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(...) I salute your inclusiveness! (...) Or, failing that, an elitist. (...) Excellent! I have plans for some truly great spontaneity! (...) Studless technic? Blue axle pins? A Schpiffkraft Cakenkreuz? (...) Count me in to be there and consume a (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Not eXactly C beta news (NBC)
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(...) I just uploaded a zip containing a few example programs to the NBC samples page. (URL) I'm working on documentation. I'll be releasing beta 14 later today (for all platforms) which has the following new features: Version 1.0.1.b14 Adds string (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | How to make stained glass in 2007
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So there's these new Mosaic sets that everybody's all excited about. "The baseplates are transparent!" they say. Well so what? What's so great about a transparent baseplate? Here's one answer... (2 URLs) Gallery> (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.mosaic, lugnet.castle, FTX) !!
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| | Sydney Fan of Lego Rumpus
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Hi all ! The sydney bunch have been very busy of late concentrating on trains and christmas, that we may have neglected some of our other themes of interest. I would like to invite the Sydney ensemble to a conglomeration at my place on the 20th of (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: an 'improved' coupler design
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(...) Yup. I got mine (URL) here>. HTH, JOHN (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: an 'improved' coupler design
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(...) You can't buy these magnets any more from these people - does anyone have another source? Thanks, Mike (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 3026 Limited Edition Silver Brick Tub on ebay
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Hey, everyone! I have an unopened, factory sealed, #3026 Limited Edition Silver Brick Tub for auction on ebay right now. I've had this baby sitting on a shelf in my closet for years. Check out my other LEGO auctions as well. (URL) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Brian- I agree that fest prices cannot be much of issue affecting national, if not regional, attendance. If you spend $1.5K+ for your family to fly, stay, drive, and eat, you really aren't motivated by a better deal on the $60 per person (...) (19 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: AFOL Wife Swap?
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(...) There are plenty of people who think we are nut cases already, a Wife Swap episode mocking AF'sOL won't make things any worse. :D The thing I think is most worrisome is that on some of those episodes the new wife comes in and clears out (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) I'm confused. Better prices on what? LEGO (doubtful, as those prices are not driven by competition generated by fests) or things like registration fees (again, really doubtful; I've seen no evidence that those fees are driven by a profit (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) Ahem Ahem... I know that at least Mladen and myself do this and I've been spreading the word. You pretty much have to if you design mecha. I do, however, agree that it is annoying to deal with when people don't (I'll name no names... Swami). (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) I have a question about this. It is very important to me. I like to make animations, and to rotate things correctly, I must use submodels. In using other people's models, I've discovered that nobody centers their submodels to the pivot point, (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) What I want to do is take the layout process (taking part list images, and partial assembly images and making actual building instruction pages interactive. Right now it is batch, pretty much on an entire model basis. I want to be able to pull (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) Unfortunately this is a tradeoff between quality and speed, if I sorted by triangle it would give better results but would also be much slower to render. There are other options for transparency sorting, like doing a Z init pass or rendering (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) I'm not exactly sure what you mean about the performance issues. Running an external viewer in polling mode is too slow? What sort of interactive rendering are you considering? (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Ordering THE UNNOFFICIAL LEGO SETS/PARTS COLLECTORS GUIDE Information for Ordering
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Some folks who missed the earlier posts about the LEGO CD.... here's an update.... Since there were extras of the Limited Edition CD's produced, here's the info: Total price (including Air shipping): USA: $28.50 Canada: $29.00 Europe: $31.50 All (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) If you're doing interactivity with opengl, don't bother using the gl_select mechanism, it's way to slow for even small models (the car for example). I discovered this the hard way, while writing an editor for my LD4DModeler succeder project :) (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) I've been considering starting in on a new WYSIWYG LPub. It has been a long time in coming. I was hoping to not have to figure out a new renderer, so I was thinking about using either ldglite or LDView as the renderer. I think these tools (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) Well, MLcad cannot click things into place. I've learned over the years to be careful to add parts to the model when using course grid, and then switch to medium or fine as necessary. MLCad will allow you to place on whatever grid resolution (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: AFOL Wife Swap?
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(...) There are, of course, different ways of looking at this. It seems to me that at the end of each show, all four spouses end up talking about how much they appreciate the person they're married to. Usually even more than when the show started. (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) Actually, ldglite is pretty much exactly what I was thinking in terms of using OpenGL to enhance the MLcad experience. And don't knock spaghetti code - a lot of programmers never release anything because they're too busy trying to "do it (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | New homepage for LUGNET part 3
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Hi all, Reference: (URL) and: (2 URLs) Thanks to all who were responding to the previous draft, here is another one: (URL) A few comments: --- Ted Michon wrote: I notice that if I have already visited a top 10 item that it's compacted and expands (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX) !!
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| | Re: AFOL Wife Swap?
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(...) What he said. Well said. JOHN (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) Hi Travis, I frequently use LDview during the editing for the reasons you outline above. My point was more in argument against the "zoom and rotation" section of the comment. I would love to have a renderer as good as LDView implemented in (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Aaron- I think BW is far enough in the past not affect most thinking except, perhaps, to question the viability of Southern CA to attract enough LEGO oriented people. Most of the content at BFs is brought by people in their vehicles and we (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: AFOL Wife Swap?
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(...) Yea, I got this email too. No offense to anyone that has decided to participate, but I find this highly offensive on two counts. ONE - I am a happily married man that believes there is a special bond that marriage embodies. A TV show that (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) While mostly true, I think you're minimizing the utility that a really good 3D view could provide to MLCad. (Note that this isn't meant as a put-down of MLCad; implementing a really good 3D view requires effort that might best be used for (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: BrikWars - Klassik Space
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(...) Wow! That's a nice site to see. But that must have been a very high CP battle, with all those large vehicles. ;) If you have stats on them, they really should be added to the Brikwars Links page, as others of us would love to use them. Who (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) ... Hmmm, I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but what would you think about maybe taking over the maintainence and development of ldglite? I tend to think of it as the lowest common denominator of LDRAW viewer/editors, but with a (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Having lived in SoCal, and asked the same question many times of many people, I think a lot of it is that there are still some hard feelings after the BricksWest incident. Also, many people have expressed the hard question of whether or not to (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: A Climax Loco type B
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In lugnet.trains, Alban NANTY wrote: [snip] (...) [snip] (...) Dear Alban, I think that this little engine is a great model! The black barrels hit my eyes at once, while it took some time to find out about other building techniques you included. I (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MLCad Parts Tree (was: LDD vs LDraw)
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(...) That is very helpful! Thanks! (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Zellers BOGO sale Dec 16th to 24th
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Zellers flyer has "Buy One Get One 1/2 price All LEGO*. *Second item must be of equal of lesser value. Selection may vary by store." The flyer is good Saturday Dec. 16th to Sunday Dec. 24th. A note for anyone who can actually find LEGO on the (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | MLCad Parts Tree (was: LDD vs LDraw)
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(...) That's a cool idea. In the meantime, if you look in the MLCad program directory, there's a file called MLCad.grp. This contains all the grouping information for the parts tree. The organization of the file is pretty straightforward. In my copy (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: RC
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(...) Real Close. (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) That doesn't surprise me; most of what I know about MLcad was learned by trial-and-error. (...) I must be doing something wrong, but whenever I place a new part it seems to appear in an arbitrary location in one plane, and doesn't "snap" to an (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: RC
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(...) So that would be RCRCRC? (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: BOW, A new brick wargame
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(...) I've add a printable version in pdf of the rulebook on my website. You can download it here: (URL) Thanks to Joe Meno who proposed his help even if he didn't had time to send me the pdf (finally my wife made it for me). I'm currently working (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: RC
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(...) Rafe's Comments Rarely Contain Real Crap. (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Brand Retail daily specials?
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The LEGO operated stores seemed to be having a different sale special every day. A few days ago it was "buy $25 worth of stuff and get a free small PAB cup". Yesterday it was 20% off all Knights' Kingdom. Anyone have the schedule or know where to (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: Comments about James Mathis' Factory Sets
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Hello, Ville, Thank you very much for buying these three train models. (...) You have examined them more closely than I did to find faults with the design. To the Pullman Car, I made no changes. To the DB103 I made the suggested changes: - floor (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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Hi Chris, Some of what you ask for in MLCad can already be done... (...) This surprises me. I've never had a problem. (...) You can sort of do this with submodels (...) Apart from looking nicer I don't think there's any viewing that LDView can do (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) I have used LDD (a little) and MLcad (occasionally over several years) and had already given this topic some thought, so here goes. If I were writing a new CAD program, it would do everything MLcad can do today, plus: I like the way that LDD (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD vs LDraw
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(...) I think there's some discussion on this topic already, but my view is that LDD and LDRAW each have their place. LDD Pros: -Easy to use with a gentler learning curve. Most kids can figure it out. -Quite rapid to construct models. -Real-time (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Lego presents models to Richard Hammond following his recovery
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(URL) 13, 2006 ... On his first night out since his jet car accident in September, Richard was accompanied by co-presenters James May and Jeremy Clarkson, who confirmed that the first episode of the new series is due to air on January 28 at 8pm on (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Not eXactly C beta news (NBC)
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(...) Where do we find the sample file test.nxc, or some other documentation of NXC? I didn't find the sample file in the source and binary distributions of beta 13. (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Shop at Home Shipping Rates
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(...) I was greatly disappointed when I recently stopped by my local Toys 'R' Us and discovered their prices on LEGO sets. Some sets were at retail; certainly none were below, and a good many were above, some by as much as 40%. Examples: Big Gray (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Rock Crawling...
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In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snipped> (...) Lafayette Local LEGO Really Cool Ridiculously Coordinated Radically Clever Remote Control Rock Crawling Robotics Club (LLLRCRCRCRCRCRC) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: Rock Crawling...
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(...) Yes, it's going to be more a "room size" event, and not "table size". (...) Ok, here's a link to the rock crawling rule book. (URL) you get points when you mess-up. Low score wins. There are cones (gates) around the course. Touch a cone, get 1 (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | LDD vs LDraw
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Hey gang, So with the update on licensing soon to be finished for the LDraw community, it got me to thinking about the Pros and Cons of LDD vs the LDraw toolset. So I thought I would throw it out to the community to see what other thought. What are (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Specifiche per il plastico ItLUG (ovvero il diorama città/treni)
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(...) Altezza in studs: 200mm / 8mm/stud = 25 studs Altezza equivalente in metri, secondo la scala 3 studs = 1 m : 25 / 3 = 8.3m 8 metri è un'altezza assolutamente tipica per un capannone industriale, quindi è perfetto. Quanto all'estensione in (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Rock Crawling...
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(...) Steve - I like the idea of having this at Brickworld. If the hotel will allow it, I think the perfect place for it will be in the hallway in front of the ballroom. I am not too worried about securing the course at night. If we can't do it in (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: The Entrance To The Caves
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Thanks much! Especially for making the long voyage back in time : ) I also like an element of realism in my MOCs, but not as much as most town builders seem to strive for, it is still a caricature art to me... Thanks again and God Bless, Nathan (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Edo Castle
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I love your trees (not the pins, the other ones), and I searched quite a long time before I undertsood how you made them... Nice work!! (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: December Update
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(...) I'm really looking foward to seeing that 12 wide stuff Tim (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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| | Re: The Entrance To The Caves
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Thanks much Mark! I appreciate your vote ; ) God Bless, Nathan Visit my brickshelf gallery: (URL) (pic=link) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | NXT Snake game
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(URL) Oops almost forgot to post this on Lugnet. Read about it (URL) here>. ROSCO (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Shop at Home Shipping Rates
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(...) For some of us the rate change was a double whammy: they also began charging sales tax in states with corporate Lego stores. Shipping vs. sales tax used to be something of a wash, but now they are both there. It makes me more inclined to buy (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Shop at Home Shipping Rates
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(...) Well, people from outside NA have been protesting the exorbitant exchange rate they use to work out our set prices, but so far it's fallen on deaf ears. Good luck with yours though. ROSCO (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: SketchUp Lego Contest.
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(...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | SketchUp Lego Contest.
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The SketchUp people are having a Lego modelling challenge. Thread: (2 URLs) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The Aroma of Ginger...
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(...) Nice work, Janey, it looks far more edible than some candy gingerbread houses I've seen! Spotlighted. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Nova LUG at Dartmouth Train and Hobby Show
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Jean Marc - I was just looking at your brickshelf pictures...very cool... Interesting thing I noticed...that sumo robot looks really similar to the one you used in August I think :) Bryan (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.ca.novalug, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.ns, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: TCLTC Layouts Rendered in Sketch-up
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(...) Wow, that's really nifty. Can you imagine how cool an entire NMRA 3-D layout model would look? Naturally the next question would be: so when are you going to add some trains? However I suspect I already know the answer: "Ross has been working (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | The Aroma of Ginger...
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Happy Holidays, From our house to yours. Every year my children and I make a Gingerbread house as a holiday tradition. Sometimes it's a traditional house covered in candy, sometimes something crafted out of odds & ends or craft supplies. In fact, we (...) (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Not eXactly C beta news (NBC)
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(...) You rock! (19 years ago, 13-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX)
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| | Re: Corner Gas episode called 'Block Party' - AFOLs involved?
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(...) Sigh. That would have been a fun project. I've been asked to do some strange TV related projects, but I've always found from a scoping standpoint, entertainment people (eg, production managers, PA's etc) have a really poor understanding of how (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Not eXactly C beta news (NBC)
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I have just released a new beta of NBC with built-in support for 3 programming languages targetting the standard NXT firmware. This beta release focuses primarily on improving the Not eXactly C (NXC) programming language support in the compiler. It (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, FTX) !
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| | Risultati poll Lego Factory
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1) Cosa preferisci costruire con LEGO Factory? 4 Treni 4 Veicoli 2 Edifici 2 Non uso Lego Factory 1 Case di campagna 2) Quali colori usi o preferisci nel costruire modelli con LEGO Factory? 7 Red 6 White 5 Grey 4 Black 3 Yellow 3 Blue 3 Tan 1 Pink 1 (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Specifiche per il plastico ItLUG (ovvero il diorama città/treni)
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Il mio modulo è in fase "arretrata" di costruzione ma "avanzata" di progettazione. Si tratta di un vasto ampliamento della mia Lego Fabrik (di cui è rimasto solo parte di un muro). L'altezza del capannone è circa 20 cm + tetto a sopresa + piani (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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| | Re: Edo Castle
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(...) That's great! I love micro and I have a thing for Japanese architecture too. Your combination of the two is superb. JB (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | Re: AFOL Wife Swap?
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(...) She's been making the rounds of the Internet. Check out (URL) latest blog posting> for some fun with this. (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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| | Re: Rock Crawling...
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(...) I like this idea. I can see this as both a competition AND event, with awards going to both man & machine. Coolest vehicle, Best driver, best overall performance (fastest time around the course) would all be neat awards. (...) One of the most (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| | Re: Locked motor
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I can't believe I didn't find the description on your site. It was the first place I looked!! Since no easy repair appears to be possible I've contacted the seller who has graciously accepted to take the motor back and give me a refund. Thanks to (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Le Capitole - BB 9278
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(...) ...snip... (URL) (...) Hi Tim, I plan to build 4 of the passenger stock. It will be a nice complete train. But I have a serious problem of brick stock, so it will probably take some time :) But it will happen anyway. I already have one built (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: When is "Bring a minifig to work" day?
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(...) Here's Todds' post when it became 'Bring Your Minifig to Work WEEK': (URL) And here's another thread about bringing figs to work: (URL) Ken (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.general)
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| | BrikWars - Klassik Space
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NELUG just recently had a Classic-Space themed game, which I must say was just fun anticipating (And building all those old classic space sets again). See pictures here: (URL) BrikWars) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: The Entrance To The Caves
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(...) Excellent MOC. I usually frequest .town but came over here after seeing the pictures. Love all the details. Very realistic looking. It doesn't always look like lego which is a quality I strive for in my MOC's. Fabulous! Best, Jonathan (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 07 Train Layout call for participation
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(...) Great to have you aboard. As soon as I gather more responses, we'll begin the next step. Hopefully we can begin planning no later than late January. -Jeramy (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: The proliferation of fests: Good or bad?
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(...) Well, he should have. If you look at a map of North America Omaha may be closer to the actual centre of the continent but it does not have Chicago's status as possibly the largest air and rail hub in the central part of North America. It sucks (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events)
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(...) Anthony - You are right Chicago is not in the exact center of the country. Let's consider logistics for a moment: 1) St Louis is 4+ hours from the nearest major city and only 3 or 4 major cities within an easy days drive (still 12 hours from (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Jeramy- I'm thinking more about co-locating (in time and space) a general LEGO event with the big LTC effort for NMRA. Possibly even at the same venue (there's a lot of event space at the Convention Center and NMRA is not even actually in the (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Steve- I think this is a very good point and some of us have certainly discussed it before. A public expo provides: A chance to show off creations to a big crowd Opportunity to spread the word about LEGO A bigger market for vendors An (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ted, By this, do you mean that you'd like to display multiple themes as well? Thanks, -Jeramy (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| | Re: Specifiche per il plastico ItLUG (ovvero il diorama città/treni)
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(...) Dopo un colloquio con il responsabile del piano regolatore, Arch. Morelli ;-P siamo giunti all'accetazione della proposta dei 3 stud/metro, con la possibilità di localizzate compressioni (stile Legoland) in modo da rendere gli edifici (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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(...) Mark- I think the LEGO gods have shone the light upon us for NMRA 2008 (July 13-20, 2008 at the Anaheim Marriott, 700 West Convention Way, Anaheim CA 92802). This event is walking distance to the LEGO store in Downtown Disney (and Angel (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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(...) Well, it's not quite a perfect cube! I posted a challenge for this a while ago: (URL) there were a few really cool responses! There were... ~sort of~ a couple designs for a perfect 2x2x2 cube, but they weren't great. One involved cutting flex (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.schleim)
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Presenting (URL) Edo Castle!> (URL) My first Micro Scale creation, created for the LEAHI display at the Hawaii FLL on December 2, 2006. It is based on a (URL) 1/700 scale model kit> that I built back in 1999 (during my Lego dark ages). I haven't had (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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(...) Congrats, Frank! I hope for the best for you and Saranna! - Jim F. (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Hi Philippe, Glad you liked it enough to build. The changes work quite well. Out of interest are you planning to build the passenger stock? Tim (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Yes, I remember that now, but it was quite a while ago. For the past few years they've sold at regular retail with the flat shipping rate. (...) A very valid point, but I'm not referring to retail outfits like Walmart, TRU, Target, etc. I'm (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I also came up with this cube and I am quite positively sure that a lot of schleimers out there also came up with this... However, I normally build this one using four (URL) part number 4733> so every face of the cube is connected to the core (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.build.schleim, FTX)
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(...) Back when S@H's shipping setup was more advantageous (ie, lower), their prices were higher -- like 10% over retail, I think. I don't order a lot on S@H, so I could be mis-remembering. Also, remember -- there are different costs for selling (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) I am curious; have you ever had a situation where bad firmware locked up the NXT? And if so, what was the process to restore it to working order? (I don't have a bricked brick, I'm just asking for future reference.) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) It depends on what you compare it to. Even at 5% of my total order, it's generally cheaper for me than if I had to drive to the "local" LEGO brand store (3 hours in one direction), or the "local" Toys R Us (2 hours). After a few tanks of fuel, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Concordo praticamente su tutto, tuttavia l'appunto di Gaetano è giusto: le città vere non hanno tutta questa continuità stilistica. E' importante che i moduli si interfaccino perfettamente, perché non c'è nulla di più fastidioso di distinguere (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.org.it.itlug, FTX)
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Now that the free shipping is over at LSAH, I find myself again very distressed about their shipping rates. Remember when we could buy all we wanted for a flat maximum rate...I think it was like $10 or $15? This new 5% of the order total prevents me (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Then maybe you should call it your gray ages... :-) (19 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.castle)
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| | RE: NXT Firmware source code
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(...) I've downloaded firmware to NXT 100s of times with no apparent ill effect. (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Flash memories all have a limited number of write cycles before they become unreliable. Usually, the on-chip write controller will "load-balance" the writes so that different memory locations all get used the same number of times, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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