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My Kickstarter project for an open-source building toy

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    fbartels
    last edited by 16 Mar 2013, 13:21

    Hi All,

    Some of you may remember my posting here about Quirky selecting my building toy idea for development.

    http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=179&t=39607

    Quirky eventually decided to go in another direction for a building toy.

    Since what I really want is to have a building toy available that allows for the easy creation of highly-curved organic shapes I started a Kickstarter campaign to develop the toy as an open-source project.

    If you are interested in this sort of thing please take a look.

    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/804215203/developing-a-21st-century-open-source-building-toy

    Thanks,

    Fred

    PS For you SketchUcation old timers, I blogged about my latest design work here. http://fredbartels.posterous.com

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      Krisidious
      last edited by 16 Mar 2013, 15:19

      Reminds me of TinkerToys....

      http://joelnicholsblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/dart-board4.jpg

      I'm down with it... I'm a backer.

      By: Kristoff Rand
      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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        fbartels
        last edited by 17 Mar 2013, 13:26

        Thanks Kristoff! I really appreciate your support. Indeed similar to tinker toys, but without the fixed angular constraints.

        I think your money is safe, as I don't believe I'll make the goal, but doing Kickstarter is a fun process, and I hope the project gets some more people thinking about new approaches to building toys.

        Cheers,

        Fred

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          fbartels
          last edited by 17 Mar 2013, 13:33

          Kristoff,

          I was looking through some of plans on your website, and especially the curved walls made me think if you are aware of hempcrete. It's quite an amazing building material that handles curves beautifully. This video provides a good introduction.

          Thanks again, Fred

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