{"id":4108,"date":"2010-05-06T01:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T01:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.dropcents.com\/blog\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2010-05-06T01:11:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T01:11:27","slug":"android-powered-lego-robot-solves-rubiks-cube-in-under-25-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/android-powered-lego-robot-solves-rubiks-cube-in-under-25-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Powered LEGO Robot Solves Rubik&#8217;s Cube In Under 25 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As kid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all tried to cheat the Rubiks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 cube by removing its stickers and sticking them back in the proper order, but this Android-powered LEGO robot doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to resort to such petty tricks, as its able to fully solve the Rubik\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cube in under 25 seconds. It was created by David Gilday, who has previously built a Rubik\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cube solver with LEGO bricks. The main difference about this method is that this one has an Android-powered Motorola Droid smartphone at the heart of it running a custom application. Check out a video of it putting humans to shame after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0v8pJSGi4CA&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0v8pJSGi4CA&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xd0d0d0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As kid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all tried to cheat the Rubiks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 cube by removing its stickers and sticking them back in the proper order, but this Android-powered LEGO robot doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to resort to such petty tricks, as its able to fully solve the Rubik\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cube in under 25 seconds. It was created by David Gilday, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[770,952,949,951,953,954,950,955],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-droid","tag-lego","tag-motorola","tag-robot","tag-rubiks-cube","tag-smartphone","tag-solves","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dropcents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}