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Re: Portable Bot Factory
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Tue, 19 Nov 2002 01:36:34 GMT
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I think this is an excellent turn for Lego as a hobby for a couple reasons.
1. Limited pieces, unlimited combinations. As you've mentioned, this is
really a cornerstone of the Brick. As kids, we all had limitations as to
the supply of elements, but I would argue that some of our best builds were
working in those confines. It pushes your imagination and ingenuity to its
fullest potentional.
2. Travel value. For a kid living between two households and constantly in
transit, this was the difference between a good toy and a bad one. If it
was portable, it was at the top of my list. For years, my favorite set was
the Mineral Detector rover. Wheels, dishes, some clear elements, fig and
gun with some bricks. Perfect.
I see this as a modern take on those themes....and it's great stuff.
Considering the Star Wars mini line coming out 2003, these portable
playscapes would translate nicely to that theme as well.
As always, dig your 'bots. Tried my hand at my own in my last post....more
details to come.
This could be a fun 'Fest event. Everyone comes with their own Plano filled
with choice parts such as these. Once gathered, everyone passes their kit
to the person beside them, then a build session.
Voila....Pass The Plano.
Cheers,
-G
In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
> I've always loved the idea of building something from a limited supply of
> parts. Over a year ago I bought a decent sized Plano tackle box. I filled
> this with parts for weekend car trips where I knew I would get bored or have
> free time:
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> http://www.thesportsauthority.com/product/index.jsp?productId=972005&cp=7169
> 57
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> Yesterday my girlfriend was showing me some tiny cases that she keeps some
> of her jewelry in. This made me think that it would be cool to use
> something like this for LEGO. That night I bought a little double sided
> Plano tackle box (3414) at walmart.
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> This is the end result:
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> http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/factory00.jpg
> http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/factory01.jpg
> http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/factory02.jpg
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> This thing is tiny. It's a bit bigger than my digital camera. I filled it
> with as many small bot-making parts that I could think of. I like to think
> of it as an emergency building kit. Something you could put in your
> backpack or throw in the glovebox for a road trip.
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> I'm gonna mess with the contents of the box for a while to try and get the
> optimal mix of parts in it.
> Here are 3 more pics of the first 3 bots I made:
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> http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/bot10.jpg
> http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/bot11.jpg
> http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/bot12.jpg
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> I chose to make 3 small bots (I figure I can make many more with the parts
> left over) but you could also use the case to make larger bots with more
> parts. Also with just a little modification I bet you could set this up to
> make microfig ships. Or how bout a slightly larger case for micro-moonbase
> construction?
>
> Tell me what you think. :-)
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> -Jon
> --
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> | My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego
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| Hmmmm... I smell a new event for Brickfest. MiniMOC building session. Build a droid, build a miniship, build a probe (HEY, watch were you put that!), build a critter, etc. Very Cool. Participants bring a small box o' bits and be willing to share. (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gil Shaw" <NIXtoradochSPAM@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: lugnet.space Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:36 PM Subject: Re: Portable Bot Factory (...) reasons. (...) were (...) its (...) Totally. When working with a (...) (21 years ago, 19-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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| I love the portable bot factory. That's a really cool idea. Not to mention for kids, but also for the workplace environment (I work at Caltech, so something like LEGOs would fly very well :), so you can use it for contests (like Brickfest was (...) (21 years ago, 20-Nov-02, to lugnet.space)
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