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Joe Strout wrote: > I knew that, and thank you, but it's not what I'm asking for. I don't have an > RCX, nor would I want to use one for this. I need *radio* control, not remote > (infrared) control, and I don't want to involve a computer. I (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't think LEGO has anything specificly (they *used* to have a three-channel RC system, but it's hard to find. However, there's a third-party device that might fit your problem: (URL) not personally used it, but it sounds like you might be (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Joe Strout writes: > LEGO already makes several RC cars, but at least from the ones I > have seen, they are not modular; the radio speaks directly to a > chassis, and you basically can just decorate that chassis. You > can't intercept the received (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | oh no -- someone else to share our lego with!
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(URL) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.people.newbie, lugnet.people)
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(...) I knew that, and thank you, but it's not what I'm asking for. I don't have an RCX, nor would I want to use one for this. I need *radio* control, not remote (infrared) control, and I don't want to involve a computer. I apologize that I wasn't (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hey Marco, looks pretty cool. I'm not much of a mech person, but it seems a little "unfinished"? For the size of the chassis, and considering it's got a dual cockpit, the "body" part seems very undersize. Mostly it just seems to be missing (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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(...) Brian, A little bird told me the same thing... The store will have a very large Pick-a-Brick in the side room. And the new store will have the new modern yellow brick look with many displays, shelves a long the walls, etc. And it looks like (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.us.fl.orl)
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(...) What exactly is hard to understand. We tried to write the CA as clearly as possible without being ambiguous. Chris or I (or any other SteerCo member) would be more than happy to explain whatever part is confusing to you to your satisfaction. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: SanDLUG logo
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(...) SNIP... (...) Mat, Hey there! I am interested in submitting some samples of SanDLUG logo ideas (if it's not too late). I will put one together with your idea and some others as well. It looks like I will probably be moving to Carlsbad in the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.sandlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Nominations 2005 SteerCo -- Tore Eriksson
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(...) Sorry, but I have to decline. Maybe next year. Thanks for the nomination though! /Tore (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Oh dear. Then write the agreement in a little easier English so we have a chance to know what we sign. What is that agreement good for anyway? Is it something the Jessiman's wanted? And the security demands for passwords are way higher than my (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: 3067pt3.dat - Brick 1 x 6 without Center Studs with black STORE Pattern
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(...) Hold on there ! The reason that Tore does not currently have submit privileges is that we are waiting for his affirmation of the Contributor Agreement. (URL) of the date of this announcement, everyone's submission rights were revoked and only (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | April 2nd 2005 - Piece-by-Piece South Hants
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Following the success of last year, I am now organising this years Piece-by-Piece South Hants show. When: Sat April 2nd 2005 Where: Main Hall, Community Centre, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 4BW Entrance: Free (public 11:30am to 2:30pm, others 9am to (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Stormwalker
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Here is the Stormwalker. (2 URLs) I thought of a heavy assult mech when I started building. As I knew it would become a bit bigger I had to chose light gray/blue color scheme (because of brick amount). Some facts: Its average hight is about 45cm (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
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| | Re: New Part: 3067pt3.dat - Brick 1 x 6 without Center Studs with black STORE Pattern [DAT]
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(...) 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 s\3067s01.dat (...) Hi Tore, I just uploaded your file to the parts tracker. I had to adjust the entry for the subfile (slash converted to backslash) Michael Heidemann (mikeheide) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New MOC: MH Zephyr
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Oh, Soren! That is one SWEET design! Colorscheme=Fantastiqué! :) Not to mention it's adding to the already heavily inspirational building day I've been having...more on that soon. Take care, -Dave (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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In lugnet.announce.moc, Johannes Koehler wrote: (URL) Jojo, simply beautiful! Your attention to detail makes these more than charming, well done. Janey “Red Brick” (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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Joe, Indeed, the RIS RCX programmable brick has a remote control, which you can find at: (URL) you already have an RCX, to get remote control won't cost too much. (...) ___...___ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Modular RC kits?
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Are there any kits which contain the parts needed to make my own remote-controlled vehicles and other gizmos? Ideally, I'd like something with four or more channels, so I can make something like a bulldozer able to lift and tilt its scoop. If LEGO (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I did enjoy it...but is it some kind of instructional or managerial mech? I'm assuming that thing in its right hand is a laser pointer of some kind, because it looks far too sissified to be a Robertsian weapon. Perhaps you should have posed (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Fifth Conspiracy Jolly Roger Drop Ship - New MOC!
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Alright people... by special request, here's another Fifth Conspiracy MOC to enjoy. The Jolly Roger Drop Ship MM342 (URL) Paul. (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | New Part: 3067pt3.dat - Brick 1 x 6 without Center Studs with black STORE Pattern [DAT]
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Looks like I have lost my priviliges to submit parts to the Tracker... Could somebody please submit this before the part number is taken by somebody else. /Tore 0 Brick 1 x 6 without Center Studs with black STORE Pattern 0 Name: 3067pt3.dat 0 (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Michael Jackson's TRILLER - LEGO Version
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A friend of mine set me this link of Michael Jackson's TRILLER video done in LEGO! It's 13 min 43 sec long and well done except for the low res. Its still very cool and well done! (URL) -AHui A&M LWorks (URL) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Nathanael Kuipers
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I am very pleased to hear the great news Nathanael! Your new model is very impressive and as usual a technical masterpiece.(By the way, I had a feeling it was going to have something to do with that 8463 set since last we talked) What I find truly (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Fixed LGEO parts
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(...) My webhotel seems to have had a diskcrash and has restored an older backup. I have now checked all files and took the opportunity to add three new LGEO fixes. /Lars (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: pieces aaare pieces ... (hum "people aaare people" ...)
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(...) A few more words: Pieces are pieces so why should it be Bley and grey should get along so awfully? ... You know they're different colours and they're different creeds, but different pieces have different needs ... Help me understand What makes (...) (21 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Not sure which language you are using, but I have done this with the Visual Basic 6 starter pack. In the starter pack, create a form and put a Spirit1 object on the form (from the file Spirit1.ocx in the Lego software folders). When you put (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickOS 0.9.0 success
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Andrew, How fun to hear of your 2.4 success with brickos-0.9.0 It is good to hear that this was possible. With respect to your next efforts I have news... (...) Both brickos-0.9.0 and lnpd-0.9.0 are now debian packages. If these are useful in your (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Rendering implementation details
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(...) Ok, I drew a better picture (2 planes in space and a floating eye) and I'm starting to see. Maybe you're onto something. It takes 2 surface normals and one point on the edgeline to divide space into 4 quadrants. Then you only need to figure (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Final Official Statement - Maersk Second Run
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You can't be Mr. Black. If I let you be Mr. Black, then everybody'll want to be Mr. Black. So you're Mr. Pink. "David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:IAzw7G.1uCI@lugnet.com... (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: BMP2DAT question (problem?) [DAT]
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(...) If I understand the problem correctly, you have to scale down the output file. This can be easily done by pretanding that it is a sub-part Rename it to pattern.dat for example. Then create a new part that calls to that pattern with the line: 1 (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hello everybody
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(...) Concerning the weapons I don't think it'll be me who makes .mecha a hippy colony. Primech just wasn't stable enough to hold a gun! I'm looking forward to posting no. 24 which is "slightly" more armed than Primech. (...) Well I had some trouble (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Statues
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(...) Great stuff, especially the deer. How well does the lever part fit in a minifig hand? Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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| | Re: Some G.I.Joe minifig customs
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Hi Bruce Thank you very much for your kind words. (...) There's just something about anime-style character design that demands a bit of extra effort. :) I'll be making postings highlighting various of those anime-related figures at some point. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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| | Re: look at my balls
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(...) I am fairly certain that BrickFest will happen. The only question I know of relates to a possible change of venue. JB (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hi, I made some stickers for one of my trains. Now i'm making building instructions for this train and would like to add the stickers i made in the LDRAW design. Therefore i use the BMP2DAT utility found in LDAdd-On from Steven Bliss. This works (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Fixed LGEO parts
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(...) Hi Lars Are These Still Available? Link didn't work. Thanks Chris (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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It's been too quiet in here lately, so I thought I'd dig something up. This one's for all the fans of the rivalry between EMD and ALCo. It's ironic that the two have been blended into one another by our guys. Check it out: (URL) is the WDM-3D class, (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) What's the plan for BF this year? Anyone know? The only major event we have on our schedule is NMRA in July and I honestly wouldn't mind knowing when BrickFest was... Calum (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Mr. Davis, This thing rocks. But I think the color and printed surfaces make it look more like a service vehicle than a sports car. I see this thing ripping around between big ships on a space port somewhere. To bad they don't make a 1x4 tile (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Rendering implementation details
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(...) What you are describing is in fact a very old and basic edge rendering algorithm, which can be found in most detailed textbooks on computer graphics. CAD style and wire frame rendering went out of style during the 90's, so some recent "fancy (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | LPub vertical plate murk
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I'm using LPub for a project and have been perplexed a bit by the image quality difference between rendering the "Complete Assembly" vs the "Instruction Images". It might be the same issue as in this thread: (URL) For vertical grey plates, the studs (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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Thanks for your suggestions, the message I received is: "Yes, a good and useful translator would be appreciated." One brief comment on the issue of whether we want clean, compact and well structured files or not: of *course* we want clean files! A (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: pieces aaare pieces ... (hum "people aaare people" ...)
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(...) Depeche Mode is the answer to that trivia question. Eric (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: pieces aaare pieces ... (hum "people aaare people" ...)
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(...) Great, now I'll have that song and 80's flashback in my mind for the rest of the day. Who was that group that did that song? Earlier it was mentioned "Parts is Parts" - that was from a KFC commercial from about the same time. -Patrick (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: New MOC: MH Zephyr
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(...) that thing is sweet, soren! i always enjoy seeing your new moc's. is this another fss mecha? i remember someone once mentioning that bionicle torso's were not very useful as mecha torsos using brick. apparently that person was mistaken. i'm (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) Yeah, I'm not really sad. I was just trying to bribe him with guilt(1). It's cheaper than bribing with money ;-> -Paul (1) I think I learned this technique from my Italian grandmother... (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) -- snipped the rest of my goofy reply --- (...) Aw, you know I'm just kidding. Please, don't stop! I'm not really upset. I was just trying to guilt you into making me instructions... :-) (...) Okay, maybe I've been too pushy about the (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure I agree with that. There were, as I recall, some difficult insertion steps but overall, it seemed buildable. The root problem in my view is just that the mean time to failure of individual constructed components (given reliability (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) is (...) they (...) (Thanks Larry and Nate for the background on this project!) You have to undestand how inspirational this is to me. For the past few years, on-and-off I am working on building a little LEGO duck assembly carousel. I haven't (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) Cheer up, Paul, he's done instructions for some of his other models. Perhaps if you bribed him??? (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) VERY cool. GREAT news. Presumably you are under NDA and maybe shouldn't have even said that much (smile) but... go you! Congrats and we'll all be waiting to see what happens... (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Statues
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(...) Really very nice, Jojo!!! I'm sorry for you... I've already sold my white hairpiece... I suppose you would have bought it, because it costed ONLY 74,99$... ;-) Bye, Luca (URL) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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| | How to send commands directly to the RCX?
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Hi I have an applet and i have a lego mindstorm robot, i want to move the robot when i click on the applet's buttons can someone how i can send command directly to RCX or post a link where i can find a usefull code? Thx a lot. (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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I DO hope you are going to accept that invitation? Couldn't see anything bad coming from that. (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC: Eopie
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Although this is a lesser known creature from Episode I, it is being remembered well. And you did a great job in designing it. As always you used an impressive way of construction. Soon your creature collection will be complete! (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: A French Victory! (was Re: The game's afoot!)
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(...) Thanks Richard and family for your hospitality last weekend and hosting a LEGO day and Brikwars game. My son Lachlan and I enjoyed the company and "playing" very much - probably because we were on the winning side - the French! It was great to (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) Hey Steve! How are you doing? Actually I can't give you a satisfying answer because I don't know how I do that. I just do.... :-P However I'm always convinced that sets do have a nice piece selection with which you can achieve great things! (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) It uses only one set to build! That's the challenge for me ;-) Nate (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) <snip> (...) :-S Are you sure you want me to share more of this??! It seems like it's not good for you and I really don't want to get you upset or something. Actually I feel a bit ashamed I didn't help you out more to reconstruct the models... (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) Good models without good pictures is a real pity. Would be great if LEGO would support that! :-) If not maybe I should consider publishing a book with many of my alternate models.... (...) The pictures don't do it justice. The turning radius (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) Well in a way you are correct. I haven't seen the black unmarked vehicle but do have received an invitation to cooperate with LEGO as a freelancer for at least 1 project... :-) Nate (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) Yep Larry is right. It was a great piece of arts. It was actually built by two dutch guys: Martijn Boogaarts and Gerrit Bronsveld. Correct me if I'm wrong but it used 23 RCXes!! Unfortunately it didn't work flawless but I think the main reason (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) Thanks Nathan! It's always good to explore new things. That's why I try to build new and inspiring things all the time. It's also good to get a clue what your limitations are and I'm still making progression... I don't have the excavator. I (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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(...) Hi Philo, Thanks for your kind reply. I do my best. I've spent a week to come to this model and it still has some minor flaws that might need improvement, but maybe that's just my thought.. Nate (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Pneumatic switching circuits
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(...) <SNIP> (...) I was wondering what the mthod of choice for this was... (...) That helps a lot.. looks like I'm gonna need to find around 30 more switches... Best source I found Technic Wreckers has a bunch.. but I fear shipping from Australia (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Archangel Preview
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(...) Well, I took those pictures, edited, and uploaded them after posting. PRetty fast moderation on b-shelf these days. (...) Yeah, blocky it is, I should probably fix that if I rework the model like I usually end up doing. The chicken-thing is my (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: That can't be good.....
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SNIPPIFIED This is just an update to let you know that I felt this was worthy of an MOCPage: (URL) Legoswami Samarth (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC: MH Zephyr
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(...) Wow Soren what a magnificent piece of .... Very knightly looking. I must say I prefer the accessories in this order, Standard (not seen very often, so I like it muchily. Pity couldn't get bigger, longer lengths of fabric, to match the pattern (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Is 1:40 minifig scale? (was Project YAMATO)
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(...) Huh, I don't think I've heard of minifig scale being more than 1:44 (making "standard" minifigs just over 6 feet tall). Except maybe for specific projects? 1:45 would make them about 6'2.4" (1.89m) tall, 2'3.5" (72cm) wide, and 1'2.2" (36cm) (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Hello everybody
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(...) Welcome to .mecha! (...) I can see the influences in Primech. And no weapons even, *agasp* what is this, .mecha becoming a hippy colony? Nah, not with people like Mladen and Soren to keep the aromory quotent up. (...) Marco, great 22nd mech. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Archangel Preview
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(...) Preview? I saw (URL) this> marked as "final" and added your post to the sidebar. (...) Not too shabby Ryan. Pretty blocky, shoulders, hip armor, and lower legs (with rounded corners though) all seem really sqare. I'll give you credit though, (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: January 29th 2005 SMART Meeting
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A kinda-late reminder about tomorrow's SMART meeting: 2pm at Digipen. Whoever is interested, we'll go to Red Robin afterwards. See you there! -- David Schilling (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: New MOC: MH Zephyr
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(...) That's really nice. I particularly like the feet and hands. Can we see a close-up of one of those hands? -- Dan Efran (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: An alternative open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company
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(...) That's my understanding as well. That's a good summary of what Jake posted here (URL) and referred to here (URL). What's more, to my knowledge, that's the only reason which TLG have provided. Seems to me that either its fact or an outright (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: l3p as open source
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(...) L3P is available for the Mac and Linux.... Kevin (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | New MOC: MH Zephyr
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(URL) Enjoy! Soren (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
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| | Re: Rendering implementation details
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(...) Actually, one can bring the number of transformations down to 1 for the entire _object_. Interesting what can happen when an idea sits in the brain and percolates for a couple of days. A new idea I had was to just transform the camera position (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Statues
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Very cool statues, JoJo. Now are you planning a temple to put them in? (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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| | Re: Bricksaic version 0.1.0
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(...) Yes, I have some problems I would like added ;] This program is great! I especially like some of the cool effects you can get with the "Nearest colour" dither. My suggestion would be to allow the user to zoom out (for those of us planning (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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(...) That was from LEGOWorld, October 2003 in Holland. It was an automated car assembly line, consisting of RCX controlled work carriers that travelled from cell to cell across a number of cells. Each cell had a selection of parts that it added in (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Three completed: a 48x48 chain lift that has the balls cascade down a tilted baseplate, a 32x32 with a clock lift (noisy as all getout) that's got room to grow some, a 10x48 that allows the stream to be split if desired, as well as turned 90 (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I too had the same dream but in a bit warmer climate. There used to be this old church for sale on Amelia Island in Florida that I thought would be a great location for a LEGO museum / shop. Of course I need to win the lottery or something so (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Sorry it's not a cool construction but maybe this will at least make you smile. The problem with photographing camera lenses (other than needing at least two to make it possible) is: how to hold the cylindrical but often lumpy or tapering lenses? (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sending Commands to Spybot from RCX - Question from a Beginner to Comm area.
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(...) First of all, my apologies for not answering you via email. I've been a bit busy at work. I needed to run some tests myself before I could properly respond as well. The 0x9223 from the RCX happens to match the IR sent out by the Spybot (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) Hi, Actually it was a mistake with my program the actual size is about 17MB (for some odd reason the original file was two hours long...) Bryan B. (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (URL) here> or on the pic for more... I can only echo what others have wrote - absolutely amazing work! You truly have a talent and a feel for the brick. Iain (This is unrelated, and I don't want to steer this topic away from your truck - if (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic)
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news-gateway@lugnet.com wrote on 01/28/2005 04:36:48 PM: (...) I would like to hear it, but 60MB for 30 minutes of audio? Even *music* is usually about 1MB/minute. Spoken text is often encoded at very low bitrates quite successfully... Tim Massey (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hey guys- I just found out something on the new technic crane that'll be coming out this Fall. According to one site, this model will be out in August, at a price of over $150.00. But I guess with such a high price, the model will be good. Here is (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I thought that might be what it was. (...) It all started when JP Brown (famous for his Rubik Cube Solver out of LEGO), made the bold statement that you could not do boolean logic using LEGO pneumatics, because of the switches. Inutitively I (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I think a poll of likely intrepid ball players who plan on bringing one or more GBC modules to BrickFest would be a great idea. It would help to figure out how many modules we might expect to see there. I have a couple of ideas in mind so (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Final Official Statement - Maersk Second Run
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(...) Well, by all indications that would be me then. Damn, you really know how to get me, Gerhard! ;) Alright then: Larry, since I couldn't stand another of your dreary emails anyway, I apologize for having been so particularly nasty. Let me (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: look at my balls
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(...) I've been working on one off and on for weeks now -- which means I've put maybe a total of a couple hours into it. It's not going very well, and here it is almost February already, so I'm no longer confident that I'll have anything ready to (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: MOC 8436: Cranetruck
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Nathanial Kuipers- Very nice crane! Did you build it out of one or two sets of 8436? (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Wow, It's the first time I regretted not buying <set:8436>. The model is obviously better than the original 8436, if you have plans to make instructions for it PLEASE let us know while this set is still available, because for me such (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.technic)
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Dear All, Last night (Jan. 27th) on my local NPR radio station they talked with a local man who last year led a team from New Hampshire to victory at the FIRST Lego League Competition. I recorded this program (25 to 30 minutes) and I was wondering (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | pieces aaare pieces ... (hum "people aaare people" ...)
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(...) My thoughts exactly, Ben - way back when I was like 8 or 9 years old. A friend of mine (same age) was building COLOR-MATCHED cars with my collection of loose LEGO pieces. I found that rather odd. Why would he do that, I wondered? After all, (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: LEGO museum in Ohio?
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I have contacted them about a week ago, they said they'd get back to me, but no contact since then. I'd love a place that I can reach in 2 hours, and where I can park my Lego collection. If this turns out to be a legit museum, I'll be more than (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Ops, shows how "G'scheid" I am, I can't even spell it right. Gary Istok (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) Since we are into German quotes, I have one for everyone.... "Der G'schedere gibt nach" Gary istok Loosely translated "the smarter one will let it go..." (21 years ago, 28-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego)
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