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How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
So we were arguing about where the battery was suppost to go on the bot tonight, and we got tired of it and decided to solve a rubik's cube. This is how the process went.

http://www.eternalcarnage.com/cube/
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
I don't know about that ... it seems that it would be much easier just to peel off the sitckers and re-apply in the "correct" place.
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
Yes......YES......HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
Nicely done. I once wrote a BASIC(eww) program to solve a virtual rubik's cube.
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
I've done that before...
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
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I've done that before...
Me too.

And Stu, once you peel the stickers off, they never stick the same anymore.
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
That's how a technician solves a Rubik's Cube, an engineer solves it this way: http://jpbrown.i8.com/cubesolver.html
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That's how a technician solves a Rubik's Cube, an engineer solves it this way: http://jpbrown.i8.com/cubesolver.html
That is awesome...Wow.
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
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That's how a technician solves a Rubik's Cube, an engineer solves it this way: http://jpbrown.i8.com/cubesolver.html
You beat me to posting that link. If I ever had a lot of free time ... I'd like to build one too (since I know how to solve a Rubik's cube .... it wouldnt be too hard to program my logic).
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
soooo...how does a human solve a rubik's cube? j/k i just insulted myself as a future engineer :-/ but isn't there some mathematical technique or something... i can't locate the link... i've personally never owned or considered solving a cube...
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
now... yall see... yall made the mistake in taking it apart... and putting it back together.... some of yall even rearranged the stickers.... i simply took ALL the stickers off for good.... so no matter which way i turned it, i won!!! hehe
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
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soooo...how does a human solve a rubik's cube? j/k i just insulted myself as a future engineer :-/ but isn't there some mathematical technique or something...
This is probably the most easily understood technique: http://jeays.net/rubiks.htm#sol2
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That's the most logical way to solve the rubik's cube in my eyes....
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
Anyone seen a 4x4x4 cube? or how to solve it?
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Re: How an Engineer solves a Rubik's Cube
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Me too.

And Stu, once you peel the stickers off, they never stick the same anymore.
Not true, you just have to get the right kinda of glue to make it look right.

that's what i did

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