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Rubik's Cube solving Robots' expert David Gilday, famous for World-record breaking CubeStormer II , is also the creator of the MindCuber that can be built with one single NXT 2.0 set. Here he races against his own creation:

David Gilday, one of the creators of the World record breaking Rubik's cube solver CubeStormer II , has published a video on a new solver of his: the MicroCuber . It's arguably the world's first robot that is able to solve the MicroBic , a tiny Rubik's cube style puzzle: Intriguing!

Right You've seen them all, those Rubik's Cube solvers, now this is is different. The Megaminx is a dodecahedron with 12 faces, each with 5 edges. Each face can be rotated in a similar way to the well-known Rubik's Cube puzzle. The robot itself is built out of LEGO using a Mindstorms NXT kit for driving the mechanics. An HTC Desire smartphone running a custom Android app is the brain of the solver. The app uses the phone's camera to capture images of each face of the Megaminx which it then processes to determine the colors of the scrambled puzzle. After working out the solution, the app transmits the moves to the NXT controller via bluetooth to instruct it to solve the Magaminx. Check this blog for more information, and enjoy the nice movie update, second full movie I say that is a job well done, David Gilday!