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antonyhtoday at 2:54 PM3 repliesview on HN

This is why Lego has nothing to fear from 3D printing.


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spatulartoday at 6:43 PM

The trick is to redesign the bricks for worse tolerances. With 3D printers you can print very nuanced springy elements that are impossible to achieve with injection molding. I got some reasonable bricks years ago on cheap printers with PETG, should work even better now with modern printers and ABS.

wongarsutoday at 3:00 PM

Not in terms of people printing lego bricks. But at least as an adult, designing things in Fusion and printing them scratches a similar itch as building lego. And 3d printing is now pretty accessible to the 14+ age group. I doubt this will completely replace legos, or that it's even their biggest threat, but I'd be surprised if it had no impact

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tmalytoday at 3:03 PM

It would be interesting if 3D printers could reach this tolerance

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