Marc Ringuette
Member
There's now an instrumented cube available retail! This is a big deal for FMC and ease of use.
The Giiker Cube, a Bluetooth instrumented cube with an app that can follow it, is available as of August 2018 at speedcubeshop.com and thecubicle.us for $42 or so.
I've always been interested in variants of FMC, and of combined FMC and speedsolving. Instead of a written scramble and an hour, you could get a scrambled cube and five minutes to do a fewest-moves solve. Or, you could have a speedsolving competition where you're penalized N seconds per move, for various N, providing a smooth spectrum between FMC and speedsolving.
With a bit of straightforward software work (Lucas Garron has already connected the Giiker Cube with Chrome, see https://bluetooth.cubing.net/ ) we'll be able to try out FMC variants like this, with fairly easy logistics and no custom hardware. Sweet!
The Giiker Cube, a Bluetooth instrumented cube with an app that can follow it, is available as of August 2018 at speedcubeshop.com and thecubicle.us for $42 or so.
I've always been interested in variants of FMC, and of combined FMC and speedsolving. Instead of a written scramble and an hour, you could get a scrambled cube and five minutes to do a fewest-moves solve. Or, you could have a speedsolving competition where you're penalized N seconds per move, for various N, providing a smooth spectrum between FMC and speedsolving.
With a bit of straightforward software work (Lucas Garron has already connected the Giiker Cube with Chrome, see https://bluetooth.cubing.net/ ) we'll be able to try out FMC variants like this, with fairly easy logistics and no custom hardware. Sweet!