lego rubick’s cube robot

posted Mar 15th 2005 3:00am by Jason Striegel
filed under: misc hacks, robots hacks

lego rubick's cube solver

correct me if i’m wrong, but technology was supposed to make our lives easier, take care of us, make us dinner, raise our children, and, fulfill our every dream.

so what has technology done for you lately? nothing? well, my friend, today we have a hack that will change your life forever. today sammo sent us a link to jp brown’s amazing rubick’s cube solving robot.

the final task on my big list of things to do can finally be crossed off. life is good.

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15 Responses to lego rubick’s cube robot

Jackinloadup says:

March 15, 2005 at 3:02 am

wow it is amazing how we as humans use our time to do completely useless stuff. i love humans

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strider_mt2k says:

March 15, 2005 at 7:18 am

This is a great creation.
It isn’t solving the worlds problems, but it IS a clever and effective way to solve a particular problem.

Besides,
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy.

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ste says:

March 15, 2005 at 8:55 am

so cool!
ok, it’s also useless, but… who cares? ;)

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K-bob says:

March 15, 2005 at 9:33 am

The video link is BROKEN – it points to G4TV. I have GOT to see this for myself- if you find a link, mail me

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billflu says:

March 15, 2005 at 11:14 am

Here’s the video. It’s actually kind of boring :-p
http://www.g4tv.com/mediaplayer/index.aspx?video_key=4108

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dan says:

March 15, 2005 at 11:21 am

this could replace allot of government jobs !
need to make one that watches paint dry and
a random dumb law generator $-)
a mp3 player that can sit for long periods and
say take a number ! would save millions .
( would have to be fat, ugly and know it has
complete control of your time for the next
2 hours )

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jake says:

March 15, 2005 at 12:18 pm

while this is cool, it’s a bit dated, the algorithm it’s using to solve it has been open source for a number of years, and I saw a robot just like this (it was made out of k’nex, instead of legos) at a technology competition a few years ago.

good job though.

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sebastien says:

March 15, 2005 at 6:16 pm

wow nice but is that even a hack I or anyother would like to do ? things are going slow and are getting just Wow useless. Come on guys come up with more usefull stuff. I know it’s not easy but come on! @ least start posing the links again

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izu says:

March 15, 2005 at 11:59 pm

Your list of things to do made me happy about my pathetic life for the rest of the day. Thanks. Cool robot also.

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izu says:

March 16, 2005 at 12:00 am

Your list of things to do made me happy about my pathetic life for the rest of the day. Thanks. Cool robot also.

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w.h. says:

March 16, 2005 at 10:01 am

I showed that to my rubicks-cube-solving friend. Told him that he was now redundant.

Amusingly enough, he just posted his own rubicks-cube-angst piece lately:
http://orenfilm.com/WatchMovie.php?MovieTitle=Run%20Rubik%20Run&MovieFile=RunRubikRun_300k.mov&EntityID=20

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Ryan says:

March 22, 2005 at 6:29 pm

i can’t find instructions to build the thing, even though there is a linky for “instructions” at
http://jpbrown.i8.com/ZIPs/CubeSolver_DAT.zip
but all i get is code in the download, unless you have to do something to the downloaded zip file (besides unzipping) that i don’t know about. please help!

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Ryan says:

March 26, 2005 at 12:47 am

never mind, you have to do this convoluted installation of a CAD program for legos

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jassorno says:

March 27, 2005 at 7:51 am

If I can trust my memory, I’ve already seen a rubick’s cube solving robot two years ago at the Chaos Communication Camp in Berlin. So no big news. Good on ya for spending time building it though, it’s great what possibilities lie in Lego Mindstorms.

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rdrkx80 says:

July 1, 2005 at 3:24 am

In the immortal words of Conan O’Brian,
“we will have robots to complete our dull and repetitive tasks for us, like marrying J.Lo.”

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