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I had considered an internal motor, but I don't think it would work, having nothing to lever itself against. The internal chip in the cube is an essential component, as it allows other applications ie play back of history to specific points. |
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Can't you use internal rubber bands, that when activated, rotates the cube back to its original location? |
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Powered by a Stirling engine, the handy part. |
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I heard on the radio that a team have recently proved that
any Cube can be solved in a maximum of 12 (or some other
very small number) moves. |
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I can solve it in 2 moves. 1: pop off all the components. 2: pop them back on in the correct locations. |
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I think you could do this with an internal motor, assuming each 'move' is a rotation about one of 3 axis, and can be applied to one of three positions (top, middle, or bottom) the rotation at that position leveraging off the position of the remaining two. You'd need 3 motors (one for each axis) and a clever 'locking' mechanism that switches between layers that move relative to those that don't.* |
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It would be pretty cool to mix up a cube, put it down, and then command it to sort itself out. |
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Or 6 motors, one connecting each face to the central hub. |
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[bigsleep] has this right in the first anno, have the
user put the cube down on a flat surface and angle
the phone off one of the corners so it sees three
sides. I think that is all it would need to know all the
color layouts, though I might be wrong. Then using
AR curved arrows projected on the cube show each
twist. This a bakable and probably profitable as I
know I would gladly pay to finally finish a Rubik's Cube
without disassembly. |
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Anybody come up with a timed exploding Rubik's cube yet? Maybe something that opens exposing keys to the handcuffs or something if you open it before it explodes. Something the Riddler might give to Batman. |
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You know, you could just type "solve rubiks cube" into google and get a whole bunch of pages either telling you how to solve it or actually solving it for you. |
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//I heard on the radio that a team have recently proved that any Cube can be solved in a maximum of 12 (or some other very small number) moves.// |
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According to wikipedia, it's twenty face turns. |
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//Those cheapo ones at the market just fall apart if you go
too fast.// If I could work a Rubik's cube that fast I'd stock up
on a dozen or so cheap ones, and do it as a party trick. |
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I never saw what the problem is with these, I got it the first time I tried, took maybe 2 minutes. |
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Of course after you solve it three or four times the stickers get a little hard to put back on. |
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What's the emoticon for a rimshot? |
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[zen_tom] Make it with lots of springs/elastic bands |
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