NewCuber000
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Hello,
I am working on a Design project with 3 other 2nd year Engineering students from Canada, as well as a 2nd year Computer Science major. We are planning to build a robot that can take a scrambled Skewb puzzle and solve it. We've been working on this project for 3 or 4 months now, and are hoping to have a prototype completed by the end of March.
I made this forum post so that I could post some updates on our progress, ask peoples opinions, and form polls. Any discussion is welcome. When we were coming up with the idea, we couldn't find any similar projects that have been done before, besides robots that solve the traditional Rubik's cube, and a few robots that would solve higher ordered cubes like the 4x4x4 or 5x5x5. We've definitely come across some challenges while designing this, but I think we've come up with a reasonable solution. Yet again, there's no guarantee we will get a working prototype by March, since most of this project is being done completely from scratch (We're writing our own code, and 3-D printing a lot of our parts).
So far, all we have is a good idea of what our design will look like, some prototypes of claws that will grip the Skewb, a few circuit models using an arduino uno, and about 600 lines of C++ code (Almost solves the first layer of the cube). The solving method is going to be extremely inefficient, but the goal was to find a solution that works, not one that is quick. The solving time for the robot may actually be between 10 and 20 minutes, but that's just a rough estimate.
If anybody has any questions, ideas, or concerns, let us know! I'll probably post more soon.
EB
I am working on a Design project with 3 other 2nd year Engineering students from Canada, as well as a 2nd year Computer Science major. We are planning to build a robot that can take a scrambled Skewb puzzle and solve it. We've been working on this project for 3 or 4 months now, and are hoping to have a prototype completed by the end of March.
I made this forum post so that I could post some updates on our progress, ask peoples opinions, and form polls. Any discussion is welcome. When we were coming up with the idea, we couldn't find any similar projects that have been done before, besides robots that solve the traditional Rubik's cube, and a few robots that would solve higher ordered cubes like the 4x4x4 or 5x5x5. We've definitely come across some challenges while designing this, but I think we've come up with a reasonable solution. Yet again, there's no guarantee we will get a working prototype by March, since most of this project is being done completely from scratch (We're writing our own code, and 3-D printing a lot of our parts).
So far, all we have is a good idea of what our design will look like, some prototypes of claws that will grip the Skewb, a few circuit models using an arduino uno, and about 600 lines of C++ code (Almost solves the first layer of the cube). The solving method is going to be extremely inefficient, but the goal was to find a solution that works, not one that is quick. The solving time for the robot may actually be between 10 and 20 minutes, but that's just a rough estimate.
If anybody has any questions, ideas, or concerns, let us know! I'll probably post more soon.
EB