Wednesday, March 21, 2012
'Ve heard about this project for several months now, and I'm excited to see it is finally released. F.A.T. Laboratory and Sy-Lab officially launched its free universal kit construction, a set of instructions for the 3D printer to create impressive about 80 "adapter" bricks that allow you to connect ten (sort of) play sets for children popular construction:






included are the link between the following sets: Lego, Duplo, fischertechnik Gears! Gears! Gears!, K'Nex, Krinkles (blocks of hair), Lincoln Logs, Tinker, and Zome Zoob. There is also a huge block universal adapter. I must admit I'm a little disappointed that Megabloks not make the cut, as my son tends to come and go between them and duplicate. If they want are available in the Thingverse, although you will obviously need a 3D printer to actually do something with them. Here are some pictures that launched the team in action:



The general idea is really cool. Children do not care if Lego and Tinker of the same company. They want to work well together. This is part of the fun of tinkering. But of course, the toy companies want to "control" the market and pretend that there are toys. Recognizing that nobody else toy is considered an error - even if in reality

adds value toys, allowing

make with them. In the past we have seen Lego, in particular, be very aggressive in trying to block competitors.

Of course, this raises the big question: what about the right of intellectual property with this offer? Commercial nature that may protect against the problems of brands, even if it seems silly that effectively providing useful terminals for

sale
might call serious legal trouble. Anyway, I know guys who put this together last
ridiculous

amount of time exploring the various legal issues at stake here, and have a detailed discussion of same - with a clear recognition that even after being as careful as possible to avoid violating anyone's rights, are not yet considered:

Some may express concern that the construction kit universal free enterprise violates the prerogative as copyright, design right, trade city trademarks or patents systems compatible toys. We encourage those who are willing to enforce those rights

please think of the children

and say that the printing house building kit free universal is protected the Fair Use.
also have a thorough discussion on how the use of intellectual property is not a question of protecting the rights of all, but trying to get market dominance:

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