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Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by kentbrew »

arethuza wrote: post #15

How cool would it be if you could submit an image and get a box delivered containing all of the bricks to assemble your Brickified image along with a nice printout of the plan. Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).

It looks like LEGO's TOS is pretty restrictive if you come in through official channels. They're going to want to moderate your kit and make sure you're not doing anything commercial:

http://designbyme.lego.com/en-us/Terms/default.aspx?id=13154...

I bet Brickmania would take this on.

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by axod »

arethuza wrote: post #15

How cool would it be if you could submit an image and get a box delivered containing all of the bricks to assemble your Brickified image along with a nice printout of the plan. Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).

http://shop.lego.com/Mosaic/Default.asp?bhcp=1

"You can make a LEGO Mosaic using your own photographs! Use a digital camera or a scanner to make your photograph into a .jpg or a .gif image file on your computer."

"click here to order your unique Mosaic kit with LEGO tiles and instructions customized just for you!"

edit: Looks like you can't buy them anymore, but they used to offer it, with easy image upload -> purchase the mosaic set. I remember seeing it launched a few years back. Probably didn't sell enough to make it worth it.

Other sites that do them to order:

  http://www.brixels.net/index.html
  http://www.mosaicsmaker.com/index.php

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by arethuza »

commondream wrote: post #19
arethuza wrote: post #15

How cool would it be if you could submit an image and get a box delivered containing all of the bricks to assemble your Brickified image along with a nice printout of the plan. Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).

We couldn't figure out how to make it happen, but I agree, that would be awesome!

I'm tempted to try and build a robot (using Lego, obviously) that will count out the necessary bricks into a box :-)

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by kn0thing »

ryancarson wrote: post #20
arethuza wrote: post #15

How cool would it be if you could submit an image and get a box delivered containing all of the bricks to assemble your Brickified image along with a nice printout of the plan. Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).

We tried hard to link into the store and it was impossible :( It's like LEGO hates the web. Sigh.

I'm sending this along to our friends at LEGO (the ones who brought our Hack Club NY to life). Hopefully I can get you in touch with someone who can close to loop. Very nifty app nonetheless.

http://breadpig.com/2011/01/18/hack-club-1-total-success/

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by ryancarson »

kn0thing wrote: post #24
ryancarson wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We tried hard to link into the store and it was impossible :( It's like LEGO hates the web. Sigh.

I'm sending this along to our friends at LEGO (the ones who brought our Hack Club NY to life). Hopefully I can get you in touch with someone who can close to loop. Very nifty app nonetheless. http://breadpig.com/2011/01/18/hack-club-1-total-success/

Thanks! It'd be great to get LEGO to implement it.

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by axod »

ryancarson wrote: post #20
arethuza wrote: post #15

How cool would it be if you could submit an image and get a box delivered containing all of the bricks to assemble your Brickified image along with a nice printout of the plan. Would make quite a nice present (especially for people into things like jigsaw puzzles).

We tried hard to link into the store and it was impossible :( It's like LEGO hates the web. Sigh.

All you would need to do is create a ldd file that people can then import into LEGO digital designer. Then they just click 'buy'.

This has some info on the process http://www.ldraw.org/Category9-All.html

Alternatively figure out how the competition do it... (http://www.brixels.net http://www.mosaicsmaker.com etc)

Re: Brickify turns your images into LEGO plans

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Post by commondream »

neovive wrote: post #26

Is anyone else getting an application error? -- No such file or directory - ./views/app.haml I was able to load the Y logo from the comments below and now going back to the main page returns the error in Firefox 3.6

We just rolled out a fix. Sorry about that.
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