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Show HN: Lego Brick Scanner – open-source Boilerplate

154 points by GistNoesis 5y ago

GistNoesis 5y ago
I saw Brickit on HN friday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693560 and played with replicating the technology this week-end just for fun. It renders virtual legos stacks in a pybullet environment and generate synthetic data ready to be played with neural networks blocks. I have compiled a pybullet ready ~14000 Lego bricks dataset that may be useful to you. Pybullet in non-GUI can handle ~3000 simultaneous bricks.
- ChrisArchitect 5y ago
  ha! crazy. Did you share this over in that Brickit thread there? Sure some would be interested
  - GistNoesis 5y ago
    Thanks for posting the original thread ! Good idea ! I'll add a back-link.
- nemesisj 5y ago
  I am working on a LEGO sorter project, and getting access to labeled data to train my neural network is a real pain. Would love to see if your dataset could be of use!
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normcoreashore 5y ago
new idea for a lego app: Dump all your legos on the floor, take a video / photos of the pile. (nicely spread around). App should create a complete inventory of all your bricks. From there, generate list of sets which can be built, etc...
- mattdeboard 5y ago
  this project is inspired by a project that does literally exactly what you just posted https://brickit.app/ https://brickit.app/
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  - corndoge 5y ago
    It's extraordinary how bad this website is. If I hadn't seen the twitter video showing what it actually did, I would have no idea just based on this page. The video alone could be the entire website and it would be better than this. For such an incredibly cool project it's a shame
    - darkteflon 5y ago
      Requires an Instagram login to watch the “how it works” video, too. Just bizarre.
afro88 5y ago
> This project is a tool to generate synthetic 3d scenes for toying with bricks registration. I'm out of the lego brick scanning loop. What is "bricks registration"?
dumbfounder 5y ago
Next step is to take a picture or 3D model of some object and come up with a lego version of it.
- GistNoesis 5y ago
  That's an interesting project. Maybe there are some similar project in Minecraft.

154 points by GistNoesis 5y ago

I saw Brickit on HN friday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27693560 and played with replicating the technology this week-end just for fun. It renders virtual legos stacks in a pybullet environment and generate synthetic data ready to be played with neural networks blocks. I have compiled a pybullet ready ~14000 Lego bricks dataset that may be useful to you. Pybullet in non-GUI can handle ~3000 simultaneous bricks.

ChrisArchitect 5y ago
ha! crazy. Did you share this over in that Brickit thread there? Sure some would be interested
- GistNoesis 5y ago
  Thanks for posting the original thread ! Good idea ! I'll add a back-link.
nemesisj 5y ago
I am working on a LEGO sorter project, and getting access to labeled data to train my neural network is a real pain. Would love to see if your dataset could be of use!

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normcoreashore 5y ago

new idea for a lego app: Dump all your legos on the floor, take a video / photos of the pile. (nicely spread around). App should create a complete inventory of all your bricks. From there, generate list of sets which can be built, etc...

mattdeboard 5y ago
this project is inspired by a project that does literally exactly what you just posted https://brickit.app/ https://brickit.app/
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- corndoge 5y ago
  It's extraordinary how bad this website is. If I hadn't seen the twitter video showing what it actually did, I would have no idea just based on this page. The video alone could be the entire website and it would be better than this. For such an incredibly cool project it's a shame
  - darkteflon 5y ago
    Requires an Instagram login to watch the “how it works” video, too. Just bizarre.

afro88 5y ago

> This project is a tool to generate synthetic 3d scenes for toying with bricks registration. I'm out of the lego brick scanning loop. What is "bricks registration"?

dumbfounder 5y ago

Next step is to take a picture or 3D model of some object and come up with a lego version of it.

GistNoesis 5y ago
That's an interesting project. Maybe there are some similar project in Minecraft.