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Re: RCX+PC=Rubik's Cube Solver
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Date: 
Thu, 19 Apr 2001 02:30:39 GMT
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Brian Alano <alano@kivaIHATESPAM.net>
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J P Brown wrote:

Ditto the other comments, plus very elegantly constructed.

Excellent commentary as well.

Regarding precision of movement, why not keep your rotation sensors, but add a touch sensor to each
arm for calibration only?

All --

There's recently been some discussion in the Mindstorms Forums about the
feasibility of producing an RCX-based Rubik's Cube solver.  I am happy
to report that I have finished a functional "late beta" version.  You
can see it at

http://mindstorms.lego.com/members/gallery.asp?userid=72bae2eca6ec50375ba001a93e6787fc#CubeSolver

There are additional, medium- and high-res photos at

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1273483&a=12560827

Cheers

JP

P.S. Sorry the URLs are so "choppy"...

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http://www.indiana.edu/~alumni/iuaa/jillbehrman/



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  Re: RCX+PC=Rubik's Cube Solver
 
Brian -- (...) touch sensor to each (...) Thanks for the suggestion. This also would make the initial setup much less clunky (at the moment you have to manually set the LEFT and RIGHT grabbers to horizontal). The main problems are the location of (...) (23 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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  RCX+PC=Rubik's Cube Solver
 
All -- There's recently been some discussion in the Mindstorms Forums about the feasibility of producing an RCX-based Rubik's Cube solver. I am happy to report that I have finished a functional "late beta" version. You can see it at (URL) are (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx) !! 

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