

I tried the app several times, with my large Lego collection and middling attention span. That’s important because the app’s aimed at under-sevens. Brickit’s makers say they’ve tried videos, AR and more, but the current system is the best compromise between accuracy and speed. The app’s makers decompile favourites and create build instructions for them, adding user-generated designs to the growing database of potential builds. There’s also a social aspect – you can upload photos of your own creations. Work to improve brick detection is ongoing and Brickit also recently launched an important user feedback loop: see an incorrectly identified brick and you can report it, so the app continually improves. The database of 2,500+ potential creations is the same for both versions. The free version recognises the most popular 100 bricks, while Pro recognises 1,600. Click on a brick in the instructions and the app shows you exactly where in your pile to find it.īrickit’s makers say its recognition model is constantly improving. Finally, it gives you a bunch of suggested builds, complete with instructions, pulled from the Brickit servers. These are both offline on the phone itself, for speed. The other attempts to recognise each one. One detects the individual bricks in the photo.

Then spread out your Lego well, so every brick is visible.īrickit uses the phone camera and two neural networks. Once the app’s installed, spread out your bricks flat. At the time of writing, there was a free seven-day trial of Pro, after which it costs £3.58 a month or £42.99 a year. The free app is available on iOS or Android. Should you keep sets together or have tubs of different colours and/or sizes? Can you use ‘a Lego’ as a noun or is it ‘a Lego brick’? And if you’ve lost all the instructions, what should you build?Īs we know from 'The Lego Movie', there are purists who insist on following instructions robotically and then there are freewheeling, creative types. Parents’ worst nightmare is stepping on them barefoot. Click on a LEGO category below to view all the LEGO instructions for that category.Lego, and compatible building bricks, have caused controversy and consternation for years.
