Lego Rubiks Cube Solver
Lego Rubiks Solver
It all started when I found out that hobby’s day was four weeks away I had to think of something to do, as a hobby of mine.
what first came to mind was Lego robotics but what to build I didn’t know, I had a quick look online of what to build for alternative builds from my Lego mindstorms kit.
I wanted to build something that was very unique and wasn’t very simple even though I had only four weeks to get it finished and ready to bring into school for hobbies day I was scrolling down the page when I spotted a Lego Rubiks cube solver this was everything I wanted to do so I tried to download the instructions but they costed some money.
It took me a while but in the end I did find some free ones. after that, I got out my Lego robotics kit and found the instructions again on an iPad and sat down then we started to build
we got to about page 40 when we found some missing pieces this meant we had to find out the parts code which took me about half an hour and go onto brick Link and purchase the missing pieces.
After around four days, the pieces had arrived, it was now only three weeks till hobbies day, and I had another 150 pages.
I had built the frame the cube holder and one of the robotic arms. It turned out I had built the robotic arm completely wrong so I had to deconstruct it and rebuild it. I was now on the building the second robotic arm this one I built correct I put together all of those pieces and I was at page 80. I found another two missing pieces but luckily this time I had them in some other Lego sets. I kept on building with only two weeks till hobbies day.
I am now starting the front panels and the back wall. I now had to install the colour sensor and the motion sensor. It took me about an hour to build the arm for the colour sensor. It was very complex as it could rotate 360° and back-and-forth I also had to install the hub. This is where I had to connect all of the wires from the components to the hub this was proving quite challenging as some of my cables were slightly tangled around one of the pieces so I had to undo that
when the cables were all in the hub I connected it on then all I had to do was place the colour sensors robotic arm above the hub. I added some cool antennas and a logo on the front. we went back to the website to get the software from my dad‘s laptop, but we only normally do it on an iPad so this was a bit of a challenge.
My Dad helped trying to solve the code, which had lots of errors in it. in the end we couldnt get the code to work, but i learnt a ,lot about how to upload code to the hub many times. it was very hard for me and my dad.
