Built the Solver and it works really well. The mechanical design is very well done. I'm in the process of building the original design as I like the fact it is standalone. Looking forward to the autonomous version of this design. Well done Andrea
Hi Munrori, thank you for your nice words. Considering your interest to build an autonomous version, please be informed the one for this design (CUBOTino) is finished; I need some days, or a week, to finalize the documentation. Cubotino autonomous is slower than the original design, yet it's cheaper, smaller, simpler and easier to build. I'd suggest you to check both versions before starting. Do you mind to let me know in which Country do you live? Thank you Andrea
Hi Andrea. I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I'm a retired IT Project Manager. One of my goals in retirement has been to learn new things. I am fortunate to have a woodworking shop with a hobby CNC, several 3d printers and a growing stash of electronic parts. LOL I have built several other Rubik's Cube solvers but your Cubotino basic is the most elegant design. I look forward to your next release but I do hope I will be able to us a raspberry pi4b on the initial build as the cost of a new Pi Zero 2 is outrageous. Here is a video of my initial build of the Cubotino basic. th-cam.com/users/shortsTvq9vQqBc7A another solver I built several years ago th-cam.com/video/REVjD8CK2Qo/w-d-xo.html Best regards Richard
Thank you, for taking the time to feedback, appreciated. Andreas has made a wonderful presentation, and his videos reach soo many people 🙂. BTW, a self-contained version can be built on "top" of this base version (th-cam.com/video/dEOLhvVMcUg/w-d-xo.html)
Printed your very cool project.. Like it a lot! Now trying to see if I can add small part to the software that makes it easier to enter the colors (so I just need to enter the front colors each time and do a some flips, rather than rotate it by hand) Was not yet successful in detection with the webcam as my lighting is to dim/webcam not sensitive/blue colors to dull to properly detect the dark blue squares from my cube
Hi Marcel, I'm glad you liked. If you add a Raspberry Pi, additionally to a PiCamera and a LED module, you might end up to the CUBOTino Autonomous version ;-) Have fun !
Ciao Andrea. Ho già realizzato parte del Solver. mi sono però fermato anni fa perchè con una webcam non riuscivo ad avere una lettua affidabile dei facelets. Potresti darmi indicazioni se esiste una funzione in C oppure i delphi per decodificare i colori? ho già come fare la foto della faccia. Grazie ancora.
Ciao Luciano, io ho poca familiarita' in C.... ma la parte di CV cambia poco tra python e C. Per ora ti suggerirei di analizzare il file Cubotino_GUI.py e le informazioni che trovi a pag 31 nel file How_to_make_a_very_small_Rubik_cube_solver_robot_20220409 .pdf (files disponibili a: www.instructables.com/CUBOTino-a-Small-Simple-3D-Printed-Inexpensive-Rub/ ). Nel giro di qualche settimana dovrei essere in grado di pubblicare la versione autonoma di CUBOTino, dove una (Pi)camera e' utilizzata per rilevare i facelets e relativi colori; Magari androà a descrivere un po' meglio nelle istruzioni i passaggi relativi alla parte di computer vision 🙂. Se hai delle domande specifiche, puoi dettagliarle in una mail a andreaDOTfavero71ATgmailDOTcom. Se mi fai avere tuo indirizzo email ti posso inviare lo script (in python), del robot che sta per uscire .... e dove il rilevamento ed associazione dei facelets e' incredibilmente robusta.
Genius is in simplicity, and this is probably the simplest solver I have seen. Really good work.
Hi Dave, thank you for your feedback.
I'm not going to reveal how many iterations I've done, to come down to this "simple" result ... ;-)
Built the Solver and it works really well. The mechanical design is very well done. I'm in the process of building the original design as I like the fact it is standalone. Looking forward to the autonomous version of this design.
Well done Andrea
Hi Munrori, thank you for your nice words.
Considering your interest to build an autonomous version, please be informed the one for this design (CUBOTino) is finished; I need some days, or a week, to finalize the documentation.
Cubotino autonomous is slower than the original design, yet it's cheaper, smaller, simpler and easier to build.
I'd suggest you to check both versions before starting.
Do you mind to let me know in which Country do you live?
Thank you
Andrea
Hi Andrea. I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I'm a retired IT Project Manager. One of my goals in retirement has been to learn new things. I am fortunate to have a woodworking shop with a hobby CNC, several 3d printers and a growing stash of electronic parts. LOL I have built several other Rubik's Cube solvers but your Cubotino basic is the most elegant design.
I look forward to your next release but I do hope I will be able to us a raspberry pi4b on the initial build as the cost of a new Pi Zero 2 is outrageous.
Here is a video of my initial build of the Cubotino basic. th-cam.com/users/shortsTvq9vQqBc7A
another solver I built several years ago th-cam.com/video/REVjD8CK2Qo/w-d-xo.html
Best regards
Richard
Totally great!! Documentation, research, and design all first class!
Hi John, thank you.
Have you build it?
Came here from Andreas Spiess' video. Wonderful work!
Thank you, for taking the time to feedback, appreciated. Andreas has made a wonderful presentation, and his videos reach soo many people 🙂. BTW, a self-contained version can be built on "top" of this base version (th-cam.com/video/dEOLhvVMcUg/w-d-xo.html)
this is amazing
Thank you
Printed your very cool project.. Like it a lot!
Now trying to see if I can add small part to the software that makes it easier to enter the colors (so I just need to enter the front colors each time and do a some flips, rather than rotate it by hand)
Was not yet successful in detection with the webcam as my lighting is to dim/webcam not sensitive/blue colors to dull to properly detect the dark blue squares from my cube
Hi Marcel, I'm glad you liked.
If you add a Raspberry Pi, additionally to a PiCamera and a LED module, you might end up to the CUBOTino Autonomous version ;-)
Have fun !
Ciao Andrea. Ho già realizzato parte del Solver. mi sono però fermato anni fa perchè con una webcam non riuscivo ad avere una lettua affidabile dei facelets. Potresti darmi indicazioni se esiste una funzione in C oppure i delphi per decodificare i colori? ho già come fare la foto della faccia. Grazie ancora.
Ciao Luciano, io ho poca familiarita' in C.... ma la parte di CV cambia poco tra python e C.
Per ora ti suggerirei di analizzare il file Cubotino_GUI.py e le informazioni che trovi a pag 31 nel file How_to_make_a_very_small_Rubik_cube_solver_robot_20220409 .pdf (files disponibili a: www.instructables.com/CUBOTino-a-Small-Simple-3D-Printed-Inexpensive-Rub/ ).
Nel giro di qualche settimana dovrei essere in grado di pubblicare la versione autonoma di CUBOTino, dove una (Pi)camera e' utilizzata per rilevare i facelets e relativi colori; Magari androà a descrivere un po' meglio nelle istruzioni i passaggi relativi alla parte di computer vision 🙂.
Se hai delle domande specifiche, puoi dettagliarle in una mail a andreaDOTfavero71ATgmailDOTcom.
Se mi fai avere tuo indirizzo email ti posso inviare lo script (in python), del robot che sta per uscire .... e dove il rilevamento ed associazione dei facelets e' incredibilmente robusta.
Geniale
:-)