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In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote: (snipped) (...) I've tried a couple of times to build one of those. But I could never come up with a satisfactory design for the cab/windscreen. (URL) Photo here> It's the combination of the flat windscreen and (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this?
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--snip-- (...) Exhibit A (URL) B (URL) really not that hard [1] to keep people unannoyed but good photography requires practise and, most importantly, chucking away crap pictures. I usually shoot about 3 or 4 times as many as I use and I know for (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this?
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(...) Okay, I have read the followups to this post, and I have read a recent followup to another post of mine over at Lugnet Announce Creation/MOC's where ALE Linus Bohman kindly gave me some tips on photography for my MOC's. I am not camera savvy, (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this?
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(...) I personally use IrfanView since it's free: (URL) If you go to the FAQ page on the IrfanView site, and scroll down to the very bottom, you'll find several tutorials on batch resizing and batch conversion. I used IrfanView to batch resize the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor / Retreiving 8 OBjects at Once
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This here: (...) Is exactly what I want to do! Do you have any links? If any of your friends have any of their work online I'd love to check it out.. Thanks! Ben (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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Great topic Todd and timely too. GPLR (Greater Portland LEGO Railroaders) are already working on something up here in Portland. There have been so many requests for another BrickFest PDX that we thought we'd do it again! So far we've started talking (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | RE: NXT Ultrasonic sensor / Retreiving 8 OBjects at Once
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(...) Unfortunately, you cannot operate a ultrasound sensor at this rate. I think it is much slower than this. Before you start a new "ping" you have to ensure that all the echoes from distant devices on first ping have been received before starting (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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(...) Yeah the speed of light is pretty darn fast! Sound is quite turtle-like in comparison ;) Ben (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Puerto Brico : Pirates everyday life
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(...) Enjoy I did! I also have neglected the pirate theme for a long time. Your model gave me the same feeling as looking at the LEGO catatlog (the 1/2 page height one from '89?) when Pirates first came out. Another great example of "if Lego made (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: 2006 Technic Speed Build @ BrickFest
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(...) Glen B (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) You're correct, I was streaming it from Google which was probably the issue. (...) It doesn't matter how much quicker than the standard a single module is - if it only gets 1 bps, then it can only pass them to the downstream module at 1 bps... (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | LEGO Life-Sized Batman
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LEGO Life-Sized Batman The Dark Knight. The Caped Crusader...The Batman. At 6'6" tall, a Batman statue would be an impressive guardian against whatever lurks in the shadows. But when he's made entirely of Lego bricks, you know Batman's reached new (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) I downloaded it completely and don't see any jerkiness, maybe that was due to streaming it as the bandwidth from Google was a bit low (< 100kB/s). (...) But then it may need to accept a lot of balls, if the other modules are quicker. I know (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Maximum depth of ldraw models?
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(...) Hmm. I use MPD models a lot, there can be several levels of nesting within a single .mpd file, and I have been known to refer to .mpd files from other .mpd files. I'm not sure how deep my nesting of model files goes, but I'd be a little (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Maximum depth of ldraw models?
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I notice that no maximum depth is given by the standard. How potentially non-compliant would a renderer be if it fails because parts in a model are too deeply nested (a maximum of as little as 16 on some OpenGL implementations). I notice that no (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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(...) It never ceases to amaze me how astoundingly slow sound is compared to the speed of a computer. It's one of those rare cases when your view of the universe around you shifts into a completely new perspective. (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LAFD, NYPD minifig-scale models
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(...) Ah, you're right. I don't know what is wrong with my brain these days . . . (...) Hmm, I didn't anticipate that. My apologies. Here is another link: (URL) I was referring to the 2002-2003 Mack/Saulsbury ESU trucks a little ways down the page. (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) There are actually three ways to approach this: 1) Using something reflective on the far side of the ball chute - have the sensors light bounce back into the sensor - so the reading decreases when something gets in the way of the reflected (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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(...) ciao a tutti! scusate se non mi sono fatto sentire ma sono sempre molto preso, e riesco a seguire sporadicamente il forum. Purtroppo non parteciperò alla legofest di Torino. Se tutto va bene verrò solo in veste di visitatore. Spero di (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: LAFD, NYPD minifig-scale models
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(...) Thanks, Jonathan! Do you mean these windscreens? (2 URLs) If only they came in 6-wide (Hint, hint... Lego Direct: Are you listening? :-) And these in 6-wide too ... (URL) I tried to view the linked photo, but it wants a username and password. (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Negozio in Sicilia
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Scusate se replico a me stesso, non e' elegante, ma e' necessario per evitare fraintendimenti. Forse avrei fatto meglio a specificarlo nel messaggio precedente, ma Federico in Sicilia era in vacanza. Percio' il senso del messaggio precedente era di (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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Hi, (...) since sound travels at about 333 m/s (depending on temperature and pressure), a meter takes 3 milliseconds. At the maximum range of 2.5 meters, times two that would be 15 milliseconds per reading. Cheers Jürgen (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) I found a yellow LEGO rubber band on the TECHNIC table, so I took it home with me since most everyone was gone by that point. That's probably not a big deal, unlike an entire train regulator. :( (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) Now that is a nice solution, and not one I'd thought of. Not having the silver brick, I could still use a (non-LEGO! Aaah!) solution of a small pice of reflective tabe or something. Cool. (...) I know that there's one power transformer that is (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Yet another set of Brickfest images...
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(...) Thanks for posting them, I enjoyed looking through the gallery! Calum (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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(...) Hey Todd. We have discussed this very thing among our club, and several of our members have been trying to get me to organize such an event here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I even put a small presentation together to pitch to our members, (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this?
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Thanks Mark! -C. (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this?
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(...) Cyndi - While you are logged in, get to the folder where the image is. Click on the word 'Delete' in the top right-hand side of the screen. You'll see some red bars pop up around your gallery, and then just click on the image you want to (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Posting difficulties - sorry...
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All, it appears we are having an issue with a script that is responsible for reindexing new posts in order to make them browsable through the web. Today, this script got stuck and caused quite a lot of messages to appear with a significant delay. I (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Negozio in Sicilia
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Ciao a tutti! Federico Lo Monaco, non riuscendo a postare messaggi sul NG, mi ha chiesto di segnalare un negozio siciliano che pratica grossi sconti a chi gli libera il negozio dal Lego. ---...--- Il negozio si chiama "Disco Rosso" a Capo d'Orlando (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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Luca Giannitti wrote: [...] Ciao. Io penso di venire solo domenica. Mettimi pure in lista per il pranzo. (...) Io penso di portare un modulo, forse due. Come sarebbe a dire che Mario non ci sara'? :o Che GBC e' senza Mario? (...) Mi riprometto di (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Bluetooth Commands via Perl
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(...) I guess no one is using Perl to communicate with the NXT over Bluetooth. Or everyone is busy building bots. I found something that seems to work reliably on my HP Laptop running Windows 2000. It has a built-in CSR Bluetooth module that is 1.1 (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | 2006 Technic Speed Build @ BrickFest
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In case anyone is interested, pics from the speed build are on brickshelf. The kit is very large and works reasonable well, with the exception of the winch. After the event we all drafted the kit for parts, and sadly no one else wanted the 10 large (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.technic)
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| | WTT: My NXT for your SW sets and/or cash
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I have a very slightly used Mindstorms NXT (8527) that I would like to trade. The NXT is complete and was only used to build two robots. Conditions ---...--- o I am accepting cash as well as the SW sets listed below in combination o Offers under 180 (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Blue-tongue Corporate Chopper
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(...) That was a cool choice of colors. The dark red contrasts nicely with the blue. I also like the dual rotors and the landing gear. I posted a Stealth chopper a couple of weeks ago that has a motorized rotor and retractable landing gear. You can (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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(...) Consolati sapendo che ci sarà Beat Felber :-) Altre novità dell'ultima ora sono presenti sul sito del LF: (URL) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Hey, BrickShelf-users, seen this?
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(...) Hi All- Does anyone know how to delete a single image from a brickshelf folder? Is this possible to do without removing and replacing the entire folder? Sorry if this is stupid/already answered long ago. Thanks- Cyndi (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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(...) Dear Jindroush, Jeroen has given a good explanation why the window flickers. I have now exchanged the LGEO code for the part within the pov-file against standard coding without LGEO and that problem is solved. Since radiosity slows down the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LAFD, NYPD minifig-scale models
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(...) All fabulous, as always. Have you considered trying one of the 4 plate high windscreens for the brush truck and the NYPD ESU truck? I am wondering if it might look more prototypical? Here is some food for inspiration for another addition to (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Brickfest 2006 : 8285 Speedbuild new record (pics loaded!)
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Dear all, A small group of us (6 in the team) participated in the Speedbuild @ Brickfest 2006 .. and a new record has been set (new Technic Tow Truck Set 8285). We completed it in 2 hours 36 mins beating the old record by 6 mins (was 2hours 42 (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: 1900's delivery van
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(...) Eric, This is very well done, you did a great job in recreating this very old vehicle. Thanks, George (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | :o) "The Kids are Back in School" 72 Hour Sale at Legotown
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With the children back in school and a more normal schedule, I'll have more time for order filling. The lot limit I imposed due to my back injury will be lifted for this sale, however, please give me a little extra time for order processing. THANKS (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | "The Kids are Back in School" :o) 72 Hour Sale at Legotown
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With the children back in school and a more normal schedule, I'll have more time for order filling. The lot limit I imposed due to my back injury will be lifted for this sale, however, please give me a little extra time for order processing. THANKS (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | BrickFest
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Before the excitement wanes and memories start to blur, lets get started on planning BrickFest 2007. Joe recently informed me that he is no longer interested in Coordinating BrickFest 2007. I’d like to thank Joe and his wonderful team of for all (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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To All, I put this question to the whole community. Would you be interested in attending a LEGO Fan convention held at the Legoland Park in California? Now, your input here is essential. What time of the year would you prefer to have it? What type (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.events) !
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| | LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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To All, I put this question to the whole community. Would you be interested in attending a LEGO Fan convention held at the Legoland Park in California? Now, your input here is essential. What time of the year would you prefer to have it? What type (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: Wanna hear a dirty joke?
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(...) Hilarious - any more of these? Even my kids like this approach to "Lego cartoons", although they don't have a grasp of English yet... Jerry (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.fun, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Help needed - posted on behalf of Brian
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Hi all, I was asked to pass this message on on behalf of someone who is having trouble posting to lugnet, Tim ---...--- Volunteers wanted to help with LDraw Files and Instructions for Set being designed to honor a son who was lost to a heart (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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Bè ci sono i miei figli! Luca 9 anni e Sara 11 anni che è ottima come balia! ( costa solo 30 bricks all'ora) Giuliano (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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(...) ARGH! =8O e adesso se non c'è Luca con chi giocherà il mio Andrea??? Mi toccherà trovare un fucile da caccia con proiettili soporiferi per abbatterlo ;-) Buon viaggio! RoscoPC (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: L'ambasciatore
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(...) Complimenti: credo tu sia perfetto nel ruolo che descrivi! Ciao RoscoPC (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Jag säljer hela min LEGO-samling jättebilligt!
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(...) Jag köpte en när jag var i USA i somras. Har inte pillat så himla mycket med den än, men jag har testat den i alla fall. Kul sak, *mycket* mer flexibel och kompetent hårdvara än den gamla RCX. Tyvärr är mjukvaran och framför allt (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Brickfest : Speedbuild Activity
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Dear all, Steven (medvav) has finally managed to extract all the SpeedBuild photos from his camera. He took a total of 63 photos (I think) that captured the whole 2hours and 36 mins (yes we beat the old record!! -- which was 2 hours and 42 mins). (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.events) !
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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NOOOOOOOO!!!! e tutti i mostricciattoli che con in serbo per te? Giuliano samurai74 ha scritto: (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | "Kids are Back in School :o)" 72 Hour Sale at Legotown
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With the children back into a normal routine, I'll have more time to dedicate to filling orders. The lot limit I've imposed due to my back injury will be lifted for this sale (however, please allow me a little extra time to fill orders) THANKS for (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Scorpion Plans
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Are the plans for the NXT Scorpion available online or anywhere in a printed or printable form? I'd much rather build it from paper plans than from my screen. Thanks, -Jon Gilchrist (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) I had success with a ball detector using only one light sensor in my little interactive get-the-ball-in-the-hole module. If the ball went into the hole, it rolled past a light sensor (old RCX version; is there a new nxt one?). Across from the (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Public invited to build with massive supply of Lego bricks
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"It all started on Saturday, when no less than three tons of white Lego blocks were literally dumped on the museum plaza known as Tullinløkka..." "Debate has raged for years over what may be the best use of the property, which long functioned as a (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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(...) Yeah, that's suspiciously absent from my video. I'm uploading another one now: (URL) Google version is really jerky I'm afraid.) This one starts with the train being loaded, but then follows the train to the next unloading module so you can (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | The Supply Tender 'Ratsée'
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The Ratsée is a brigantine rigged (or hermaphrodite brig, if you prefer) tender which is the supply vessel for the French squadron of Port Brique. Her simplified rig allows for easy handling by her small crew (Master, master’s mate and half a dozen (...) (20 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Puerto Brico : Pirates everyday life
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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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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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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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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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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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| | Re: NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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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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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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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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| | NXT Ultrasonic sensor
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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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| | Re: Psshh-te-cuff
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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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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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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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| | Re: Podagons, Tragon and clikit creatures oh my!
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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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| | Psshh-te-cuff
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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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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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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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| | Re: What does a subpart with color=24 mean?
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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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| | Re: It's Party Time! (this Saturday!!!)
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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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| | LAFD, NYPD minifig-scale models
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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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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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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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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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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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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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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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| | Re: Rusty Freight Car - an experiment
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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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(...) 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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| | BrickSpace Preview Release!
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(URL) A game modification for Homeworld 2, BrickSpace lets you fight as the Classic Space, Blacktron, or Ice Planet fleet. The Preview Release lets you select any of the three fleets and gives you a selection of ships to play around with. Enemy AI (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.games, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) Nice job Tim. The improvements I imagine : Colors : replace yellow by tan. The colors must be washed out. When I look the original picture, the first thing which comes to me is the vertical lines, resulting of the rust which flown. I will (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) In the case of some kind of direct color, I guess the rendering program is free to do whatever it wants. The simplest action would be to default to black (either LDraw 0, or RGB #000000). I'd be interested to hear what actual rendering (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Jag säljer hela min LEGO-samling jättebilligt!
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Jag har nått smärtgränsen redan efter att ha köpt upp hela Akiras samling för typ samma summa ca 40 kg. Var ska detta sluta...jag ser fortfarande fram emot en träff snart...iaf en gång om året. Alla kan ju inte sälja allt de har och lägga ner. En (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.loc.se)
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(...) That even more complicated than I what I did (URL) but it might just work. You will have to make the piston rods long enough to not drop out of the cylinders when thay are int he extended foward position. Tim BTW obviously I had a lot more (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Its getting there but I think you (I?) have set yourself an impossible task. Maybe some grey and bley and brown and brrown combos would help? One small thing tho, its not a freight car, its a loco! Tim (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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arghhh...hhh :-(((((( "Marco Chiappa" <chmar@nospam-chmar.it> ha scritto nel messaggio news:J54p7A.L9F@lugnet.com... (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) Hi Thomas, Thanks for using my MOC of the 2859 to create the 9V R/C Track! I downloaded the files from your Brickshelf folder, but there's one file missing : 53404s022.dat Can you upload this one too? I hope to free-up some time this year to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad)
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Okay... that makes sense. But what if the contrast color for the current file's main color is just an RGB value rather than a color index? What should the subfile's contrast color be set to in that case? Thank you for your help, by the way. >> Mark (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Blue-tongue Corporate Chopper
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My first (in years) MOC built out of bricks without (almost...) CAD. A little corporate chopper from the near future. (2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Tim (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) I missed BrickFest, but I'm seriously thinking of hauling this thing (and other MOCs) up to NWBrickCon. I live in PDX, so the drive to Seattle isn't that far. (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) The contrast color within the subfile would be defined in the normal way - use the main color for the subfile, and look up the contrast color from the color table. The fact that the originating linetype 1 used color code 24 shouldn't matter by (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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Hey folks, Friday, September 8th, 2006. 7PM Swiss Chalet 5487 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario It's time again for our monthly dinner... See you this Friday. I will try and bring a formalized rtl21 game board. Calum (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Right... but what should the contrast color be defined as within the subfile? The same? >> Mark (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: A small (and my first) train animation done with MLCad
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Sebastian Dyson schreef: (...) Short aswer: I think it has to do with the LGEO-parts which look beautiful but are programmed very complex and are a bit buggy. In some transparant parts these bugs cause a grainy or noisy finish. Long answer: I think (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What does a subpart with color=24 mean?
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(...) Not exactly -- just use the current contrast color as the main color for the subfile. Whenever a subfile is rendered, it should already be looking up the local contrast color based on the local main color. Steve (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Rusty Freight Car - an experiment
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Hi all, Knowing I have an interest in dirty models, Tim David told me to build (URL) this> well kept delight. I'm relatively pleasedish with what I made but would be interested in hearing other peoples ideas on how to improve it as I know it's far (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Does that mean that it would be appropriate for a renderer to just swap the main and contrast colors when it encounters such a line, or what? I just want know what a renderer is supposed to do. (...) Well, doing grep '^1 24 ' on the parts (...) (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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(...) Questa è una tragedia... (...) questa è peggio... Ciao (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: XXIII LEGOFEST: missing in action
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(...) Sicuramente NON ci sarò. Impegni di lavoro mi portano lontano...(Cina) Come temevo le date hanno finito per convergere...e quando torno mi aspetta un traslocco :-( Dino (20 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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