{"id":27938,"date":"2014-08-08T09:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T16:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=27938"},"modified":"2014-10-29T14:35:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:35:26","slug":"free-universal-connector-kit-by-f-a-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/free-universal-connector-kit-by-f-a-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Universal Connector Kit by F.A.T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the heck is this? Good question, because it&#8217;s sort of silly but also brilliant. If you happen to be the owner of a 3D printer, then you&#8217;ll be able to download this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.module-r.com\/shop\/free-universal-connector-kit-by-f-a-t.html#\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Free Universal Connector Kit<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/fffff.at\" target=\"_blank\" >F.A.T. (Free Art &#038; Technology Lab)<\/a> to make these connectors. Connectors to what? Everything. Okay, well, almost everything: LEGO, Duplo, Fischertechnik, Gears! Gears! Gears!, K\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Nex, Bristle Blocks, Lincoln Logs, Tinkertoys, Zome, and Zoob. Formerly closed systems are now up for combinations. The eighty pieces in the kit will marry modules from one system to another, so you can join your LEGO to your Lincoln Logs and add in some Tinkertoys&#8230;etc. Use that imagination of yours and see the possibilities extrapolate.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/f.a.t.-freeuniversalconnectorkit-3-web.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No 3D printer? Not to worry. Upload the file to an online 3D printing service bureau (ex. Ponoko, Sculpteo or Shapeways), who will make and ship the kit back to you for a small fee.<\/p>\n<p>Also available to download directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/fffff.at\/free-universal-construction-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\" >F.A.T.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the heck is this? Good question, because it&#8217;s sort of silly but also brilliant. If you happen to be the owner of a 3D printer, then you&#8217;ll be able to download this Free Universal Connector Kit by F.A.T. (Free Art &#038; Technology Lab) to make these connectors. Connectors to what? Everything. Okay, well, almost [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,221],"tags":[140,451],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/f.a.t.-freeuniversalconnectorkit-3-web.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}