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When I think of the state of Lego AFOLdom, I realize there are more of us than there were science fiction fans in 1939. Having sat at those guys' knees and listened to their stories and realizing how small their network was, I couldn't help compare (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New Electrical Connectors ( LEGO --> Please, please read )
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One more thing to add to this list, an Electro-magnetic Coil would be really cool part. Perhaps you could release a larger Crawler Crane using the new track links of course with an Electromagnetic Coil instead of a hook. Something like this: (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-07, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Castle and other Historical at BrickFest™ PDX 2007 (March 30th-April 1st)
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(URL) Here we go again in Portland! Just over 2 months till (URL) PDX 2007!!> Frank Filz, Brendan Mauro, and I are coordinating the Castle display along with other Historical (Pirate, Adventurers, Wild West, etc.). We’ve got plenty of room in (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.castle, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.castle.ninja, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.western, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !!
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The other day I found myself pondering a few things: How big is the AFOL community? And perhaps more interestingly, why is it the size that it is? I started thinking about this with all the discussion about LEGO conferences and shows being put on. (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | SOMA Puzzle Cubes
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I'm certainly not the first AFOL to build SOMA puzzle cubes out of LEGO, but it was a fun project. I built cubes using both a 2 x 2 module and 4 x 4 module. It was fun to experiment with different ways to build the alternating color versions. (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Peeron Fund Drive
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I just noticed (URL) this>. I really appreciate services like Peeron and all of the hard work contributed by people like Dan and Jennifer to the AFOL community so I am posting this in .general so everyone will notice it and click (URL) here> to make (...) (19 years ago, 27-Jan-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | re: energia alternativa treni RC
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(...) come non detto.. dopo una buona oretta di ricerca: (URL) piu' che altro mi son reso conto che non c'era nemmeno bisogno della pagina.. effettivamente non é che spiega granché... ...spero mi arrivino presto i motori che ho ordinato (su eBay) (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | energia alternativa treni RC
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Su brickshelf un po' di tempo fa avevo notato qualcuno che aveva realizzato una modifica ad un motore 9V, in modo da impiantarlo su un treno RC e tramite diodi e collegamenti vari, potendo comandare la velocità e il verso di movimento del treno da (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | MCP renamed "AMCP"
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(URL) Recently we found out that the intials "MCP" have been used by the "Mindstorms Community Partners" for some time. As a result we have changed the MCP or Mecha City Project to the "AMCP" or Apocolyptic Mecha City Project. While it's not a big (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Tatra T-3 Moscow Tram
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(...) Look at that picture of one historic tram in Turin: (URL) above color is a particular green (a light "Veronese" green), but what LEGO color should I use? Not tan, because it is too much "yellowish". White? Too much bright... the perfect color (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | The Chief is Back-- Kind of...
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Here are (URL) three Streamliner style passenger cars>, including a basic passenger car, dome car, and end-of-train observation car. (3 URLs) All three designs are built from the current assortment of parts available with LEGO(R) Factory(TM?). I've (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: Prototypes shown at fan event in Frechen (germany)
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(...) Very nice models! My favourite is the DeLorean, it is in my opinion the best model to be made out of LEGO. In any case except for the DeLorean, I would certainely hope the cars to be in other colors. A bley beetle looks...weird to say just (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.ambassadors, FTX)
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| | BrickFest PDX '07 Community Projects and MOC display
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We have numerous opportunities for you to get involved at BrickFest PDX 2007. There are several Community Projects in the works. The latest list can be found at (URL) A few of the items we already have on the list include; Community Train Layout, (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.events, lugnet.fun.community) !!
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| | Re: Finaly: I completed my new LDraw render engine
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(...) Yes, After defining one or more actors, you can use them in animations whom will be rendered real time using openGL. While animating you can manipulate all defined joints in the actors using a tracker like editor. In this tracker you put (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Peeron Memory Upgrade
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Peeron has been growing by leaps and bounds since our last major upgrade two years ago - especially after the instruction scan library was moved from (URL) to (URL) PICSL>. While this is great news many of you will have noticed that recently we have (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.announce.peeron, lugnet.db.inv, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Tatra T-3 Moscow Tram
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--snip-- Hi Luca, (...) Yes I completely agree. (...) I agree about the grey windows. Maybe black would work better for a non-transparent colour but dark grey looks too coloured to me for a window. (...) I love these ones. I stole the window idea (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Improving the firmware?
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(...) Yes, LeJOS supports the Java Math library. (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Tatra T-3 Moscow Tram
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(...) Hi Luca, I think that Prague trams are not exactly white. See this photo (URL) don't like trams so even though I lived in Prague for almost 10 years, I can count on my fingers how many times I used this loud beast :o) OTOH I know that getting (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Tatra T-3 Moscow Tram
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(...) Thanks for the compliments too :-) I know the Manchester tram. It is a different version of Turin ML 7000. The TPR 5000 has a very close design with the difference that it is partial low flor. The modern trams are most similar each others, but (...) (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Finaly: I completed my new LDraw render engine
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(...) Am I correct in understanding this lets you animate LDraw models in some limited way? If so, very good work getting it done so far. Does it output povray? Tim (19 years ago, 26-Jan-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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