https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ue2gZ2vxs48
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/News/2025/purdue-ece-stud...
It would be neat if it offered to scramble when you insert an already solved cube (demoed in the video), and maybe have options for the amount of randomness.
Is there an unbiased scrambling (or random generation) algorithm, or is it enough to just generate N random moves?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l-TWH5W-1fw
https://exmarscube.com/product/ex-mars-ai-robot-cube/
That being said, while looking up those links, I found out that, since I got out of the hobby, smart cubes have become a thing, and are made by real speedcube manufacturers.
https://www.gancube.com/products/gan-356-i-carry-smart-magic...
This is an easier problem to solve. I'm not sure if you have to solve it first or if it can identify pieces on power up, but after that it's just tracking rotations, which can be done from the (fixed position) centres alone. But if an actual speedcube manufacturer can already fit those electronics in without comprising performance, I can't imagine it's that much harder to fit some addressable LEDs on some slip-ring-esque connections. Must just not be much of a market.
I can solve the cube with the regular “easy” 3-layer approach, but I’d like to solve it faster.
The issue is that the techniques for fast solving require to learn many different patterns to get to the right solution fast.
I don’t know really how ppl that solve it fast accomplish getting to that level, but to me it would be amazing if i could just set the cube in know scrambled states that let me practice and memorize specific algorithms repeatedly until I learn them.
The problem is that I don’t know enough yet to distinguish which are those initial states, let alone setting the cube in that state, so something that could set it up for me to practice would be amazing
derac•6h ago
Demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/Xer4mPZZH8E
boneitis•1h ago
For anyone also thoroughly enchanted like me, there is an additional, longer demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV52RtuWXk0
Living in software land, I do wonder how hard is the undertaking to build one of my own.
As a hobbyist cuber, this project reeks of icebreaking potential for the rest of the times I'm not actively solving -- leave it on my desk next to a cube... random coworker walks by, sees and grabs the cube, shuffles it, and chucks it into the SARCASM machine, enjoys a minute of novelty, ????, profit!