[hackpgh-discuss] Re: universal construction kit

Their discussion on the legal issues is pretty interesting. I've been
wanting to recreate 3D models of board game pieces for a while now,
and from their work it looks like it's legal so long as the patents
are expired (over 20 years). Given that Monopoly (along with the game
pieces) was patented back in 1935, it looks like that might be a good
first candidate.

Now does anyone know where I can find an optical comparator to make
sure the models are faithful to the original down to a few microns?

-Jeremy

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> for those of you with operational makerbots (alas, not me, yet) who want
> to use different building toys together,
> http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/
>
> a tinkertoy-lego-lincoln log mashup, which this makes possible, would
> be quite awesome.
>
>
>
> --
> Derrick
>

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