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(URL) english> (URL) français> (URL) het nederlands> Enjoy, Jean-Marc. (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.fun, FTX)
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Check out these cool video clips about the RCX vs NXT from Iowa State University's College of Engineering. They are similar to the Mac vs. PC ads. (URL) click on NXT vs. RCX videos on the right hand side of the page. ___...___ Tonya Witherspoon (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) Thanks, Benn. (URL) a picture of the rear>. I choose not to have the handrails at an angle since I felt that it couldn't be properly done. If you can't tell, the rear was inspired in part by Tim Gould's (URL) VO-660>. I've been trying to (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Ma non sono ingranaggi LEGO...
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(...) Ah queste clausole vessatorie.... GHGHGHGHG :-) CiaoCiaoSergio (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: RCX Motor Diagnostic Test
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(...) So ultimately you want as many matched pairs of motors as possible? I'm not at all sure why you need Robolab for this. 1) Set up all motors with identical loads (identical weights on strings hanging from pulleys, for example). 2) Power all (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ultra Sonic Sensor Readings
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(...) No, but I can think of some ways to generate such data. Part of the problem is that weather or not the sensor sees a return depends on two spread functions: the spread of sound energy from the transmitter, and the spread fo sound energy (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: {[ R T L ]} ~something important~ about food
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(...) Typically the second Friday of the month, making it next Friday, not this one. I was really happy with Mel's actually. It was the first time in a while I enjoyed the dinner. Calum (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Market Street Preview on LEGO Factory
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What can I say, that looks fantastic! modular within the model itself and modular in the sense of joining with the Cafe Corner. If this is just the start of a new section at LEGO Factory I can hardly wait to see what is coming next (after I buy a (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Market Street Preview on LEGO Factory
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Check out the Market Street Preview on LEGO Factory. Many praises to Eric Brok for his Excellent design work working with the LEGO Factory Team on this. Yay for Medium Blue!!! (URL) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Bulldog Sculpture
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(...) Suh-weet! Can we get the LDraw file or other instructions??? (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
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| | Re: MOC per Ballabio
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(...) Grazie! Mi hai ricordato che non ho dato modo ai meno giovani ed ai meno appassionati di F1 di ricordarsi com'era il modello originale: qui ci sono alcune immagini della vettura di Hill: (URL) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Ultra Sonic Sensor Readings
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(...) Getting a return off a cylindrical or worse yet, spherical object is very difficult. The sound reflects off in every direction, pretty uniformly, and so little of it comes back to the sensor. I'm not sure about your idea for using multiple (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BrickWorld Castle Contest - Hut Obliteration
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<<https://registrati...Logo.png>> In case you don't know him, I would like to introduce everyone to our most colorful Brickworld Coordinator - David Gregory :) I just loved the part about "hapless civilians" B (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Brickworld - Dirty Brickster Rules
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Well said Todd!!! I hope I can make time to participate!!! (I might be a little busy that weekend doing other things at Brickworld) :) B (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Bulldog Sculpture
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Just to let people know... I'm not dead. I'm just a little busy. :-) (2 URLs) More Pictures> This sculpture was built using Bram Lambrecht's LSculpt utility ((URL)) combined with the Ldraw ((URL)) set of tools. Bacon Elementary School in Fort (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.sculpture, lugnet.build.schleim, FTX) !
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| | Peeron inventory corrections
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May 2 6382-1: Fire Station 3742 Yellow Plant Flower should be 8 not 6 3040b Black Slope Brick 45 2x1 should be without center stud 6384-1: Police Station 3004 White Brick 1x2 should be 37 not 36 3742 Red and Yellow should be 4 each not 3 3069bp18 is (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Brickworld - Dirty Brickster Rules
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(...) I would like to add my $0.02 about this. First, in the interest of full disclosure, I would like to say that I have participated in several of these Dirty Brickster events and have always come away feeling positive about what I ended up with, (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, FTX)
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| | Re: NXT Rubik's cube solver
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Absolutely fantastic with a clever mechanical design. (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: peeron update
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(...) John, This matches what I've seen in several of the Samsonite sets. Gary Istok calls this "LEGO Mayhem". Thanks for the information, and I'm glad to hear that Peeron is getting updated so quickly. Eric (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Re: Bunch of Grey on the 'Bay
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(...) Yep, that's it- thanks Richie! (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Any reason why we'd want that instead of just wiki.ldraw.org, or ldraw.org/wiki/? Dan (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: NXT Rubik's cube solver
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(...) Daniele, WOW. ummm thats all I can say. WOW. It was nice to see and read about your design, and I thought to myself; nice. THEN I saw the video, and just smiled from ear to ear. The first time I saw the one arm do the "double thwack" to seat (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Informations on new TECHNIC element and color coded parts
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Didier, thank you for this knew info. Sadly, I have a feeling I think I now need to start to horde my old technic axle joiners. I can understand the monetary reasons for the new part - ease of mold release, mold manufacture, and "undercuts" and (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | {[ R T L ]} ~something important~ about food
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not really. whens dinner? after some time away, i was not 100% thrilled with Mel's last tiem. Their is something to be said for being able to show up at Swiss Chalet and take over the place no matter who shows up and when. Chris (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Change in ILTCO rep for SALUG
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In accordance with the public consensus process as outlined in the ILTCO Policies and Procedures document, this is a public announcement that Adam Murtha will be a new ILTCO representative for SALUG taking William Lister's current representative (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.announce.iltco)
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| | Informations on new TECHNIC element and color coded parts
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Hi, You maybe noticed this year the existence of a new TECHNIC element. A cross axle extension (59443) has appeared and replace the old one (6538). 6538 : (URL) 59443 : (URL) (inventoried as 6538c in Peeron) This new element is simplier than the old (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, FTX) !
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| | Do you like functional programming?
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Message text written by "Jordan Bradford" (...) (URL) Lambda the Ultimate>: As you may know, we've been dicussing embedded language deign on the SRS group recently. May I post a copy of your email there? I'm reaaly going to have to read the (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | NXT Rubik's cube solver
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Hi. It took time but it is quite done. For details: (URL) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt) !!
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| | Re: RCX Motor Diagnostic Test
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Just a few general remarks on your setup/questions. There's a nice setup shown on Philo's page from when he compared the different LEGO motors, including some data sheets - maybe this is the type of data sheet you'd like to get? link: (URL) using a (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mardi 1er mai 2007
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Bonjour Voici la lettre d'information du site "FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group" ((URL) lettre recense les articles et les brèves publiés depuis 1 jours. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Set 4953 - Les Bolides Aériens (Rapid Flyers) ** (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: Bunch of Grey on the 'Bay
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(...) You may not have changed the format from 'plain text' to 'formatted text (FTX)' I've changed the format to FTX in this post, haven't done anything to the quote above, and that seems to have fixed it. HTH Cheers Richie Dulin (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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| | Re: Bunch of Grey on the 'Bay
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(...) Now, why didn't that turn into a hidden link? (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Bunch of Grey on the 'Bay
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Pound and a half of Light Grey Plates on eBay. Over 700 pieces, all sizes. (URL) #160112774591> Thanks for looking, Tim (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | RCX Motor Diagnostic Test
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Hello. I've been thinking for a while about the best way to test a large quantity of motors in a short period of time. The reason behind this is I mentor an FLL team, and we recently acquired somewhere in the vicinity of 50-100 motors from a (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | New pbLua Beta 5 Available
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All, You can download and try the latest pbLua Beta 5 with the following enhancements: Enhancements include: 1. Fixed broken I2C implementation 2. Added basic sound for tones and melodies 3. Added first attempt at high speed 485 4. Direct input of (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Ultra Sonic Sensor Readings
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I've read the previous postings on the ultrasonic (aka "echo locator" among my students). I'm experimenting to see what the cone of energy looks like. Does anyone have experimental data I can compare to? I also need advice of detecting the scatter. (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | peeron update
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Just to update on Peeron and to answer some emails I have received, Peeron has been adding set pictures at breakneck speed. Somewhere around 70 that I have submitted in the last 3 or 4 days. They are also making inventory corrections at about 20 or (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | BrickWorld Castle Contest - Hut Obliteration
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I'm happy to announce the first Castle-themed contest for <https://registratio...kworld.us/ BrickWorld>: The Hut Obliteration Contest The objective is simple; build some kind of monster(s) and build some kind of medieval era "hut" that they're (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.announce, lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | Brickworld - Dirty Brickster Rules
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<<https://registrati...Logo.png>> This message is posted on behalf of Steve DeCraemer: First and foremost, Dirty Brickster and Dirty Buildster are two different events. Please don't confuse the two. Please do get involved in both. For those those (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.events.brickworld, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.events, FTX) !
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| | Re: Inline POV code in official parts?
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(...) Well, maybe others don't care about visible polys when it should be smooth, but it makes all the difference in the world to me. (...) Well, yeah. But that is better than everyone inventing their own POV- Ray code to make their own parts. How (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Strike that. We can add you as an article editor. You simple need to email us with your LDraw User ID. -Orion (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Inline POV code in official parts?
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(...) The LDraw POV project ((URL) was created with the intention of someday becoming the de-facto, if not the actual, official LDraw compatible POV repository. I'll admit that it has languished for sometime (it's been almost 4 years sine I (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Inline POV code in official parts?
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(...) It doesn't really gain you much if you are just converting the LDraw parts directly - l3p does that just fine, and fairly fast. The only advantage of a POV-ray library is when you start adding POV-ray specific stuff, eg: replace the curve (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) I'd see it as a side-wiki probably. Move as much content as people are willing to open source across but keep the best articles fixed on ldraw.org. Would mean anyone could edit tutorials etc. but we'd have fixed versions. Tim (not speaking as (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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(...) Hmm - an ldraw wiki? That's a good idea, and it's not hard. For example you could sign up for a wiki on pbwiki.com (ldraw.pbwiki.com is available) and we can transfer the existing content there and move the links on the existing site to point (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Inline POV code in official parts?
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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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| | Re: Inline POV code in official parts?
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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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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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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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| | Re: Hair for female minifigs?
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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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| | Re: What's the weirdest LEGO item you own?
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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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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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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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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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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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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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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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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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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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| | Re: What's the weirdest LEGO item you own?
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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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| | Articles on ldraw.org out of date - I can help
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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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| | Re: What's the weirdest LEGO item you own?
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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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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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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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| | Re: MOC per Ballabio
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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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| | Re: What's the weirdest LEGO item you own?
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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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| | Do you like functional programming?
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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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| | Re: MOC per Ballabio
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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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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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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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| | Re: April Meeting Recap
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(...) The meeting was great fun. 280 lbs of LEGO is a lot of LEGO. I image that we will be sorting LEGO at meetings for months to come. Here are the couple of pictures that I was able to take until I was drawn back to the sorting (4 URLs) Pictured (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.us.ulug, FTX)
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| | Hair for female minifigs?
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Hello, I would like to make some CGI brick films and have run into a problem with finding hair for the female characters. The only parts I know of for female characters are the shoulder-length hair and the hair with pigtails. Has anyone made an (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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I have Robolab 2.5.4 so I guess I'll be using that. I still need to find out what other apps there are (Windows and Linux) that I might use as an alternative. linmix (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Minifigs On Tour!
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At Brickfest 2007, someone asked me if I had knew where to find pictures of Minifigs that had made the ascent to the top of Mt. Everest. I told that person to do a search online for it; I hadn’t heard of such a thing. However, that gave me an idea…a (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general, lugnet.fun, lugnet.build.minifigs, FTX)
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| | Re: What's the weirdest LEGO item you own?
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(...) And beware the (URL) lego set of the beast> (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | peeron inventory corrections
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may 1 381-2: Police Station 3062 Brick 1x1 round can be with or without solid studs otherwise correct 588-1: Police Headquarters 3062 can be with or without solid stud, 3069 and 3068 Tiles can be with or without grove, otherwise correct 6375-2: Gas (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.inv)
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| | Prison Waggon
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(URL) Another MOC for CC contest (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.castle, FTX) !
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| | 2 Wiz Castle
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The 2 Wizards (red/black) castle was built over caves. The Goblins and Kobolds started dig a mine underneath and revealed woken secret stuff that should never been woken. Who will win the obsessed Goblins or the The Red and Black Wizard?? The Entire (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: Ma non sono ingranaggi LEGO...
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ORRORE!!! Noi che nel giuramento fatto per entrare in Itlug abbiamo promesso di rispettare i mattoncini ad ogni costo.... (ad eccezione di Panzer...) "testaciatta" <testaciatta@virgilio.it> ha scritto nel messaggio news:JHCxwG.770@lugnet.com... (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Brisbane Lego Train Display This Weekend
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Just to let those interested know that the Brisbane Lego Train Group, (BLTG) will have a display at the Brisbane Model Train Show this weekend, 5,6 and 7th May. link (URL) is the sixth consecutive year we will have a display at the Train Show. The (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: Control Lab - serial/USB
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(...) I do not have a Control Lab but I do have two USB->Serial converters and have tested them on a variety of devices at work and have not had any issues yet. These come with device drivers that create serial ports on your machine. As long as the (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | MOC per Ballabio
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Ciao a tutti, volevo segnalarvi che ho pubblicato le foto della mia ultima fatica per Ballabio (con un po' di anticipo...): (URL) tratta della Lotus 49B campione del mondo F1 nella stagione 1968, all'inizio dell'era delle appendici aerodinamiche: (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | LDraw.org's April 2007 Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the April 2007 Model/Part Of The Month (MOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, USS-Wolfram by Emory Dunn> (URL) Part, Minifig Torso with Telephone Pattern by Michael Heidemann (mikeheide)> (URL) Desired Part, Minifig (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: Ma non sono ingranaggi LEGO...
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(...) Oddio senza dubbio! Chi li ha bruniti e appiccicati a una chitarra!? Poverini! (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Ma non sono ingranaggi LEGO...
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... quelli che sono "incastonati" in questo capolavoro? (URL) foto) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Northern Pacific SW1200
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(...) I cheated to flatten the top of the similar handrails on the VO660 buy putting a paperclip inside the flex tube. Tim (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Cathedral Arts Festival 2007
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Cathedral Arts Festival 2007 - (URL) Grace Van Vorst Church> Jersey City - Artist Preview Night pics - April 30th. Opening Gala May 5th - On display until May 19th. (URL) to see more..., enjoy>> Eric Sophie (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.loc.us.nj, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ralph, the hardware is ready to take off :D (URL) are your plans to release Beta-4-Preview with improved I2C-Support ? The world wants to use pbLua and not NXT-G or other stuff :-D One real world scenario is "helping handicaped blind guys". (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: What's the weirdest LEGO item you own?
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(...) Not really weird, but as a big fan of soft boiled eggs, I got a couple of minifig head egg cups at the employee store in Billund along with a salt and pepper shaker for them. Then found the egg timer at Scott Lyttle's store in Atlanta. So have (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Pretty slick! Very good detail all around and clever tricks abound. I like the spark arresters on the stacks. The rear of the cab looks well detailed, do you have a photo of the rear when it is all together too? The only suggestion I have is (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Thanks, that is good to know. A mystery solved. I kind of wondered about their family history a little. While I am not a conspiracy theorist, it seems like the number 13 pops up a lot in their inventories. Just an observation. John P (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hmmm...LEGO oddities. Is there such a thing, really? I don't have much odd stuff, but one thing did come to mind: A space minifig from the Maine Space Grant Consortium. It's not an odd figure per se...but I have not heard of this group. I (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: What's the weirdest LEGO item you own?
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(...) John; The Lego Cross was produced in the early-mid 1950's and exists in 2 versions, one with a plain front and one with the word "JESUS" molded in block letters. Ole Kirk Christiansen, his family, as well as a significant portion of the (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) I wonder if it might be possible to pivot where the two trucks join together. We could have an opening for the pin on the motor trucks to move around in, like you have done with the 3-axle trucks. And instead of the half-pin currently used, (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I have about 10 of these and wondered where they came from, I bought them from someone that worked at Legoland in CA. So not all were destroyed, it appears that employees got rid of a few.thanks. John P (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: KEVIN HALL IS BACK...!!!
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Well I'm not an Aussie, but on behalf of .castle it's good to hear your building!!! God Bless, Nathan (URL) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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(...) Excellent! Greatly looking forward to seeing this and the others in person! Just stunning. Best, Jonathan (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: More buildings for NMRA in Detroit
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(...) Thanks very much, Nathan. I agree with your comments on the lower level of the dark orange building. The black lintels look very blocky. I might revisit it at some point and maybe get 3 more of the Znap pieces to make it all uniform. Thanks (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: More buildings for NMRA in Detroit
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(...) Thanks, Chris. Yes, I believe John is bringing his Chateau. Jonathan (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town)
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(...) Thanks, Jim. Paying attention to the brick sizes kind of happened by accident. It was when the sand red bricks came out. I bought only 1x2's and 2x2's and used only them and discovered the pattern that I really liked. Looking forward to NMRA! (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) NOW you tell me :-) Actually I managed to get it built, but it wasn't easy. (...) That doesn't seem to help, as I did a fresh install of the program last night just for this - my wife's Mac didn't have it installed. (...) OK, I will do that (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | LEGOLAND Billund employee killed in roller coaster accident
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LEGOLAND Billund employee killed in roller coaster accident The Associated Press Published: April 30, 2007 COPENHAGEN, Denmark: A 21-year-old employee at the Legoland amusement park was killed in a roller coaster accident, police and park officials (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.legoland, FTX)
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| | Re: LDD Model of GG-1 Electric Locomotive - Advice Requested
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(...) Glad that you ordered the GG1! This isn't the first complaint about instructions generation in LDD, unfortunately. I would suggest trying the different instructions modes (there's one for vehicles, buildings, and Technic) to see if you have (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.cad.ldd, FTX)
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| | Re: Dutch Koploper
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(...) Hi, Paul. I remember seeing the pilot version at GTE and it was fantastic! Do you have any pictures of the entire train? I would love to see the whole thing. I hope that I can attend NMRA 2007 to see them in person. Or perhaps you could bring (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Penobscot Building NMRA 2007 preview
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WOW She came out fantastic!Can't wait to see it on the layout!Chris MichLTC (...) (19 years ago, 30-Apr-07, to lugnet.town, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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