Recent content by Osric

I have open sourced a javascript implementation that can talk to this cube and there is a rust implementation on github too. The simplest approach is to brute force the encryption key for javascript, but in java/python you may be able to get the key directly from the cube as it is in the...

I am working on such a website. If you want to help test or code, please PM me. There is another thread where I have posted about my multiplayer ideas. The i3 doesn't work with cubing.js's code yet. I do have it working in my codebase, but I don't have the accelerometer reverse engineered yet...

Ahem. Perhaps 3! != 24 :-D … and then the result becomes 0.035% or 1/2835. Oops

If what you say is correct then the way I am calculating it is also wrong. Can we spot the problem? There are 7! positions the corner cubies could be in, and 3^7 possible orientations. So the total number of permutations of the cubies of a 2x2 is 5040*2187. Let’s count all the cases where the...

That UUID is for a Gan 356i v1, which by now is a pretty old cube. If you have one, it should work; if you have an i3, iCarry, or some newer code it is possible cubedesk doesn't support it. cubeast does (and my open source website that is deseprate for testers does). Osric

I am pretty into 3d printing and CNC machining and software, but FWIW I can't imagine how impossible it would be to design an open hardware speed cube that's even half as good as the Monster GO AI that sells for only about $30 USD for less than $100 USD. So while I am super unhappy with GAN for...

I think autocorrect got you there :p Osric

If I can ever get enough people helping me to test it, I plan to add competitions & collaborative cubing to my blueroux site. For this, I had 5 ideas that are interrelated: 1- "Wordle" style - everyone gets the same sequence of scrambles each day, so each time you solve you'll see how you did...

I cobbled together an "almost-working" bandage cube version. Is this worth finishing? I can't judge whether the visualizaiton is useful enough. If you have more examples that would show it off, I'd be interested to see them... Here are the ones I have done to try to check it out: Thanks in...

The framework isn't meant to create a hard and fast judgement of the method, but to force us to provide the information needed to really reason about it. For example, a method without algsheets, without average move counts, without states that you know you need to visit as you go from scrambled...

I was really trying to get "close" to the bandage cube, and it's important to see that the centers are "connected" to their corresponding edge cubies. In the current hack, this kinda-sorta-works depending on the case, but I don't want to obscure it by dimming all centers. I didn't consider more...

Inspired by @MagicVince's bandaged cube and enabled by @Lucas Garron's work on cubing.js, I threw together the closest visualization I could of algs that might help you track what's going on. In this visualization, cubies that never move are grey; those that return to their solved positions are...

Maybe it's because I'm nowhere near as fast as Foreright but I don't think the iCarry is so horrible. It does lack the gyro but for the price it is a pretty good cube; I feel the same way about the Monster Go AI which has a slightly cheaper feel. It is true that the Moyu is a really nice cube...

3D printing is awesome. Twisty puzzles are not an easy 3D printing project. I recommend starting with some simpler projects to get started with. If you’re not sure about your commitment, consider a membership at a makerspace to get access to the tools for a month or two and start learning...

Surely 30 seconds on youtube could answer all these questions? My tl;dr would be: Monster GO AI if you're on a budget, or GAN i3 or Moyu AI if not; the Monster GO AI is made by GAN and uses their app and the Moyu AI app is terrible but the cube is good. Then use cubeast for solving / solve...