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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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(...) 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 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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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