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LEGO BrainBricks looks to bring life to your creations, wireless sensors in each brick

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Everybody (I’m fielding a guess here) at one point or another has built with Legos. Imagination brought those constructs  to life. Those were some pretty fun days, but long ago. However, we may be able to relive some of those Lego fantasies once again with Wonder Years BrainBricks. Being developed by Bas van de Poel and Daan van Dam (from Amsterdam), BrainBricks uses Legos that have wireless sensors housed inside them which are able to sense how they’re configured. Once the configuration is mapped, they then send a signal to any mobile device, using the BrainBricks app, which then recreates the ‘build’ in a virtual gaming environment that lets you play with your creations. Theoretically (Wonder Years states), the better the build, the better performance you will have within the game. There’s just one slight problem; BrainBricks is just a concept from the guy’s over at Wonder Years and doesn’t actually exist yet. Hopefully, the people over at Lego will sign-off on this concept and let us relive some of the greatest times we’ve ever had as kids, or as adults! (10,000 supporters will make the tech a reality)

 

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    I tried to go to the project on cuusoo, but it has been deleted.  I guess that means they either got OKed by Lego or C&Ded by Lego.  Either way, seems like a great (though pricey) idea.  Would love to see it happen (assuming they got the price down).

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    I tried to go to the project on cuusoo, but it has been deleted.  I guess that means they either got OKed by Lego or C&Ded by Lego.  Either way, seems like a great (though pricey) idea.  Would love to see it happen (assuming they got the price down).

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