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This is fantastic, how did it not get confused by the blue logo on the cube in the video?
Western cubes always have white opposite yellow. Japanese cubes always have white opposite blue. (The center piece on each side can be considered "fixed" relative to all moves.)
I want an automatic scrambling machine, not an automatic solving machine. Two cubes. While you're solving one, the other one is being scrambled. Cubers spend way more time scrambling than solving. Scrambling is the annoying part that needs automating.
I want an automatic scrambling machine, not an automatic solving machine. Two cubes. While you're solving one, the other one is being scrambled. Cubers spend way more time scrambling than solving. Scrambling is the annoying part that needs automating.
I want an automatic scrambling machine, not an automatic solving machine. Two cubes. While you're solving one, the other one is being scrambled. Cubers spend way more time scrambling than solving. Scrambling is the annoying part that needs automating.
Can’t you just run the solving machine in reverse?
I want an automatic scrambling machine, not an automatic solving machine. Two cubes. While you're solving one, the other one is being scrambled. Cubers spend way more time scrambling than solving. Scrambling is the annoying part that needs automating.
Can’t you just run the solving machine in reverse?
It would be neat if it offered to scramble when you insert an already solved cube (demoed in the video), and maybe have options for the amount of randomness.
Is there an unbiased scrambling (or random generation) algorithm, or is it enough to just generate N random moves?
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Can’t you just run the solving machine in reverse?
You can but it doesn't need to be smart at all. It doesn't need cameras. It's a much simpler machine.
The aesthetics of this are great. Nice job. Demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/Xer4mPZZH8E
For anyone also thoroughly enchanted like me, there is an additional, longer demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV52RtuWXk0
Living in software land, I do wonder how hard is the undertaking to build one of my own.
As a hobbyist cuber, this project reeks of icebreaking potential for the rest of the times I'm not actively solving -- leave it on my desk next to a cube... random coworker walks by, sees and grabs the cube, shuffles it, and chucks it into the SARCASM machine, enjoys a minute of novelty, ????, profit!