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

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Post by criley2 »

drexlspivey wrote: post #116
silviot wrote: post #108

I subscribed to the free trial for the Play store app, tried it a bit, and now I'd like to cancel my subscription. I found a "Manage subscriptions" link in the app, and it points to the Play Store app. I can't find an "unsubscribe" button there. If I try o uninstall the app I'm explicitly told "Your active subscriptions will not be canceled". I spent ten minutes looking for this, and I'm a web developer. How on earth…

That’s one thing that Apple got right, you can cancel any subscription from settings so you don’t have to deal with that crap.

Apple and Google both have all subscriptions in a single place that are easy to manage, this user just doesn't know how to access them.

This is normal. My parents do not understand the iOS settings app at all, and it confuses them that they have to leave their app to manage their apps in a different app. I don't think Apple (or Google) got this right, there is definitely room for improvement for average user UX

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

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Post by reubenmorais »

phkahler wrote: post #98
xaduha wrote: post #96

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Very cool idea, but what I'd need way more often: Now what I want is something that will scan a pile of stocks and tell me how to put them together to have a perfect portfolio. https://www.tradingview.com/heatmap/stock/ Or better yet, tell my robot how to do it.

Very cool idea, but what I'd need way more often: Now what I want is something that will scan dating sites for my perfect mate. Or better yet, tell my robot how to do her.

If your robot is doing her robot, you can let the algorithms do the perfect mate matching, and then just grab a relaxed coffee with her, no sexual pressure anymore. What Žižek would call a great date: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYO-VMZUGo

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

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Post by Tyr42 »

robbrown451 wrote: post #57

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.

There's one for bananas on bread.

https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2020/08/25/optimal-peanut-but...

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

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Post by ttcbj »

To be honest, what I love about legos is the free play aspect.

When I play with my kids, (now 8 and 10), I find that the key thing is not what pieces we have (admittedly, we have a lot of pieces), or instructions, but developing some theme or challenge.

The theme could be ‘space’ or ‘under water’ or ‘I’m going to build the taller possible leg structure’ or ‘I’m going to build a vehicle that can be blown across the floor with a fan.’ Once they have a theme, they will do amazing stuff.

Also, I believe it’s important to have a big slush pile of pieces. It’s amazing how much builds change when your are scrounging for piece X, and you see piece Y and think, actually…

I see that this app is technologically interesting for the developer, but it doesn’t address my core problem: inspiring kids to get started on free creativity. For that, I’d more like a Lego theme of the day app, maybe slightly inspired or guided by the kids ages or genders. If I did that, I’d have the kids submit pictures of their results, and use those over time to assess and improve the quality of my suggested themes at different ages and Lego piles sizes (there is your AI, if you must).

The pitch would be ‘inspire your kids to new creativity.”

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

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Post by adv0r »

ttcbj wrote: post #124

To be honest, what I love about legos is the free play aspect. When I play with my kids, (now 8 and 10), I find that the key thing is not what pieces we have (admittedly, we have a lot of pieces), or instructions, but developing some theme or challenge. The theme could be ‘space’ or ‘under water’ or ‘I’m going to build the taller possible leg structure’ or ‘I’m going to build a vehicle that can be blown across the fl…

agree on everything you said. Father of 2 (2 and 4 y/o) here, trying to introduce them to lego. I find the app fantastic for learning and inspiration, because I suck at lego and building with blocks myself.

It can be turned into a super supa parenting tool, for lame parents like myself.

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

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Post by soco »

robbrown451 wrote: post #57

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.

Build bridges, not walls

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

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Post by PebblesRox »

NeoTar wrote: post #95
bartvk wrote: post #62

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It's gotten worse, too. There used to be a limited amount of colors. My daughter now has a lot of of the Lego Friends series. It's very difficult, because there's pink, light pink, purple, light purple, and some sort of lilac. So if you want to perfectly build a piece, it takes a whole lot of searching. But then again, it's kinda fun too because you're forced to substitute.

If you keep your LEGO sorted then many builders suggest sorting by part rather than by colour - its a lot easier to identify a pink vs. hot pink 1x4 brick, rather than to find the 1x4 brick in your hot pink box. However, sorting by part can be frustrating. Imagine only 1x1 tiles/plates (i.e. the pieces which are 1/3 the height of a regular brick), to my knowledge there are: * 1x1 square plates (i.e. with a stud on to…

Yeah, sorting by color is a lot quicker than by part, though once you have things sorted by part (even roughly) it's easier to find placeholders that might not be the perfect color but still perform the same function.

All those 1x1s could go in the same place and it would still help a lot with locating them, just knowing there's a place that only has 1x1s.

If you're sorting to make it easier to build from instructions, sort by color. Otherwise sort by shape/size.

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

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Post by thedorkknight »

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

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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?

...can't you still do that, even with this app, if you want?

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

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Post by worldsayshi »

ttcbj wrote: post #124

To be honest, what I love about legos is the free play aspect. When I play with my kids, (now 8 and 10), I find that the key thing is not what pieces we have (admittedly, we have a lot of pieces), or instructions, but developing some theme or challenge. The theme could be ‘space’ or ‘under water’ or ‘I’m going to build the taller possible leg structure’ or ‘I’m going to build a vehicle that can be blown across the fl…

I think that the best way to learn is to combine free play with trying out other designs. That's the best way to learn how to achieve the designs you want to make.

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

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Post by jimmySixDOF »

justinlloyd wrote: post #54
memco wrote: post #15

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> 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 fr…

Maybe time to dust that off and try again I'll bet more recent phones make those apps shine
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