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I just tested it on my kids lego clone bricks; there are like 800 of them but they are almost exclusively basic shapes (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and 1x4) in red/

I just tested it on my kids lego clone bricks; there are like 800 of them but they are almost exclusively basic shapes (1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and 1x4) in red/black/blue/green/yellow/gray. This is a picture of the box: https://static-v3.e-jumbo.gr/uploads/resources/137879/2016110417209-enlarge.jpg?lm=1F886D428C96838F582A5A472CF4E9D9 https://static-v3.e-jumbo.gr/uploads/resources/137879/201611... ; you'll see they are exactly like legos. The app identified 400 pieces (of the 800) and unfortunately the resulting ideas were not possible to be constructed because it required pieces we don't have. Of the 50 ideas I was only able to construct 1 or 2 that had very few pieces. I tried it a couple of times with diferent layout in pieces or lights, nothing really changed. Sorry but it doesn't work, at least with my kind of bricks.

sandworm101 4y ago
So are they trying to upsell you by showing what could be built if you just bought a couple rare pieces?
- spapas82 4y ago
  No, not really, my understanding is that they are not related with Lego. The problem is that the app mis-identifies a lot of my pieces.
soared 4y ago
Wild to comment that someone’s app for identifying legos doesn’t identify not legos.
- spapas82 4y ago
  These bricks are exactly the same as normal legos and of course they are compatible. I can't differentiate from real legos unless I check if they have the lego logo on them. So I'm not sure this is a problem with these bricks...
  - zibby8 4y ago
    Why don’t you try the app on real legos first?
    - spapas82 4y ago
      Yes I'll do that also tomorrow, I've got this Lego classic box https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974558/20211118122213_lego_large_creative_box_10698.jpeg https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974558/2021... It just happened that my kids were playing with the lego clone and I definitely don't want to have both boxes on the floor at the same time :|
  - lupire 4y ago
    They are not the same. They are made of cheaper plastic with looser tolerances, leading to builds that bend or fall apart. And they don't have the tiny LEGO imprint they advertises the quality of the mold and tolerance. None of that should affect the performance of the app, though.
    - imdsm 4y ago
      These is the kind Lego your grandma would buy you for Christmas and you'd have to smile and say thanks while knowing they're not compatible and then vigilantly ensuring they don't contaminate the master Lego set
    - pessimizer 4y ago
      > None of that should affect the performance of the app, though. So in every measure relevant to this context, they are exactly the same. Of course they're distinct.
- toasterweasel 4y ago
  I've been using this app off and on for the past year with my seven year old. He likes it and is able to use it himself with our iPad Pro. It identifies the bricks pretty well but it's not perfect. We've been able to make a number of things but it does give you builds that you cannot make.
spapas82 4y ago
Ok, I tried today with my Lego Creative Box that contains ~ 500 original lego bricks (https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974521/20201114124609_lego_medium_creative_box_10696.jpeg https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974521/2020...)... Well the results are more or less the same as with my lego clone box. Although it offered me more ideas (~100) I could only do a bunch of them and these with random colors (not the colors it proposed). I think that the image detection algorith is not working that good; however there is a very simple solution to that: Allow me to enter the IDs of the sets I own (for example the one I mention is the 10696: https://www.lego.com/en-gr/themes/classic/building-instructions/10696 https://www.lego.com/en-gr/themes/classic/building-instructi...). Get the bricks my sets have contains , for example, for my set https://brickset.com/inventories/10696-1 https://brickset.com/inventories/10696-1. Then it should be easy... No computer vision needed :)

sandworm101 4y ago

So are they trying to upsell you by showing what could be built if you just bought a couple rare pieces?

spapas82 4y ago
No, not really, my understanding is that they are not related with Lego. The problem is that the app mis-identifies a lot of my pieces.

soared 4y ago

Wild to comment that someone’s app for identifying legos doesn’t identify not legos.

spapas82 4y ago
These bricks are exactly the same as normal legos and of course they are compatible. I can't differentiate from real legos unless I check if they have the lego logo on them. So I'm not sure this is a problem with these bricks...
- zibby8 4y ago
  Why don’t you try the app on real legos first?
  - spapas82 4y ago
    Yes I'll do that also tomorrow, I've got this Lego classic box https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974558/20211118122213_lego_large_creative_box_10698.jpeg https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974558/2021... It just happened that my kids were playing with the lego clone and I definitely don't want to have both boxes on the floor at the same time :|
- lupire 4y ago
  They are not the same. They are made of cheaper plastic with looser tolerances, leading to builds that bend or fall apart. And they don't have the tiny LEGO imprint they advertises the quality of the mold and tolerance. None of that should affect the performance of the app, though.
  - imdsm 4y ago
    These is the kind Lego your grandma would buy you for Christmas and you'd have to smile and say thanks while knowing they're not compatible and then vigilantly ensuring they don't contaminate the master Lego set
  - pessimizer 4y ago
    > None of that should affect the performance of the app, though. So in every measure relevant to this context, they are exactly the same. Of course they're distinct.
toasterweasel 4y ago
I've been using this app off and on for the past year with my seven year old. He likes it and is able to use it himself with our iPad Pro. It identifies the bricks pretty well but it's not perfect. We've been able to make a number of things but it does give you builds that you cannot make.

spapas82 4y ago

Ok, I tried today with my Lego Creative Box that contains ~ 500 original lego bricks (https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974521/20201114124609_lego_medium_creative_box_10696.jpeg https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974521/2020...)... Well the results are more or less the same as with my lego clone box. Although it offered me more ideas (~100) I could only do a bunch of them and these with random colors (not the colors it proposed). I think that the image detection algorith is not working that good; however there is a very simple solution to that: Allow me to enter the IDs of the sets I own (for example the one I mention is the 10696: https://www.lego.com/en-gr/themes/classic/building-instructions/10696 https://www.lego.com/en-gr/themes/classic/building-instructi...). Get the bricks my sets have contains , for example, for my set https://brickset.com/inventories/10696-1 https://brickset.com/inventories/10696-1. Then it should be easy... No computer vision needed :)