Don’t let them undercut your own willingness to try out the app.Īs screens have taken over, Lego has foundered at bridging its classic physical play with digital gaming. However, these engineering quibbles are fixable for the Brickit team with more refinement of the platform, and it’s possible that a few issues were due to our specific camera and lighting setup. Those errors meant our truck was a non-starter. Unfortunately, the app was prone to stalling and crashing, and we found a pretty large margin of error where, especially if one piece was partially obscured, Brickit labeled it incorrectly.

It’s very difficult to pick out one tiny Lego among hundreds! And when you tap the illustrated piece, the app brilliantly pulls back up your scanned photo and points out right where you can find them. The app lists each piece type in a clear illustration, just like classic Lego instructions. The app told us that we’re still missing a few pieces in order to build all of those 20 plans, but we try to build the truck the app suggested anyway. But we trudged on, doubled the pile, and got 20 suggested plans. The system counted 150 pieces this time, but the app gave no suggested builds.Īt this point, my son’s initial elation at the very existence of this app waned, as he suggested there are all sorts of things he could build with this pile. We weeded out the bad pieces and scanned again. So I enlisted his help, and did that weird parent thing where you sometimes have to ask permission of your own child to dump much of the bin onto the floor. (Brickit doesn’t claim to identify special Lego sets like Technic or anything else you might own).

But the app simply identified all the things it couldn’t understand: Lego rail track, some other specialized pieces, and a few non-Lego toys. First, I tried to take a picture of the tub.

Just shapes and beats on scratch