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(...) a bit. Thanks very much. -Suz (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Re: kadee coupler questioner
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(...) The idea of Kadee couplers for Lego trains is a fantastic idea. This the only short coming of Lego trains. You can't shunt them. I've ben trying unsuccessfully to design a alternate coupler from Lego parts but no luck. I would equip every (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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(...) Hmmm..michigan state fair??? (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I agree with this as well, and I have built my own "Micro" at different scales as well. (...) Prior to last years BrickFest event (the first large group display of Micro, that I am aware of) I did a lot of searching out what others were (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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(...) LOL, thanks John. That page never developed into what I had intended, although I did send the link to ppl that were questioning scale. Of course, you never seemed to need any help. I have been very impressed with what you have created since (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Re: COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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(...) Congrats. My earliest memories of model train layouts were the ones at the Ohio State Fair more than twenty years ago. I never dreamed there would one day be Lego trains on display there! Spencer (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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If LEGO does do an RC train, I suspect it would be made to go alongside the existing 9V train and be made as either a Duplo product or a Jack Stone/4+ type product. Such a product would compete with products like Fisher Price Geotrax (which, IIRC, (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) I have also run 12 V at: - Oregon Convention Center Grand Re-opening - BrickFest PDX As to battery trains being serious... One of the most serious RR sub-groups is slowly going battery powered - Garden Railroading (I call them one of the most (...) (21 years ago, 5-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Wow Janey, I never saw that before! Why didn't you publicize this material earlier!!! JB ps: Suz, WARNING! Micro can be totally addictive! I know this. And its all Janey's fault ;) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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Sorry about responding to myself, but I just wanted to follow up with a link to (URL) this thread>, that rambles on about the definitions of scale. Bruce (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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Hey Suz, Just my humble opinion, but I think microscale just means any scale smaller than minifig (or, perhaps, smaller than the old 1970's town scale). For instance, see these three interpretations of the same castle at three different scales by (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Errors compiling threads
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(...) Hi Steve, Thanks, you were right about the compiler being ok. I changed "pid_t" to "tid_t" and got the thread statements working correctly. Finally, by consulting BrickOS documentation I found out the new syntax for the old "sys_time" command (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Thanks! Last year at Brickfest, Ashley Glennon had an inspiring and informative PowerPoint presentation about micro scales and pieces. I don't know if it's posted anywhere, though. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: Have PAB Question
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(...) Was there a little while ago... They had almost no Light grey (and dark grey and brown for that matter) left. Real slim pickings. I am going to the park tomorrow and can double check though... Will let you know! Bill (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.legoland.california)
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(...) Snip. (...) Hello Suz, Last year for BrickFest, as micro gained attention there were a lot of ppl that were unsure of how to scale there building back, so I worked up a very BASIC page of info for those in need. It's sort of silly, and not (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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Is there a FAQ or Building Guide for the small scales? Because I could use help. Until a few minutes ago, I wasn't even sure what the definitions of micro, mini, and nano scales might be. I'm entering a model of my house for BrickFest, and I read (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | Re: COLTC Display at the Ohio State Fair in Columbus, Ohio
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(...) My favorite quote: "She said the club is a good jumping off point because the fair organizers are hoping to get the actual LEGO company involved with the fair next year." --Mike. (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Just curious if there was going to be a web broadcast of the Brickfest keynote speakers for those of use who can't attend in person. Though my wife and daughter thought I was nuts, it was pretty cool last year to be able to see what was going on in (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) So that's what it's like to be an Ohioan! (...) =@= I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, ''Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.' (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) Check the line before that. Your code says: // direction_ // direction of monorail const delay1=1500 // minimum stop time in station (10 seconds) const delay2=3000 // maximum stop time in station (30 seconds) // I'm not sure exactly what (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Hi Steve, I see the message apearing in the status bar, but it's an error! Error is : Error (0xe0050801) from VPBrick compiler The error apears in following line: const delay1 = 1000 // minimum stop time in station (10 seconds) The word (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Factory robot as amusement park ride!
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(...) That is cool, but quite scary. Who is fgoing to be the first to build a minifig version? Can I advise music lovers to have Fatboy slim "Tear It up" playing while watching the robocaoster movies - it was accidental, but for some reason, those (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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trying to reach tim courtney all i get are bounced emails Tim!!!...!!! -p (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Help a grad student - win a Sandcrawler!
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(...) I used Firefox 1.0.6 and it all worked perfectly for me. Interesting! Tim (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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Apparently Legoland in Denmark and California has few of them installed. Some links: Cnet - (URL) - (URL) - (URL) cool to program your own ride! :) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hmm, I use Firefox 1.0.6 also, but experienced a timeout halfway through. I then backed up a page and completed the survey, leaving a comment about it at the end. -Suz (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) Frank Filz hosted a 12 volt layout within our (PNLTC) layout at Beaverton Mall in 2002. The PNLTC website ((URL)) is down at the moment, but when it comes back up, please check it out (Under Galleries, See "Beaverton Mall"). -jeremy (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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Worked fine in Firefox 1.0.6 (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| | Extending IR communications
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Greetings helpful companions. Now that I've buttered you up, let's move on... I've built a robotic arm using my RCX 1.0 brick. I'm controlling it via my computer with LeJOS (not important, I think). What my issue arises is if my arm rotates, the IR (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Brand new defective train motors - Lego Consumerservice
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(...) Ludo- A few comments: 1. I have a lot newly acquired experience in servicing LEGO train motors since we switched SCLTC to DCC. Before DCC, when a motor went bad, we would only retire it from service. Now, we take perfectly good motors apart to (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 2005 LDraw.org Standards Committee Vote Results
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(...) Woohoo! That makes me 7.6% of the electorate. I've never felt the caress of such unbridled power before. Oh, and congratulations to all the winners. Please send me those payoffs as we agreed before I voted. Dave! (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | TRAINS.COM writeup of 2005 NTS show in Cincinnati
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(URL) not be there foreever, dunno. Enjoy! (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) This already happens -- monorail is a popular item in train displays, and monorail is definitely a legacy product. I haven't heard of any displays of 4.5V/12V setups, but I wouldn't be surprised by them. Steve (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Congratulations to all, I'm sure you'll do an excellent job and I look forward to any new developments in LDraw. Tim (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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The 2005 LSC voting has come to an end. The 2005 LDraw.org Standards Committee is: Steve Bliss Kevin Clague Tore Eriksson Lars Hassing Orion Pobursky There were a total of 13 respondents. (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Did LEGO bring these couples together?
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(...) Sounds like a good time & place to tell my story. When I was dating the woman who is now my wife, we found ourselves in the toy section of a large chain store. We hadn't done a great deal of talking about LEGO, but were looking at the then-new (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) I don't normally like these speculative threads but I feel compelled to add a couple of comments here although I also have the nasty feeling it is already too late. Plastic rails and a battery in the train makes a lot of sense for a cost (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOCpages is back online
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Great to see that it is back on-line. When I bought a digital camera in May I looked forward to putting some of my MOCs on MOCpages, since it is very easy to add a little info on the MOC. One of the nice things is also the quick feedback from other (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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| | Re: The End of 9 Volt? (was: Re: Train motors half price via S@H weekly special)
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(...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) Okay, so there's no point in speculating but I will anyway since I've been interested in (and worried about) what this could mean since I first saw the coming of RC LEGO trains mentioned on the Eurobricks main page a (...) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains)
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I posted these pics to brickshelf a while ago, but never got around to mentioning it. Every Lego Town set up should have some bike messengers. -D (URL) (21 years ago, 4-Aug-05, to lugnet.town)
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