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(...) I'm more curious to see if this production run of the locomotive and car sets will use the new "assemble-yourself" wheelsets with separate wheels and axles. The original ATSF production had running issues with their own grey wheelsets due to (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The Whaling Brig 'Egregious'
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(...) That must be what makes it "Egregious." :) Seriously, nice ship with a great write-up, and some awesome building tips too! Arrrrgh! (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT Synchro Drive
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(...) You are touching on the exact reason I am playing with the synchro drive platform. Previously, to maintain "sync" between the rotation of different wheels I had to use locked gearing or a chain. you can see examples here: (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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It's been a while since I've built anything Adventurer's specific, so I took a little time last night to build a steam-powered vehicle for Dr. Kilroy. (URL) This is a total case of form following function. My goal was to make something that looked (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) That's a most impressive flagship. Very ornate, but also quite plausible, and nicely shaped. The gaff arms on the mizzen perhaps look a bit modern compared to the lateen arms on the forward three (!) masts, but otherwise, most impressive (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: The Whaling Brig 'Egregious'
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(...) This ship really looks awesome. I also appreciate the very nice detailing both in the model and its fine descriptions, while preserving the minifig scale simplicity.. If only you wouldn't spoil the game by cutting an authentic lego piece into (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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(...) Thanks! (...) LOL. Whalers carried a lot of hardware. (...) While the stern gallery can swing downward, it doesn't open up enough to be useful. The hinge is just the mechanism I used to achieve the strange angle of the gallery. Cheers Richie (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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| | Re: Amazing new part!
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(...) I was thinking that myself. I wonder if Lego have already designed the family of sprocket sizes or whether they design them only "on demand". If Jake Mckee was still around I'd ask him. Lego might have a policy to complete the whole system (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Advent Calendar
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(...) Welcome on Lugnet MisaQa, I'm happy you finally succeed in posting here. Didier (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Advent Calendar
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(...) Hello, I thank about all the comment. I am not disappointed at the official TLC advent calendar. It has the many variations, delicate, and very wonderful. However, I thought that the theme to make the girl happy is necessary too. Therefore, I (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Image processing with RCX
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"Chris Phillips" <drvegetable@comcast.net> wrote in message news:J9w4L2.GBu@lugnet.com... (...) I wonder how much more viable this camera would be if TLG looked into the possibility of outfitting it with something similar to BlueTooth? While the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Copy the Tyco "terrain Twister" screw drive?
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I remember seeing something like this made of lego a long time ago... I believe it was made with the flex tubes. Also, there's a GBC that uses an Arquimedian screw to lift the balls. I'm afraid I have no links to any of this things but maybe I've (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) No...I don't think you do. (...) The RCX has nowhere near enough memory to deal with images from cameras. The Lego camera connects to your PC through a cable - so it's not much use for mobile robots. The PC could do image processing and send (...) (19 years ago, 7-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is probably the best advice I have *ever* seen given to someone who is just starting out trying to learn how to program. Spotlighted!! (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What is this part?
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G'day, thanks for the info...Now I need to find another along with the rest of the set. At least I know what it is...Now I need to find out if it's complete or broken, and how it attatched to the baseplate, as it wouldn't stay on a duplo stud, and (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: 56 x 26 Tire and Wheel
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Hi Brian, (...) None I am aware of... But many other parts have been improved (see (URL) (...) Any good part modeller here (I mean... better than me!) wanting to cope with these parts (55976 and 54087)? Philo (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What is this part?
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(...) It's from one of the sets like this: (URL) came with a large grey baseplate, and two of the parts you mention, so the baseplate with the letters/numbers could hang on the wall. Arne, Copenhagen (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) It's from one of the sets like this: (URL) they came with a large grey baseplate, and two of the parts you mention, so the baseplate with the letters/numbers could hang on the wall. Arne, Copenhagen (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: NQC programming guide
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(...) Yep - that's definitely the case. Once you have learned one C-like language (and I'd describe JAVA, NQC, C++, Python, Pascal, JavaScript, PHP as 'sufficiently C-like') - it's quite easy to learn another. I needed to learn PHP for a project I (...) (19 years ago, 7-Nov-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NXT Synchro Drive
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(...) This looks pretty cool, and I can well respect any attempt to design a cool device out of LEGO, but I wonder how necessary something like this is with the NXT? It seems to me that the new servo motors with their integrated rotation sensors are (...) (19 years ago, 7-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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