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OMG, This would be an amazing 3d printable item.
by WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
OMG, This would be an amazing 3d printable item.
- jerf 7y agoThat seems like a great idea. All kudos to the LEGO Foundation for the idea, but the article repeatedly references compromises made to maintain the brand. A 3D printed version could be made without those compromises. It's not like it matters if these blocks integrate with the rest of the LEGO world particularly; any solution for laying this reasonably securely on some sort of foundation plate would work. That's not completely trivial, but I bet it would be sufficient to just have something like sized, spaced holes 1/2 to 3/4s of the depth of the blocks, so they'll stay put with fingers dragged across them; pick it up and flip it over to empty it. Less elegant, certainly, but much less printing precision required. Other solutions may work as well.
- jackpirate 7y agoI'd be surprised if you could 3d print lego bricks with sufficient accuracy to get proper clutch.
- alanbernstein 7y agoFor sturdy construction, probably not. For a flat sheet of braille text, maybe.
- jerrysievert 7y agoi've managed to get decent clutch, but they wear out a lot more quickly.
- em-bee 7y agoi am still waiting for the day that i can print my own lego compatible bricks that actually work reliably. i am glad to see that progress is being made. i hope that the wear out is a problem of the material and not the printing process, so maybe better material can solve that?