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Re: LEGO Building Instructions

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Post by kevinob11 »

FeteCommuniste wrote: post #83
JNRowe wrote: post #2

I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigable. For a random example see Starguider¹. I wonder if someone has already scraped that site for IA, beyond simply praying to the Wayback Machine. ¹ https://lego.brickinstructions.com/m/lego_instructions/set/6...

Wow, that just gave me a crazy flash of nostalgia. I think I must have had this set, or at least a very similar one.

Whoa, WHOA, I could never have named or described this but it suddenly felt like I was 8 hoping for specific christmas gifts again.

Re: LEGO Building Instructions

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

roryisok wrote: post #102

Lego themselves have an archived copy of every instruction set going back to the 80s, available here - https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions But for whatever reason, the scans are poor quality and very dark, and it can be hard to make out what piece is which. These ones look much better

> Lego themselves have an archived copy of every instruction set going back to the 80s, available here - https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions

This can't be true: I am very sure that there exist Lego Technic models from before 1996, which is the oldest year that can be selected.

Re: LEGO Building Instructions

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Post by the__alchemist »

JNRowe wrote: post #2

I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigable. For a random example see Starguider¹. I wonder if someone has already scraped that site for IA, beyond simply praying to the Wayback Machine. ¹ https://lego.brickinstructions.com/m/lego_instructions/set/6...

Oh my god. I thought I was such a big deal when I first saw that one - It was marked ages 6+, but I was a solid 4 or 5.

Re: LEGO Building Instructions

#125

Post by etimberg »

FeteCommuniste wrote: post #83
JNRowe wrote: post #2

I sincerely applaud everything ending up on IA. However, if you're searching for specific instructions brickinstructions is excellent as it is far more navigable. For a random example see Starguider¹. I wonder if someone has already scraped that site for IA, beyond simply praying to the Wayback Machine. ¹ https://lego.brickinstructions.com/m/lego_instructions/set/6...

Wow, that just gave me a crazy flash of nostalgia. I think I must have had this set, or at least a very similar one.

Same! Just found the instructions for a set I remember getting as a kid. https://lego.brickinstructions.com/en/lego_instructions/set/...

I think the lego itself is still somewhere at my parents place, but the instructions were lost long ago

Re: LEGO Building Instructions

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

roryisok wrote: post #102

Lego themselves have an archived copy of every instruction set going back to the 80s, available here - https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions But for whatever reason, the scans are poor quality and very dark, and it can be hard to make out what piece is which. These ones look much better

In the past I've used that site to get instructions from the late 1990s and early 2000s and I thought they were proper archives (not scans).

Re: LEGO Building Instructions

#127

Post by rnitchy »

can we create an AI that has knowledge of the size, shape, color and name of each lego brick ever made??? We then feed it 3d renders and select a desired model scale (ex: 1:4 scale), and it prints out a lists of each piece you will need, as well as instruction/brick location to assemble an item that looks similar from lego parts.

Re: LEGO Building Instructions

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

sxp wrote: post #27

For modern sets, you can also get a PDF from the official site: https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions/7622... One of these days, I want to learn enough computer vision to write an LEGO instruction booklet to LCAD convertor that could be fed old instructions and generate a 3D model of the set. An archive of the instructions is nice, but a virtual archive of sets would be nicer.

I thought years ago Lego had a desktop program that let you build things with virtual bricks.

Re: LEGO Building Instructions

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Post by Nifty3929 »

rnitchy wrote: post #127

can we create an AI that has knowledge of the size, shape, color and name of each lego brick ever made??? We then feed it 3d renders and select a desired model scale (ex: 1:4 scale), and it prints out a lists of each piece you will need, as well as instruction/brick location to assemble an item that looks similar from lego parts.

What do you mean “we?”

Why don’t you do it? Or at least start the project? There’s already work in this space as well. I’ll be happy to contribute as well.

Re: LEGO Building Instructions

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Post by mulmen »

kevinob11 wrote: post #121
FeteCommuniste wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that just gave me a crazy flash of nostalgia. I think I must have had this set, or at least a very similar one.

Whoa, WHOA, I could never have named or described this but it suddenly felt like I was 8 hoping for specific christmas gifts again.

I admit to being a total sucker for Star Wars LEGO but I do love the classic sets with no “lore”. It’s some kind of space truck. People probably need trucks in space right? You figure it out kid.
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