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Hi all. I just found this thread. I'm the creator of SARCASM. Thanks to the OP for sharing. I spent many hours on this build but it was a lot of fun. I'm happy to see that others are enjoying it also :-)

If you're interested in the technical side, I wrote detailed posts on the hardware and software on the Teensy forum: https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/sarcasm-an-over-eng...

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Very cool. I remember being the first kid at school to have a Rubiks cube, in the 70s (I read about it in Omni magazine). I had no idea how to solve it. I sent off for a booklet about solving it. I got back a booklet about group theory, far beyond my teenage brain.

I think this is an amazing all around build combining the physical mechanics for solving (a relatively understood problem in rubik's robot solving scene) but along with the graphics integration and some real personality from the bot avatar that gave me quite a few laughs. Well done!

I love how you approached the problem and perfectioned the "product" in all aspects. There's so many playful details that could easily go unnoticed! You're impressively resourceful, and one can tell this was a work of love.

I wish I could buy something like it as a DIY set, just to own it, admire it, show it to people, and have everybody be in awe of your work. What a time to be alive that stuff like this is in reach of a sufficiently dedicated hobbyist!

> I'm the creator of SARCASM.

Glad I’m not the only one who sometimes justifies spending time on project purely because of the name I can give to them.

hehe, it was indeed a major motivation :-)

This makes me want to teleport it back to the 1920s, enclose it in glass and charge people a nickel to use it! You'd be rich!

Can you post the STL files for the shell and Arms?

Great project.

Sure. I will add them on github later today. The repo is currently in a very messy state. I would like to clean it and provide detailled assembly steps but I have to much work currently. Hopefully I can do this in a couple of months.

Done. Added stl files to the repo.

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