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

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...

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.

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

> 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.

Why don’t you try the app on real legos first?

Yes I'll do that also tomorrow, I've got this Lego classic box 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 :|

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.

Ok, I tried today with my Lego Creative Box that contains ~ 500 original lego bricks (https://b.scdn.gr/images/sku_main_images/005974/5974521/2020...)... 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-instructi...). Get the bricks my sets have contains , for example, for my set https://brickset.com/inventories/10696-1.

Then it should be easy... No computer vision needed :)

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

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.