[HN Gopher] Designing a Lego orrery
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       Designing a Lego orrery
        
       Author : _Microft
       Score  : 167 points
       Date   : 2024-06-09 19:23 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | h2odragon wrote:
       | Art is often enhanced by the constraints of the medium in which
       | it is realized.
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       |  _wow_ thats cool. Lego should pay him lots of money for the plan
       | and sella few kits of it.
        
         | mortos wrote:
         | As he mentions in the article, LEGO does sell a kit already,
         | set 42179. I find it unlikely they'll adopt his design when
         | they already sell one of their own, even if his has
         | improvements that he mentions.
        
           | eichin wrote:
           | Though it looks like it's not _strictly_ against
           | https://ideas.lego.com/guidelines , under "PLEASE ONLY
           | SUGGEST NEW IDEAS. NO IDEAS TO "BRING BACK" OLD LEGO SETS."
           | they say:
           | 
           | > Don't submit product ideas requesting we re-release or
           | "bring back" discontinued LEGO products or themes in their
           | original form, and don't submit product ideas that are
           | "modifications," "improvements," or "expansion sets" to
           | existing or past LEGO sets. If you're submitting a product
           | idea based on a discontinued LEGO theme or brand (for example
           | Blacktron or Octan), it must be your own new, creative work.
           | 
           | simply because this design _predates_ the official re-
           | release... but given that the official one is from this year,
           | it seems really unlikely they 'd run with it this soon
           | anyway.
        
       | flafla2 wrote:
       | This is so awesome. There's a lot to geek out about here, but I
       | was personally enamored with the extra effort to make good
       | renders/visualizations in software. Thanks for the read!
        
       | CaptainOfCoit wrote:
       | The gear ratio calculator is great and will be of great use!
       | Thanks!
       | 
       | Extra + for making the form variables controllable by URL params:
       | https://marian42.de/gears/?targetratio=2/8&dst=any&gears=def...
        
       | HenryBemis wrote:
       | I love Legos, I usually make them and give them away. Now, this
       | one surprised me and I was amazed. I will never do this, but
       | WOW!!!!
        
       | _Microft wrote:
       | The creator of this also made a tool to design custom,
       | 3d-printable Lego-compatible pieces:
       | 
       | https://marian42.de/article/partdesigner/
        
       | IshKebab wrote:
       | I have the not-Lego(tm) orrery he mentioned at the start and it
       | is great. Very good value for money & fun to build. It is sad
       | that you can't use it to explain seasons though, like you can
       | with his serious upgrade. Nice work!
        
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