Bubblox

When I heard about the ultimaker toy challenge, I immediately started brainstorming about aspects of the toy. In my opinion a good toy should be: Educative Creative (like Lego, fisher technics, knex, kapla) Limitless Expandable Modular What I like so much about Lego at the time I grew up, that there were relatively few different pieces, so when you had enough Lego you could build almost anything else that you would see in stores. Nowadays Lego has become more like playmobil, where more parts have fancy shapes that can only be used in the toy it was designed for and even lego technics has gone that route The great thing about kapla is that there is only one type of building block. So it stimulates your creativity to build something unique with it. Not only is it great to build, but also large part of the fun is to collapse the things you have built. So I started thinking about a modular type of toy that combines aspects of Lego and kapla, that would be easy to print on an ultimaker and developed Bubblox (the name being derived from the small bubbles on the building blocks Bubblox is a modular system of building blocks similar to Lego with the difference of being tolerant to common artifacts in 3d printing (eg. Warping and shrinkage) Since there is no manufacturer that dictates which building blocks will be distributed, it will stimulate children not only to build things with Bubblox, but also to design and print their own blocks, based on a few simple design rules. Building with Bubblox is easy. The blocks easily slide into place, which makes building fast as well. Once you have few layers, the structure becomes more stable as you continue upwards. In contrary with kapla, it is easier to build precise shapes like with lego, while still being able to pile up the blocks like with kapla Currently I have uploaded a basic library of building blocks. My goal is that children will not only have fun building with the blocks, but also develop their own based on the design she