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

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Post by yreg »

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…

When I was younger I would build a set, play with it for a while while modifying it. And after that it would be never built again, because it would disintegrate into the giant collection of bricks I had, used to build custom cities. Perhaps with the exception of trains, which I used to rebuilt close to the blueprints.

Now that I'm old, I'm not in the mood to build custom LEGO structures anymore, and I have some builds (e.g. ISS) that are exactly by the manual and just sitting, looking pretty on furniture. I think my younger self would be disgusted. :)

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

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Post by davidjfelix »

smilespray wrote: post #109
jiggywiggy wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not so fast. Sock magic: I've only bought black socks over the last 5 year, and still I can't seem to find ones anymore that exactly match in both fitting and color (they all seem to have degraded in different color tones)

Maybe your left foot produces slightly more agressive sweat than the right one.

This only really tracks if they intentionally wear socks on specific feet. While some socks have L/R indicators, most don't.

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

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Post by sandworm101 »

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…

Lego + social media. People now want to build "good" lego. They want to post pictures/clips for likes/views, which for some translates into money. They need stuff that is all the right color. They want it to be in proportion. This tool will allow them to see what is possible so that they can start a complex build knowing they have the bits to finish it. This is modern lego building.

"Lego is like minecraft, but with a hard limits on the number and type of available blocks."

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

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Post by swayvil »

bismuthcrystal wrote: post #73
homonculus1 wrote: post #23

Why not just... play with the LEGO?

Because more tech is always the correct solution, right? The world will be a better place once we outsource everything to our machine overlords, can't you see? Why waste precious time thinking when you can get your answers right now? Thinking don't lead you nowhere, the machines will do it better than you anyway.

Tech is a way of controlling things without ever leaving the comforts of the inside of your own head. For every circumstance, a map. For every need, a button.

Touching actual reality with your own meaty paws and wet eyeballs is just upsetting.

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

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Post by sandworm101 »

spapas82 wrote: post #105

I just tested it on my kids lego clone bricks; there are like 800 of them but they are almost exclusively basic shapes (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and 1x4) in red/black/blue/green/yellow/gray. This is a picture of the box: https://static-v3.e-jumbo.gr/uploads/resources/137879/201611... ; you'll see they are exactly like legos. The app identified 400 pieces (of the 800) and unfortunately the resulting ideas were not poss…

So are they trying to upsell you by showing what could be built if you just bought a couple rare pieces?

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

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Post by curlftpfs »

neilpa wrote: post #56
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.

Same! There isn't one standard "red brick" size (like I thought lol), but there are a lot of different sizes. I'd pay for an app like that.

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

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Post by sandworm101 »

gog wrote: post #80
weinzierl wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very cool idea, but what I'd need way more often: Now what I want is something that will scan a pile of socks and tell me how to put them together to have a perfect match. https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/socks-pile-texture-pict... Or better yet, tell my robot how to do it.

This is an easy problem to solve, find the socks you like and then buy 20 pairs of the same socks and get rid of the old ones.

Im in a military. I get issued 15 pairs of socks each year in three different styles. But from one year to the next, pairs are never constructed exactly the same. Then the wear/washing history of each pair divides them even within a given year's issue. I have 43 pairs of socks now in my "work socks" drawer (just counted) but no two are interchangeable. When they come out of the drier i still have to individually match them. Interchangable parts tech has yet to crack this field.

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

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Post by SkeuomorphicBee »

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…

My preference towards free-play, and opinion against guided-play (following manuals) used to be similar to yours. But my sister made me realize how much that my earlier guided-play was essential to develop my fundamental building skills that allowed my later free-play to thrive. My sister inherited my Lego box but with no manuals, so she only ever knew free-play, and she describe her experience with Lego growing up as frustrating and fruitless, of wanting to build things but not knowing how to even start, because she lacked many fundamental skills.

So I realized a basic truth of pretty much all skills and hobbies: guided play or formal training are not enemies of free creative play, quite the opposite, they fosters creativity by opening many new avenues.

Every musical composers or great jazz improvisers started by playing someone else's music.

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

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Post by Kaibeezy »

fouronnes3 wrote: post #102
Kaibeezy wrote: post #97

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693560 Barely a year ago. I thought it was maybe 5 years ago. Time itself must be accelerating. I need an app that can scan my hard drives, connectome and biochemistry > bleep bloop > tell me what I can still do with my life.

Scan hydrogen atoms and tell me how to built a type III civilization.

Scan quantum resonances and tell me how to bring back my cat.
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