{"id":653151,"date":"2010-02-03T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5463204"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:20:00","slug":"arm-powered-lego-robot-solver-of-4x4x4-rubiks-cubes-and-my-heart-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/653151","title":{"rendered":"ARM-Powered Lego Robot, Solver of 4x4x4 Rubik&#8217;s Cubes and My Heart [Robots]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" class=\"left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo videoObject_0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/052JJGBxFH0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;fmt=22\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/object>Normally hyper-intelligent robots terrify me, but this little guy has officially won me over. It uses Lego Mindstorms parts, a Lego programmable robotics kit and&mdash;of all things&mdash;a <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #nokian95\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/nokian95\/\">Nokia N95<\/a> mobile phone to unlock the mysteries of Rubik.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s by no means the first Rubik&#8217;s Cube solver <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/207521\/rubot-ii-solves-the-rubiks-cube-eats-children\">we&#8217;ve seen<\/a>, but it&#8217;s definitely the first I&#8217;ve encountered that runs on phone. The ARM-packing Nokia N95 rests above the cube, scanning it with its camera as it solves. Double bonus points for working with a 4x4x4 Cube instead of the standard 3x3x3.<\/p>\n<p>According to one intrepid YouTube commenter, the trial above took 15 minutes and 109 moves, which is more than my personal best of &#8220;a few months&#8221; and &#8220;I lost track.&#8221; I just hope that when we&#8217;re all assigned a robot overlord, mine is as neat as this one. [<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2010\/02\/nokia-based_rubiks_cube_solver.html\">Make<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/robot-rubiks-cube-solver\/\">Geekosystem<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=04b9c9f33e5674592e9dabfd99141612&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=04b9c9f33e5674592e9dabfd99141612&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=4Vd6k8wyEJw:E2_EAgK9_-4:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=4Vd6k8wyEJw:E2_EAgK9_-4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=4Vd6k8wyEJw:E2_EAgK9_-4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=4Vd6k8wyEJw:E2_EAgK9_-4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=4Vd6k8wyEJw:E2_EAgK9_-4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=4Vd6k8wyEJw:E2_EAgK9_-4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/4Vd6k8wyEJw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally hyper-intelligent robots terrify me, but this little guy has officially won me over. It uses Lego Mindstorms parts, a Lego programmable robotics kit and&mdash;of all things&mdash;a Nokia N95 mobile phone to unlock the mysteries of Rubik. It&#8217;s by no means the first Rubik&#8217;s Cube solver we&#8217;ve seen, but it&#8217;s definitely the first I&#8217;ve encountered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JUH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}