Local Inventors Send Lux Blox Around the World

lux bloxA Galesburg couple is making moves with an invention that culminated after a lifetime of work and research.

Michael and Heather Acerra are the creators of the Lux Blox, a toy which breaks down the simplest components of nature through a construction block.

Heather Acerra says the idea started in earnest about three and half years ago when the couple purchased a 3-D printer to take designs off of paper.

Michael had been drawing geometrical designs and shapes for years when an opportunity working with a student who knew Auto-CAD came about.

The Acerra’s tell Galesburg’s Evening News on WGIL, that a lot of inspiration has come from past inventors and architects.

“One of the things that is very interesting that kind of inspired us, is that Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fulller, and other innovators in design and structure pioneers were tremendously influences by the Froebel’s gifts, which were a set of blocks created by the inventor of Kindergarten–Friederich Froebel,” says Heather Acerra. “There blocks have in them atomic ideas and when you put these together, you are literally putting together things that atoms do,” adds Michael Acerra.

The blocks can make structures that bend and adjust due to a patent pending snap and lock hinge.

The product is now on shelves locally, as well as across the U.S. and Canada. It will soon travel to Spain for retail as well.

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