Lego Mindstorms Solves Sudoku, and this is pretty much the coolest thing I’ve seen all day

I don’t know if you’re familiar with Lego Mindstorms, but they are a serious set of Legos designed to make all sorts of programmable robotic toys.

In fact, I wouldn’t say that Mindstorms creations are toys, but complex robots. Like this one where Hans Andersson (middle name Christian?) designed that can solve Sudoku puzzles.

Watch the video if you don’t believe me, but it does this by scanning, and then from the data it writes in the appropriate numbers. It does it faster than I do it, with better handwriting.

Pretty amazing, isn’t it? Hey, it turns out that Hans Andersson’s next project is going to be metallurgical. There is a picture of it after the jump.

terminator_robot

Just kidding. I hope.

Post to Twitter

Tags: , , , , ,

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 at 2:47 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

 

Leave a Reply

 

Proudly using Dynamic Headers by Nicasio Design

Switch to our mobile site