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Why not make official POV-Ray Lego bricks and skip the whole LDraw to POV-Ray conversion? Use the same names, scale, and coordinates and all you need is a small script to convert the LDraw lines into POV- Ray lines using the same translations. Or (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) More than three years have passed, the only thing that has happened is that the SteerCo and/or the Standard Committee has decided not to allow EmbPOV in the official Parts folder. A vauge discussion on creting yet another folder for Ldraw POV (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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(...) That's great news! It's good to have confirmation about the USB-Serial converter. Also, virually the only reason why I still use Windows occasionally is because of some LEGO apps that won't run on anything else. Have you made a gui, or in what (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes, I am very much wanting this too. Creating a female hair using solid objects (how Anton's library works) is a bit daunting. POV-Ray can render meshes, and I have thought of modeling the hair in a real 3d app like modo or Maya and importing (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Yep, that's a Lego core values formula presented by marketers somewhat in accordance with Levitt's Augmented Product theory. Interesting book. (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I'd be interested in seeing it, if you don't mind. I also was going to use the Control Lab to control big train layouts, now that I actually have more than one LEGO train to control. :) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Yes, you can compile C# programs on the command line using the .NET Framework SDK. You can also install Visual C# 2005 Express Edition and use Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE. The API I'm designing won't be quite like NQC, though. NQC is (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Hi William, At the moment I think it's only the webmasters who can edit articles (might be nice to have an ldraw wiki one day but...) so if you email us (webmaster@ldraw.org) with a list of things you've noticed and/or suggested improvements (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'm in the same boat as Doug, not having a control lab, but using several USB-> serial converters. I have had mixed experiences. Some converters have worked on everything I've tried (like my trusty Belkin F5U103-- no longer in production) (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I'm currently finishing an API in Java for the Control Lab (well, the missing part of code is for the temperature sensor...) My first project using it was the automatic control of a train yard during our last train show in Paris. (URL) For (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) My sister in law worked at a marketing/advertising company and she came across a marketing publication of some sort that nobody wanted anymore. Of course, she rescued it for me. The cover looks like (URL) this> and (URL) a random page inside>. (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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I was looking through some of the articles on ldraw.org and found some to be out of date or to have errors. I'd be happy to help clean this up but I don't know what the process is to get access or to submit changes...? For example (URL) has a long (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) and it is red! I do a lot of needlework and the largest tread company in the world DMC, from France, has a color of floss that is devil red and its number is 666. Strange? John P (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I know lejos exists... but I'm still getting to grips with NQC (if you know any good advanced tutorials except for the one Dave Boum wrote I'd be really interested). Would what you are developing be in any way like using NQC (possibly from the (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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RoscoPC ha scritto: (...) bravo, complimenti! spero che a Ballabio porterai tutte le tue realizzazioni ciao Giuliano (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) While it's become a lot more common since I got mine, I have a Tahu standee that was sent directly from the Enfield headquarters, a yellow prototype Hau that was sent from the Billund headquarters via LEGO Direct in NYC, the What Will You (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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If so, this might be of interest to you. I saw it posted on (URL) Lambda the Ultimate>: (URL) The first article is entitled "A Recipe for controlling Lego using Lava." If you're not familiar with the (URL) Lava Hardware Description Language>, it's a (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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Splendida... splendida... splendida... oramai hai dichiarato guerra agli Arvo Brothers.... Da mettere in home page sul sito! Complimenti! Ciao Marco (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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(...) I've been working on a .NET-based class (in C#) to communicate with the Control Lab. It will eventually be a miniature API providing methods to poll sensors and change output port values. It will be kind of like how leJOS does things, except (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ULUG Train Show from <cough> <cough> March
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To all, Well, ULUG had a great train show in March. I am extremely late getting the pictures posted. I forgot my camera and had to use a family members and then we had a baby ... ULUG has made some really great strides from show-to-show. We have (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, FTX)
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