There's a company that makes sports stadiums out of "brxlz" (brick pixels) and at first I thought they were just knockoff legos.

After building a stadium I figured out it's basically just a low resolution 3d model of the stadium that you sort of 3d print layer by layer.

https://www.foco.com/collections/brxlz

Not nearly as nice as lego, but the final product is pretty cool.

surely you've seen all the LLM generated fake lego images?

https://www.core77.com/posts/126450/People-Easily-Fooled-by-...

https://www.instagram.com/lego_rick_/reel/C0HaaoRLNG9/

I would totally buy that metal press

quote from the instagram you linked: "I had a LEGO employee tell me that they had 10 customers ask about “upcoming” LEGO sets that ended up being AI."

Sounds like an excellent way to validate demand then?

Oh nice, I didn't see that. But we are in the right way. We just need someone from HN to create this LLM.

Not quite there but close :-D -> ChatGPT 3.5 Promt give me instructions on how to build an iPhone 15 Pro out of lego bricks

llm to 3d printer ?

Perhaps using something like:

http://flatfab.com