LEGO Robot Solves Rubik's Cube All By Itself

Posted by Alex in Lego on December 11, 2008 at 8:36 pm


Hans Andersson bought a LEGO Mindstorms kit for his daughters, but got caught up in making this spectacular robot himself. Meet Tilted Twister, a LEGO robot that does what most of us can’t do: solve a Rubik’s cube all by itself!

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. It then calculates a solution and executes the moves by turning, tilting and twisting the cube.

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7 comments to "LEGO Robot Solves Rubik's Cube All By Itself"

  1. liphttam1
    December 11th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    That must have been hard to program.

  2. Edward
    December 11th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

    Yeah, right. "... bought a LEGO Mindstorms kit for his daughters."

  3. AI
    December 12th, 2008 at 6:55 am

    Pretty amazing - even more amazing that the guy is giving away the complete plans and source code to build your own

  4. raina_c
    December 12th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    Thank you and for the plans and source code because I'm building one as soon as I finish this comment and check my myspace LOL!!!

  5. caroline
    December 12th, 2008 at 11:42 am

    That's crazy! I'm scared of robots that are way smarter than I am.

  6. Rocky Rook
    December 12th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    A true geek.

  7. MosselKots
    December 16th, 2008 at 10:47 am

    Dont want to burst any bubbles,
    but this has allready been done many times, many years ago..
    (sorry can't be arsed to find any links)

    And the code for solving rubics cubes has been around (and open source) even longer.. (and is surprizingly simple)

    just google for
    "rubik's solver" (with "lego" or "code")

    pretty elegant bot this guy build tho'.. =]


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