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(...) Thanks much. I like the blue guys, so I figured they could use a big ship. God bless, Sean (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Which university? Or more to the point which city? Kerry (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, you can -technically- view the lower decks, if by view you mean look down and say 'oh look, you can see lower decks'. I plan on removing the top most deck and then adding details to the lower ones, and also extending the ship slightly so (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Canal Street
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(...) Uh, are those hookers? :D Very nice work. I love the contouring of the dumptruck. And the use of 1x1 tiles on the corners of the yellow building to simulate shoddy/rotting brickwork is brilliant. Again, very nice work. (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.town)
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(...) I love the mention of the Michiana club, which was unable to attend. We need a marketing department. ;D (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) That's correct. The "next version" of L3P will support it, as far as I know, but it's impossible to say when that will be out. LDView does support it, and LDGLite might. However, the current L3P does support 12-bit dithered colors 24-bit color (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.color)
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(...) Hi Magnus, It wasn't my intention to start a contest on who builds the best figher. As you say, it is always about balancing a number of sometimes conflicting requirements. In many cases, if you want something to be really nicely shaped, (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Yeah, well,*I* am. There's already a Logical block that starts getting at this, but bit-wise opertations would be very nice to have sometimes. I agree, if we have arrays they should be arrays of anything (number, boolean, or string), but (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Three metres long heavy beam transport
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(...) Nathan, Thanks for the compliments. As I'm living in Europe, it's impossible to bring such models overseas. And I don't have any plans to visit the US in the near future. I keep it in the west part of Europe ;-) Best regards, Dennis (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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Hi (...) These are definitely very impressive models! It must be a lot of fun digging, ripping, compacting and transporting with these earthmovers. What material do you use on your construction site? I guess it must be of very low density. Will you (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic)
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Hello Shiri, Nice to hear from you, and congrats on graduating! The Wamalug dinner will be somewhere very close to a Metro stop, probably in Clarendon, very close to where BrickFest has been in the past. Hope to see you then! cheers Magnus (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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| | Re: Mini-fig scale F-16 Fighting Falcon
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Hello, I can only echo sentiments there are some very nice fighter MOCs here and it's nice to see build.military get a little more activity of late. I used to build lots of fighter planes a lot as a teen, and while I don't think I ever approached (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) riportato, applicargli un 10% di sconto e poi aggiungergli un 20% d'IVA, giusto? Quindi la formula per calcolare il prezzo dovrebbe essere: PREZZO_LISTINO * 0.9 * 1.2 Dove lo 0.9 potrebbe essere anche inferiore, per grandi quantita'. Ciao. (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) Uhm... nessuno ha più detto nulla e quindi suppongo che tutti stiate spulciando il listino... ma solo a me i prezzi sembrano un po' altini? Forse avevo delle aspettative sbagliate per il fatto che si tratta di un grossista, oppure sto (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: NXT powered by USB?
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(...) no, it doesn't. The motors would require much more power than you can draw from there. Steve (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT powered by USB?
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Does anyone know whether the NXT brick can use USB-supplied power rather than its own batteries while connected? It'd be nice during experimenting and hacking, but I'd guess it doesn't... (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Canal Street
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In addition to meeting lots of builders I admire and getting tons of inspiration to build, my trip to NMRA in Philly enabled me to pick-up the bricks I needed to complete this street on my layout. (URL) It is supposed to replicate a busy industrial (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town) !!
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| | LEGO Imagination Days
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I am putting out the call for Denver AFOLs. I have just received notice that the TLC has requested our presence at the Kazoo and Company Toy Store for this event. If you have a Town creation that you would like to display at this event, please (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.loc.us.co, lugnet.loc.us.co.cos, lugnet.loc.us.co.den, FTX)
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| | Re: Electric Compressor for Pneumatic Engines
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(...) Tried it. You are right, it does produce a lot of air, but without any pressure, which seems to be essential for pneumatic engine. (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) I remember seeing a model like that in the video clip from when you were interviewed on Dutch TV. That is amazing! It is even better to see it again. Are you going to bring any of your models to BrickFest this year or any year in the future? (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | 4511 7905
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Ciao Vendo due 4511 High Speed Train a 79 euro cad. e vendo una gru 7905 a 59. I set sono nuovi mai aperti, mi servivano per un progetto, ma alla fine non mi servono più. Chi fosse interessato mi contatti pure. Ciao Mauro (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market)
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| | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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(...) If I understand what you mean, yes, you can make an arrangement of modules that satisfys the GBC spec input/output as a whol, even though they don't individually. That's fine (like Rafe's "supermodule", for instance). But then the individual (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) A copy of the MyBlock is not stored with the file that uses it. I've had several programs in NXT-G wind up broken because of changes to the MyBlock VIs they used. You definitely need to be very careful with MyBlocks. John Hansen (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Steampunk Dirigible: The Leslie Anne Levine
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(...) I consider steampunk to be nothing more than straight-up witchcraft voodoo, so I was surprised to find that I like this. As always with your MOCs, it's the attention to fine detail that makes this - the log bricks in the tail for a feathered (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Re: thoughts on gbc module reliability
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John Brost writes: > The idea of the spec was so that EVERY module could be put ANYWHERE > in the GBC and it would all work. In the past, this has been bent > so that modules that can't handle large batches are not placed > downstream of a batch- (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | 12v Tåganläggning bytes
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Har en 12v tåganläggning som innehåller 726,727,741,3x755,22 meter räls.Komplett med beskrivningar och kartonger. Säljes eller bytes mot 12v tåg,vagnar och tillbehör av den gråa eran. Bild (URL) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Kind of a streamliner
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(...) Andreas, I'm not big into trains (aside from the traditional Christmas time around the tree one) but I really like the steamlining on this, I'd even call it art deco like. Thanks, George (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Program to Manually Run Motors using NXT-Brick's Buttons
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ScreenShot: (2 URLs) pretty self explanatory. It even shows three lines of help when you run it. I'm tempted to alter it to have two speeds. Sometimes the current speed is too fast. -S (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Well, they already have a boolean data type. If we have arrays, arrays of booleans doesn't seem like much of a stretch. I'm not asking for bit-wise Ands and Ors, Shirts or Rolls here ;). (but isn't something like 50% of their mindstorms (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Memory - Where did it go?
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(...) I'm not certain, but I think the file size will be basically the same for each resample option since the result is an 8k 8 bit mono file. There may be slight differences. The higher quality options (in quality order from top to bottom) may be (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: OT - One red paperclip
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(...) get another paperclip... (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | funny article from the Philly show
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(URL) Trains Tantalize the Standard Male Brain">, from the Courier Post Online. My favorite line: "Hey, you can't spell locomotive without loco."... *grin* JohnG, GMLTC (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Vikings vs Castle?
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Hi Ben, (...) I always wondered why Ninja is a subgroup of Castle, too. But from what I know, changes in the Newsgroup tree and re-sorting grown groups is a potential No-No from the technical and organizational point of view. Probably, to change (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: OT - One red paperclip
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But it is small town Saskatchewan... In some similar communities there the town will sell you a property if you just pay off the taxes owing on it. It probably has a value of <$20k. (cube van probably had a higher real word value :) The big question (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: HUGE Lego Collection for sale
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(...) Specifically, I have added: This overview of the 38 Plano containers that show the specialty parts: (URL) image which shows my large plates (in 1.5 gal. rubbermaid containers): (URL) that show my two tubs of 1xN and 2xN longer bricks and my (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Vikings vs Castle?
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(...) I agree that Vikings are their own theme. But Ninja is also it's own independant theme and not a subgroup of Castle. It was marketed in the catalogs with the Ninja logo while Dark Forest and Fright Knights were marketed under the Castle (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Seeking Lugnet community help for a freeware computer game
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(...) Excellent. I use that to present stuff occasionally too. Its not bad at all. Have you considered using LPub, which can do the gruntwork for you? Also, using LGEO which can make things look a bit nicer, and MEGAPov which gives the Lego a more (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Memory - Where did it go?
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Wow, what a wealth of information. Thanks for the great detail. I am already using the Wav2Rso program but did not know enough about sound files to understand the convertion options. Which option gives you the smallest converted file? In your other (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Hey all!
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Hey all, I am a long time Lugneter/Lego fan from the realtively lego barren nation of Ireland but will be moving down to Australia for university in a few days time (Queensland). I will be offline from tonight until I get settled but thought I (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Will be offline for a while...
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Hi all, Will be computerless for the duration of my move (from my beloved Ireland to sunny Australia...) so won't be reading Lugnet for a few weeks. All the best and I hope I'm drowning in MOCs by the time of my return. God Bless, Nathan Visit my (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: Bank Vault
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Very Nice! Reminds me of a Thunderbird's scene for some reason... I am also picturing the accompanying heist to go with the accompanying bank. Keep up the great work and God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Seeking Lugnet community help for a freeware computer game
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(...) Danny, thanks for the reply. I have just discovered the Lcad->MLcad->l3p->povray method, and though I've only done the first 2 steps, I can see (having seen some nice POV renders on websites) the quality that can be achieved. As for your (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: 9 luglio 2006
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Eh no, il calcio anche qua no... ieri sera su WoW facevano la telecronaca in diretta... Eppoi Luca, quella ti sembra una bandiera italiana???????? Ciao :-) Gabriele -- gb(at)biffuz(dot)it (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Vikings vs Castle?
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(...) Hi Hendo, Please see this thread for further information: (URL) Godt! René (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle)
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| | US S@H Phone Specials July 5--July 11
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1-800-835-4386 (hit 1 when the recording starts, then hit 1 again when the S@H Specials recording starts, to skip the listings and get to a representative). US S@H US Phone Specials, July 5--July 11 3496 2x2 Roof Tiles Steep Sloped Red 7.99 4.00 (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | 9 luglio 2006
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(URL) Luca! (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT compatible bluetooth adapters
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(...) Now that you mention it - does anyone have experience with the built-in Bluetooth solution(s) that come with recent-day Macs? I've got an iBook G4 w/ Bluetooth and will get a new MacBook pro later this year, it would just be great to know (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT compatible bluetooth adapters
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Steve Hassenplug writes: > Here's a bit of a jumpstart for the list. I've collected this list over the > last couple months from the MDP. They are all reported to work. Do list members want me to throw this information up on (URL) ? Or is there a (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mini-fig scale F-16 Fighting Falcon
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(...) (URL) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Memory - Where did it go?
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(...) Everything in NXT-G is a block that you drag and drop onto your program. All blocks in NXT-G are LabView Virtual Instruments (VIs). Some blocks expand into a loop construct. Others expand into a switch construct. They often represent (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Memory - Where did it go?
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(...) With a newly loaded firmware: C:\WINAPPS\projects\...c>nexttool /COM=x -freemem 70324 C:\WINAPPS\projects\...c>nexttool /COM=x -listfiles NVConfig.sys=1 RPGReader.sys=14346 Demo.rxe=9436 Try-Touch.rtm=3788 Try-Light.rtm=4456 Try-Sound.rtm=6864 (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Electric Compressor for Pneumatic Engines
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(...) Have you tried the RC motor? (URL) a single small compressor, it pumps a phenomenal amount of air. (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Bank Vault
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Security cam view of bank vault (3 URLs) Only problem now is building a bank for it! :( AC (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.town, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego pneumatic systems overview?
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(...) Don't know about 'beauty', but my dancing Easter chickens were popular at work: (URL) ran them off the compressed air coming out of the wall (in a hospital), and I had to turn the pressure way down to keep them from boucing apart... (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Steampunk Dirigible: The Leslie Anne Levine
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(...) Not really digging the colors on the balloons. Red and Blue clash too much with each other, and with the dark colors of the airship itself. I'd suggest replacing one of the colors with white. Otherwise, it looks great. :) Jeff (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX)
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| | Steampunk Dirigible: The Leslie Anne Levine
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(URL) I decided to finish one of my many half-built MOCs last week, and it actually happened. This ship was based off a Decemberists poster with 17th-century dirigibles on, and so I figured it needed a Decemberists name to go with. PLMKWYT, I (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.adventurers, FTX) !
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| | Vikings vs Castle?
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I just noticed .vikings at Lugnet. ...But shouldn't Vikings be a subgroup of Castle? (in much the same way as Ninja) Maybe that's just my inexperienced logic talking though, so please don't flame me if there is some heated reason I'm unaware of as (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.vikings, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Using Stone Colors in LDraw/MLCAD
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(...) I'm pretty certain l3p doesn't recognise bley (or ldconfig.ldr) unfortunately. Tim (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Seeking Lugnet community help for a freeware computer game
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(...) Hi there Gabriel, This sounds very cool. I am not sure I can help you with provision of sprites, but have you thought of using a script to convert LDraw models to simpler meshes (with textures), and then animating those. I know you are going (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Electric Compressor for Pneumatic Engines
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(...) The first compressor (250-300 psi) is too powerful, unless you can put a regulator or pressure reducing valve on it. 20-30 psi is probably ideal. See this old thread: (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Electric Compressor for Pneumatic Engines
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(...) Thanks for your reply, Danny. Have you tested the Fischertechnik with Lego? There are two types of compressors I consider at the moment: 12V, 250-300 PSI, intended to be used for vehicle tires and floating devices. These are fairly cheap, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | BrickQuest
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Are there any write ups of BrickQuest games? Pics of rooms made? Other chat/advice/discussion of this game? I am interested in trying it, but can't find any good websites on it (other than brickquest.com of course)! Any help would be appreciated... (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: RCX vs NXT for FIRST?
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(...) If it is a what to buy question I would say NXT. The RCX will be obsolete in a few years. If you already have an RCX kit use it! I have been a coach for three years and each each we have added an RCX kit. I will still use the RCX kits to do (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Curator Highlight: Lets's Go Voltron Force!
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(...) I also strongly suggest clicking the up button and having a good look around, the guys got real talent. There are some transformers there, as well as a futurama based ship. Nice one P Stanley. (20 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Electric Compressor for Pneumatic Engines
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(...) Have you thought about using a Fischertechnik compressor? Or just a school lab compressor (probably very similar!)? (URL) Danny Staple MBCS OrionRobots (URL) contact details available through website) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Qual è il vostro grado di follia?
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(...) Sì, forse è più pazzo di te. Però tu sei indubbiamente più pericoloso :-PPP (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Qual è il vostro grado di follia?
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Ero sicuro di non essere l'unico pazzo... questo qua si è rifatto tutto il cortile di casa :-))) (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Electric Compressor for Pneumatic Engines
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I’ve build few type of pneumatic compressors with different motors and pumps, and also few types of pneumatic engines. Unfortunately, none of the Lego compressors were able to drive the engines more than one or two rounds. Manual pumping proves that (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Using Stone Colors in LDraw/MLCAD
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(...) MLCad doesn't currently use ldconfig.ldr but other apps should (l3p, ldview, etc..) Specifying the number they recognise should be enough. (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.cad.mlcad, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: The Corinthian
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(...) Ahoy! Good work Sean. I love how many gun ports this provides. One thing I didn't see in the pics was whether you can access/view the lower decks. If not, that might be an interesting feature for your next ship. I like the use of the katana. (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Brickshelf Find: Hazel Custom by Mumu
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Hi Gang. Feast your eyes on this Gundam side story gem from Advance of Zeta. For more information on Advance of Zeta click here: (URL) Now hit this bad boy and let the good times roll. (URL) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Memory - Where did it go?
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Regarding the question of some constant overhead plus some increment per block, the sound block example given computes to 0.5 kb overhead plus 0.2 kb per block. Edwin Tripp tripp@oclc.org -----Original Message----- Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New newsgroup lugnet.robotics.nxt
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A new newsgroup/list lugnet.robotics.nxt has been created for the focused discussion of LEGO NXT issues. Feel free to crosspost between .robotics / .robotics.rcx and .robotics.nxt, as appropriate, or just to .robotics if you feel your topic is of a (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.nxt) !
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| | ------( Terms of use for lugnet.com )------
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | ------( Welcome to lugnet.robotics.nxt )------
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Welcome to lugnet.robotics.nxt, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.robotics.nxt (group): Focused discussion group for NXT™ programmable bricks: Alternative software or firmware, in-depth technical discussions, collaboration, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Mini-fig scale F-16 Fighting Falcon
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(...) I thank you for your kind comment, Tim. Respectfully, Ryan (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: Mini-fig scale F-16 Fighting Falcon
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--SNIP-- (...) I'm not sure I agree that Lego is boxy however you use it. With good sculpting, SNOT and lots of revision it should be possible to get quite a smooth shape at the size you are using for this. This was a fairly (URL) quick build> of (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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| | Re: Mini-fig scale F-16 Fighting Falcon
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(...) Hi Mattias, Bryce's aircraft models are great and the Tomcat is one of my favorites. It is one of his favorites as well. I had seen your Tomcat based on Bryce's design on Brickshelf before. It looks very neat. Bryce has designed a B-1B bomber (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Mini-fig scale F-16 Fighting Falcon
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(...) Fighting Falcon. As I mentioned before, the entire structure was built around the landing gear and my intent was to make it fully retractable, fully concealable, and sturdy. The main (or rear) landing gear retract at about a 30 degree angle (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military)
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(...) Ultimately, no matter where TLC decides to manufacture its product, its up to TLC as to who they hire and what code of conduct they enforce on their plants and workers. They can enforce their quality standards on even the cheapest workers. (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
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(...) The 2 guns are available in the batwing, batmobile and batboat too. (each set has one of each gun). None of the figs from the batcave except the batman fig are available in any of the smaller sets. (...) I bought the mythical creatures set, (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Curiosity got the better of me and I checked out how he's doing. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is no longer ahead of Steve Jobs, but he is higher on the list than Donald Trump! Here's another six years of data added to my own (now very old) post... (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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I still think it would be a good idea to have a separate NXT group. -- David Schilling (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is absolutely true. (*1) I went on vacation a week ago Wednesday, and was REALLY hoping mine would get here before I left. It didn't. But sure enough, as soon as I had left, and didn't care about whether it came this week or next, it (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Um, no :-)...But maybe BrickFest.......nnnnaaaaahhhhh. Joe (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Um, well, no one wanted to wear it? And there were some pirate wenches...oh nevermind. Glad you liked all the models - it was fun to build after doing a lot of 'other' things:-). Joe (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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Hey all, Just got mine in the mail a few days ago. In the interests of positivity (of which there seems to be a shortage of these days!) and as a non-fan of the new grays/brown and of Bionicle parts in System sets, I will confine my comments to what (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Mexico is a country where people working an assembly line, such as many "maquiladoras" found in the Northern States that border the US, make about the hourly wage of a person in the States (in a similar position), but in a day. So instead of (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: OT - One red paperclip
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(...) ROSCO (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Well there are two other scams/problems I have heard of 1) Some guys wandering out of the warehouse with Star Destroyers I think it as, and reselling them, but I can't find any original info on that anymore, was about a year or so ago. Employees (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Yep, I agree. It why one of the first things I did was write a MyBlock that would use file memory to hold and manage a 1-d array. Worked quite well, but it was slow, and I'm not sure what the ultimate read-write limits are on the flash memory (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | OT - One red paperclip
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HE did it. that guy; whom i took the "inspiration" for the now infamous NQJ Lego game, did it. it took him a YEAR, but he managed to trade his one red paper clip for a HOUSE. (URL) am in aw of that guy from Montreal. if you are new to the NQJ (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Wow, this is really interesting. Many AFOLs could have these resold sets at home, especially if they were resold through eBay. Has there ever been a Lego-related crime on such scale? I don't recall ever seeing one. -Shiri (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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So, just cause I miss the old days of R20 and the sharing: so, what kind of robots are you going to bring so that my robot can tug them to the floor? anyone? anyone? bueller? Chris (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Yay Wamalug! I hope I can make it. Like I told you by email, Fradel, I would love to come and will try to arrange the schedule so as to fit this in. (In Virginia I'm dependent on my family members who I'm traveling with.) More details about (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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(...) All I'm asking for is fixed-size, global, 1-d arrays of numbers. I'd prefer floats or ints, but just ints (32 bit preferrably) would be fine. Arrays of Bits would be handy, too. There are many times when I'd like to make a 2D scan of an areas (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | LEGO Loco Networking?
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Has anyone ever got the LEGO Loco game to work with networking? My son loves the game, and was so excited to try using it across 2 computers, but although I have tried to do it myself, searched the internet for info on it, searched Lugnet, I can't (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.games.lego.loco, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains)
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Hi Ryan and Ralph I think you both build great models of modern jets. Also good to see this group becoming more active. A question to both of you what scale do you aim for? (1 stud to 1 feet = 1:38 is what I want to use but my models tend to be a (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.build.military)
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| | Re: Legofest Ballabio: foto Salvatore Russo
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(...) Il ponte è splendido, c'è però un particolare che mi ha fatto sobbalzare non poco: (URL) mucchio dei pezzi, mi spieghi perchè quei 5 (e dico 5!) brick 1x2x5 dark blay???? :-))) Sostituiscili per favore ;-) Ciao! Luca (20 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: ho anch'io delle foto
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(...) Creati uno spazio su www.brickshelf.com (basta inserire uno username, un indirizzo email ed una password), così le puoi caricare tu stesso. Ciao Luca (20 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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