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(...) Well, here it is in a nutshell: you download the free LEGO Designer software (which will soon be available for both Mac and Windows), which is a CAD program you can use to design models virtually, using a restricted but hopefully adequate (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Mini moonbase, anyone?
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(...) Hey, that sounds really cool. I'm rather drawn by the smaller scale of it all. But it kinda depends on when during September - first weekend I'm helping to run Tacticon, third weekend I'm helping to run Nan Desu Kan. Interestingly enough, in (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.us.co)
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| | Re: Modellmessen 2005
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(...) For at vi skal kunne gjøre oss opp noen ideer om hva som passer sammen i en layout, kunne vi utveksle adresser på, f.eks., "Bricshelf" eller lignende?! Da kan hver og en kanskje tilpasse seg litt til hverandres kreasjoner slik at en layout får (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.no)
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| | Mini moonbase, anyone?
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Hi guys, I know most of you are into space. I don't have very much space gear, but I did pick up a lunar baseplate at a garage sale the other day, and have been itching to find some use for it. Then, just today, I came across the (URL) mini-moonbase (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.us.co, FTX)
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| | Re: Where do we go from here...
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: <snip> (...) I know what it's like when your website goes dowm. Though no hackers got into it, i've been working diligently to get rid of the non-secure issues. Beyond that, whos in for the play table (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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(...) I'm not that big a fan of head to head competition. I think that every person who brings a MOC is a winner, as are those who don't. One thing to note is that Steve Hassenplug, that genious robotics/techic guy (who is also great to be around in (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Small insight into LEGO CAD system
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(...) I think we're about 2000 up on them ;-). Tim (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: container in a container error
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(...) Thanks Claude. I look forward to implementing the correction. Tom (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Small insight into LEGO CAD system
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While at Brickfest, I met Dave Bird, a technic designer for LEGO. He is a very nice guy, and a pleasure to spend time with. We talked about many things, but one that really got my attention was talking a bit about CAD. Dave wondered shy we had our (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) OMG, this is a joke right? Because it would sure be swanky to finally get my membership packet after like 5 years. ;) -Evil Wayne (#571) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Brickfest winner Pneumatic Master
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(...) I'm glad to hear you're writting pneumatic articles for Brick Journal. I plan on doing some articles for Brick Journal too. (...) I was thinking that this parlor trick might be used to create a very slow pneumatic delay (presuming it has (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Retailers stock fan-created designs? (was: Re: All plastic track)
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(...) <snip> (...) Really? Lots of questions for you about this: Are you saying that big buyers like Target and Wal*mart might be able to stock fan-created designs? Would TLG present them with a selection of fan-created sets from which to choose, or (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption at BrickFest
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(...) Well, Steve may have more infomation coming, but for now... It Went Terrific!! We had more than 40 modules built by 30+ builders in a rectangular layout serviced by two trains running in one loop with (at one point) eight loading & unloading (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Will the Lego Factory be available in australia?
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(...) I mean the new Lego Factory build-your-own-model announced at Brickfest. (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Un sottomarino a Milano? Mi prendi per scemo?
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Vabbè, allora per stavolta sei perdonato!!! :-) Ciao Luca Delcarro "biffuz" <gabriele@biffuz.it> ha scritto nel messaggio news:ILC0FD.D4s@lugnet.com... (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Moonbase standard
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(...) I really like these! (...) I am currently building two new "normal" scale moonbase modules. I will post pictures of the first (finished) here. I had to redesign the support stands because I was building on the old standard :-( Jaco (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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(...) standard" I thought it was not yet _the_ standard. Perhaps this should be mentioned on the Zemi website aswell? Jaco (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: James Jessiman Memorial Award for 2005
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(...) congratulations Michi! your work on MLCad deserves all the imaginable tribute I can think of and it is always a pleasure and a honor to give you a little hand. bye, w. (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Will the Lego Factory be available in australia?
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(...) They're already available to Australia from LEGO Shop-at-Home. Sounds like it's time for the Perthies to make a group order :-) Cheers, Paul (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | My BrickFest Thanks
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General Impressions - What a blast! Man, fans of the brick RULE!!! So glad to see so many of you again, meet some new faces, touch base with "old faces" and get to know many of you better. Although BrickFest is wonderful, it is nice to return home, (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.build.vignette)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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(...) How about Finescale L and Coarsescale L gauges :) Seriously tho I think L-gauge would be suitable for both, it only refers the track gauge, not the scale, and as they are the same... Tim (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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(...) Hey, they're expensive for me, £12 ish a pack! Tim (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: RCX to RCX LNP
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Hi. (...) That would be a fun state machine to set up... ;-) (...) It only does so when it receives opcodes between 0xf0 - 0xf7 or a standard firmware message (0x55). Of the first eight, only 0xf0 and 0xf1 currently require further action, with 0xf0 (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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(...) Not a big IR fan either but one thing to consider about controllability is that perhaps this system will be more like a walkaround throttle than a wired one, that is, in many IR systems, you press the go button and the vehicle goes. Take your (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Klubbartikel
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(...) Pust, jobbet tar en del på krafterna ibland! En fin bild på mikro-staden från SWELUG7 vore fint att ha med, ligger det någon sådan någonstans? Maila gärna mig en, den som har! Min mailbox rymmer 2GB, så maila på bara. Tre dagar till deadline, (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Micro continues to impress, plus thanks, Janey!
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Watch the galleries for pics of the outstanding micro creations that appeared at this year's BrickFest. Once again, the creations were incredible! There was even a tiny bit of spillover this year as the National Trust competition included a number (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.build.microscale)
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| | BrickFest coverage in Seattle and Dallas
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A story about BrickFest made it to the second page of the Seattle Times featuring a picture of the Taj Mahal (8/16/05). Also, a brief story ran on the news in Dallas according to my family, there. Ashley Glennon (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: -23 al Legofest di Torino
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(...) Mi fa piacere, però la mia non era una forma di esibizionismo, volevo solo sapere se sarebbero potuti servire o no... Alex (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: -17 al Legofest di Torino
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(...) (URL) Ma ricordo male io (AKA mi sono fumato qualcosa di buono) oppure qui c'era qualcuno esperto di pneumatica (vera, non Lego) ?? (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | LEGO factory: protection for my designs?
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Hi guys, Great to hear the announcements about LEGO factory at Brickfest. I have a question though: If someone takes my design and enters it at the LEGO factory, is there any avenue for me to protest about it? Especially if a design is very popular (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Administrator Position Open at GeekBrick.com! (For Europeans ONLY)
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Attention! GeekBrick.com is looking for a LEGO enthusiast who lives in Europe to join our staff. They will have administrator access/responsibilities, and they will be a full time staff member. Here are the terms: - GeekBrick.com must be one of your (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.eu)
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| | Re: Vance Quantum line at LEGO Factory?
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(...) That's a good question. The answer is...I don't know. I haven't really thought about it. I for sure want to expand more on the Quantum sub-theme with more characters and vehicles. I don't know how the whole lego factory thing works and how you (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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(...) Actually, that's a very good point. I was using L Gauge to refer to anything that uses the track gauge (distance between rails, obviously) currently used for both the Play and Hobby trains. But I don't pretend to think that I should be (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Two Usb towers
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Just as a point of reference -- My latest creation has 7 motors, requiring 3 RCX's. All the high-level logic is written in Python and runs on my laptop. I communicate with the bricks through a single usb tower, using simple file I/O. The open call (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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In lugnet.trains, Jake McKee wrote: snip snip (...) Just to clarify Jake, will you be referring to both (Play and Hobby) as L gauge? That would make sense to me as they are all the same gauge. But it might confuse "real" train modellers - when we (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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(...) Personally I think the play train is a fantastic idea. It will be a great way to lower cost while providing opportunities for new parts, ideas and a new younger audience. Now some of you are worried about the death of the 9volt train set but (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Moonbase standard
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(...) That's all. Also, any corridors at other levels should be at multiples of 10 bricks to the bottom of the corridor floor plate. See (URL) for all the details. (...) See Kevoh's post. Here are some photos he took of the micro moonbase at (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Will the Lego Factory be available in australia?
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Hopefully the LEGO people can give an answer to this, I am sure I am not the only aussie who wants to use this :) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| | Re: Vance Quantum line at LEGO Factory?
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(...) The only problem with Lego Factory & Space is whether there are enough Space parts available to build anything usable. (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: All plastic track
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Jake- I haven't quite figured out why I am more concerned about the recent track announcements than most other LTC types I have spoken with. Certainly there's not much anxiety with SCLTC (and even some enthusiasm) as I check in with members. (That (...) (21 years ago, 17-Aug-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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