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Free Universal Construction Kit Construction Toy
This is a Construction toy. It was designed by Golan Levin and Shawn Sims and manufactured by 3D Systems and printed by Scott Summit. We acquired it in 2016. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.
The Free Universal Construction Kit consists of nearly 80 adapter bricks connecting 10 popular construction toys. Users can download the files from various sharing sites and print them on a Makerbot or other personal 3D printer. The Kit demonstrates that reverse engineering is “a creative process in which anyone can develop the necessary pieces to bridge the limitations presented by mass-produced commercial artifacts.”
This object was donated by Golan Levin.
- 3D Printer In Zero-G Experiment (USA), 2013–14
- aluminum, steel, plastic.
- Courtesy of Made In Space, Inc. and NASA.
- 3.2014.1
- Related Tools And Parts, 2013–14
- thermoplastic.
- Courtesy of Made In Space, Inc. and NASA.
- 3.2014.2
- Sidewall, Drop, 2011
- screen-printed on vinyl, polyester backing.
- Gift of Knoll Textiles.
- 2011-40-7
Our curators have highlighted 13 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Poster, Noh, 1981
- offset lithograph on paper.
- Gift of Takenobu Igarashi.
- 1981-69-2
- 3D-printed Model, Polybrick, 2015
- 3d-printed nylon.
- Courtesy of Jenny Sabin Studio and Sabin Design Lab, Cornell Architecture.
- s-e-1765-a,b
- One__Shot.MGX Folding Stool
- laser-sintered polyamide (nylon).
- 2008-32-4
Cite this object as
Free Universal Construction Kit Construction Toy; Designed by Golan Levin and Shawn Sims; USA; 2016-2-1-1/57
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Beautiful Users.