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I gave this year's advent calendar to my boys. Today there was a part I had never seen before and I looked it up on peron. It's the part'Minifig Jet-Pack with Stud on Front' (4736). It was included in space sets in the late 80s and early 90s. Seeing (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: LEGO Store Display Install in Portland: Oh, The Drama
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(...) You're copping to that? You have e in the pic, why not hang it on him? (...) K, what you're saying is that I was wrong about a kind of flaw that I thought Bionicles don't have, because actually they do have that flaw? I'm down with that, I'm (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Custom Sensor poll (Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot)
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(...) Here's a related question. Suppose LEGO eventually does come out with a new Mindstorms product, and it's 100's of times better than the current system. Would you allow the new system in a LEGO/Mindstorms only competition? Why or why not? How (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Store Display Install in Portland: Oh, The Drama
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(...) Ah, you never forget your first time...here's mine: (URL) Needless to say, that particular creation became MASSIVELY structurally reinforced after that incident. It stood up for a year straight after that incident. Ignore Lar on this one, (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New Part: x784 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel
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----- CUT HERE LISTING 1 of 2 ---...--- -- 3DS Max Exporting with rounded-off precision ----- close out_file tmesh = snapshotAsMesh selection[1] out_name = ((GetDir #export)+"/testmesh.dat") out_file = createfile out_name num_verts = tmesh.numverts (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x784 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel [DAT]
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Version 3 Parts List: x784.dat x784s01.dat x784s02.dat This is x784s02.dat 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel Segment of 8 fin units and 14 teeth 0 Name: x784s02.dat 0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x784 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel [DAT]
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Version 3 Parts List: x784.dat x784s01.dat x784s02.dat This is x784s01.dat 0 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel Fin Segment 0 Name: x784s01.dat 0 Author: Amnon Silverstein 0 Unofficial Part 0 BFC CERTIFY CCW 3 16 34.9836 261.141 11.3246 35.32 263.049 (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: New Part: x784 Technic Gear Hailfire Droid Wheel [DAT]
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Version 3 follows. All parts need to be replaced. I fixed the cracks. I removed trailing zeros. I changed the precision to 4 decimals. I inset the teeth a tiny little bit to hide the convex backside. I removed two extra faces that were just adding a (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: due parole sull'ultimo catalogo LEGO
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(...) Ben venga un cavolo. E' una delle peggiori idee degli ultimi anni (e non si può certo dire che siano stati molto furbi, recentemente). Un catalogo serve a far vendere i TUOI prodotti, non quelli degli altri. Gli starebbe bene se qualcuno (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Custom Sensor poll (Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot)
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(...) Yes, this is a quirky little requirement. Common "LEGO Only" rules allow sensors that stopped being produced several years ago, and were only sold in England. Or gears that haven't been produced for over 20 years. But they don't allow brand (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How often
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(...) It used to be about every 3 years, but it has been decreasing. I think a set is normally available for 2 years but at a lower level than it was in its first year. This has implications for us as buyers, since we really have just one year to (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Custom Sensor poll (Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot)
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(...) I'm not sure about that. Rob's trick is great - I've used it myself, and probably will again (I tend toward the end of "purist", although I confess some of this may not be high moral standards, but laziness). But I would say that solution is (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Custom Sensor poll (Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot)
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(...) Since Pitsco sells the (URL) to DCP adaptor>, isn't that already a LEGO-approved product? DCP's sensors are expensive, but they must have enough educational sales to keep them on the market. (URL) pH> (URL) Humidity> (URL) Position (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Bug Build followup (was Re: Keynote presentation)
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(...) (*ahem* and LUCNY too...) (...) *snip* As a followup to the Bug Build, there was this related press release today, an excerpt from (URL) Children's Medical Center together with LEGO Systems, officially opened the newly renovated waiting area (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.events, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.lucny)
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| | Re: Implecations of 6 LEGO Units Thick Fence
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(...) Oh, yeah, that's great. Nice work. later, James Mathis (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: Implecations of 6 LEGO Units Thick Fence
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(...) Hi James, I shifted my response to .build.schleim so you may have missed it ((URL) here>). If you use technic rods you can obtain infinite resolution with firmness by using part 4265 to hold it in place. That will work with my solution using (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
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(...) And the next most important downside: Firmware is in PROM. No updates or alternative firmware, only Lego programming system, spirit.ocx or NQC. (20 years ago, 1-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Custom Sensor poll (Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot)
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Steve Hassenplug wrote: > >> The counter argument to all that, is those rare lego parts, or country >> specific ones that are not easily obtained. Hypothetically, what is the >> difference between me (being in Canada) getting cybermaster touch >> (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Is it possible to use LDView as POV-Ray previewer?
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(...) I tried to implement this functionality, but ran into a brick wall. The problem is that L3P doesn't allow for arbitrary camera positioning, so there's no way to convert LDView's arbitrary camera position into an L3P command line. Specifically, (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Implecations of 6 LEGO Units Thick Fence
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(...) Here two odd-valued off-stud-alignment, or odd-stud-alignment (OSA?), of (URL) and 7 LEGO Units shown as potential train door insets>. Other ways to achieve this 3 and 7-lu OSA? Of course, there are always the clever ways of using clips (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-05, to lugnet.build.arch, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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