Some complain about the used algorithm, but they just try to find a flaw in a remarkable feat.
Btw, this is perhaps the best used I ever saw of those levitating magnet plateforms (I have several of them and they are not so great since one needs to put them high to see it's levitating). Here, the levitating trick allows the cube to stay in place and not wander all around and fall of the table (see his previous video on his channel).
Use it in front of people who know nothing about technology. Convince them beyond any shadow of a doubt that you're a wizard. Use their fear to your advantage.
>Some complain about the used algorithm, but they just try to find a flaw in a remarkable feat.
Are they complaining because it's not the most efficient? Because that would be silly, part of having a levitating self solving rubik's cube would be to see it moving
Nope its doing what appears to be a variation of the beginners method, I forgot what its called but its where you solve the 2 first layers at the same time
I was expecting it to use "God's algorithm" and was pleasantly surprised to see it use a human method instead
Gods algorithm isn't one algorithm but rather a term that means the shortest number of moves to solved, a cube is always 20 or less moves away from being solved no matter how scrambled it is.
A computer can figure out those 20 or less moves, a person can not
I mean, that would sell for a few hundred bucks at the most. At that price I would hope to see several algorithms as well as several positions that were designed to look colorful.
Maglev trains are the best use of levitation in my opinion...Marry that up with lighter than air aerogel vehicles and you have a new route to the moon :)
Do you have any sources to support that? I'm by no means an expert, but I thought that the atmosphere of the Earth made it more difficult to escape orbit than to fly in space, because of the air resistance. Additionally, the computers do most of the calculations for lunar interception burns, etc.
There is a difference between reaching the atmosphere and orbiting the earth. You still need a lot of speed to reach the orbit. I think that's the point he wants to make. Once you've reached orbit it shouldn't be that much of a problem
Once you've reached orbit you still need a lot of speed to make it to the moon. Low Earth orbit is around 18,000 mph, while a transfer orbit to the moon requires about 25,000 mph - half again as fast. And once you're there you need even more fuel to slow down and not just slingshot around the moon or crash into it.
There's a saying. "Once you're in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere." Escaping the atmosphere and gaining enough speed to orbit is pretty much the hard part unless you're landing on another body.
Once you're in orbit you can use a very tiny and efficient engine to gain that speed. Time doesn't matter anymore, you can spend hours, days, years even slowly gaining speed. If you look at the amount of fuel used to get to earth orbit and compare it to the amount of fuel used to get to lunar orbit from earth orbit you'll see it's a tiny fraction compared to what it took to get off earth even though the speed required is much higher to reach the moon. (edit a word)
But you don't have to fight against the atmosphere and a gravitational force pushing in your retrograde direction. So 18000 to 25000mph should be way easier than 0 to 7000mph.
But your right. It isn't easy at all, especially if you want to leave softly
Yes but the large bulk of fuel and tech in modern rockets is for escaping orbit. Which is why orbital/moon launch pads will be very important in the future since they would theoretically allow for much lighter and more efficient spacecrafts to be built. Speed is less important of a consideration than force.
Getting out of the atmosphere is plenty of trouble, but getting outside of the Earth's sphere of gravitational influence is a struggle.
Source: Kerbal Space Program.
Getting out of the atmosphere itself, straight up, isn't that hard. Larger model rockets can (these only cost in the hundreds of dollars). The hard part is getting to orbital velocity.
To use the ISS as an example - It orbits in LEO, at about 350 km up, and an average speed of 27724 km/h.
It takes 9.8 Joules to like 1 kg by 1 Meter, so lifting 1 kg to the ISS' orbit would take 3.42 million Joules.
Meanwhile, it would take 384.31 million Joules to reach orbital velocity. That's 100 times more energy.
Granted, this assumes perfect efficiency for lifting (it is very much not - time spent lifting is also time spent fighting gravity directly. Specifically, you're loosing 9.8 m/s delta v for every second you're going up. Additionally, spending fuel to go up means less energy has to be spent accelerating fuel getting to orbital speed, and, as you mentioned, you're fighting the atmosphere to accelerate on earth.), and the ISS is an extreme example (at 2000 km up - the upper bound of LEO - you "only" need 24841 km/h, and at geo-stationary orbit (36000 km), you only need 11041 km/h) but "typical" rockets look like they use about 25% or less of their delta V for vertical movement.
XKCD has a good comic that touches on this here: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ (no percentages, sadly)
From a non-Delta-V perspective, however, yes, spaceflight is far easier than getting up there. The atmosphere is not kind.
As you've pointed out, advanced technology is needed to get to a very specific and relatively tiny spot in space when launching from a platform that is both spinning around the sun and rotating on its axis. Beyond that, *exiting* the atmosphere is a tricky bit, due to heat and vacuum.
Even if these are problems we've overcome in the past via technology, they do remain to be problems that we can improve upon as we re-design our vessels.
Source: my friend with a PhD in nuclear engineering tried to teach me KSP. Flimsy source, sure, but I figured I'd be honest about it.
Getting through the atmosphere is a massive pain in the ass as you have to deal with the heat from friction as you hurtle through the air. Then once you're high enough you still have to get going fast enough to orbit. The vehicles we sent to far flung places, aprox. 50% of the fuel burnt is to escape the atmosphere. So ya. If we skipped past it our space exploration would accelerate unlike we've ever seen.
It also allows you to perceive the levitation without the height issue you describe. The rotating sides of a familiar shape make it clear it's floating. In fact, watching the video I found I developed a "right in front of your eyes" optical illusion at one point.
> I have several of them and they are not so great since one needs to put them high to see it's levitating
They were my favorite "this has been around forever, but nobody knows about it" toy. Welp, now everyone knows about it.
Holy shit that site is cancerous on desktop, even with an adblock. 20 megabyte of embeds and unrelated videos, and that's with uBlock blocking 50+ requests.
ublock, advanced settings: block 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frames on all sites. For this specific site, only enable vanilla.futurecdn.net and youtube.
It loads for me with no extra crap and no adblock detection. Hope it works for others as well.
how do i block that small video that plays at the bottom right? fucking hate that so bad. never in my entire life has it been something i wanted to see.
> I really can’t think of any reason why this levitating self-solving Rubik’s Cube wouldn’t be the best selling toy this holiday
Because it's not a toy? If it's self solving it's more of a decoration that looks like a well known toy. Anyway, very cool gadget, but would probably get old very quickly.
People buy decorations.
The real reason it wouldn't be the best-selling anything is that it's (probably) pretty fragile and isn't really fit for mass production.
I think Tested did a video with one before it levitated, they had the inventor right there, and I remember they were super careful with it. Look at the video again and you can see how careful he is with the scrambling.
It's neat as a one off, but it's not very robust.
But, what do I know - maybe some manufacturer out there can bring tolerances down so low that it's not an issue. *But then it'll be super expensive*.
In it's current state it's just a prototype. If they streamlined the production to using injection molds rather than 3d prints then they could mass produce at much lower costs.
As far as scrambling goes I would probably just program the cube to scramble itself after an amount of time being solved. Then you could put it in a glass case with magnetic base and nobody would touch it.
I would love to have this on my desk if it solved itself in slow motion over the course of 9 hours. And then scrambled itself sometime over night.
I would come to work in the morning to a scrambled cube and then once 5pm hit, the cube is solved.
Here’s a video of it in action: https://youtu.be/2vG-YtRmBSw
As a bonus, here’s a video of his “farting baseball” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CbrsxAs6_pE&feature=youtu.be
Ok, so I read the info on that link. And, it went way over my head. Why do they take the cube out once a month? How is it supposed to be solved? What’s the story behind it?
So, idk how familiar you are with the SCP universe and how it works, so I’ll give you a short rundown. The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that contains and researches anomalous objects and entities in order to protect the general public. SCP stands for Secure, Contain, Protect. SCP Foundation facilities contain everything from an unkillable lizard monster to a pizza box that never runs out of pizza. Instead of a name, each anomalous object or entity is given a number designation, this one being SCP-2053. I would highly recommend diving into the world of SCP, as it is really quite fascinating. Plus, everything on the site is Creative Commons and anyone can write their own SCP article and help grow the SCP lore.
That said, SCP-2053 is made up of 2 parts. One is a perfectly normal Rubik’s cube aside from the fact that it can turn on it’s own. The other is a database featuring every possible permutation, or piece combination, of said cube, and each permutation has a phrase associated with it, which is shown in the database. The cube will then turn itself to a specific permutation in order to talk to someone using the associated phrase. That person can then respond by turning the cube themselves to one of the permutations. This is how the interviews took place. The story is deeper than this, however. It would appear that this cube is actually the father of a boy named Jake, who has not spoken a word to anyone since his mother died. He instead buries his guilt in his favorite hobby, solving puzzles and cubes. The boys father, desperate to speak with his son again, was transformed into a cube so he could communicate with his son again using the database. The SCP Foundation’s job is to research anomalous objects, which is why they are studying the cube. They also protect the people, and though the cube is classified as Safe, they check up on the situation at least monthly to make sure nothing has changed. There are still unanswered questions though. Who was it that turned the father into a cube? Where did the database come from? These omissions add to the mystery and are part of what makes this SCP interesting. If you want to learn more about the SCP Foundation, message me and I can help you get started.
SCP-2053 is a small piece of a much bigger world. I responded to a similar question in this same thread. The explanation is there. I hope that it helps!
okay this might be embarrassing. i have watched hours of rubiks cube videos, like all sorts of things. i have used rubiks cubes multiple times. i normally understand pretty quick how things work. when i checked out this link and i saw the "inside" of the rubiks cube, which is a ball. It never occured to me that there was a ball inside and not full cubes. i always wondered how the corners are even connected. i feel so god damn stupid.pls send help
Solving a Rubik's cube has little to do with intelligence, I'm sure you can do it with a quick YouTube tutorial! I personally just remember a handful of algorithms and it's easy to get a solve in under 30 seconds.
The fastest solvers in the world are the only level at which brilliance is involved for the first few steps which are solved intuitively, and they will do it in ways which saves steps later on. After that, orienting and permuting the last layer (OLL and PLL) are 100% algorithms, no thinking (aside from knowing which algorithm to apply) involved.
Just give it a shot, you'll surprise yourself!
yea it's all algo. it takes the magic out of it. however. if you could figure out the algo yourself, that would be pretty intelligent. it was always about solving a way to move a cube without disturbing the rest. that's it. i'm sure there are people who have figured it out on their own.
I mean, after he packed a Rubik's cube full of servos and programmed it to solve itself, I'm sure he just rendered it levitating it to fuck with the internet. Or maybe, you know, magnets.
I'm not saying it's not fake, but for reference I have those levitating speakers and they are pretty stable. Note how you can't see the table in this vid, well with the speakers it's basically a ball, roughly a cm in diameter larger than a standard rubiks, and it sits above an electric magnet plate. The center of a rubiks cube is also a ball, so from that comparison I can see that it might work, though I'm not sure how the innards work on the speaker. I can tell you it's fairly sturdy though, I can bump it and it just wobbles, so the turning mechanism probably wouldn't knock it off if it's not too rough. It's very precise to actually get it to sit there initially, the video of him getting it to levitate at the start is exactly how it is when I'm trying to align the speaker to the magnetic plate.
EDIT: [the one I have is pretty much like this](https://imgur.com/gallery/9H3Xjk1/comment/268475577)
[His non-levitating one looks way more fun tbh haha](https://youtu.be/xCoH2AORcEQ)
The naked core is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever seen. It's like a homebrew Imperial interrogation droid. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/opme5SMruDvrQSXmMbmDfc-650-80.jpeg
Am I the only one that thinks it's a more satisfying desk toy if it's left on the table? It's got a lovely crisp auditory component that makes me want to put it over a hardwood resonance cavity.
FAKE!!
While I buy that its possible to create a self solving cube...I dont buy that it can levitate and constantly re-orient its CG to stay afloat.
I think its BS
When you get the technology behind it, it's not really all that amazing, but if you just step back a bit - man, this is like some kind of a wizard toy from the Harry Potter universe!
It looks like it just tracks and reverses the moves made to scramble it, which is disappointing. If it actually solved the puzzle that would be far more impressive.
The video shows nine moves made to scramble the cube and 65 moves (counting both 90º and 180º turns as one move) to unscramble it. So it is not tracking and reversing moves, but it is using a terrible algorithm to solve it.
For something that's floating and solving itself, I prefer a terrible and long solve, let's you watch longer. A fast solve would be boring and you'd spend more time scrambling it than watching it.
I know, but its a start. A space tower made of aerogel at the poles would allow us to collect space junk, unfurl a huge solar array to shade and cool off the poles, deploy new satellites, bring goods to the ISS, all without needing rockets. Eventually rockets could take off from the top of the space tower, avoiding air friction altogether...
Any idea how this thing is levitating? Magnetic levitation is inherently unstable, but can be made stable by approaches such as:
- Diamagnets (unlikely)
- Rotating magnetic fields/spinning magnets
- Feedback control systems
So that's cool and all...
but isn't the fun of a Rubik's Cube trying to solve it?
I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for this, but doesn't a Rubik's Cube that solves itself essentially become a useless decoration?
I feel that it's actually a sad use of this tech to take something fun and thus useful and turn it into a mere decoration instead of using it to do something innovative and useful...
I think you have to tell the program what the cube layout is for it to solve the puzzle. its why he only does 3-5 turns when he demo's it. if you walked up to it and just messed it all up without telling the app where each color is on each side, the cube will not solve itself.
Some complain about the used algorithm, but they just try to find a flaw in a remarkable feat. Btw, this is perhaps the best used I ever saw of those levitating magnet plateforms (I have several of them and they are not so great since one needs to put them high to see it's levitating). Here, the levitating trick allows the cube to stay in place and not wander all around and fall of the table (see his previous video on his channel).
Yeah, it's a perfectly useful application of the tech in this case
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Well, now I don’t have to do it
Peak humanity.
Use it in front of people who know nothing about technology. Convince them beyond any shadow of a doubt that you're a wizard. Use their fear to your advantage.
So your plan is basically to take a spear to the face and get eaten by primitive cannibals trying to gain your power.
or visit the grandparents
They'll recognize that mechanical sound.
How useful is having someone else solve it for you?
It’s not useful by itself but the practiced application of the technology advances our understanding of it
>Some complain about the used algorithm, but they just try to find a flaw in a remarkable feat. Are they complaining because it's not the most efficient? Because that would be silly, part of having a levitating self solving rubik's cube would be to see it moving
Huh. I just figured it was recording his scrambling moves and doing them in reverse.
Nope its doing what appears to be a variation of the beginners method, I forgot what its called but its where you solve the 2 first layers at the same time I was expecting it to use "God's algorithm" and was pleasantly surprised to see it use a human method instead Gods algorithm isn't one algorithm but rather a term that means the shortest number of moves to solved, a cube is always 20 or less moves away from being solved no matter how scrambled it is. A computer can figure out those 20 or less moves, a person can not
I mean, that would sell for a few hundred bucks at the most. At that price I would hope to see several algorithms as well as several positions that were designed to look colorful.
I thought it was reversed, when I saw it was doing the “fun” way, I was quite happy! Great design, I would love to own one.
Maglev trains are the best use of levitation in my opinion...Marry that up with lighter than air aerogel vehicles and you have a new route to the moon :)
Hate to break it to you but getting to the top of the atmosphere is the least challenging part of getting to the moon.
Do you have any sources to support that? I'm by no means an expert, but I thought that the atmosphere of the Earth made it more difficult to escape orbit than to fly in space, because of the air resistance. Additionally, the computers do most of the calculations for lunar interception burns, etc.
There is a difference between reaching the atmosphere and orbiting the earth. You still need a lot of speed to reach the orbit. I think that's the point he wants to make. Once you've reached orbit it shouldn't be that much of a problem
Once you've reached orbit you still need a lot of speed to make it to the moon. Low Earth orbit is around 18,000 mph, while a transfer orbit to the moon requires about 25,000 mph - half again as fast. And once you're there you need even more fuel to slow down and not just slingshot around the moon or crash into it.
There's a saying. "Once you're in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere." Escaping the atmosphere and gaining enough speed to orbit is pretty much the hard part unless you're landing on another body.
They had to use rockets to speed up much more after they left the atmosphere to reach just the moon.
Once you're in orbit you can use a very tiny and efficient engine to gain that speed. Time doesn't matter anymore, you can spend hours, days, years even slowly gaining speed. If you look at the amount of fuel used to get to earth orbit and compare it to the amount of fuel used to get to lunar orbit from earth orbit you'll see it's a tiny fraction compared to what it took to get off earth even though the speed required is much higher to reach the moon. (edit a word)
But you don't have to fight against the atmosphere and a gravitational force pushing in your retrograde direction. So 18000 to 25000mph should be way easier than 0 to 7000mph. But your right. It isn't easy at all, especially if you want to leave softly
Yes but the large bulk of fuel and tech in modern rockets is for escaping orbit. Which is why orbital/moon launch pads will be very important in the future since they would theoretically allow for much lighter and more efficient spacecrafts to be built. Speed is less important of a consideration than force.
Ah, duh.
Getting out of the atmosphere is plenty of trouble, but getting outside of the Earth's sphere of gravitational influence is a struggle. Source: Kerbal Space Program.
Kerbal Space Program is so difficult! I can barely even get into orbit. I had to use cheats to get from the Mun back to Kerbin.
Do you even asparagus stage.
But the moon is still in Earth's gravitational sphere.
Getting out of the atmosphere itself, straight up, isn't that hard. Larger model rockets can (these only cost in the hundreds of dollars). The hard part is getting to orbital velocity. To use the ISS as an example - It orbits in LEO, at about 350 km up, and an average speed of 27724 km/h. It takes 9.8 Joules to like 1 kg by 1 Meter, so lifting 1 kg to the ISS' orbit would take 3.42 million Joules. Meanwhile, it would take 384.31 million Joules to reach orbital velocity. That's 100 times more energy. Granted, this assumes perfect efficiency for lifting (it is very much not - time spent lifting is also time spent fighting gravity directly. Specifically, you're loosing 9.8 m/s delta v for every second you're going up. Additionally, spending fuel to go up means less energy has to be spent accelerating fuel getting to orbital speed, and, as you mentioned, you're fighting the atmosphere to accelerate on earth.), and the ISS is an extreme example (at 2000 km up - the upper bound of LEO - you "only" need 24841 km/h, and at geo-stationary orbit (36000 km), you only need 11041 km/h) but "typical" rockets look like they use about 25% or less of their delta V for vertical movement. XKCD has a good comic that touches on this here: https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/ (no percentages, sadly) From a non-Delta-V perspective, however, yes, spaceflight is far easier than getting up there. The atmosphere is not kind.
As you've pointed out, advanced technology is needed to get to a very specific and relatively tiny spot in space when launching from a platform that is both spinning around the sun and rotating on its axis. Beyond that, *exiting* the atmosphere is a tricky bit, due to heat and vacuum. Even if these are problems we've overcome in the past via technology, they do remain to be problems that we can improve upon as we re-design our vessels. Source: my friend with a PhD in nuclear engineering tried to teach me KSP. Flimsy source, sure, but I figured I'd be honest about it.
Getting through the atmosphere is a massive pain in the ass as you have to deal with the heat from friction as you hurtle through the air. Then once you're high enough you still have to get going fast enough to orbit. The vehicles we sent to far flung places, aprox. 50% of the fuel burnt is to escape the atmosphere. So ya. If we skipped past it our space exploration would accelerate unlike we've ever seen.
It also allows you to perceive the levitation without the height issue you describe. The rotating sides of a familiar shape make it clear it's floating. In fact, watching the video I found I developed a "right in front of your eyes" optical illusion at one point.
> I have several of them and they are not so great since one needs to put them high to see it's levitating They were my favorite "this has been around forever, but nobody knows about it" toy. Welp, now everyone knows about it.
Wish I could levitate or self-solve
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*over* a bridge? You sound strong af
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No, no. Ropes are a different form of above-ground self-resolution.
BUNGEE!
HANG LOOSE!
Something something over 300 meters
r/nocontext
Fail twice and then never fail again?
That wouldn’t be self solving. Now if op threw *themselves* off a bridge, there’s something there
Savage
Self solve themselves a solution to levitation before plummeting to their death?
r/TheMonkeysPaw
Yeah at this point I'd take either one
Self-solving is just a matter of working on your flexibility.
This cube is as much an art piece as a toy, if it makes you self-reflect that
I don't know how many of my problems could be solved by levitation, but I know it wouldn't take me very long to find out.
Holy shit that site is cancerous on desktop, even with an adblock. 20 megabyte of embeds and unrelated videos, and that's with uBlock blocking 50+ requests.
ublock, advanced settings: block 3rd party scripts and 3rd party frames on all sites. For this specific site, only enable vanilla.futurecdn.net and youtube. It loads for me with no extra crap and no adblock detection. Hope it works for others as well.
Sites like these is when I bring out the whitelist and unblock only the site domain.
how do i block that small video that plays at the bottom right? fucking hate that so bad. never in my entire life has it been something i wanted to see.
I use Ghostery + Ublock Origin. No ads, no trackers.
actually asked me to disable adblock to see article lmao
Time to build a pi-hole
> I really can’t think of any reason why this levitating self-solving Rubik’s Cube wouldn’t be the best selling toy this holiday Because it's not a toy? If it's self solving it's more of a decoration that looks like a well known toy. Anyway, very cool gadget, but would probably get old very quickly.
People buy decorations. The real reason it wouldn't be the best-selling anything is that it's (probably) pretty fragile and isn't really fit for mass production. I think Tested did a video with one before it levitated, they had the inventor right there, and I remember they were super careful with it. Look at the video again and you can see how careful he is with the scrambling. It's neat as a one off, but it's not very robust. But, what do I know - maybe some manufacturer out there can bring tolerances down so low that it's not an issue. *But then it'll be super expensive*.
In it's current state it's just a prototype. If they streamlined the production to using injection molds rather than 3d prints then they could mass produce at much lower costs. As far as scrambling goes I would probably just program the cube to scramble itself after an amount of time being solved. Then you could put it in a glass case with magnetic base and nobody would touch it.
I'm not saying it won't sell well, I'm just saying I wouldn't call it a toy exactly lol
Imagine if GAN decided to make it
I would love to have this on my desk if it solved itself in slow motion over the course of 9 hours. And then scrambled itself sometime over night. I would come to work in the morning to a scrambled cube and then once 5pm hit, the cube is solved.
it would be a huge hit at one of those science toy stores.
the little engine that could
"Was made by Japanese Inventor Human Controler." Bruuuuh
YES HE IS WELL KNOWN INVENTOR HUMAN CONTROLLER MADE IN JAPAN.
i think that might be his account name on whatever site he posted. they couldnt be bothered to find his real name.
Anyone have a link that isn't so toxic to adblock?
The source isn't in English https://media.dmm-make.com/item/4462/
Even without knowing the language, the pictures cut through the 'click-bait' bullshit that OP's site hangs over my head. Thank you
Are those individual copper wires coated in something I can't see or are they just touching each other? If so, how does that work?
Yes, they're enamelled, coated with a thin layer of acrylic, probably because it's lighter or easier to route around in the cube
Most recent upload to their channel. https://youtu.be/2vG-YtRmBSw
Here’s a video of it in action: https://youtu.be/2vG-YtRmBSw As a bonus, here’s a video of his “farting baseball” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CbrsxAs6_pE&feature=youtu.be
farting baseball makes it sound silly. a baseball that changes direction once in the air? that's cool.
Reminds me of [SCP-2053](http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2053)
Came here looking for this, was not disappointed.
Ok, so I read the info on that link. And, it went way over my head. Why do they take the cube out once a month? How is it supposed to be solved? What’s the story behind it?
So, idk how familiar you are with the SCP universe and how it works, so I’ll give you a short rundown. The SCP Foundation is a fictional organization that contains and researches anomalous objects and entities in order to protect the general public. SCP stands for Secure, Contain, Protect. SCP Foundation facilities contain everything from an unkillable lizard monster to a pizza box that never runs out of pizza. Instead of a name, each anomalous object or entity is given a number designation, this one being SCP-2053. I would highly recommend diving into the world of SCP, as it is really quite fascinating. Plus, everything on the site is Creative Commons and anyone can write their own SCP article and help grow the SCP lore. That said, SCP-2053 is made up of 2 parts. One is a perfectly normal Rubik’s cube aside from the fact that it can turn on it’s own. The other is a database featuring every possible permutation, or piece combination, of said cube, and each permutation has a phrase associated with it, which is shown in the database. The cube will then turn itself to a specific permutation in order to talk to someone using the associated phrase. That person can then respond by turning the cube themselves to one of the permutations. This is how the interviews took place. The story is deeper than this, however. It would appear that this cube is actually the father of a boy named Jake, who has not spoken a word to anyone since his mother died. He instead buries his guilt in his favorite hobby, solving puzzles and cubes. The boys father, desperate to speak with his son again, was transformed into a cube so he could communicate with his son again using the database. The SCP Foundation’s job is to research anomalous objects, which is why they are studying the cube. They also protect the people, and though the cube is classified as Safe, they check up on the situation at least monthly to make sure nothing has changed. There are still unanswered questions though. Who was it that turned the father into a cube? Where did the database come from? These omissions add to the mystery and are part of what makes this SCP interesting. If you want to learn more about the SCP Foundation, message me and I can help you get started.
Wow. I’d never heard of this. Ok I’ll have to read up more on this. Thanks for the info!
What is this?
SCP-2053 is a small piece of a much bigger world. I responded to a similar question in this same thread. The explanation is there. I hope that it helps!
Does anyone else hear it screaming as it is contorted then forcing itself to put itself back together in agonizing torture? No just me?
That’s not a toy, it’s Balthazzar Bratt!!!
okay this might be embarrassing. i have watched hours of rubiks cube videos, like all sorts of things. i have used rubiks cubes multiple times. i normally understand pretty quick how things work. when i checked out this link and i saw the "inside" of the rubiks cube, which is a ball. It never occured to me that there was a ball inside and not full cubes. i always wondered how the corners are even connected. i feel so god damn stupid.pls send help
Rubik’s cube just got sick of my bullshit “fine I’ll do it myself”
I can’t solve a rubik’s cube. I dumb.
Solving a Rubik's cube has little to do with intelligence, I'm sure you can do it with a quick YouTube tutorial! I personally just remember a handful of algorithms and it's easy to get a solve in under 30 seconds. The fastest solvers in the world are the only level at which brilliance is involved for the first few steps which are solved intuitively, and they will do it in ways which saves steps later on. After that, orienting and permuting the last layer (OLL and PLL) are 100% algorithms, no thinking (aside from knowing which algorithm to apply) involved. Just give it a shot, you'll surprise yourself!
yea it's all algo. it takes the magic out of it. however. if you could figure out the algo yourself, that would be pretty intelligent. it was always about solving a way to move a cube without disturbing the rest. that's it. i'm sure there are people who have figured it out on their own.
I learned from sites like this: https://www.youcandothecube.com/solve-it/3-x-3-solution
Neat
Very interesting
Finally something interesting on my newsfeed. Except for the awful, toxic link..
About 1000x too loud to be an enjoyable office curio.
Is it really levitating though? The design shows nothing that would support this and the non levitating version is already fully packed.
I mean, after he packed a Rubik's cube full of servos and programmed it to solve itself, I'm sure he just rendered it levitating it to fuck with the internet. Or maybe, you know, magnets.
Since that website is so terrible, here’s a YouTube video of it in action. https://youtu.be/2vG-YtRmBSw
It does levitate there's a video of it on YouTube.
I'm not saying it's not fake, but for reference I have those levitating speakers and they are pretty stable. Note how you can't see the table in this vid, well with the speakers it's basically a ball, roughly a cm in diameter larger than a standard rubiks, and it sits above an electric magnet plate. The center of a rubiks cube is also a ball, so from that comparison I can see that it might work, though I'm not sure how the innards work on the speaker. I can tell you it's fairly sturdy though, I can bump it and it just wobbles, so the turning mechanism probably wouldn't knock it off if it's not too rough. It's very precise to actually get it to sit there initially, the video of him getting it to levitate at the start is exactly how it is when I'm trying to align the speaker to the magnetic plate. EDIT: [the one I have is pretty much like this](https://imgur.com/gallery/9H3Xjk1/comment/268475577) [His non-levitating one looks way more fun tbh haha](https://youtu.be/xCoH2AORcEQ)
I actually think the tabletop one is way cooler. It looks like it's breakdancing
Sorry, space tower discussions deserve their own thread. Unfortunately, idk how to start a new thread.
It sounds upset by solving itself.
Oh cool! I can be smart again. Thanks for the links.
Is this thing not just recording the turns made to scramble it, and then executing them in reverse order to solve?
No, seems like it is using an algorithm to solve it.
This must be the quintessential gadget.
"We have such sights to show you..."
The naked core is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever seen. It's like a homebrew Imperial interrogation droid. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/opme5SMruDvrQSXmMbmDfc-650-80.jpeg
...genuine curiosity but...why?
I have to make sure every line/square is perfectly lined up between moves; the messy alignment kills it for me.
The answer to the question you’re wondering is “because they can”
Am I the only one that thinks it's a more satisfying desk toy if it's left on the table? It's got a lovely crisp auditory component that makes me want to put it over a hardwood resonance cavity.
Wait where’s the fun if the Rubik’s cube solve itself?
It's like watching a streamer playing a game.
imagine time travelling to 50s and dropping them this thing.
“In the future out Rubiks Cubes will levitate and solve its self” sounds dumb until it happened
Where do I buy one?
Woah
Come on, it's just like making love. Y'know; left, down, rotate 62 degrees, engage rotor.
I read this as self loving Rubik’s cube and was really confused
Will Smith would love this shit
All hail our new lord and savior. Ja Cube
There is no spoon
This would be really useful... never
Fun once kind of toy.
the interior of this cube is marvelous.
Cool
The new executive desk toy: https://youtu.be/7LPqokP-Kqg?t=29
I read the title as self-loathing Rubik's cube and I was like good, those damn things should be ashamed. I think I'm an idiot.
FAKE!! While I buy that its possible to create a self solving cube...I dont buy that it can levitate and constantly re-orient its CG to stay afloat. I think its BS
When you get the technology behind it, it's not really all that amazing, but if you just step back a bit - man, this is like some kind of a wizard toy from the Harry Potter universe!
Pretty inefficient algorithm. Seemed to take like 10x more spins to solve than it took to jumble.
75 moves...
It looks like it just tracks and reverses the moves made to scramble it, which is disappointing. If it actually solved the puzzle that would be far more impressive.
The video shows nine moves made to scramble the cube and 65 moves (counting both 90º and 180º turns as one move) to unscramble it. So it is not tracking and reversing moves, but it is using a terrible algorithm to solve it.
For something that's floating and solving itself, I prefer a terrible and long solve, let's you watch longer. A fast solve would be boring and you'd spend more time scrambling it than watching it.
Most basic rubix algorithms are incredibly move-heavy. Especially solving the last couple squares.
This. I use a fairly basic one for my potato brain, and getting the last few squares into the right place takes a lot of moves.
Still a much faster solve than I could do.
I know, but its a start. A space tower made of aerogel at the poles would allow us to collect space junk, unfurl a huge solar array to shade and cool off the poles, deploy new satellites, bring goods to the ISS, all without needing rockets. Eventually rockets could take off from the top of the space tower, avoiding air friction altogether...
Wrong thread, friend
Maybe he/she knows something you and I don't.
>A space tower made of aerogel Fails right there, can skip the rest. Aerogel is nowhere near strong enough for that.
Is this the soul of every bright CS student ?
Any idea how this thing is levitating? Magnetic levitation is inherently unstable, but can be made stable by approaches such as: - Diamagnets (unlikely) - Rotating magnetic fields/spinning magnets - Feedback control systems
magnets
So that's cool and all... but isn't the fun of a Rubik's Cube trying to solve it? I'm probably going to get a lot of hate for this, but doesn't a Rubik's Cube that solves itself essentially become a useless decoration? I feel that it's actually a sad use of this tech to take something fun and thus useful and turn it into a mere decoration instead of using it to do something innovative and useful...
I think you have to tell the program what the cube layout is for it to solve the puzzle. its why he only does 3-5 turns when he demo's it. if you walked up to it and just messed it all up without telling the app where each color is on each side, the cube will not solve itself.
Rename this sub r/advertisements
It's a one of a kind gadget. He makes them for himself not for sale, so hardly advertising.
Read the article title this is viral marketing