Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
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Re: Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
#2I do like this idea, but surely I'm not the only one with fond memories of just bloody building random crap with the bucket of lego pieces I had as a kid.
Why not just encourage them to enjoy Lego for the random fun that it is, instead of needing step-by-step guides for absolutely everything?
Re: Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
#3I do like this idea, but surely I'm not the only one with fond memories of just bloody building random crap with the bucket of lego pieces I had as a kid. Why not just encourage them to enjoy Lego for the random fun that it is, instead of needing step-by-step guides for absolutely everything?
Because building random crap and building models from instructions are both fun. Even cooler when your random crap/custom creations can be enjoyed by others.
Re: Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
#4I do like this idea, but surely I'm not the only one with fond memories of just bloody building random crap with the bucket of lego pieces I had as a kid. Why not just encourage them to enjoy Lego for the random fun that it is, instead of needing step-by-step guides for absolutely everything?
It may be easier to 'repackage' that encouragement in the form of a 'new' LEGO set in many cases.
Re: Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
#5You could also follow this guy's prolific custom LEGO building and use some of his instructions:
Re: Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
#6Cool site, but something about the article itself bothers me.
There is a whole world of AFOLs (Adult fans of LEGO) out there (including myself), but the impression I get from the writer is that LEGO sets are for kids.
Constructing MOCs and free-form building are one of the ways I have been able to recapture some of my fond childhood memories and also stretch my creative muscles. Its very relaxing and therapeutic for me to just build something.
Having ideas of how to re-use existing sets of bricks, or even instructions on how to perform techniques seen in other MOCs are invaluable.
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#7Neat. This set me off on a search of what people are doing with automated Lego brick recognition and sorting. Apparently it is a diverse field with no solid solutions yet, as predictably, the 3D image recognition challenge is the largest. It is pretty cool to see someone's solution that involves building the robotics side of their solution entirely out of Mindstorms NXT parts [1].
[1] http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/8580-a-...
Re: Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
#8We've used rebrickable since early 2014 I believe, it is unbelievably useful. We keep our full inventory on the site, and it's really convenient to be able to see how close you are to having the retail sets as well. The guy who built the site (someotheridiot) used to be fairly active here, he built it originally as an exercise in Postgres if I recall correctly. He even has an API for the site.
Re: Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
#9I do like this idea, but surely I'm not the only one with fond memories of just bloody building random crap with the bucket of lego pieces I had as a kid. Why not just encourage them to enjoy Lego for the random fun that it is, instead of needing step-by-step guides for absolutely everything?
It's a little trickier these days because Lego sets now consist of a high percentage of "custom" bricks, not the basic core building blocks we're used to. Also, as mentioned by another, building from plans can be really fun, too.
Re: Rebrickable helps breathe new life into your kids’ old Lego sets
#10I do like this idea, but surely I'm not the only one with fond memories of just bloody building random crap with the bucket of lego pieces I had as a kid. Why not just encourage them to enjoy Lego for the random fun that it is, instead of needing step-by-step guides for absolutely everything?
It's a little trickier these days because Lego sets now consist of a high percentage of "custom" bricks, not the basic core building blocks we're used to. Also, as mentioned by another, building from plans can be really fun, too.
LEGO does sell some "creative" and "basics" sets that are just a bunch of bricks without too many specialised weird bricks.