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(...) I've decided to jack in building for tonight as it's getting late and I was starting to make mistakes. I finished book 2 and made a small start on three. I think I've done myself a mischief though as I now have a strange pain in my side, (...) (18 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Inchworm 4
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(...) I forgot to mention that Inchworm 4 can inch forward or backward by flipping the polarity reversors on its head. (URL) (18 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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Ok, so I guess I'm in a strange old world naming mood this holiday season. Inspired by Siggurd's mini-quad (URL) decided to make a small octopod using small pistons. It uses two small pistons per switch, chained together as a 3 segment inchworm. (...) (18 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
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I was inspired by Philo's pneumatic wheel and his ratio of 1 switch per piston. (URL) right, in that when I did my Inchworms they all used two switches per piston, and he cut it to one. I wondered how short I could make one of my inchworms and still (...) (18 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
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I was playing with pneumatic piston and switch linkages trying to improve on the geometries I've developed in the past. This lead to inchworm 4. (URL) 4 has two waves travel down its body like inchworm 3 (URL) big difference is the design of an (...) (18 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
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Real life has finally slowed down enough to have time to build. After showing off my robots at an elementary school in another town for three days, I got a huge burst of energy. My first creation was a new kind of pneumatic inchworm. It uses the (...) (18 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
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When my younger daughter was growing up she enjoyed playing with, and collecting Care Bears. One of her favorites was Love-a-Lot Bear. Now that she has grown up, the bears have been put away for several years. I wanted to make her a LEGO Christmas (...) (18 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX) !
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| | Re: Christmas Technic
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(...) I did, I got the bulldozer as well. Looking forward to opening it. Janey "Red Brick" P.S. Happy Holidays to everyone on LUGnet (18 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Christmas Technic
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So I got the technic Motorized Bulldozer 8275 for Christmas. Haven't finished yet but I have started instruction book 2, so I can't say too much about it yet, but the new tracks look pretty sturdy. Anyone else get Technic for Chrimbo? (18 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | New York Times fiction piece about Lego gift with Lego art by Sawaya
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Merry Christmas everyone! There's a NY Times article, actually a fiction piece in the opinion section, about a surprise Christmas gift of Lego. It is accompanied by a Nathan Sawaya sculpture. Login may be required: (2 URLs) image> Roy (18 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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