About brick.camp

brick.camp aims to be an easy-to-use, open and secure online tool to help LEGO® builders accomplish their goals. Currently, it is still under heavy development by Tobias Buckdahn.

Easy-to-use

Two cheese slopes held sideways between a brick and a plate

For beginners and newcomers, some community terms (like SNOT, AZMEP, etc.) might be confusing. That’s why brick.camp structures its entries purely by (unabbreviated) purpose:

Angles to change the orientation of a piece.
Lengths to get independent of the stud grid.
Repeat to tile a technique across a line, a plane or a volume.
Shapes to help with some geometries.
Parts to start from an element you already have.

Every category can be narrowed further — by type, by value, by the size of the result — and anything you type into the search box combines with those filters. Whatever view you end up with is reflected in the address bar, so it can be bookmarked or shared as it is.

And there’s more on the horizon — stay curious.

Free and Open

A sun built from minifig hands clipped around a dinner plate

brick.camp is completely open source. This means, you can study everything:

The files for each and every technique published here.
The complete history of this version of the site, and the history of its predecessor back to its very first step in June 2018.
The layouts and styles this website is built from.
Really everything — you could even run a local copy: clone the repository and run hugo server.

The entries themselves — the texts, the LDraw models, the renders built from them and the metadata behind the search — are licensed CC BY 4.0. Use them wherever you like, including commercially; just credit brick.camp. The code running the site is MIT.

Some images here are not ours to give away, though: the part pictures come from Rebrickable, the thumbnail next to each source belongs to whoever made the thing it links to, and the font entry is built from official LEGO® building instructions. Each one is credited where it appears, and THIRD-PARTY.md spells out which is which.

Secure and Private

Marakoeschtra’s wall: offset brick courses locked together behind a plate facade

This site is non-profit and comes without advertising, tracking and other burdens of the modern internet. The whole dictionary is delivered as static files and searched inside your browser, which means we can’t see what you looked for. The privacy policy spells out the remaining details.