Most efficient way of rebuilding Lego Sets (Java Application)

Between my brothers and I, we have accumulated hundreds of Lego Sets from our childhood. Unfortunately, most of them have not survived. That is, we have dozens of bins full of mixed-up pieces. For those who haven't faced the task of trying to rebuild Lego Sets, it’s terrible, to be quite honest. There are hundreds of unique Lego pieces with about a hundred different color varieties, which means there can be up to 10,000 unique pieces in a single bin. This makes sorting and finding pieces very difficult. What I have created is what I believe to be the most efficient way of rebuilding lego sets.
Project created: 12/20/2020
Transcript: docs.google.com/document/d/1l...
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[@icantthinkofahandle55]

This is me right now. I'm going to attempt to revive all my lego starwars sets

[@pawelresmerowski]

Yeah, me too. I had at-ap that costs about 250$ now. Im going to rebuild this, I dont have minifigures but I will find them

[@glyphs320]

Yea I have the ghost that I need to rebuild

[@anthonymartino2382]

Trying the same, I had the old 2007 clone trooper battle pack but my friend used to take all my minifigures when we were younger. Never cared until I saw the money in it 😂😂

[@saltylikescoldsoup]

I have a destroyed 2016 turbo tank😢

[@serboffm3818]

I hope u had a great time, i just remembered i lost all of my lego years ago due to robbery.

[@twinki3toes351]

I know this has been said before, but what I have found the most helpful and least dreadful is just taking a bowl, scooping out of the bin of mixed parts until the bowl is full, then sort the contents of the bowl into different categories; bricks, snot pieces, slopes, curved slopes, tiles, clips and plates. then after repeating the process until the bin is empty you can go one by one and sort divide each pile into its respective colors. Finally for getting all the parts for each set, bricklink has an inventory of every lego set, you can use this a alot more efficiently than the instruction manuals due to it being far easier to read and differentiate colors (mainly older sets have this issue i.e. brown looks black). You can then bring over the bin of whatever brick type you want to do first in the parts list, if you were to do snot bricks then you would go through the list and add every snot brick indicated by the parts list, then rinse and repeat for all the types. This gets rid of the need for going back and getting all the different types over and over, making it only necessary to get each type once. I was able to sort about 34lbs of lego in 2 days with this method and I didn't go insane doing it.

[@SignalMan9292]

I faced the task. 2 weeks later it was done. It was worth it. I recommend doing it.

[@ilovelegos360]

I'm dealing with the same ploblem right now and thanks for the advice 😀

[@TheRealHeckerCat]

Please share the program, it would help a ton 👌

[@lukebercel6492]

Just sort the all by plates slopes bricks and misc and Minifigures. Then sort all of those 4 main categories by color. Then when you rebuild a set you just go to the bag with that piece.

[@mikekeltner4291]

I bought a bulk Lego box off eBay, so far I’ve put 6 set’s together out of it. A Jurassic Park helicopter, a tie fighter, a black tie interceptor, a vulture droid, a Naboo star fighter, and a speeder.

[@makitagut2472]

Thank you so much! Looking at you guys doing the work looks so awesome.

[@All_Knowing_Truth]

I just spent a whole day sorting and rebuilding 7676 Republic Attack Gunship from my childhood and a day after completing it... Everything hurts, thighs, back, bum, hips. Man, I hate getting older. Need a proper place to do it, but where I am I have limited space.. I have more sets to rebuild but I'm going to take a breather and reevaluate on how get into a better building position. Need a big desk and rebuild them there, but so far I'm recovering from just the first rebuild lol

[@karaosselmann9549]

Really fun video! Thank you!

[@reidquinn]

I came up with my own system because I am rebuilding my Stranger Things set. I go through the booklet and find the pieces, that are all in a specific bag (the set has 12 bags in total) I put the pieces in that and when I'm finished I can get the full LEGO building experience lmao.

[@thickishoven1525]

thanks for the advice this helped alot

[@Brickazar250]

Is this program availaible for download? Awsom vid!

[@camsellstoys]

I bought a tub of old spiderman sets and Harry Potter sets from the early 2000s has one of the batcaves just got finished organizing all the pieces by color to help locate pieces easier

[@musicman0329]

This is literally me right now! I'm trying to rebuild my Speed Champions sets :D (I'm a massive motorsports fan)

[@promisteryolo1786]

Heyy did you do it??

[@musicman0329]

@@promisteryolo1786 i've begun again a few days ago, but dont have much time for them

[@promisteryolo1786]

@@musicman0329 oh damn. How come you didnt start earlier (I'm assuming you are not a kid)

[@Brickyfilms]

Awesome program! Is it available?

[@Moli2222]

My lego mario bowser castle set is missing almost everything, even the buildable bowser figurine it came with

[@crywalt]

The idea that putting more effort into the application than doing it by hand is a waste of effort is NOT the way engineers and computer people approach things. I'm always willing to expend an enormous amount of effort to be lazy. :)

[@crywalt]

That said, this app looks AWESOME.

[@Menacerdestroys]

Why can’t you share the program with us?

[@AdiFingold]

Is this program available anywhere?

[@tbu_drachenkater5397]

Hi, i have interest in doing this, can you send a link to the programm please?

[@Beetle_XZ2010]

i will also rebuild a broken sets and others but the one i want to rebuild is the minecraft iron golem set

[@Mandarin69]

Yo, how did you make this software?

[@Epicdog1115]

Here’s how I do it: Step 1 sort all parts by color. Photo copy instructions book Start collecting parts by color and use a pen to check off the parts you collected on photocopied paper not to ruin og instructions

[@ghosthawkk]

i’m a bit confused, where is the website?

[@binguslover2000]

pleaseee share the program it would be lifesaving

[@SiddKoth]

hey is this program available for the viewers if so pls send how i can find it. thanks.

[@bladenj1597]

Love this idea how do I use it

[@devin_details]

Bro got an A+ in his college Java class

[@---l---]

Hello from Fact Fiend with Karl Smallwood

[@Itzkilo10]

I can’t do that for myn. It is a 70,000 piece set that my dog just demolished the front of

[@KoumakCzech]

Hello, is this application available for download?

[@jbjshorts4709]

Right now I’m rebuilding the mace Windu jedi star fighter Lego 7868

[@jimmyneutronsepichehehehab1195]

My broken ruined portal set needs fixing

[@alisha.0504]

is this program available? i am trying to rebuild my old lego friends sets from when i was younger

[@Gingu0]

Hey did you find out how to use the app?

[@alisha.0504]

@@Gingu0 nope

[@saishavangadar]

Is the program available??

[@csongorszendery4315]

Hi! Please share the program!

[@user-mw2nc7qf8q]

Please share the program

[@jisef2270]

I'm trying to rebuild the ultra sonic raider day of the departed

[@wadeleep5094]

There’s actually thousands of piece variance not including different colors

[@judejordan23]

GIVE US THE PROGRAM!!!!!!!

[@Lucascausey]

I’m not the only one lol

[@heptoman]

LEFT HANDERS UNITE

[@elijahtorres7058]

done it

[@topflight6024]

This is just time wasting don't bother on doing this you are better off just sorting pieces on your own