For kids I guess it kills creativity, but using the same idea for (house?) decoration would be very neat. Scan your messy things and suggest how you can rearrange them to make it beautiful.
Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
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Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dunno my time is worth more than that per hour. And sorting all those pieces will take more than an hour. So.. it's cheap.
I assumed many of the users are kids, whose time per hour is worth hardly anything. If they didn't have this app, they'd instead just play with the Legos the old-fashioned way, which accomplishes roughly the same goals. This seems neat, and if there were some basic functionality (only smaller projects, or a limited number of complex projects per month), I would give it a try with my kid. But there is zero chance I'm…
I don’t think you’re the target market.
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#43What I remember from childhood was that you were often looking for a particular piece you knew you had, but could not find it. This app could be useful for that.
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#44Good, looks like outsourcing the core creativity and imagination. Next make a robot, which pointless builds those objects. Your child now can go consume corporate video streaming content.
This takes the same position as the building instructions you get with a Lego set. To me the interesting part is you can buy brick buckets and still allow unexperienced kids to build something cool following instructions. They’ll still do modifications and evolutions from there, the important part being that they know how it was built and can break it and rebuild again.
When you were a kid wasn't the funniest part modifying the design or building your own? Isn't that kind of the point of Lego? It's in small blocks so you can create something with your imagination?
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#45Next: scan a pile of cash and propose what to do with the calculated amount...?
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#46I've been wishing there was an app where you could point your phone at a pile of scrap lumber and it would tell you things you could make with them. This is a step in that direction even if it's just for lego bricks right now.
cutting boards...
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#47I have already accepted the notion that we as a workforce and creativity input will become irrelevant for corporate overlords in the next decade.
I have already moved to the mountains, stopped practicing UX/UI design, stopped digital drawing and painting, minimized smartphone usage and use internet only for work and casual browsing.
Already archived a lot of media, movies, books and OSS software, just in case.
Moved all the work focus towards frontend implementation with clear understanding that the window of opportunity will close in the next 5 years.
Suddenly I understand, completely, the Amish position towards technology.
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#48What's next? Finding a needle in a haystack? This is pretty neat and I would definitely play with it, but I'm not willing to front that kind of cash on something that might be terrible. It seems like the ideas are all user submitted -- I was expecting something ML here, like imaginary builds of cars. Cool nonetheless but there's a lot of untapped opportunity. My first thought was that this would be very useful for pa…
> What's next? Finding a needle in a haystack? I’m working on a jigsaw puzzle and hit a bit of a dry spell and was hoping there might be an app that could help find the pieces in a pile and where they go. Nothing exists yet that I could see. I imagine with a completed picture and a view of a piece it would be possible to show where in the picture the piece goes to reduce the burden. Extra pints if you can give it a v…
Kind of similar, a guy making a robot to solve jigsaw puzzles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu_1S77XkiM
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#49Good, looks like outsourcing the core creativity and imagination. Next make a robot, which pointless builds those objects. Your child now can go consume corporate video streaming content.
Lol. No, they buy new builds with microtransactions and then watch it build them.
You forgot: They pay to have pics of what the app built for them stored on the magic blockchain…
Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions
#50I have already accepted the notion that we as a workforce and creativity input will become irrelevant for corporate overlords in the next decade. I have already moved to the mountains, stopped practicing UX/UI design, stopped digital drawing and painting, minimized smartphone usage and use internet only for work and casual browsing. Already archived a lot of media, movies, books and OSS software, just in case. Moved…
Yes, what's the point of learning to play the piano when someone has autotune?