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(...) One Lego-specific thing I tried years ago when playing with the idea of microscale space combat, was to use one-stud-width plates to mark off the speed and direction of all the objects on the field. Plant one end of the plate on the object, (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.gaming)
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| | Re: Christmas Technic
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(...) Thanks to Janey, I also got the bulldozer. MAN, its so cool. I think i might use my Dec 26 day off to play with it. Hey, janey, if you come by again soon, we could build them together and try a speed build. :) Chris (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Christmas Technic
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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, (...) (17 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) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Bovinius Minimus
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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. (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (...) (17 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 (17 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? (17 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 (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: New Project: DatShine, LDA, PreL3P, L3P, And POV Involved
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(...) Merry Christmas to you, too. Don't be afraid to ask, we're happy to help each other- 1) Sounds like you postprocess pov-files. Absolutely nothing wrong with that! We've had some discussions here on lugnet.cad and both ways have their pros and (...) (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Presentazione e auguri
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Approfitto del Natale per presentarmi ed augurare buone feste a tutti : mi chiamo Omar, ho 34 anni, sono di Reggio Emilia e ho subito una ricaduta da "leghite" dopo esserne guarito in adolescenza : sono in posseso di una buona collezione (circa 300 (...) (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Hi there!
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(...) And the same to you! Currently I can't find my LEGO under the piles of kids-stuff, but it's turning into a wonderful holiday anyway ;). Merry Christmas. (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Auguri
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(...) mi unico anch'io al coro degli auguri di natale. p.s. segnalo che, da questa mattina, non funziona il redirect da www.itlug.org a itlug.altervista.org ciao Andrea (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! Joe (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NXT Program: How to avoid stop-and-go? (US-Sensor in angle)
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(...) That is a very interesting site, with some interesting information... but you might like to do those experiments yourself. For instance, the odd "ledge" in their data at 48 cm is not a feature with my US sensors - they may have been working (...) (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | care of cloth sails
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I have been keeping the sails from my Black Seas Barracuda reissue and the one from my Orient Expedition chinese junk in a plastic container (its not airtight but it doesn't allow air to flow freely either). Lately when I open that box (and only (...) (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question about set 6959...
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(...) I guess it's the access hatch to the underground chamber. As it's barely accessible for a human hand, I guess it's supposed to be a dungeon, but on the other hand, we don't want our prisoners to sabotage our secret spy satellites, do we? So, I (...) (17 years ago, 25-Dec-07, to lugnet.space)
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