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Hi;
After six months of working on and off (mostly off) I am
now finished with the next version of my Technic site.
Well-pretty much finished. Not only has it been redesigned
but completely re-researched and reorganized. If my last
version was my Fountainhead, I'd like to think that this is
my Atlas Shrugged (although maybe w/o the long speech!).
The site has the beginnings of my Technic history, a fairly
complete set index and a part of a new, reorganized element
registry. There is much more information and I have tried
to integrate the sections more than in v2.
Your comments would be appreciated.
http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/technica.html
(Note the new URL)
Thanks
Jim
hughesj@one.net
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Thanks Jim for providing such a valuable resource.
I have to say I like the v2 site better for the big pictures of multiple
parts. However, I did notice that half beams/lift arms parts were moved out
of the plates category, which would be correct. I would tend to call all of
them half beams, I am not even sure what a lift arm is!
Thanks again,
John Matthews
Jim Hughes <hughesj@one.net> wrote in message news:Fo17rz.A0v@lugnet.com...
> Hi;
>
> After six months of working on and off (mostly off) I am
> now finished with the next version of my Technic site.
> Well-pretty much finished. Not only has it been redesigned
> but completely re-researched and reorganized. If my last
> version was my Fountainhead, I'd like to think that this is
> my Atlas Shrugged (although maybe w/o the long speech!).
>
> The site has the beginnings of my Technic history, a fairly
> complete set index and a part of a new, reorganized element
> registry. There is much more information and I have tried
> to integrate the sections more than in v2.
>
> Your comments would be appreciated.
>
> http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/technica.html
>
> (Note the new URL)
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
> hughesj@one.net
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Please tell me you are going to get pictures for more of the technic
elements (for example, the technic seat, the flexable axles, the
forklift forks etc etc up in the near future
--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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I don't think the nine hole one bend rounded end beams have a 112.5°
angle, I think the angle is 143.13°. See, eg.,
http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/one-bend/
Also, the angle connector #3 isn't 134.5°, but 157.5°. Further, there
is a new angle connector #4 (eg. in 8446 in green) which is 135°.
HTH.
Fredrik
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"John Matthews" <jmatthew@columbus.rr.com> writes:
> I am not even sure what a lift arm is!
I'd say a liftarm is a beam with a cross axle hole in the end. Using
this part, the rotation of an axle can be used to "lift" something,
hence the name "liftarm".
Fredrik
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Jim,
You site is beautiful. The layout is clean and and well designed. You need to
check some of your image tags though. There were two broken on the Beams w/
Brackets page. Not sure about anywhere else.
Question: I noticed that you have parts displayed in colors that are not
available. I assume you altered the color of your scanned parts. What is your
technique for doing this? You results look like great!
- Greg
Jim Hughes wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> After six months of working on and off (mostly off) I am
> now finished with the next version of my Technic site.
> Well-pretty much finished. Not only has it been redesigned
> but completely re-researched and reorganized. If my last
> version was my Fountainhead, I'd like to think that this is
> my Atlas Shrugged (although maybe w/o the long speech!).
>
> The site has the beginnings of my Technic history, a fairly
> complete set index and a part of a new, reorganized element
> registry. There is much more information and I have tried
> to integrate the sections more than in v2.
>
> Your comments would be appreciated.
>
> http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/technica.html
>
> (Note the new URL)
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
> hughesj@one.net
--
G. Crisp - gcrisp@mindspring.com
"Indian, indian, what did you die for? Indian says 'Nothing at all.'"
-- Jim Morrison
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"JH" == Jim Hughes <hughesj@one.net> writes:
JH> Your comments would be appreciated.
JH> http://w3.one.net/~hughesj/technica/technica.html
Please make the font bigger! I have a hard time reading it now.
Content-wise, very, very useful!
IIRC, though, 8001 comes with a Liftarm [3 x 3] x 1, quarter oval (90
deg), a part that you don't list, instead of a ditto, 5 x 3. (I don't
have them at hand here at work.) It also comes with several
connector-ish pieces that I don't see listed on your site offhand.
Regards,
Johannes.
--
"Childhood is short, maturity is forever" -- Calvin
Virtually researching virtual behaviour in a virtual world.
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Looks great. Thank you for making this!
The one thing that's missing from the element registry (from a design
standpoint, not an actual element) is a way to navigate from one page to the
others without going back. There should be next/previous links, at the
least.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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Some more comments on the page:
The small shock absorbers now (since 1998, eg. 8417) come in two
versions. The older, softer version, and the newer, harder version.
The newer version can be identified by the smaller number of coil
windings in the spring.
Are you sure the flexible rubber axles first appeared in Znap sets in
1998? Which sets contain them? You are sure you are not mistaking
them with the flexible drive axle used in eg 3552 and 3571?
Fredrik
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