Jigsaw Puzzle Robot [pdf]

[shagie]

This PDF credits include Mark Roper. The corresponding video is: Mark Roper - My Puzzle Robot is 200x Faster Than a Human https://youtu.be/Sqr-PdVYhY4

[ipsum2]

Mark Rober doesn't do any engineering himself, he's the CEO who claims credit for what other people do.

For example, he didn't create the glitter bomb, his most viewed video. That was done by Sean Hodgins (making-of video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpMxOmUcfOI). Sean's name was not mentioned at all in the glitter bomb video. Instead, Mark Rober claimed he built it by himself.

[tgarv]

Small correction: It's Mark Rober, not Roper

[pavel_lishin]

As well as Shane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPHBD5NsS0

[smlacy]

Which is basically a total rip-off of the Stuff Made Here version where the actual engineering process is the highlight, not Rober's shilling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_1S77XkiM

[JDW1023]

Code of the said robot on github: https://github.com/roksenhorn/puzzle-bot

[imtringued]

I once tried a puzzle with a significant amount of almost completely black pieces. It was faster to just brute force the pieces than to even bother looking at their shape. All you do is sort the pieces by the number of tabs/holes, look at a specific spot you want to fill and then mindlessly try every eligible piece.

[pimlottc]

This is basically my end game strategy for puzzles once all the parts with distinguishing patterns has been solved and you’re left with e.g. a bunch of blue sky pieces. It’s a bit dull, especially the sorting st the beginning, but it gets satisfyingly faster as you near the end and the number of candidates gets progressively smaller.

[shiroiushi]

It depends on the puzzle, but one problem here is when there's multiple possible pieces that fit. I have a 3000-piece puzzle where the blue sky was like this: many of the pieces were nearly identical, so there were multiple pieces that could fit together at any point. You'd only figure it a piece was in the wrong place when you couldn't fit any of the neighbors.

[05]

See also: Worlds hardest jigsaw vs. puzzle machine (all white) by Stuff Made Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsPHBD5NsS0

[datameta]

Yes, I was introduced to the concept through this project first.

[deelowe]

What's the connection with shopify?

[i-am-gizm0]

Looks like the PDF was uploaded to his crunchlabs.com site, which is hosted by Shopify.

With a bit of digging, I believe this is the source Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BUCGdZCe8JevGYF3pJ4ZjPqp...

[davio]

This sounds like the perfect leetcode style toxic interview problem

[utahcon]

Was literally talking to my friend about this concept yesterday