 | | Lego, Nathan Sawaya in Newsweek, 4/16/07
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All, I didn't find this mentioned anywhere here (sorry for the dupe if so)... There's a nice 6-page writeup on Lego in this week's Newsweek, "Building an Empire One Block at a Time". Despite repeated use of "Legos" to describe our beloved brick, it (...) (19 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: Another New NXT Utility
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(...) "beautifully silent" ... hummm, and this is from the author of wav2rso ;-) I don't have stats to prove it, just a feeling. Having the kids personalize their NXT programs using sounds converted using wav2rso does a lot of good! Two girls were (...) (19 years ago, 13-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Where's Josh - Minifig Jambalaya box update....
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(...) I'm here. Sorry, Aaron, I meant to write to you last night, but I've been really busy. Anyway, I got the box and it is on its way to the next person. It was mailed yesterday. I took some torsos, helmets and horse accessories and I added a (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, FTX)
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For the non-Brisbane-ites, here are the original Brisbane kangaroo sculptures, so you can see that Tim has been faithful to the original concept in his vig. (URL) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) lol. Luckily for him it's made of hubcaps :) (...) b'doom ching (...) And thankyou. Tim (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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From the looks of the muscles in the legs of that roo, Mullet-Head is going to have one nasty headache in the morning. Perhaps he'll even develop a photographic memory as a result of the camera embedded in his head? Heh, I couldn't resist. Nice vig, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: The Blacktron II
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(...) Wow! I love the exterior. Very nice use of BT-II trans-antifreeze all over the exterior. The bridge is fairly simple, but cool. I love the interior of the hangar bay. The details that are there make it look like the inside of an aircraft (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickworld Registration OPEN
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(...) Cool, thanks Brian. Looking forward to seeing the rules and watching those competitions. Janey "I will stop asking questions now, Red Brick" (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: Toronto Toy, Train and Doll Collectors' Show - April 22
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(...) Since I'm a straight colour-blind male (3 factors that (...) Well, if you want to go with OBB we decided to go with black, but I have not purchased the fabric yet. Janey, "not straight, not colour-blind female, Red Brick" (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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I've written a post regarding problems with array usage with (version 1.0) LabView compiler (i.e. what is currently used in NXTToolkit and NXT-G). Read it here: (URL) Ziv NXTasy.org (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Another New NXT Utility
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(...) I have updated both versions of the NXT Screen utility to play the "! Click" sound on the NXT when a button is pressed. Since I delete all the standard sound files as soon as I can after installing the official firmware that means my NXT (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Another New NXT Utility
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(...) I checked this out today and it does not work. Any attempt to set the button state to pressed via IOMapWrite using the Button module is ignored since the button module is continuously updating that same field in the button IOMap based on (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Toronto Toy, Train and Doll Collectors' Show - April 22
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In lugnet.loc.ca.on, Jason Allemann wrote: <snip> (...) There's always space to fill. Besides Deb, no one has 'claimed space' yet, but I'm going on the usual 'it'll look great without being too packed in' displays we've always done. I think between (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: Toronto Toy, Train and Doll Collectors' Show - April 22
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In lugnet.loc.ca.on, Deborah Higdon wrote: snip (...) no worries there--we'll put two tables together. snip (...) looking forward to seeing you--and Jason (for whtever time he may be there :) ) Dave K (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickworld Registration OPEN
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(...) I'm partly responsible for that, Janey. It looks like there will be four Mindstorms competitions offered, two Saturday and two Sunday (I'm in the process of finalizing the rules): Gladiator Sumo, Line-following Maze, Rock Crawling, and Indy (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: Honolulu Chinatown building MOC
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(...) Nice work Roy. Now you have to do the street over with all the market vendors and stands outside. The Chinatown Historic District is always fun to visit. So when are you going to tackle doing the Hawaii State Captial building just down King (...) (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: The Blacktron II
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Curvedly cool It seems to be the Latest MOC and the Random Brickshelf Gallery on the Home page at the moment too! tim (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Another New NXT Utility
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Everyone is asking for a new feature, so I'm going to ask one for me... :-) What about Mac OS X support for NextScreen? -- alf (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Another New NXT Utility
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(...) How about a "click" sound when the keys are hit? Or perhaps a little blur on the keyface to indicate that it has been clicked? It shouldn't need to be, but the Wii generation seems to need multi-media reinforcements. (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Where's Josh - Minifig Jambalaya box update....
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Josh Wedin to the front counter please! Roy sent the minifig box to you about a week ago, and I have not heard from you. Please let us know that you have received and/or mailed on to the next person the minifig jambalaya box. Aaron Sneary (19 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, FTX)
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