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(...) I think I just answered my own question. I applied the inverse rotation (calculated by swapping the off-diagonals) to the translation row of the original transformation and then negated it to get the translation row in the inverse. That worked (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Very interesting. I'd like to hear more details. I haven't got my sets yet (but I think they might be downstairs in the building office - I just need to be going by when someone is there), but the order emails list the instructions as separate (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I can see the advantages of swapping the off-diagonals for inverting the rotation(s), but that still leaves the question of how to invert translations. In a current example I'm looking at, a minifig hand, the hand is rotated 45 degrees, (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) All 30 or just the main model? I thought printed instructions for the main model were included with the set? ROSCO (19 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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Hi all, I've pretty much completed my first MOC of a building from Honolulu's historic Chinatown. (URL) More pictures are in the (URL) gallery> Located at the NE corner of King Street and Nuuanu Ave, this building houses the Home Street Bank. Some (...) (19 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Short reply Beware Re: Variety is the spice of life
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Tommy, Todd, Tim and everyone else: I've snipped off the stuff from the beginning--it makes for too long a read. Apologies to all in advance. I agree with you all. It's tough to maintain a set color palette forever, and the UV shift over time can be (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Your wish is my command! I've uploaded a spiffed-up version of the utility which includes 4 little buttons. Pressing them does what you might hope it would. I've also uploaded a new test_release.zip containing a version of BricxCC with this (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | 10183 Hobby Train instuctions
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A UK AFOL has reported that he has recieved printed instructions for this set after ringing up Lego. Tim (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Long reply Beware Re: Variety is the spice of life
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(...) There are very few things in life that I can consider myself as an expert, but the one thing is color matching and quality control of color in a manufacturing process and at the point of purchase. For 30 years I worked in a small paint (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | HAFS Gladiator/Gradiator
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(2 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Hi all, Had a CAD version of a (URL) HAFS Gladiator> sitting around for ages but I never got around to posting it. Today I thought I'd see if I could build it from my collection and sure enough I could so here it is. Tim (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Another New NXT Utility
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(...) the PC ;) ROSCO (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Another New NXT Utility
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(...) Hi John, Wow, that's fantastic! I've been dreaming of such a utility since I bought my NXT about a month ago. I don't have my brick with me here at work, but I'm looking forward to giving the utility a whirl once I'm back home this evening. (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Another New NXT Utility
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Michael Anderson had a great idea for an NXT tool for BricxCC. He envisioned a PC screen which would show whatever was on the NXT screen, only scaled to a larger size. He mentioned his idea to me and a couple hours later it was finished (or, at (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt) !
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) Quarternions are, IMO, a bad way to do what matrices do well. For a rotation you don't need to (and shouldn't) calculate the inverse by a routine. Just transpose (swap the off-diagonals) and you have the inverse. There's no point running (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | peeron inventory
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7712-1: Supernova: To be consistent extras are counted in the QTY column 4589 Red Cone 1x1 should be 3 not 1 3623 Plate 1x3 should be DkStone not MdStone 3710 Plate 1x4 should be DkStone not MdStone 6536 MdStone Technic Axle Jointer Perpendicular (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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Thanks for the information, everyone. Although the test case I posted was arbitrary, I did some other tests with matrices that were used for rotations and translations. The upper-left 3x3 seemed to be OK, but the bottom row had problems. I'm (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Set 7029
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(...) Ciao a tutti. Io ho notato che nel set 8654 i brick rossi 1x3 sono di una tonalità diversa da tutti gli altri mattoncini rossi. Tendono all'arancione. Penso potrebbe essere lo stesso problema legato al Corner Cafè. Io credo potrò abituarmi a (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | RE: DataogValue and firmware > 0328?
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To get the latest RCX firmware. Download and install the free 30-day evaluation copy of RobotC (www.robotc.net). It contains RCX firmware version 7.xx. The firmware does not expire after the end of the evaluation period. Firmware version 7.xx is (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Variety is the spice of life
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(...) I agree with this 100%. Random colour variation opens up opportunity to make more realistic models. A perfect example of this is Al Disley's (URL) terraced houses> where a consistent supploy of dark red would have left them looking far less (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | BNSF Loco available again?
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It appears this item is available again. Previously, this was listed: Sold Out. Now you can place it on back order and have it ship in 14 days. Interesting. Jonathan (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.trains)
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| | Variety is the spice of life
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To All, I would like to state my $0.02 on this color issue and perhaps open up a new dialog on the whole color variation issue. First, I agree that in the past the LEGO Company has done an outstanding job with keeping the color consistent from batch (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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| | MOC shown on Danish TV
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Somebody uploaded this clip from Normalerweize on YouTube: (URL) proud to reveal that the model is MOC. You can find a few still pictures on: (URL) well, Jacob (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.dk) !
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| | Brickfest2007 Crate/GB Contraption
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We had quite the Mindstorms/Technic display at BrickFest2007 in Portland last weekend! Now that I have been home for a week, I'm starting to recover enough to actually write something about the event. David Schilling was in charge of our (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.us.smart, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: DataogValue and firmware > 0328?
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Thanks! Haven't tested yet, but I have reloaded the bricks. I'm going to assume that it'll work with datalog r/w. I'm trying to improve my Laser Tag on a Brick ((URL) system with logging of who got you, and more. Chris (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Its starting to happen...
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(...) Ah, yes. Even Target has those display cases, and they seem to have first appeared around the time of the color change if my memory serves me. (...) Yes, I mentioned this because I have known how surprising fluorescence can be since I was a (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Radio controlled CAT D7R LGP
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(...) It looks beautiful Dennis! Yes, you should make a video of it. It would also be nice to see the mechanisms inside it. Did you use 1 motor for the tracks and the steering motor (inside the RC module) to add/subtract from each side, or did you (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.modelteam, FTX)
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| | LSynth Service
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Hi, all. I've taken the liberty of fiddling around with the LSynth 2 source code a little bit more to create an LSynth Service, a text-processing extension for Mac OS X that lets you run LSynth just about anywhere you can edit text. The service (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Set 7029
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(...) Stiamo già discutendo da tempo riguardo il problema dei colori. La nascita dei nuovi colori è stata in parte una necessità prettamente commerciale (in questo Harry Potter l'ha fatta da padrone). A mio modesto parere vedo nei nuovi colori una (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) They are tiny. #define SIZE_OF_HSBUF 128 typedef struct { UBYTE Buf[SIZE_OF_HSBUF]; UBYTE InPtr; UBYTE OutPtr; UBYTE Spare1; UBYTE Spare2; }HSBUF; // HI Speed related entries HSBUF HsInBuf; HSBUF HsOutBuf; The IOMap hi speed buffer is copied (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: DataogValue and firmware > 0328?
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(...) I have been using firm0332.lgo for some time taking advantage of the read/write ability of the datalog. Works very well. You can find it here: (URL) you are using a PC, right-click on lego/firm0332.lgo and Save Target As... to save the file to (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Its starting to happen...
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(...) It's a definite possibility, and the only one that would mesh with the claim that they were bringing the three affected colors more in line with the rest of the color palette (even regular blue and dark-green have a distinct warm undertone and (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | DataogValue and firmware > 0328?
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Is there such a thing as a firmware greater than 0328 (firm0328.lgo) as supplied with RIS2? There must be because in the NQC manual there is a reference to \"the standard LEGO firmware version 3.30 which is available via the ROBOLAB software\". I do (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Belarus 320B Aiport tractor
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(3 URLs) BS> (URL) Flickr> Airports always have such funny looking vehicles and I thought I'd try one. For once I wasn't looking for a design from Eastern Europe but I found one anyway by accident. Comments welcome. Tim (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Spiral Stairs
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(...) Hi, Your solution is close to mine, except that for me the step height is 2 plates. I always build my stairs (even the straight ones) with a 2 plates step height except if it's a stair in a square in front of a church for example (in that case (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: A sad day for BIP?
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(...) I've gotten a number of emails from him in the last two days and am working on responding today. :) Jake --- jake AT countersinkdg DOT com Webmaster - BIP (URL) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: A sad day for BIP?
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(...) interested in helping to this project, but he hasn't been able to contact you. He has a web for spanish AFOL's, www.ladrillitos.com, there you have contact info. Please let him know about what you think. Regards. (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: A sad day for BIP?
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(...) the growing of LEGO community, and your site has been a wonderful LEGO resourse. Hope somebody inherit your project, and luck with your work and so. Julen. (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.inst, lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) Hi Juergen, Yes, I found this night the entries at Lego-Source-Code... and no line about P-NET-Protocol... My first thought was to implement a simple p-net-node at own MCU, but now I can try my own communication from NXT (master) to external (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: Its starting to happen...
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(...) Do you suppose the real reason behind the color change was to make the product visually "jump off the shelves" under the crappy lighting in Wal-Mart? This would make more sense than any other rationale I've heard so far, except that you (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) Hi Travis, Looking at the java version of your inversion routine I would guess that it will work for almost any 3x3 matrix + 1x3 translation (the 4x3 + 1 form). Where it will have problems is in matrices for which one or more of the (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: NEW VERSION! Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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Hi Mike, Couple of ideas for a couple of the bugs. (...) Did you triy transparent and opaque? (...) Did you try 30039? (...) Tim (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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Hi Christian, (...) the RS-485 interface is directly connected to the AT91SAM7S USART, so you can choose the bit rate quite freely. (...) No, it is not necessary, P-Net is just a field bus which seems to be popular in Denmark, there are others which (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: EggArt - a 4-colour Easter egg painting robot
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(...) Wonderful. This is not the typical Mindstorms Printer, of course ^_^ Congratulations David! (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Its starting to happen...
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(...) Try flourescent lighting sometime. I'm thoroughly convinced that any focus groups that might have been asked about the bleys vs. greys had to have been shown the different colors under standard cool-white flourescent lighting like you'd find (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Set 7029
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(...) ciao,per quanto mi riguarda il set è carino. Mi aggiungo al commento di Willy per i colori. Per la mia costruzione sto finendo i grigi chiari e scuri tipo vecchio e devo passare a quelli nuovi. La differenza è notevole e quelli nuovi sono (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) Sorry about that. I wrote that code so long ago that I forgot that it wasn't a fully general-purpose matrix inversion routine. (Note that it is the way it is so that it will perform better, not because I was too lazy to do the whole shebang.) (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Another matrix inverse question
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(...) I think you've converted Travis' code properly, but just looking at the code, I'd say it's only intended to produce the inverse of the upper-left 3x3 matrix. None of the other rows or the determinant depend in any way on the 4th row, and it's (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Another matrix inverse question
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Hello, I read James Reynolds' question about inverse matrices and the responses with interest since I similar questions about matrix inverses. I used Travis's TCVector::invertMatrix code as the base for a Java function. Other than the change to Java (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: NEW VERSION! Re: Conversion file for ldraw to ldd
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(...) I just uploaded my version 1.01e. This is what I have fixed and found as of today. I’m still working on some problem ones below and I’m at a loss on what to do if anything I could do. If you already downloaded the 1.01A through D you will have (...) (19 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | Re: POV Color Cheat! Turn Pink into Medium Blue
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(...) I thought it was, but in this case it wasn't. The color 24 line can be skipped. And the double pigment declaration was just a pure mistake; one definition is of course sufficient. :) /Tore (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POV Color Cheat! Turn Pink into Medium Blue
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(...) Good to know. Thanks! (...) I kind of recall that. In some cases, I've seen that L3P ignores an LDraw file with just Type 0 lines. I haven't checked if the IFPOV code makes it not ignore C13-73.dat, but I just did it in a routine manner. /Tore (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: POV Color Cheat! Turn Pink into Medium Blue
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(...) If you want to see the medium blue in LDView, just add the following line to C13-73.dat (anywhere outside the IFPOV section): 0 !COLOUR Medium_Blue CODE 13 VALUE #6E99C8 EDGE 0 Tore, is the color 24 line in the file necessary in order to make (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) Hi, halfduplex is not the problem when connecting the NXT to an external MCU. My problem is the bitrate of 921,6 kbits/s. Simple cheap MCU like ATMega didn't support this bitrate (as far as I know). To add an external devices (e.g MCU+SD-Card (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.robotics.nxt.nxthacking)
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| | Re: POV Color Cheat! Turn Pink into Medium Blue [DAT]
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(...) This is a great idea that deserves to be highlighted while we're waiting for L3P and other programs to support ldconfig.ldr! Inpired be the objects like timers, dialog objects, menu items etc I add to a Form in a Delphi project, I just came up (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: how does a line ends?
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(...) Now that I'm at work, I'm able to look at Microsoft's implementation of fgets for Visual Studio 2005. They do a lock on the file prior to their loop, then call _fgetc_nolock to get each character, instead of fgetc or fread. (That's an (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Another awesome video of a LEGO sumo robotic event
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Hello, At DivX we like to play with LEGO, we specifically like Autonomous LEGO Sumo Robot fights, few of us have put together a multi events championship and we are filming it in HD. We just published the round 3 of the championship, check it out it (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics) !
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) Hi John. I must have misunderstood something I was told a while back which went along the lines of "there isn't enough time to implement support for this feature". Perhaps there was some time after all ;) Do you know how large the OutBuf and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Gig
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(...) Unfortunately that particular windscreen doesn't come in black, only transparent colors :-( Christian (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: Set 7029
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(...) bley, dark bley, reddish brown ... la mia padronanza della lingua italiana non è tale da comunicare sufficientemente il mio disprezzo per i nuovi colori. ammetto che la reazione è strana, ma da tre anni non giudico i set per la loro bellezza, (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Peeron inventory
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Apr 8 10182 Cafe Corner: x18 Lime Minifig Food Cherry should be 3 not 2 4073 Plate 1x1 Round - Black should be 10 not 8, DkStone should be 19 not 17, MdStone should be 5 not 4, RedBrown should be 22 not 18 and Tan should be 3 not 2. 3673 Black (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: My BrickFest 2007 Pictures are posted to Brickshelf
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Hey, FYI. If you would like to have high-resolution images of any of the photos posted to BrickShelf (my images only), email me at todd[at]toddthuma.[n...ease]info. Include the image file name and I will send you a 3.2 MB image of approximately 2048 (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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| | Re: Save the 10183 trains!
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(...) Same here on Kubuntu Edgy & RHEL4. Up until LDD 1.4 it worked, but some routines were obviously modified afterwards which use routines not (yet?) supported by WINE. (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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| | LegoLand Billund anno 2007
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Just got back from a one week stay in Denmark, and - of course - a visit to LegoLand Billund during the opening week of the new season. New rides and attractions: Viking River Splash (something similar announced for the summer in Windsor?): a fun (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.legoland.billund)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) James, Thanks for your comments. The white trucks are what motivated me to build this. I used the tile on the bracing structure because it tapered from 6 studs to 4 studs and this looked better. The black plates are decks and so I left them as (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) Pushing the limits of length is quite a feat. The white accent on the trucks serves the overall look very well, and gives detail to what would otherwise unbalance the model. I like the smooth red tile for the bracing structure, but that seems (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Finno/Russian Boxcar
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(...) Exceptional. Lots of details. Looks like building it in red would be a bit painful as well. :o( 1x2 plates with sliding mechanism . . . . Great design, though! Jonathan (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Minifig Parts Jambalaya Status
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(...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, FTX)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) snip (...) Jordan, The trucks are Ross Neal's design. Making the outside pieces white made them look exactly like the pictures of the real one. The cascaded articulation is the same as the real one. My earlier schnabel car was backwards. All (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) Rob, Thank you. Bruce (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: EggArt - a 4-colour Easter egg painting robot
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(...) Congratulations on getting your egg painting robot done! Looks like you got your pen mechanism working exactly as you planned. Very nice! (...) What do you mean; I think the eggs are beautiful! But I think you should write "Happy Easter" on (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Set 7029
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Questa immagina proviene da alcuni flyer distribuiti al Brickfest: (URL) ne pensate? Ciao Marco (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: 36 Axel Schnabel Car Take Three
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(...) Wow, Bruce... that thing's ... enormous... and very well done. I especially like how you've done the custom white brick-work on the trucks. That's one big railcar... I'd be curious if a single locomotive can pull it, since in terms of axles, (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Its starting to happen...
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(...) Heh, that's why I said "sometimes" :) I know there are those out there who can tell the colors apart better than I can. And I know there are those out there (some of the more colorblind of us) who have a very hard time with it. For instance, (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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"Bruce S. Chamberlain" <sten@woz.org> wrote in message news:JG72pq.MBD@lugnet.com... (...) Absolutely a thing of beauty, and exactly the same length as the one I made a few years ago. Well done! -Rob www.brickmodder.net (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Building other people's designs
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(...) Its worth it. I beleive the .mpd file on Tim (Gould)'s BL page is the one I made after modding the design so if you use that to build don't be surprised if it has differences from his version! (...) It is dark blue. I used the train bases (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Its starting to happen...
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(...) I only have trouble with the light greys. Dark Bley is an obviously different color to my eyes, and blown is different enough to be noticeable in most light- but the light greys give me fits even in sunlight. :-( (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Building other people's designs
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(...) Very nice. I actually got the cab finished on one of these a while ago but got distracted by other things calling me to build them. I'll have to revisit it at some point. (...) Again, very nice. Is that dark blue? It appears like it on my (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) Now, that is fabulous. I'd strongly recommend forgetting my suggestion. :o) Wow. That is nice. Jonathan (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(...) Yes. RobotC already supports an optional "fast" mode that is five times faster transmission when reading a single byte. For reading multiple bytes from an I2C device, RobotC is about 15 times faster than the NXT-G firmware. There are a couple (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Here’s my take on a yard slug. Slugs are just frames with traction motors mounted on the wheels. The traction motors are fed from a slightly modified (added power sockets) diesel/electric locomotive that is coupled to the slug. At low speeds, the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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(...) Do you think it is possible to read/write binary and ascii data to this device or is there a special protocol neccessary ? What about bitrate of EIA-485 device ? Is it possible to adjust bitrate to anything more usable (9600, 38400, 115200) ? (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) Yes, 9600 bits/s is really slow for storage access. Is there a known way to increase the clock and transferrate of I2C ? Christian (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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alessandro bottini ha scritto: (...) Grazie a ricambio a tutti!! Giuliano (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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Hi Jeff, thanks for sharing your insights! It's a lot of fun fiddling around and coming up with some really constructive ideas! Here is what I've made a while ago: (URL) really nice to see what solutions are found to raise the minifigs to a next (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Hey folks, Mel's Montreal Deli 440 Bloor Street West (East of Bathurst), Toronto Friday, April 13, 2007 It's been a while since we've been downtown for monthly dinner, so in chatting with Dave, I suggested we do that again. Calum (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) That's a bit of a generalization, I'd say. I can peg dark-grey vs. dark-bley every time, regardless of the lighting (well, as long as there is some, that is), and I'm very accurate with light-grey vs. light-bley under flourescent lighting and (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Very clever with the different wedge plates. Here's a solution I came up with a few years ago that uses a 2 plate riser...of course that's easily accomplished with many plate/tile combinations, but at least it's not as steep as a full brick. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) The promised videos (1-2Mb each): (URL) at 11Mb: (URL) David Schilling (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) I agree that people won't know what "old" versus "new" means, but that's precisely the point I'm driving at. You *need* to know if you're a seller. So you have to go find out. If you call them "New Gray" and "Old Gray", you've successfully (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Well, it was worth a try. I tried both LDD1.6 and LDD2.0 . Both required a new Linux /lib32 library, libdrm.so.1 . I got that and installed it. LDD1.6 tries to do what looks like some OpenGLL stuff that isn't supported. It *did* manage to (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd)
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I was trying to figure out how to do brick-built spiral stairs besides the Lego Harry Potter or Pirate or Belville specialized pieces because I wanted a (1) plate high riser/step height, & I came across this Brickshelf folder by MuffinToa: (URL) (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.town, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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Here's the (URL) interior of the ship> where three V-Wings are prepped to take off plus a few other vehicles where maintenance crews are busy with repair works. (URL) AC (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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(...) The trouble with this idea is that 'old' and 'new' grey only have meaning to those of us who have been around long enough to know the old from the new. Somebody coming into the hobby post-bley won't have any idea what distinguishes the two. I (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I'd been wondering about this myself, but I think I figured it out: "I may have to just bend over and take it." I think it has something to do with finding money on the sidewalk or something... (...) Hmm... with all the new colors out there, I (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I've got a few of those too. In every case, I send a friendly email, and the seller was happy to resolve the matter. (...) That's a new acronym. What does it stand for? My first experience with Blay was when I purchased a few sets from LS@H (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Using NXT Port 4 EIA-485
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(...) What is not supported about this port in the standard NXT firmware? You can read from it and write to it using the IOMapRead and IOMapWrite syscall functions. Looking at the firmware source code it certainly looks like everything is setup to (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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Just in the nick of time, the day before Easter, I completed building a 4-colour NXT Easter egg painting robot. I started building it several months ago, when I thought I'd have plenty of time before Easter. Of course, at about the 85% complete (...) (19 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.org.us.smart) !
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(...) Personally, I think BrickLink needs to change their color names. Peeron approached this problem by VERY EXPLICITLY renaming "Gray" to "OldGray", "DkGray" to "OldDkGray" and "Brown" to "OldBrown". The problem is of course as you point out, that (...) (19 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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I designed a nuclear flask wagon and runner in CAD (URL) nearly four years ago>. I've finally built them and another British wagon, a hopper. (URL) In the time between designing the flask wagon and now, the tan 2x3 inverse slopes and the the white (...) (19 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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