[hackpgh-discuss] Re: universal construction kit
- From: Matt Stultz <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:07:50 -0400
Games pieces are a tricky thing. Many have been okay but there have been
some issues with a couple. DMCA take down requests suck!
Thanks,
Matt
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Matthew Beckler <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I'm pretty sure all sorts of game pieces are already on thingiverse, with
> varying levels of accuracy and quality. Plus, is your makerbot accurate to
> the micron? :- )
>
> http://www.thingiverse.com/**thing:15576<http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15576>
> http://www.thingiverse.com/**thing:8842<http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8842>
> http://www.thingiverse.com/**thing:14769<http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14769>
>
> What I really want to print once my Prusa is finished, are these SimCity
> buildings!
> http://www.thingiverse.com/**thing:12673<http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12673>
>
> -Matthew
>
>
> On 03/21/2012 03:22 PM, Jeremy Herrman wrote:
>
>> 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/<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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