Patent ID: 9320980
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: A63H

Claim Text:
1. An educational or toy construction kit comprising: a plurality of building modules, wherein at least one of the building modules is a functional module and adapted to perform a specific behavior, the at least one functional module comprising a plurality of corners, each of the plurality of corners having a corner electrical contact providing an electrical return path, and at least one functional face, the at least one functional face having an electrical contact providing an electrical source path, and the at least one functional module providing at least one of power output, power input, data output, data input, data pass-through, and power pass-through; a plurality of spherical connectors, each of the plurality of spherical connectors adapted to couple one of the plurality of corners of the at least one functional module to a corner of at least one other module while providing up to three degrees of freedom between the at least one functional module and the at least one other module, each of the plurality of spherical connectors providing an electrical return path and not an electrical source path; wherein interconnection of the at least one functional module and the at least one other module forms a construction; and the at least one functional module comprises no corner electrical contacts that provide an electrical source path.