Ruzzle Lego Solver: first photo

After some day of building, conding, and testing, I publish the first photo of my Lego Ruzzle Solver.

The robot use 3 NXT motors: one for x-axis movement, one for y-axis movement, and one for move the “finger” up and down. To decrease friction, the two movable parts of robot are supported on rigid wheels, like a bridge crane.

Ruzzle Lego Mindstorm Solver

A curious thing: the capacitive touchscreen of the tablet require human fingers (attached to human body) to dispatch touche event. Because attach fingers to lego mindstorm motor require detaching fingers from my body, I have discover that conductive sponge is a very good alternative, and because vegetal sponge is conductive, I have buy it at supermarket for 1 euro saving my real fingers.

Ruzzle Lego Mindstorm NodeJS Solver

Yesterday I start to build a new Lego Mindstorm project to solve Ruzzle, a popular iOS/Android game.

My goal is to merge both software (image processing, ocr, solver) and hardware (mechanics, servos, fake finger on a touchscreen) worlds, building a funny Lego robot.

On software side:

  • Bash script for download screenshot of device
  • ImageMagick to process screenshot image
  • Tesseract for character recognition
  • NodeJS for:
    • solving ruzzle game
    • send the plan to lego mindstorm nxt via bluetooth

On hardware side:

  • Lego Mindstorm (nxt)
  • Nxc program that receive plan via bluetooth
  • Absolute Position Regulator for precise control of servo

When I have something working, I post nxc program on Github:

  • https://github.com/albertosarullo/ruzzle-mindstorm-nxc-nodejs-solver