Computer: Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
AssembleCAD   (+5)  [vote for, against]
tonka like but in an app

@Please move to correct cat. Thanks.

Have an easy to use CAD program with parts like straws and widgets and connectors etc.

When I swing my fingers on an object it does a transformation that it guesses is probably what I meant, but offers me three other possibilities, along with a cancel. A camera watches my gestures and plays with the outcome.

I also give it a rough description of what I want to achieve and according to previous millions of other people using the app, it helps me get there quickly.
-- pashute, Jun 13 2017

Everything they say here - but as a game https://www.youtube.com/user/AutodeskMFG
i.e. much simpler than what they show [pashute, Jun 13 2017]

faBrickation: Fast 3D Printing Using Lego Bricks https://www.youtube...watch?v=_bapIwyY7VY
[notexactly, Feb 11 2018]

Lego app?
-- RayfordSteele, Jun 13 2017


Hmm. Something like this, with a community-sourced library of common components, would be quite cool. It would also be useful to have a search function, so that you can ask for (say) a 2" cogwheel with 38 teeth, and the app will tell you that you can scavenge one from a Xerox toner cartridge.

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-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 13 2017


makes sense
-- beanangel, Jun 13 2017


Don't be a meany, [beany].
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jun 13 2017


What category should this be in? (if we're already discussing being in)
-- pashute, Jun 16 2017


Computer: Input Device
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 16 2017


I'm thinking Computer: cam

It'd be nice if it could interface with Google's object image recognition.
-- RayfordSteele, Jun 16 2017



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