MindCuber - build your own LEGO Rubik's Cube solver

[krisstto]

Hi David:

Great job. Very nice idea. Thanks for sharing your efforts. I leave my video:


Greetings from Spain.
Jesus

Note: Any day you will share some of your other creations with us ?. Any machine that uses a smartphone as the brain.
Congratulations again.

[IAssemble]

Hi David:

Great job. Very nice idea. Thanks for sharing your efforts. I leave my video:
...

Greetings from Spain.
Jesus

Note: Any day you will share some of your other creations with us ?. Any machine that uses a smartphone as the brain.
Congratulations again.

Thanks Jesus for sharing your video of MindCuber. I like your NXT-G program and the mechanical improvements!

I am always thinking about the possibility of sharing one of my smartphone-based designs, perhaps even Android Speedcuber. But at the moment I am focusing on another project ;-)

David

[krisstto]

We are waiting impatiently to see this new project !!!

Best Regards.
Jesus

[IAssemble]

We are waiting impatiently to see this new project !!!

Best Regards.
Jesus

I do intend to share more of my designs in the future but please be patient. I'm expecting my current project to take quite a while.

Kind regards
David

[ToastyKen]

I have an original older NXT that I never got around to playing with. This would totally get me to finally bring it out of storage, so if you can adapt your design to it, that would be awesome!

It does sound difficult without a color sensor though.. How do you plan to deal with that?

[Michael Womack]

Hey David i'm wandering where I can get a lego NXT camera like the one use on this

thanks for your help.

[IAssemble]

I have an original older NXT that I never got around to playing with. This would totally get me to finally bring it out of storage, so if you can adapt your design to it, that would be awesome!

It does sound difficult without a color sensor though.. How do you plan to deal with that?

I have already created a version from the original MINDSTORMS NXT kit #8527

However, it will require a color sensor that you can purchase separately from LEGO as I was unable to make it work reliably with just the original monochrome light sensor...

I hope to publish the build instructions and executable code for this on http://mindcuber.com in the near future.

[IAssemble]

Hey David i'm wandering where I can get a lego NXT camera like the one use on this
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thanks for your help.

The camera I used for this version of MultiCuber is from the LEGO MINDSTORMS Vision Command set produced in about 2000. I had one that I bought when the set was first out

Perhaps you could find a second hand one on eBay or bricklink.com? But please be aware that drivers may not be available for current versions of Windows and I suspect LEGO stopped supporting it some time ago.

[Michael Womack]

The camera I used for this version of MultiCuber is from the LEGO MINDSTORMS Vision Command set produced in about 2000. I had one that I bought when the set was first out

Perhaps you could find a second hand one on eBay or bricklink.com? But please be aware that drivers may not be available for current versions of Windows and I suspect LEGO stopped supporting it some time ago.

Thanks
would any webcam work the same?

[IAssemble]

Thanks
would any webcam work the same?

I expect you could make it work with any webcam provided you can find drivers and write the rest of the software.