 | | Re: Slashdot: New Independent Lego Journal Launches
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Joe, Congratulations on this really fine piece of work. The magazine is really well put together, the ads are tasteful, and it generally shines like a professional did the work. BTW, I did not know Allen Bedford and NoStarch teamed up for another (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | A Lurker Converted
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Greeting fellow mecha builders, This being my first post,please let me introduce myself. I have been lurking on lugnet for about a year now. Just recently I began to look into the world of mecha. I had seen many of Eric Sophie's MOCs when cruising (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: An Idea for new Mindstorm
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Citando John Barnes <barnes@sensors.com>: (...) > (...) Scout, (...) > (...) do (...) > (...) pay for a (...) > (...) walker (...) > (...) fine (...) > > (...) the (...) sensor (...) twice (...) program... (...) create (...) for 10 (...) for (...) I (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Spice Rack
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The Spice Rack is actually really neat, sturdy, practical, modular (so easy to add to) and looks down-right sexy. It has passed the 'brush-past' test and the 'cooking accessibility' test. Also, between the rack, Lego Salt 'n' Pepper and the Lego (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: An Idea for new Mindstorm
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(...) I have to agree. If you don't want to build programmable robots, why not just build a motorized model with a motor and battery box. The whole point of Mindstorms, as I see it, is that you "add" programming to a structure of Lego elements to (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: An Idea for new Mindstorm
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(...) The Blue Scout can be programmed just like the RCX - you can use NQC and send programs to it in exactly the same way with the IR tower. The main difference is that the Scout has less memory - so only small programs will fit. (...) I'm *very* (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Brikwars?
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(...) While I would be glad to help should somthing take shape I have never even attended a big game and have only a simplistict understanging of the rules so I probably can't be of that much utility actual game wise. But if somthing does come up I (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: Scraping cowcatcher on 10133
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(...) That was me - but on brickish.org, not here. I found it's a real problem at times. On a couple of occasions, my 10133 has come a real cropper and derailed causing absolute carnage. For the most part though, it just squeaks a bit here and (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: An Idea for new Mindstorm
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(...) Brian, you've made very good points. I have neither: numbers for market share, nor real experience of techning kids to RCX programming. Actually, I do not even sure that this idea is so good. I hope it is, but it may be wrong for one or (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A new project...
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Brace yourselves: You've been (URL)! Pros: excellent exposure to potentially interested readers Cons: sudden huge demand for the pdf's will overload your server for a couple of days -Brendan (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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| | Re: Scraping cowcatcher on 10133
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(...) Yeah. It was mentioned somewhere before (I can't remember where) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Ursine cub II
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(...) Thanks, Kyle. I find myself drawn to that color combo for some reason, but don't worry, I've got a different color scheme in mind for the next Mecha I build. (...) I thought it would be nice to make another hand-held weapon for a mech. (...) (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Is Lego the most complex collectible toy of all time?
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(...) Sorry Anders, that's almost as hard to pronounce as my town (just outside Coburg, Bavaria, Germany) called "Mönchröden" (Monks of the River Röden), named for the 875 year old abbey in the middle of the town (I was baptised there). Gary Istok (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: BrickJournal has been mentioned on both SlashDot and BoingBoing
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(...) I noticed that when traffic on BZPower (which is a BrickJournal mirror) went through the roof. Good to know LEGO is popular with the digerati. Kelly (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | BrickJournal has been mentioned on both SlashDot and BoingBoing
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Well, BrickJournal has been noticed by both (URL) SlashDot> and (URL) BoingBoing>. Matt (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Useful site for custom US train decals
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Check out www.railfonts.com You have to pay for them but as well as lots of classic fonts and logos there is a variety of road signs, loco profiles etc. Tim (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Is Lego the most complex collectible toy of all time?
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(...) Actually that's "Eskilstuna" (Eskil's town) :-)) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Y-Wing Advanced
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Oooh, dang that's nice Dman. Love the lime. White + a unique accent color + dk grey greebs looks so good. --Kyle (URL) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: An Idea for new Mindstorm
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(...) Since this keeps being phrased in terms of good markets, etc... how much of a market is there to tap here (i.e.- how many potential sales have been lost due to "RIS programming being to complicated"?). Having watched a group of 8-year-olds (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A new project...
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(...) Wow, this is great, I just printed it out for some enjoyable reading tonight. Congrats to everyone, and enjoy the slashdotting. George (21 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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