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Video: Lego My Cake Cutting Robot!
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Garth Johnston
Published Aug 11, 2011
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Cake cutting is so exhausting, right? If only there were some sort of robot that could deal with the hassle of figuring out how to get nice matching slices instead of some clumsy (and possibly biased) human just eyeballing it. Oh, wait, there is! And you can make one yourself (provided you have some Lego Mindstorms bricks). Here, see for yourself:
The nifty Lego robot by Bart and Stef can cut your cake into as many slices as you want, from one to infinity, and the NXT brick will compute all the angles for you (watch through the end for tips on making your own). Now, if only there were a robot that would make us a giant cookie for that Lego machine to cut up...Oh, wait, for $285,000, you can get one of those, too! [via Make]
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