{"id":1391,"date":"2011-10-17T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2011-10-17T19:18:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T18:18:24","slug":"the-cube-the-fast-and-the-clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/the-cube-the-fast-and-the-clever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cube, the Fast and the Clever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=epredator\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have been looking at a lot of robot advances and various clever kits. Some inspired by nature, some just plain brute force servo controlled kits.<br \/>\nThis however is something that is uncannily amazing. It is a Rubik&#8217;s Cube solver robot. Solving a cube is relatively straight forward as a maths puzzle. This however has to visually examine the cube and then solve it and manipulate the answer<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_d0LfkIut2M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Cubestormer II is, as you can see, using LEGO (four MINDSTORMS NXT kits) a Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone is running the app to analyse and trigger off the solving. i.e. easily accessible technology combined in a very clever way.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingedge.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2011%2F10%2F17%2Fthe-cube-the-fast-and-the-clever%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/the-cube-the-fast-and-the-clever\/\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at a lot of robot advances and various clever kits. Some inspired by nature, some just plain brute force servo controlled kits. This however is something that is uncannily amazing. It is a Rubik&#8217;s Cube solver robot. Solving a cube is relatively straight forward as a maths puzzle. This however has<br \/>\n            <span class=\"excerpt-readmore\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/the-cube-the-fast-and-the-clever\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[318,248,425,317],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots","tag-android","tag-lego","tag-robots","tag-rubiks-cube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}