Automatic System for Learning the Process of Solving Rubik's Cube

The Rubik's cube is a very successful puzzle toy, having many methods to solve. Still, the process of learning to solve the cube is not simple and it involves a lot of attention and patience, so a beginner may give up very quickly. The paper presents an automatic solution to solve a real Rubik's cube based on an Arduino MEGA 2560 R3 development board and six stepper motors, one for each face of the cube. The algorithms that control the motors were implemented in Arduino IDE and the sequential algorithm to solve the puzzle was implemented in C#. The user interface allows the user to learn how to solve the cube and, also, to manually apply what they learned. The solution can be seen virtually on the interface and also on a real cube. The purpose of the system is to ease the learning process and not to obtain the fastest solution.