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Il Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:00:26 GMT, Matteo Favalli ha scritto: (...) ah, be'! Stai parlando di una pietra miliare del Technic. Anche per me la 8860 resta la migliore di tutti i tempi, ma il mio giudizio è "inquinato" dai ricordi dell'epoca (ricevuta (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: 8880 o 8448?
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(...) io preferisco la 8448.... ma la migliore fino ad ora resta la mitica 8860. ciao, Matteo. (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | What to do with extra LEGO buckets and lids - #77
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Water the bees - ;) (3 URLs) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Poll cataloghi - Risultati
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(...) prima bisogna aspettare la sentenza sui ricorsi 8-]] w. (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Boosting power in a gear train
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More information about your application would be helpful. The first thought that jumps to mind is "Use a more powerful motor. Duh!". So there must be something that I am missing. There must be some reason you need to use the puny motor. Maybe you (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickFest™ PDX 2007 - Robotic Easter Egg Hunt
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David, how high is the shortest house? Is it taller than the side panels? ---Will (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) How much torque do I need to drive the rotation sensor? This was my first plan of action, but I was limited because I don't have a rotation sensor other than the NXT motors themselves! From a purist point of view, I would really like a (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) ... (...) So use a rotation sensor to sense the position of the weak input - and use a NXT motor to track that position and drive all of the gears. You can change the ratio of the input angle to the NXT motor's angle in software and thereby (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The LEGO Factory website is down for maintenance
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(...) Now there's also the following note: The LEGO Factory website will have new and exciting Hobby Train content that includes detailed information on the Hobby Train Box, 30 free online building instructions, train designer interviews and more (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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I did two more sets last night, 4564 was correct except for one part. And very good news, 4558 was perfect. The sets done by you and Jennifer seem to be correct. I had forgot to mention that I am doing large sets first. I have done the basic sets, (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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(...) The way I go about this is to print the Peeron inventory for the set. Then I match what is in my set. I use the actual set. I then build the model, and any variations. I note the differences on the printed inventory page. Almost all my sets (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | The LEGO Factory website is down for maintenance
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Text on the site: The LEGO Factory website is down for maintenance The website will back online Wednesday at approximately 6:00 PM CET. Joehoe! Finally version 2 of the software!!! Jeroen (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Patterson wrote: <Snip other peoples comments> (...) John, Does this mean that you are using instructions to build your inventories or are you using actual MISB set contents? The latter would be a lot more accurate, (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Light Freighter Annie Azure
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(...) Thanks! I hope I can keep finding time to do this stuff. Right now, life is invading again... Plus getting ready for Brickfest PDX! ;o) -best, Wolf (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: "Wraith" starfighter
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(...) I especially like the engine pods, as well as the landing gear design. And I've always been a fan of a canopy that takes much of the cockpit with it upon opening. Cool stuff. -best, Wolf (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Izzo's Drakkhen scenes
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Every one of those is fabulous! My favorite is the (URL) yellow 2-headed dragon>. The segmentation and the 1X1 tiles are great. David (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:> One of these days I'll have to try that. I'm just afraid that I'll ruin a (...) It works well and scraping off the lightning bolts makes good practice. My first "real" (as opposed to computer (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Boosting power in a gear train
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I have a gear train that is driven by a very weak input, very small torque. There are some places in the gear train where I have some worm gears driving some 'regualr' gears. As I go along the gear train, I boost the output as much as I can with (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Izzo's Drakkhen scenes
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(...) Wow, those are great scenes. I like the dragon designs themselves. Some great spines and sinister poses. The dragon vs mecha fight is fun, too. Jim (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Izzo's Drakkhen scenes
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Hey all, He's only posted on Lugnet once as far as I can tell, so I'm going to go ahead and post this for him. In case you haven't seen, Izzo has been posting an amazing series of dragon scenes he calls the (URL) Drakkhen>: (10 URLs) He said these (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !!
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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(...) One of these days I'll have to try that. I'm just afraid that I'll ruin a head. Maybe I should start practicing with my hoarde of Harry Potters. (...) They're quite effective, though I suppose clear pics would ruin the illusion. (...) It was (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: Little Aquarium
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(...) I've ordered the parts on Brickshelf so I can build one of these. I guess that probably goes further than just saying I like it. :) You are an extremely talented builder, Nelson. It seems like whatever area you choose to explore you turn to (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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| | me saa dumb dumb-- dumped my brick/plate modified---oops
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wow do i feel like jar jar binks at the moment. i fell asleap last night with my brick/plate modified plano bin on my bed. this wasn't intentional as i kinda passed out but when i woke up i found it on the floor, DOH! luckly? it didin't end up (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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(...) I know I'm a little late to this discussion, but here I am. :) It's funny to be reading this discussion this week, as I was just discussing the same thread about a different subject last week. I've been doing quite a bit of conference speaking (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX) !
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| | Re: Spring Flowers
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(...) Ah, thank you! Very clever. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Poll cataloghi - Risultati
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(...) Si va al ballottaggio? :-P Ciao, G. (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | back on line
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for a short stint, i was not on line.... (YOu try finding a net connection in the burbs on a sunday at 9 pm) now, I am surfing with PPPoE Chris oh ya, lego. (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | 8880 o 8448?
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Non togliendo nulla alla gloria della 8880 ho notato che ha dei problemi al sistema sterzante (slitta l'ingranaggio da 16 della cremagliera anteriore facendo perdere l'allineamento delle 4 ruote); anche tutta la serie di ingranaggi che collega i (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: maledetto nastro adesivo...
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Io ho un altro metodo per togliere la colla del nastro adesivo che spesso mi ha dato buoni risultati: utilizzo un altro pezzo di nastro adesivo e lo appiccico e spiccico dal materiale su cui sono rimasti i rimasugli di colla, i quali hanno due (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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(...) Thanks, Bruce. I kind of like that you've come up with your own alternate titles for each of these stories. :) (...) That's good to hear. I think he's got a lot more character. The old face was pretty bland. (...) To get the super-bright light (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: 8889 Technic Truck
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dear al have you ever constructed a (portable) forklift or do you know anyone that has? christian (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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(...) Thanks, Ross. (...) Oops! I appreciate the correction. -Brendan (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Poll cataloghi - Risultati
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Di seguito i risultati relativi al poll sui cataloghi nei set. Ringrazio tutti per l'ampia partecipazione e per i suggerimenti ricevuti. Sia risultati che suggerimenti sono stati inviati a Lego e al forum di discussione degli Ambassador. Totale (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) Jim, You're welcome! What you could do with the scene is put a hundreds of thousands unit tall white box (not an infinitive plane, they'll add up to your rendering times!) behind the camera, it'll give you some indirectional lighting like I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) That's rather drastic, to take down a website for more than a day! A few hours I've seen many times before (for example Apple) but more than a day? :-D Greetz, Anton (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Technic Manas Truck
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"Ian Power" <ian@codemaster.com.au> wrote in message news:JF680s.nFt@lugnet.com... (...) That is very nice. I have little experience with studless building and find your work very interesting. I really love the appearance of the trailer. Power (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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(...) David, remember 7 comes after 6 and before 8, perhaps that will help. John P (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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(...) Oh David, 95% of what I have checked, around 1000 or so sets. If that is absurb it is not my fault. John P (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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Hey Brendan, More great stuff. (URL) by the light> - Well, I've said before that I'm not a huge fleshy fan and that I miss the old bald paul, but the new paul design is growing on me. I like the "pursuit" pic, some good movement in that one, but I (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: Spring Flowers
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(...) Easy, just put them on top of the regular flowers on the stem. In the following pic, you'll notice some regular flowers showing beneath the clikits. The clikits flowers with the hole fit tightly on a stud, while the clikits flowers with the (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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(...) David, I don't think there's any need to be rude. If you check STEP 7 on page 11, you will find the aforementioned tan 1x6 bricks. I hope this helps. ROSCO (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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(...) OK, first of all, you don't seem to know the difference between "email" and a "post". (...) John, I thought I'd take a little looksie into my own 10144 to see what you're talking about. I looked on page 7 of the instructions of 10144 and the (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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(...) 95% incorrect?! That's absurd. It would take someone years to even check all of them. (...) Why would you list on the LUGNET site if an inventory on the Peeron site is correct or not? Wouldn't you have to constantly recheck the Peeron (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Another LaCrosse Show in the books
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(...) i would deffinitly encourage it. anytime new people join a hobby it's a fresh set of eyes and ideas. who knows the solution to the battery trains becoming usefull may come from someone you talked to last weekend. (...) quite honestly it's (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | New Mecha
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Greetings all, I just finished rebuilding one of my oldest mecha. My Marauder AKA Zentraedi Officers Battle pod aka Glaug. The new design is more accurate than the previous attempt. The feet are a bit smaller, the hips are built better, upper leg is (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) Hi, Anton! Thanks for the explanation. That is a straightforward conversion. I divided LDView's reported camera location and lookat coordinates by 2.5, reversed the sign of the y coordinates, used the default right vector (positive x), and it (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: 10183 postponed?
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(...) I don't think that I'm revealing any secrets by saying that yes, it is true 10183 has been delayed a few days. I don't know the details, but apparently the hold up is due to the printed instructions for the main model. I also just noticed that (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I shall call him... Mini Me
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(...) Oh that little engine on the flatcar is just so cute! Small question tho, did you consider putting any 1x6 lt. grey plates on the drive wheels of the mini-model to better match the large engine's rods? Or did it seem they would be too big in (...) (18 years ago, 20-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) Jim, In the Converter I divide every coordinate the LDraw model has by 2.5 and then I end up with the millimeter system I digitized everything with. I have (since I started to build my Library starting in 1992) always used millimeters when (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | new NXT mailinglist established
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Hello! A new NXT mailinglist is established. Because there are no german mailinglists until now, this mailinglist is for german speaking (not necessary native) people around the world. You need an (free) yahoo account to participate! (URL) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Technic Manas Truck
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Hey guys... Might remember me... I posted the "Millenia Car" last year (was on the side bar for ages!). Anyway, finally got around to building something else (I lead a busy life). (URL) Technic truck based around the motor packs in the Bionicle (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Neue NXT Mailingliste
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Es gibt eine neue (deutschsprachige) Mailingliste, speziell für NXT Anwender: (URL) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.loc.de)
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| | Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio
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(...) Please let me know if you have much success. Several of us working on a robotics project tried the Oct and Nov 2006 releases and could not get the out-of-the-box Lego NXT demo to stay connected for more than about 60 seconds, even after hours (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Enhanced standard NXT firmware
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... (...) Hi John, I just tried to load it and just tested the "Try-me" light sensor. It worked fine. Not so much help, but I can try some more another day. Good work. Rasmus (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Battery Level NXT-G Block
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I've posted a new NXT-G Block that reads the battery level from the UI module IOMAP. Can also be used as a sensor block to detect low power conditions. Details and download: (URL) Ziv NXTasy.org (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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(...) Thanks Brendan, I always enjoy reading your updates. Or looking at the pictures anyway ;) Noticed a typo in Acts 15:6 - tesing -> testing. Regards ROSCO (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | The Brick Testament - The call of Saul who is called Paul
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(URL) The Brick Testament> website has been updated today with seven newly illustrated stories from the book of the (URL) of the Apostles>: (2 URLs) Blinds Saul> (2 URLs) Holy Prison Break> (2 URLs) Assassinated> (2 URLs) of Jesus> (2 URLs) Gets (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
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(...) Neat. I have also (URL) used> (URL) autotrace>, a similar program. I haven't used either enough to recommend one over the other, but for some reason I do recall preferring potrace's output. (I've only used the programs, not programmed with (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) Ah, that's a logical explanation. I just looked in the manual.txt that came with Anton's part library and it does state that it considers a POV-Ray unit 1 millimeter. If one (URL) LDraw unit> is equal to 0.4 mm, then the conversion probably is (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
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(...) Hmmm. It would appear that using the Potrace API and the Triangle API would do almost all the difficult work for software of this sort. I might look into restarting the project although I'm not sure how far I could get with it. Of course if (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Announcing Bitsticker (and other txt/bit-to-dat utilities)
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--snip-- (...) Unfortunately I got too busy with other things and kind of let is slide. With a rewrite in a compiled language and using a decent triangulation (such as the one Ross uses) and vectorisation algorithm I suspect it could be made to work (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | The Red Herring
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I had to finish off a GBC module, but some unrelated pieces fell in my hands and said to me "hey, we'd make a nice boat hull"... and so I ended up doing this instead: (URL) Red Herring>> I hadn't done anything remotely space-y since my youth, so (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Now Is The Time To Ship MOCs To BrickFest PDX
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Have some important news to pass along if you plan on shipping a MOC to Brickfest. If you have reservations for the Red Lion Hotel, you may ship your MOC there and they will not charge a holding fee. If you don't have their address, here is is- Red (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: New Brown Town Buildings (pics)
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(...) :-) (URL) HERE> is a pic of the revision taken at our train show exhibition this past weekend. Thanks again! JOHN (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(Moved to lugnet.cad.ray.) (...) I think Anton's library isn't in LDraw units. Since the camera placement is in LDraw units, it won't work right. If you know the conversion factor, you can probably multiply the camera location by that and have it (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) Thanks for the tip, Tim! The point about LDraw (and POV-Ray) objectives being comprised of surfaces rather than solids is worth keeping in mind, too. After re-rendering the little test scene with maxtracelevel set to 8, I realized that the (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Could not upload program output file to PC
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(...) In my experience, this sort of problem occurs when the file size is zero (or, more precisely, it contains zero bytes) or it is not properly closed. Can you send me a copy of your program so I can see if it has any problems? John Hansen (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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(...) John, I agree with most of your comments and I appreciate your keeping the other side of this arguement. I would like to point out that I feel that a NPO is different than a private company. WalMart is a private company that is not required to (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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--snip-- (...) Hi Jim, The second error there is certainly to blame for the opacity. You need to add a line globalsettings maxtracelevel N where N is high enough (probably 8 will do). Partially this is because LDraw parts are constructed of surfaces (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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(...) snip (...) snip (...) Troy, Well stated! I concur completely. Todd (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) You're right - it does work. I retried it with L3P output and the view is positioned correctly. My previous effort used POV-Ray code from Anton's converter. That's not necessarily the reason it didn't work before, though: it was late and I was (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: BrickWorld 2007 - who's getting paid?
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Bryan, Thank you for your post and informing the community of the intentions of your organization of BrickWorld 07. I have interspersed some comments among your points. Please read them carefully and in a positive frame of mind. They are not (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) The aspect ratio shouldn't make enough of a difference to put the camera out of the ship. It should only change the cropping. If you have the same aspect ratio, you should should get nearly pixel-perfect alignment of all polygons that don't (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Spider-man 3?
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(...) **snip** (...) That has puzzled me as well, and it makes cataloguing a bit of a headache, when there are a dozen sets called "Spider-Man." (...) I'm guessing that the #2004 Sandman's Bank Heist and #2002 Green Goblin's Secret Lab probably (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.licensed.spiderman, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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Jennifer: Here are some more examples. I finshed three more sets last night. Pull up the instructions for 7838. There are 12 3062b brick round black, step 22. 3010 brick 1x4 red there are 4, step 2 and 4 for the crane. the blue plate 3666 is not (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Another LaCrosse Show in the books
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(...) So I hunted a bit this morning. I kinda think you could pull this off here in Minneapolis. It would have to be a smaller setting, but I'm not sure that the Jackson Street Roundhouse would have enough space to give. Don't / didn't we have some (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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| | Re: Another LaCrosse Show in the books
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I figure I should post in this thread, too - just so we have all three John's in the same thread. There, I've posted. <grin> I had fun flirting with the cute young reporter, we only slightly overwhelmed the poor girl. <lol> And for the record, I (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MOC: Terraced houses
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(...) Thanks for the description. Very helpful. The pictures don't look all that rough or depressing to me, but then again I'm quite badass myself. ;o) I figured even rough areas have kids that need to run around. Here in NYC there are rough areas (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks! (...) I sent them (URL) HERE>:-) (...) Of course! (...) I think you schmoozed her too long-- it seemed to have affected her reporting. Or was J-1 actually quoted correctly when he said, (URL) "I’ve been playing with Legos since I was (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, FTX)
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(...) Thanks for the note, I have found other rather strange things in the early 80 sets. There is a round brick 1x1 open stud transgreen, that had a white coating on the inside. I have seen this in three sets. Also the minifig airtanks in red and (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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(...) This might give you some idea: (URL) are typically a few blocks of these houses together, but occasionally you will find isolated rows, sometimes even outside of built up areas. Some towns and cities seem to be largely made up of these. They (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) The meeting was great. Thanks to everyone you came and participated. As we talked about in the last meeting, it sounds like we will be meeting at Jordan's home next month. Brian. (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, FTX)
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Seems like this is about all I post about now. We've completed another LaCrosse show. It was nice have John Neal down there so I could send anyone who asked me about how to start a Lego train club over to him. I also sent anyone who asked how to (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 10183 postponed?
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Set 10183 has been postponed, at least in the Netherlands...? Not the 19th like it was originally promised but the 23rd of March... (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) I was thinking of that. I tried it briefly the other night but I must have had a different aspect ratio, because the rendering appeared far outside the ship. I'm getting up to speed on POV-Ray, though, so I'll definitely try it again. (...) (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Spring Flowers
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(...) Me too. But how do you attach them to the flower stems? /Tore (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Thanks very much for doing this and following up, Tim. I was hoping you would. It is nice to see the different types of housing from different countries. Question(s): Would these types of houses comprise an area or neighborhood? Are there (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Tutorial to customize MLCad through the MLCad.ini file
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(...) many thx for the feedback. I've updated the page accordingly. please have another look: (URL) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Could not upload program output file to PC
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Hi, I am a new user of the Lego robot and would like to ask a question. I ran into a problem with uploading a file from the NXT to my PC via USB which I did not understand why. Basically I have written a program that reads light sensor values (port (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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When I first saw this post I thought it would be a fig in an aquarium, being studied by the Sea Monkeys... Good work! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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| | Re: Peeron inventories
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In lugnet.inv, John Patterson wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> This sounds very surprising! I have one 7720 with those buffers, but don't know whether they're original since I bought the set second-hand. I have also one 7722 with 4 black single buffers. I (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv)
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(...) This is good news. I've emailed LEGO about this problem myself. Simply being able to filter by 'Trains' and 'Cool Creations' together would be a big help, but it seems they couldn't achieve that. It's a shame it takes such a major overhaul for (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | "Wraith" starfighter
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Check out the "Wraith" Long Range Scout Fighter at (URL) ship is my first attempt at starfighter with retractable landing gear. Its form is derived from my old "Hellbat" fighter, but much larger. LMKWYT Later, Todd (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) It's worth noting that if you get the POV-Ray camera info from LDView and render in POV-Ray, you should get exactly the same view there (assuming you use the same aspect ratio). (...) The sensitivity is pretty messed up. It doesn't properly (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | I shall call him... Mini Me
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(2 URLs) Post Mod Gallery> Here is a mini version of my #805 I built this afternoon. I've been wanting to build a mini-scale train to ride on a small flatbed car for a long time now, but I never really got the gumption to try to build a MOC of my (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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(...) John, All the best with your inventory corrections. Cheers Richie Dulin (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.inv, FTX)
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| | Re: A story, and a new Trains website
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(...) Wow, if AFOL's continue to provide stuff like this site, LEGO will not have to do any work. Get AFOL's to design them, get AFOL's to help people find them, get help from AFOL's to market them--just provide the parts. And even that is now (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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In lugnet.trains, Jordan Schwarz wrote: SNIP (...) SNIP (...) Hi Jordan, I like this idea. I'd recommend adding Chris Masi's work. He seems to have two usernames, "masithebuilder" and "acjmasi", not sure which he'd prefer you use. I've build-tested (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: Dancing Mech Modeling/animatino LDraw/POV-Ray Video Tutorial Series
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(...) Now this one introduces some new stuff to me! I have been to Anton's web site before (and admired his work), but I did not realize what the Converter did or that it worked independently of L3P. I have not had time to play with it much yet but (...) (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Fun with LDView Fly Through (A Minifig's Eye View)
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(...) That's a nice pic Jim. I seem to recall there was a view from inside a Santa Fe car a while back, can't remember who rendered it though :( ROSCO (18 years ago, 19-Mar-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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