 | | SNVT Build-a-Train Contest
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Save 9v Trains would like to announce its first (and hopefully not only) contest. The contest has been set up to support 9v Trains by using LEGO Factory to build a quality database of models that can be purchased by long time AFOLs and Newbies. Our (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
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In lugnet.town, James Garrett wrote: <snip> (...) Like it, I think I nearly wet myself. That is a work of art. Love the use of tan/ dark orange combo. Aaron A (20 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: has anyone seen the batcave or the catwoman set in .au?
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(...) Batcave - Yet to be spotted, UCS Batmobile - Yet to be spotted Catwoman - David Jones $19.95 (picked mine up from melb city store) Currently have all the other sets set up on my table, The batwing is way swooshable, Spent all last night (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Working Minifig-Scale Mailbox
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(...) Australia :) (aussie web sites end with .com.au, hence au) (...) Ditto, The Clear one on the other hand.... (...) Diameter touches studs either side so unable to have anything connected. It's hight is about a plate and a halfish (i may me (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
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Wow Jim, that's truly amazing! Not only a great model, but the picture really helps sell the reality of it. Very well done. AB (20 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Brickvention 2006 Moonbase and Brikwars
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Brickvention 2006 will be featuring our first ever national moonbase, everyone is invited to bring 1 or more (URL) moonbase modules> to attach. If you plan on bringing a moonbase module please email <mailto:moonbase@bri...ntures.com (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.space, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, FTX)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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(...) Within the same room - is unlikely to be a problem - but think about two Sumo bots trying to find each other or two robots doing some kind of cooperative tasks in a contest or something...not likely to be so easy I think. (20 years ago, 22-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | 6 wide DB(German) Class 212
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David Parkin of the SLTC has asked me to share this as he does not yet have an account here on Lugnet. Sorry about the picture size but i felt it necessary to post it also. (URL) "This is Davids version of a 6 wide DB(German) Class 212. (URL) The (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Mecha Contests at BrickFest 2006!
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BrickFest is fast approaching, and it's time to get the ball rolling on our Mecha contests! Our first contest is the Fantasy Mecha Contest. Participants are asked to imagine what ancient, medieval, or fantasy cultures might design if they had the (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.space, lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.contests, FTX) !!
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| | Skyscraper MOC: David Stott Building
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Greetings fellow builders: I have just completed a 7.5 foot high skyscraper MOC: A Lego model of the David Stott Building, a 37 story art deco office tower erected in Detroit during 1929: (URL) I am planning on bringing this building to the NMRA (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | The Da Vigci Code
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Can you solve the mystery of the Da Vigci code? (URL) "Big Daddy" Nelson (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: How to remove Click-hinge axles?
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"David Simmons" <xenobuzz@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:IzJ63p.Hp3@lugnet.com... (...) A dremel works nicely on those stubborn parts. :P -Rob (who actually uses David Eaton's method) www.brickmodder.net (20 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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(...) I'm not positive of that. If the US sensor is plugged in to a powered NXT, I can detect a clicking from it - I presume it's on. Regardless of what sensor I define the port as, this clicking continues. This is what I was basing my "can't turn (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MOC "Big Show" work in progress
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(...) Mea culpa... ero troppo ansioso di metterle online che non ho avuto tempo di photoshopparle a dovere. Tuttavia se le apri in internet explorer verranno automaticamente ridimensionate per fittare lo schermo. In pratica se fai tasto destro + (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Huge Bionicle Lot For Sale
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My nephew has ask me to sell his huge lot of Bionicle. Here is the list of instructions. 8557, 8534,8556,8562,8564,...8565,8591, 8561,8537,8533,8535,...,8538,8514 also there is set 8539 but there is no instructions. There is also many more sets. (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: MOC "Big Show" work in progress
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(...) E' davvero seccante dover ridimensionare le immagini per poterle vedere a tutto schermo... Luca (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | External power supply for NXT
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Hi all, You'll find (URL) here> detailed building instructions for a replacement battery plate that adds an external power jack to the NXT. (URL) Enjoy, Philo (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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Hello Brian, (...) That's easy to do in NBC, and not hard with NXT-G: to shut off the US sensor, just "use" another sensor type on the same port. Here is a sample program that switches the US sensor on/off with NXT enter button. (URL) If the sensor (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New Seaplane set in old Legoland scale
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Looks pretty cool. (URL) pieces. It appears to use the new click hinge sloped roof piece instead of the old finger hinge peice, but other than that it look very nice. -Mike Petrucelli (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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I've heard of one possible answer, though don't know if it is feasible on the NXT. If the robot software sends timed pings, regardless of time of flight, they will be returned with the same delay between them. So if you send two pings 73 msecs (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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(...) I was the one that mentioned that I couldn't find a way from the SW I have to turn the US sensor off. That said, I don't think it's time yet to worry about intractable problems: A hundred of us or so have been playing with this stuff for a (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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(...) Wow! That's a lot lower than I'd have expected - at that frequency there is a good risk of harmonics from normal sound interfering with it. (...) Right - 350 meters per second is pretty slow by computer standards. (...) (Not to mention things (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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(...) The device operates at 40kHz, the transmit and receive piezo devices are only resonant at that frequency. Even though the measurement period is short (time from transmit to time to receive) it is necessary to wait quite a while for the sound (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | 10152 cerco...
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ciao a tutti cerco il (URL) o al limite MIB ad un prezzo ragionevole. ciao, Matteo. (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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(...) The 'Aloha' protocol was the predecessor of this. (...) Someone earlier told us that the thing runs all the time and can't even be shut off. That being the case, I think we're pretty much doomed. (...) Yes - but the relatively low frequency at (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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(...) How about a single computer that was Bluetooth accessable. The server could act as a "lockable" resource that a NXT could acquire prior to doing the US detection. Then the NXTs don't need to know about each other, just the main server (and it (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | has anyone seen the batcave or the catwoman set in .au?
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Has anyone seen either the batcase or the catwoman set here in australia yet? If so, where? (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | nuovi set.
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zitti zitti , quatti quatti stanno uscendo i nuovi set : (URL) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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The problem here is the management of a single shared resource, i.e. the air through which the ultrasonic signals travel. The lack of a Bluetooth broadcast mechanism makes the implementation of a conventional resource locking system difficult, but (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Ultrasonic sensor interactions
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(...) This is a great idea except for one very important item: there is no such thing as a broadcast message (ie: a message sent to everyone) using Bluetooth. So for any such system to work, each robot has to know about every other robot, and send (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Far North Bricks Unsorted Lots for sale.
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I have two unsorted lots available in my store - see extended description in my store for details of most of what is included in each lot. - brief descriptions are as follows: Trains: 12v/4.5v train elements, includes some points and a crossover. (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Milk International Children's Festival of the Arts
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(...) Wow! Amazing what you can do with (mostly) 2x4 bricks! (...) Except if you follow Aussie Rules football, which is played on an oval ground ;) (...) I think this pic shows them best (URL) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Milk International Children's Festival of the Arts
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The Milk International Children's Festival of the Arts starts tomorrow and runs till May 28th. (URL) couple months ago a group of us were asked by LEGO Canada and the Toronto Harbourfront Centre if we could do some building for the Lego tent at the (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Somewhere, Under the Rainbow....
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(...) It's just a reflection of a gold coin piece. Or... is it??! I didn't see any leprechauns to the side of me when I shot this. I guess it's now a part of the "Da Vigci" Code... "Big Daddy" Nelson (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: Set database Q
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(...) Hi Nathan, thanks for the question. I assume you mean the 1 x 1 plates (not bricks). My gut instinct is to answer "no", because the parts bags weren't designed to be sold as individual sets. Their sale (AFAIK) is merely a side-effect of the (...) (20 years ago, 21-May-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Somewhere, Under the Rainbow....
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(...) Whoa, that's creepy! Whose face is that guarding the gold (URL)? JOHN (20 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: Space ninja GO!
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(...) Cool Moc Linus! Doesn't feel very sci-fi/future to me, but the japanese style is well rendered. Neat roof, too. //Joel (20 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Very Rare (1957-60) USA Lego Flag?
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I hope I don't confuse people.... "USA flags" and "USA Lego flags" are 2 different things. The dates listed are the offical USA flag dates. The actual USA Lego flag dates are unknown to me (except the 1957 date of first Lego USA flag sales). Gary (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Very Rare (1957-60) USA Lego Flag?
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I am just finishing up the Lego CD Chapter on Lego flags, and I came across something that I found very interesting which may never have been discussed on LUGNET. If you check Clark Stephen's awesome rare Lego parts site, it shows the Lego wavy (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Name Badge Kit with 1x1 Printed Tiles
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(...) Whoever came up with this set obviously wasn't German.... where's the "Ä"? Gary Istok (20 years ago, 20-May-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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