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(...) Excellent work, Eric. Thanks for sharing. You've captured a great scene from 'everyday life'. Spotlighted. Cheers Richie Dulin (URL) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) PS - the thing I would want the radar to do is to guide a bucket for an excavator. The goal being to dig lego bricks from a pile with the bucket. So I think I can get away with it not being super-accurate or resolute. I'm really looking (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well it sounds promising, I'm going to try it. I really appreciate your input. -Ben (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well, sort of. First, what the US sensor returns is the range of the nearest sound-reflecting surface: but it's not a pencil thin laser beam of sound, so the same object might be detected at slightly different angles, making the object apeear (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Actually, my counter was mechanical, in that each ball temporarily opened a normally closed touch sensor, and the RCX was just counting touches. For an optical one, you can use a ball breaking a lightbeam (two light sensors pointed at each (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I haven't bought an NXT yet and I have a question about the ultrasonic sensor it comes with. Can I use it to take a bunch of readings and then use them assemble up a 3D picture of what is around the sensor, kind of like how a radar works? How long (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You know what, I just can't say "Jones the Steam" in anything other than a (fake) Welsh accent :-) Ivor was a favourite from my childhood. I love your version and can't wait to seem him for real. Awesome. Martin (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) That got me thinking...we had a few ball counters going: Rafe's impressive digital counter, Greg's analog one, and Brian's optical one in the "penalty box" with all of my modules (heh heh). My question is this: is there agreement on what the (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I said before how much I love your Tragon. I now have one of my own - I'll have to introduce him at Legoworld! Jason R (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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"...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(...) Which will introduce another problem - the piston rods will hit the wheels when they extend out the front of the cylinder. I had that exact same problem on the X class, but managed to work it so they just miss. It's very close though. ROSCO (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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(...) Nice. I see that the front window is 'pulsating'. It looks similar to my problem I've encountered with animation rendering in PovRay. Have you used radiosity or not? My prob: (URL) - For Czech Lego Fans (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Well, one that I have gives a warning message that says it can't handle color 24 and substitutes 16 for such lines. But I wasn't sure if that was correct behaviour. Another one that I've played with quietly accepts such lines, but appears to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) **cut** (...) Congrats!!! I get married next Friday to a German fella, also an AFOL :D Have a great time! We will next weekend at LL Hotel ;) Mel (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I've just uploaded photos of two new minifig-scale rescue vehicle replicas. On both vehicles, I have bricks going in almost all directions (upside down, sideways). Both also have 1/2 brick offsets with the cab of the trucks 6-wide and the body (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX) !
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(...) Dear Tim, take this as not more than a first test run.... I did several runs so far in which I was playing around with anti alias (the POV-Ray manual tell NOT to use it, while I found it looked way better with AA-settings). I also tested (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks Jeroen, for pointing this out! I havn't used Anton's parts so far, but I may give them a try with one of my next renders. Leg Godt! Ben (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Since you have 8 coupled wheels, some of the sets need to use blind drivers. The easiest solution therefore is to make all 4 sets use blind drivers, suspend them all off the rails by having the leading and trailing 4-wheel sets as the bogies, (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi Erik, (...) Actually wasn't much improvement. It was too earthy and not washed out enough. Light yellow would be perfect but it has too limited a range of plates. (...) Do you think it would be worth sacrificing the horizontal lines for this? I (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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| | Re: What does a subpart with color=24 mean?
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(...) Actually, that grep doesn't return anything. '^[ \t]*1 24' does return hits from three files, though. Every single place in the library that this is used, it's used in a reference to one of the edge primitives. The edge primitives use color 24 (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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