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Very cool project from a technical point of view, but I can't resist thinking how unnecessary this is in the real world. I remember a blog post of one of those
by esquire_900 7y ago
Very cool project from a technical point of view, but I can't resist thinking how unnecessary this is in the real world. I remember a blog post of one of those first sorters, which ended with the guy owning a huge stack of sorted legos and no buyers.
Well done nonetheless, seems to work pretty smooth (though I see a lot of mixed materials in the buckets?).
- jacquesm 7y agoBuyers aplenty but not enough to warrant shutting down my other company so that I can focus on Lego, there just isn't enough money in it once you start accounting for your time.
- turtlebits 7y agoIME, the ecosystem for buying Lego is not very mature. I tried to buy a bunch of 44 specific lego pieces (the parts were listed from a book and fairly common) through Brickseek and couldn't do it. Brickseek has a "Easy Buy" where you can add items to your list and have it find sellers, but it didn't work at all for me. Manually trying to find each piece is not worth the effort.
- danimal88 7y agoIt would seem then that the real business opportunity here is probably in reselling used legos on an as needed basis. You buy or just get donated legos from people that no longer use them and then you can sell custom sets for people by running through the semi sorted bins and creating the order. So you don't want to sell the machine but rather, sell Legos. Perhaps the main issue is whether resale rights are allowed but seems solvable.
- paulddraper 7y agoI came across a vendor on eBay just the other day that sorted Legos into full Lego sets and sold those (sans mini-figs), with a link to the PDF instructions, and a warranty that they would send any missing parts. I would suspect this is a nice little business selling 40% discounted complete Lego sets.