Alexa Solve Rubik Cube

Alexa ! Solve Rubik's Cube

with the power of Alexa voice control and the lego mindstorms , you don't need to memorize algorithms to solve a rubik's cube and surprise your friends how genius you are :D :D all you need is a cube and the rubik Cube solver , how hard the cube may seem , the solver got your back :D

Demo

Building the Lego part

the idea itself is not new it's built many times with different implementations and instructions all over the internet , the new part is the easy setup and of course the voice control we are using , for the building instructions check this link and follow along

Building instructions v1.0 (Home set 31313): download

Setting up the mindstorms ev3 Block

• install ev3dev image on SD card and load the image

https://www.ev3dev.org/downloads/

access to the shell of the ev3dev

To connect via SSH on Windows, you will need a program called PuTTY. Download and run it from their download page. In the PuTTY Configuration window, type in ev3dev for the “host name”. Then click the Open button to connect.

• Once you are connected, type in the ev3dev username (robot) and the password (maker if you haven’t changed it yet) and then you should be logged in.

• connect to the internet and install the required libraries

Setting up Alexa

1-create cubesolver Skill

2- enable custom interfaces

3- add Solve Intent

4- Handling the solve intent

5- deploy and test the code