'cuz I definitely do

  • Mii
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    If they’re going to make this, I will coerce my daughter into coercing my wife to let me buy it.

  • @selfMA
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    133 months ago

    you can’t just put me at financial risk like this

    • @froztbyteOP
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      yeah I was grimacing at the partlist, but I think I’d still do it

      I haven’t meaningfully touched lego in like 15y and haven’t engaged with basically any of the starwars-y or latter-decades kits at all. but for this… it’d make a hell of a sweet display piece

      • @selfMA
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        I really hope the complexity doesn’t make it a no-go for Lego — honestly this is one of the only times I’d be in support of custom pieces if it makes assembly easier or the machine more durable

        I haven’t really engaged with Lego at all since I got into 3D printing, but them going “fuck it we’ll do mechanical computation” would definitely pull me back in. this is exactly the kind of thing that’d be a major pain to do with printed parts, where consistent and durable standardized parts would do a lot better

    • @o7___o7
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      3 months ago

      broke: acausal blackmail

      woke: acausal trade

      bespoke: acausal marketing

  • @Soyweiser
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    3 months ago

    Neat!

    E: also, this means that if the AI = AGI people are right, lego could be used to run an intelligence.

    • @swlabr
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      Me: steps on lego brick

      Simulation voice of god: “THE BASILISK SENDS ITS REGARDS!”

      • @Soyweiser
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        43 months ago

        Yud finally has a tool that even the acausalrobotgod fears

      • @mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml
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        53 months ago

        So in the video there were two things that made me go ‘ahh that’s not really gonna fly for a mass marketed product’

        One was the multiple beams at specific positions on multiple axles that require a lot of fine tuning.

        Either you’d have to pack the axle with other pieces to make it fool proof or these would get out of whack over time causing issues.

        The other (more problematic) issue IMO was the rotating mechanism at the top of the build. This seemed to use non-standard spacing by having rigid hose pieces connected to the 24 tooth gear.

        Just don’t think that would ever fly and would need to be reengineered.

        • @froztbyteOP
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          33 months ago

          yeah, but like … yeah? this is a thing someone put together from the spectrum of existing parts, to show the viability, and pitch as a kit because it’s neat

          pretty obviously any commercial version of it would have to be more buttoned up. that’s literally in the product design loop

    • @froztbyteOP
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      13 months ago

      can’t tell if you were joking or are unfamiliar with what a turing machine is