Former NASA engineer and YouTuber Mark Rober is back at it again, but rather than a glitter bomb, he opted to build the ultimate jigsaw puzzle robot. To start, he upgraded the motors on a CNC machine to allow the arm to move puzzle pieces around with extreme precision.
The goal was to run a serpentine pattern over all the pieces and take pictures of each one, before isolating them against a black background. This would enable the team to convert the edges into four splines. Unfortunately, they stumbled upon the tiniest of errors, which then caused a waterfall effect of all pieces after that issue not fitting right. How so? The puzzle moves ever so slightly as pieces are placed on the board, thus causing microscopic shifts. So, they came up with a wiggle routine to ensure that a piece was locked in before moving onto the next one.
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