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Re:Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, wi... by spapas82 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:15PM (#32800881)
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...
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Re:Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, wi... by lupire on Sunday September 11, 2022 @01:30PM (#32801516)
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.

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Re:Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, wi... by imdsm on Monday September 12, 2022 @06:08AM (#32807959)
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
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Re:Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, wi... by pessimizer on Monday September 12, 2022 @12:08PM (#32812421)
> 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.

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Re:Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, wi... by zibby8 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:55PM (#32801221)
Why don’t you try the app on real legos first?
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Re:Brickit scans your pile of bricks and gives you ideas, wi... by spapas82 on Sunday September 11, 2022 @01:26PM (#32801473)
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 :|

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