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I have now given Blender a good test, and I am hooked. The user interface is a bit weird at first, but it grows on you, and I expect it to be quite easy to use once I get the hang of it. The software features are perfect for this: GNU Free software (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Language war in 32k RAM
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(...) No no no... Real programmers don't use guns because we don't believe violence actually solves anything. (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So nice to hear that, and I actually care quite a lot! I have used Lego quite a lot myself to teach computer graphics. Not CAD as such, but 3D modeling, animation and programming. Swedish M Sc students have often grown up with a large pile of (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Language war in 32k RAM
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(...) *CERTAINLY NOT* I'm horrified that you would think that. A real programmer has to find out which end of the soldering iron gets hot by 'the experimental method' (ouch!). Soldering irons are *hardware* and no real programmer would want to be (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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(...) You could certainly use assembler (and presumably hex) using brickOS but I don't think it's possible with the standard firmware. Of course a true 'Real Programmer' would just dump the firmware altogether and write to the bare metal. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What if.....
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(...) Its funny that you mention articulation, as that was sort of the resion why I came up with this idea. Here is a picture that shows why. (URL) some of you know my TGV is a 10ft long articulated train. I wanted to make the cars for my TGV longer (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Language war in 32k RAM
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(...) That's true - but NQC is eminently usable. (...) For those who don't catch that reference: (URL) (real programmers even don't use assemblers but code directly in hex) (I actually have keyed a short program into a PDP-11 using the front panel (...) (21 years ago, 8-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Poor man's Supercar wheels
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(...) Beside the color, what is the difference between this part: (URL) and this part: (URL) ? - David (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 2 new GBC modules...
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(...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) (URL) (...) Just wonderful!!, I love them all, specially the shovel. (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Enzo
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(...) How big is the box? Is it bigger than the Backhoe's one? FWIW last year I bought 3 8386s and I paid 69EUR for air shipping. That was before 8386 became available in NA. The 8386 box is the same length & width as Backhoe's, only thinner. I (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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Mark, Try this (...) --- Mark Bellis <mark.bellis@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: (...) ___...___ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web (URL) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 Problems - Low Level Languages?
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(...) Sure, that can be done. Take a look at brickOS. With brickOS as operating system you can write your programs with gcc. So you can write c, or mix c with assembler via asm{} or you could write plain asm routines. (...) But you have to learn H8 (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Poor man's Supercar wheels
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Mix four of these: (URL) four of these: (URL) you get a nice wheel that is the same width and heigth as the 8448 wheels. They only difference is the tires are not as low profile as the 8448. But here is the cool part, if you have the 8653 set, you (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: wanted: water fall ideas.......please
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Here's a picture of my snotifall: (URL) sure there's more pictures out there somewhere. I haven't managed to post any myself. The basic construction is a backing of blue plates, with smaller blue plates staggered around to increase texture, and then (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Reminds me of BBC micros, where the most useful BASIC command was the open square bracket to go into assembler! Do you have facilities to program the RCX in assembler or hex? I'm interested in a lower level language so that I don't have to (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Assistance/Ideas please. Scorpion infrastructure
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(...) I've been focusing on the long neglected LPub and LSynth. So SSClagorpion is not too far along. (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | RE: RIS 2.0 Problems - Language war in 32k RAM
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(...) Hah! That's for high level wussies! *Real* programmers use a soldering gun... (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Lego Enzo 8653 Piece Count.
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One Thousand Three Hundred and sixty. 1,360(This is what I have been told) Mix that with a 176 page instruction book and that is why the set weighs so much. -Paul (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | CEO-Letter // The answer
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To read the answer follow this link: (URL) Godt, Ben (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.color) !!
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(...) I find with building long wagons in 8mm:1ft scale (8+ wide British or 10+ wide American) that the 6-wide baseplates don't allow a bogie plate to turn sufficiently inside the underneath of the baseplate. Therefore I've used 2x2 plates with a (...) (21 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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