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Tilted Twister solves Rubik's cubes

Jason over at Haqckszine found the Tilted Twister, a LEGO NXT robot that can solve a Rubik's Cube without the help of a PC. It's really impressive to watch!

Just place the scrambled cube on Tilted Twister's turntable. An ultrasonic sensor detects its presence and starts to read the colors of the cube faces using a light sensor. The robot turns and tilts the cube in order to read all the faces of the cube. It then calculates a solution and executes the moves by turning, tilting and twisting the cube.

Building instructions and source code are available on Hans Andersson's site.

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Posted by: Jason Striegel on July 21, 2008 at 10:52 PM

Watch out! Your outstanding density of consonants just might start a plosive black hole from which no uvula can escape.

Posted by: Patti Schiendelman on July 22, 2008 at 11:30 AM

I noticed I was getting a slight sore throat . . .

Posted by: eve's grandmonther on July 23, 2008 at 7:33 PM

go go CUBE-E

WALL-E's grandfather at work :)

Posted by: Michael E. Waddell on August 4, 2008 at 10:27 AM

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