<story><title>Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations</title><url>https://twitter.com/AlexanderNL/status/1410253599502962692</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elephantum</author><text>We ignore color by default now.&lt;p&gt;MOCs library is not very big at the moment, but we did not intend to go viral either :)&lt;p&gt;The library of different builds will grow for sure!</text></item><item><author>guepe</author><text>I just tried it on my kids&amp;#x27; Legos. I made two scans, one per box: it found ~2500 bricks, which I think is a very high hit rate.
However, the build suggestions are very, very lacking. For reference, my kids are 8 and 4.
The builds proposed are very simple, small, and still mention missing pieces (probably related to colors, which honestly most kids don&amp;#x27;t care about).
I think my 8yo would like it, she tends to build &amp;quot;worlds&amp;quot;, assembling many related contraption that each are fairly simple and match the themes found on suggestions.&lt;p&gt;As for my 4yo, forget it. He is a builder, making very elaborate and complex constructions, the bigger the better. He would find suggestions absolutely uninteresting.
I didn&amp;#x27;t try to scan Technic legos (which he is fond of and make astonishingly complex contraption given his age). But it&amp;#x27;s an even more complex problem to solve.&lt;p&gt;I suspect work on the app was focused on recognition, which honestly is impressive. The second part, finding models, maybe need a bit of work ?
I would recommend at least having an option to &amp;quot;ignore color&amp;quot;: it&amp;#x27;s nice to have a build that looks good, but overall most kids - including myself - like to build first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slg</author><text>&amp;gt; but we did not intend to go viral either :)&lt;p&gt;This is hilarious and makes me wonder about the relationship of the value of going viral with the repercussions in going viral before you feel you are ready for it.&lt;p&gt;Great, lots more people know about the app.&lt;p&gt;Not so great, some people&amp;#x27;s first impressions are negative because of flaws that you are probably already working to fix.&lt;p&gt;Overall it is an impressive app with lots of potential to be even better.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations</title><url>https://twitter.com/AlexanderNL/status/1410253599502962692</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elephantum</author><text>We ignore color by default now.&lt;p&gt;MOCs library is not very big at the moment, but we did not intend to go viral either :)&lt;p&gt;The library of different builds will grow for sure!</text></item><item><author>guepe</author><text>I just tried it on my kids&amp;#x27; Legos. I made two scans, one per box: it found ~2500 bricks, which I think is a very high hit rate.
However, the build suggestions are very, very lacking. For reference, my kids are 8 and 4.
The builds proposed are very simple, small, and still mention missing pieces (probably related to colors, which honestly most kids don&amp;#x27;t care about).
I think my 8yo would like it, she tends to build &amp;quot;worlds&amp;quot;, assembling many related contraption that each are fairly simple and match the themes found on suggestions.&lt;p&gt;As for my 4yo, forget it. He is a builder, making very elaborate and complex constructions, the bigger the better. He would find suggestions absolutely uninteresting.
I didn&amp;#x27;t try to scan Technic legos (which he is fond of and make astonishingly complex contraption given his age). But it&amp;#x27;s an even more complex problem to solve.&lt;p&gt;I suspect work on the app was focused on recognition, which honestly is impressive. The second part, finding models, maybe need a bit of work ?
I would recommend at least having an option to &amp;quot;ignore color&amp;quot;: it&amp;#x27;s nice to have a build that looks good, but overall most kids - including myself - like to build first.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>breck</author><text>This is so cool! UX is so simple and smooth. I was impressed by just it counting how many bricks I put out. This will be fun with my daughters as they get older and we collect more.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a big fan of all Lego communities like &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mecabricks.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mecabricks.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;lego&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;lego&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; and your Brickit just made my day. Thank you!</text></comment>