For a while LEGO had 'modulex' and 'plancopy', at least one segment of which was targeted at lego based planning boards.<p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1NgBBDpSJ34/SNm7FhCVdNI/AAAAAAAADXU/unm9aB4gGMQ/s400/6e5f_1.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1NgBBDpSJ34/SNm7FhCVdNI/AAAAAAAADX...</a>
Love the idea, especially it's accessibility. This feels like it would be fast to manage physically, except for the take-photo-and-email component, which could be replaced by a webcam pointed at the board. Then there's also no technical friction fiddling on your phone.
FYI, This was posted 11 months ago too.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475285" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6475285</a>
Looks pretty cool. Few questions.<p>1) Do you have to give your calendar login to a 3rd party?
2) What happens I add something to my calendar on my computer, is there some alert sent to someone that they need to add a lego to the board?
3) What I schedule something on the calendar online, but the lego doesn't get added to the board. When someone takes a picture and syncs it, what will happen to my appointment? Will it think it's gone and erase it? Notify of the descrepency, etc....<p>I'm envisioning in my head some arduino powered lego calendar that automatically puts the blocks in place as appointments are added/moved/deleted from the cloud.
Although the image recognition software is cool, it's almost surely cheaper to just set up Mechanical Turk HITs, compared to however many programmer-hours were spent on the image recognition.
Can the synchronizer differentiate between single block and double block heights?<p>Also, another cool level of granularity (if needed) could be using 1x2 or 1x1 lego blocks to add more information that's easily seen in the photo. Not only do you have different colors of 1x2 and 1x1 blocks, you can also place them in different positions (left/right vertically, top/bottom horizontally).<p>All in all, great idea. I'd like to set one of these up myself in the future.
I posted this two months ago [0] glad to see it gained traction this time :)<p>[0]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914768" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914768</a>