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Subject: 
Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:52:34 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Matthias Paul Scholz wrote:
Brian,

Brian Davis wrote:

And the video on YouTube, with my son standing in for Steve's legs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpMrgDCXlc


Absolutely awesome!

/Matthias (deeply impressed)

ps Now I'm going to wait day and night for the LDraw file ;-) (give them
an inch and they will take a mile...)

Same comments and feelings here ;o)

Brian, it would help to reproduce your outstanding design (and maybe CAD it!) if
you could provide higher resolutions photographs somewhere...

Philo

   
         
   
Subject: 
Re: Unit LNE of the dinochrome brigade (Was: Rock Crawling)
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lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic
Date: 
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:00:51 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Philippe Hurbain wrote:

Brian, it would help to reproduce your outstanding
design (and maybe CAD it!) if you could provide higher
resolutions photographs somewhere...

Thank you both Matthias & Philo (and others!). give them an inch indeed...
first, I really feel i need to apologize for *not* CADing this up. I've tried to
CAD stuff, but the combination of my chosen platform (Mac) coupled with where I
like using my free time (building, not CADing) and furthermore the complexity of
the designs I'm actually interested in documenting (like this), have conspired
to make me a lazy slob who's not documented things in the "normal" format.
Somebody, please help me, or brow-beat me some more, and I'll try to rise to
that standard sometime.

As to higher-res photos, agreed: these were actually reduced for BS, and I've
got higher-res ones availible. I probably need to do an even *better* job
documented the construction, not just the parts but the sequence: for studless
constructions like this, I sometimes feel like I'm making one of those "slide
the pieces to assemble the cube" wooden puzzle. For instance, one of those
images I had to use my fingers to point out three red (in that "step") pins that
need to be pulled to remove a long white composite beam that is critical to
holding the two shoulders on... but is actually partially hidden within the
shoulders on the ends.

Where do you guys want more/better photos? What needs improved documentation?

--
Brian Davis

 

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