonna tell my high-school robotics team to try to make that.

[thestomppad]

Amazing machine, I just had to laugh at this...in the credits it says u had a "co editor" ...u mean u needed more than one person to edit that??