The myth of the first 20 sets

It is the year 2014, it is October 27. I’m receiving an email at 9:10 am: “The bricks will arrive today…it’s looking good…We will put them together in my office. We’ll try building 20 sets. Thank you.”

I generate them into our merchandise management system and read about what the brick mini sets contain: LEDs, a potentiometer, pipes. There are 13 bricks in each set. We want to present our bricks for the first time at Make Munich, 1 November 2014 – which leaves us with four days to get started. All individual parts finally arrive in the morning of 28 October. We already prepared everything in one of our offices: soldering iron, tin-solder, little bags, magnifying glasses, tweezers, stickers and measurement devices. Race against time begins: We solder resistances on the PCBs, we put the PCBs into the small plastic cases, we put the stickers with the respective symbols onto the plastic cases and we test them and put them into little bags. Finally, they are ready and we are proud to present our first self-constructed brick sets. If you’ve ever created something by yourself, you know this feeling very well.

Each of us kept one brick set – the rest we sold at Make Munich: the very first maker faire where Brick’R’knowledge was actually present. Nowadays, we participate in trade fairs all over the world, several times a month: New York, Shenzhen, Rome, Berlin, Munich, Dubai, Hanover and many more. If the above mentioned sets seem familiar, you might own one of the first 20 – and you know by now who once built them for you.

Julia B.