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Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by gnicholas »

adastra22 wrote: post #42
gnicholas wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Clearly not! But I could be, with a little feature gating.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by yojo »

tamrix wrote: post #44
makeitdouble wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I have a 5 yo that is very enthusiastic about Legos. It turns out that both directed and free play are good.

He gets new kits and starts by following the instructions. He learns techniques along the way. How to interlock to make things that are strong and won’t fall apart. Patterns for building subassemblies like body panels or spoilers.

As soon as he’s done following the instructions he takes the whole thing apart, and starts building his own creation with the pieces, applying the concepts he learned.

It’s kind of like music. You don’t learn to play piano by composing songs, you start by playing other people’s music to learn the fundamentals. Then you can start riffing on it.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by nbzso »

toxicFork wrote: post #50
nbzso wrote: post #47

I 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?

The context is in the part "corporate overlords". The popular music uses autotune ad nauseam.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by justinlloyd »

memco wrote: post #15
xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #9

What'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…

Combined downloads for my Scrabble game solver (take a picture of the scrabble board, take a picture of your rack of tiles, play the optimal word) and my jigsaw puzzle solver (finding a needle in a haystack) totalled up to less than the fingers on the hands of a bad Youtube woodworker practicing every unsafe operation with a table saw whilst being inanttentive. After two years, back in 2013-ish, I removed the apps from the app store.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by kaeruct »

nbzso wrote: post #47

I 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…

How did you get to this conclusion from an app that helps you figure out what you can build with your Lego bricks?

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by neilpa »

dustractor wrote: post #37

I'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.

I have a literal pile of bricks in my backyard. I thought this was going to be an app that I could scan them with and tell me how to build a pizza oven.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by robbrown451 »

Very cool.

Now what I want is something that will scan a pile of rocks and tell me how to put them together to build a wall with minimal space between them.

https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/stone-wall-texture-pict...

Or better yet, tell my robot how to do it.

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by nbzso »

kaeruct wrote: post #55
nbzso wrote: post #47

I 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…

How did you get to this conclusion from an app that helps you figure out what you can build with your Lego bricks?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth

Re: Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, with instructions

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

samingrassia wrote: post #59

I had a similar idea, but swapped the Legos for the ikea replacement parts catalog. What’s the cheapest standing desk you can build with these cheap and easily available parts?

They have a replacement parts catalogue?
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