This is astonishing to me. Scramble up the Rubik’s Cube, set it down (or hold it still), and the brain and motors inside will twist and turn until the puzzle is back to its perfectly solved self.
Follow the headline link for lots of images and detail on the construction (that looks to be C++ code driving the whole thing).
This felt like a glimpse into the future, where objects are self aware and know the way they are supposed to exist, using their motors and sensors, and self-awareness, to return back to normal when disturbed.
Enjoy. [H/T Mr. E]
I couldn’t tell from the creator’s site whether the intelligence he added is actually solving the puzzle or reversing the moves he manually used to scramble it in the first place.
Update: My bad. Watched it again. He scrambled it with about a dozen moves, and the device took almost four times as many moves to solve it. Pretty brilliant, if a bit creepy.
The code’s the easy bit. Getting 6 motors, the logic board and power supply into the ball in the middle of a rubik cube is impressive.