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Sound localization is an extremely exciting topic. While blur localization cues that are based on level differences or precedence effect cues are easy to implement into real robots, the localization of continuous signals based on time difference of (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Less than 2 weeks to the Christmas Show in Toronto!
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A few more people have signed up! We're looking forward to seeing everyone. If people could drop me a line with what they plan on bringing to the show so I can get an idea of the display layout, it would be appreiciated. As well, here's something (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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| | Re: Någon som har...?
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(...) Fick en trevlig överraskning med posten idag. En miljon tack till Mikael Sjöstedt för de 100 st mörkröda 1x1 tiles:en!! Hur mycket blir jag skyldig för dem? /Johan (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Full instructions for Fiat 126
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(...) Credit for the design must fully go to Shaggie. (...) Thanks for your comment on the instructions. I created this specially for a LEGO friend who also happens to like Fiat :-) I want the instructions to be accesable for every level of builders (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: POV-Ray wont work with Vista
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(...) Use LPub 4 with LDView or LDGLite for the building instructions. Use L3P and L3PAddOn for creating the POV file for rendering. I'd also recommend making 2 model files. One for building instructions and one of the whole model for rendering you (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Scott Wardlaw (eligible as author of Color Manager). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Sergio Reano (eligible as author of SR 3D). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager nominate Jim DeVona (eligible as author of Bitsticker and ...). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Mark Kennedy (eligible as part author and reviewer). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Alex Taylor (eligible as part author and reviewer). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Orion Pobursky (eligible as author of LDDP). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Chris Dee (eligible as PTAdmin, part author, reviewer). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Don Heyse (eligible as author of LdGLite). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Kevin Clague, eligible as author of LPub. (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Lars C. Hassing (eligible as author of L3P). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Allen Smith (eligible as author of Bricksmith). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Travis Cobbs (eligible as author of LDView). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate William Howard (eligible as author of PTBrowser). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2008/2009 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I, Willy Tschager, nominate Mike Heidemann (eligible as author of DatHeader, part author and reviewer). (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: POV-Ray wont work with Vista
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(...) I am interested in creating building instructions, but I would also like a nice rendering that I will edit in Photoshop for the front box cover. I have used an older version of Lpub and POV-Ray before on my computer with windows XP, so I am (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Point Brique Historic Cable Railway Redux
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I've long wanted to try my hand at one of those 'redux' MOCs which get talked about every so often, so when the opportunity to exhibit a layout again arose, I leapt at the chance to redux Point Brique. (URL) The PBHCR originally formed a part of the (...) (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Full instructions for Fiat 126
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(...) green arrows in the instructions are really slick, too.) Jim (16 years ago, 11-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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(...) --snip-- (...) I found it hilarious enough to ask Richie to copy it to .trains but I guess if you don't appreciate satire it's not going to be for you. Perhaps a unicorn chaser of some minifigs doing something wacky would bring back the (...) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: POV-Ray wont work with Vista
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(...) Agreed if Justin wants to create building instructions. But I think he wants to render his models. If so, I'd recommend not using LPub, but L3P and Add on to convert to POV Ray and render manually. Jaco (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Full instructions for Fiat 126
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Full instructions are online on Brickshelf: (URL) is split in 3 parts because of size. Original model by Shaggie: (URL) Model modified by me in MLCad rendered with LDLite in LPub 4.0.0.0. Deeplinks: (URL) MPD: (URL) unofficial parts needed. (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.inst)
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| | Re: Inliner v1.1.0.1
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(...) There where still under some circumstances errors in the resulting file. Please use this update version 1.1.0.2 at (URL) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 4999 Vestas
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Jag byggde en exakt kopia, ville verligen ha "the real deal"! Nu står den och lyser & snurrar i sovrummet. Micke (URL) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se, FTX)
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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Hi Ted, (...) That's an AFOLT point of view. We enjoy long straight track, imitating real word railtrack. Now, focus just one moment on kids point of view. They enjoy to alternate right curves with left ones, making their train snaking their way, (...) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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All- I have to assume this post is meant as a tongue and cheek joke (though I don't see that much humor). Ignoring that the rails are not 9V, there's the basic issue that the set is 50-50 straights and curves. That's a horrible ratio to force/foist (...) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: POV-Ray wont work with Vista
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(...) I couldn't agree more. Kevin (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) (URL) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: POV-Ray wont work with Vista
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(...) I would *highly* recommend LPub version 4 (4.0.0.1, to be precise) using LDView as the renderer. (URL) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Modular LUDO board game. 2+ persons
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Hi all, this is my first MOC announcement. Here you have a modular LUDO game. Currently I made versions for 2 to a maximum of 10 persons - of course can be easily extendable. Example: (URL) Folder when moderated: (URL) files in folder until (...) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.games)
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| | Re: 4999 Vestas
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(...) PF-lamporna lyser rätt bra. Vill man ha mer av ett spritt sken, som från en vanlig glödlampa, tror jag att de gamla 9V-lamporna är bättre.(Om man har uttrymmet att montera dem vill säga). En nackdel är att man behöver ett hål som är runt två (...) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se, FTX)
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| | Re: POV-Ray wont work with Vista
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(...) I'd say download and install POV Ray manually. (...) I don't think there is another free program to do that. Jaco (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 4999 Vestas
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Nu vart man lite avundsjuk ändå :P heheVill oxå ha en ihopbyggt... skulle passa fint uppepå en högtalare hemma =) hehe.. Byggde du exakt kopia?.. eller är de andra färger o så? Såg nån på brickshelf som hade byggt en med svart torn, gråa propellrar (...) (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se, FTX)
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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(...) Was this serious? You didn't say that the staight track can go at 22.5, 45, 67.5 degrees etc. David (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Looking for Brickshelf member "shaggie"
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I have found him and got the original LDraw file. Full instructions available soon. (16 years ago, 10-Nov-08, to lugnet.people)
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| | POV-Ray wont work with Vista
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Hi I just bought a new computer with Windows Vista. I am installing all of my L-draw software on it but I can not get Pov-ray to work. I downloaded the all-in-one installer at Ldraw.org. I am trying to render a model with Lpub, but when it opens up (...) (16 years ago, 9-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: 4999 Vestas
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Vilka LEGO hajar som simmar i dessa vatten :-)! Jag såg oxå dom auktionerna men bestämde mig för att det var för dyrt. Jag har byggt en istället av mina befintliga bitar + lite Bricklink grejor - den är STOOOOR! Belysningen vid entrén till huset är (...) (16 years ago, 9-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se, FTX)
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| | Huge BL sale at brickstore.net!!! 11/09/2008 ONLY!!!
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20% all PLATE IN STOCK, over 200,000 elements! Sale is ONLY today!!! So buy away or lose out! We have more of the Aquazone figs offline (doing inventory check) so if you want more let us know and we will post the special for you once we finish (...) (16 years ago, 9-Nov-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Sears Outlet Store has LEGO (plus sale)
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Please note, this post refers to a Sears Outlet store (formerly known as a Sears Clearance Centre), not a regular Sears retail store. There are a limited number of these across the country. One in Halifax in what used to be West End Mall. I'm not (...) (16 years ago, 8-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: TRU sale Nov 1-14
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The sale below continues for a second week, and TRU has another flyer good Saturday November 8th to Friday November 14th. "20% off LEGO Mars Mission. excludes clearance. Selection varies by store." Flyer shows 7649 MT-201 Ultra-Drill Walker, now (...) (16 years ago, 8-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 7 novembre 2008
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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 jour. Nouveaux articles ---...--- ** Alfred ** par Pierrick DAUNY le 7 novembre 2008 (...) (16 years ago, 8-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | Re: Mjollnir, New Mech
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(...) Thanks E. I appreciate it. Mark (16 years ago, 8-Nov-08, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Legoträff i höst 31 Okt - 2 Nov
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(...) moderering. Det är de som Hans Olov tog. (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) I'll be putting ROTSTEP to use properly now, too. Thanks. (...) LDView 4 is awesome. From my perspective, recent versions of LDView, LPub, and Bricksmith form a Macintosh LDraw Power Triad. Jim (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | BrickWiki - time to move?
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For anyone interested in the future of the (URL) BrickWiki> project please visit the new (URL) BrickWiki Blog> and join in the discussion of the need to move to a new server (or not). Thanks. (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.db.brictionary, FTX)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) One particular enhancement I'd like is better track height and slope management. I'd like to be able to set each individual track piece end height to the nearest 1/6 of a plate height. My layout has many track pieces at non-integer plate (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Club $5 off code for S@H
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(...) Thanks Chris. Every now and then I see a post or get an email that keeps me doing this. I know when my dark ages first ended I lived in a basement suite and never saw the flyers (1993, so long before they were online). I appreciated when (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: New MOC: PT5 Albescent Cormorant
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Wow! Great photos, excellent construction. Good to see! Thank you! Eric Sophie Ps, always good to visit your site. :) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: MOC: Tower Crane
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I really enjoyed reading about how you made this. Good read. Impressive build. Thanks! (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Mjollnir, New Mech
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Hey! Coolness! Right on Mark. Eric Sophie (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) I know. I used the form I did to confirm that the default viewing angle was mathematically messed up (and for dramatic emphasis). (...) I've got them, now it's time to test them. (...) Yes, actually, it was LDView that was confused. Travis' (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) And you were right! The new version of LDView works. LDView 3.2 does not. Thanks very much for your help! Allen (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: 12 Tooth bevel gear case
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(...) That's very clever. (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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I enjoyed reading this review. Bravo, sir. (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains) !
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| | Re: All about me!
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(...) 'My name is Chris' is an option on 4 out of 5 flawed polls. (...) Fair enough. What's that in your hand, Dave? a (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) Although Mono make it possible to run .NET application over Linux (without wine), currently Mono fully support only .NET version 2 while microsoft already have .NET 3.x and .NET 4 comming soon if not already available. Mono will always be (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is anyone working on 32745?
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(...) Gosh. I forgot this thread. I have been working on this part for some time now, and I have a few things done (mainly the rear half, I was going to work on front part). I hope I have not duplicated too much of your work. Could you keep me in (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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(...) I will add that if you want buy only straight rails, you get a free extra of 8 curved rails (the inverse is also true). That's a big deal ! Spotlighted Erik (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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(...) It is not that difficult to modify the tracks to supply 9v to the motor. Most electronic stores carry some form on conductive adhesive. (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) Well, Allen said that the LDView 4 test build fixed the problem. At a guess, LPub using -cg on the command line (to set the camera angle to 0 so that all the rotation can be in the model itself?) and the QT version isn't handling that like it (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Liquidating my 400 pound LEGO collection
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As always, thanks for the bids and interest. There are two lots that end on Friday night and a few others that go off on Sunday night: FRIDAY (URL) lot of winged plates and flying stuff in a variety of styles and colors> (URL) pounds of used Technic (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.market.auction, FTX)
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| | Re: 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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(...) --snip-- (...) This review is a real asset to the community. Spotlighted! Thanks for sharing. Tim (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | 7896 "Straight and Curved Rails" Set Review
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RATINGS (Scale: Must-Have Excellent Very-Good Good Fair Poor) Set: Excellent Models: Fair Playability: Poor DECALS? No. SPECIAL FEATURES/COMPATIBILITY Trains - 9V (but not the old fashioned kind that need metal track) SET DESCRIPTION This set is (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.trains, FTX) !!
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| | Re: All about me!
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: snip (...) I says to myself, "Who would actually notice the doll house box in the pic and comment on it?" Oh wait--Chris! That's who! Thank goodness I have a kid sister that can take the fall for the (...) (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: All about me!
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(...) Ummm, Dave.... While its cool to see you in your mis-spent "yoot" and while it IS cool to see all the lego... I just don't know if you want the greater Lugnet comunity to know about the DOLL house you got for x-mas in the 70's. Chris (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) My understanding is that the new Wine supports the .NET framework using MONO (open source implementation of nearly all of .NET). I think it is older programs, and game-like programs (like LEGO's designer) that it has trouble with. -Chris Gray (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | London Drugs Sale
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I don't know how widespread their flyers are, but I just got a London Drugs flyer that says that from Nov 10 to Nov 30, all Lego is 20% off. -Chris Gray (16 years ago, 7-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) Please note that instead of "0 ROTSTEP 0 0 0 REL", the preferred meta command is "0 ROTSTEP END". (...) There are 4 kinds of ROTSTEPS: REL, ABS, ADD, END For REL, you add the angles from the ROTSTEP meta to the default viewing angle to get the (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) The more I think about it, the more I suspect that LDView 3.2 on the Mac is to blame. I sent Allen an email with a link to an LDView 4 test build. --Travis (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | All about me!
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Putting Chris's hat on for a moment... (URL) Early '70's at Christmas. Those were the days--receiving LEGO sets at Christmas... oh wait, I still do :) Dave K (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Working Container Crane
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(...) Lewis, My camera is capable of full-screen video, and I should be able to burn a copy of the .avi video onto a CD/DVD for you. Scott (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) It is indeed written using MFC, which it makes extensive use of for the GUI. Porting it to another platform would take considerable effort. I think what I'm going to do first is get the source code into a package I can release (and archive!) (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Working Container Crane
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(...) Cool Lewis! Now I want to see some details of the electromagnet and how you got it working :) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 4999 Vestas
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(...) Jaaa.. precis... haha.. o den vart 150kr dyrare än den oöppnade jag ropade in :P Fördelen med den var att de var en kille här från Borlänge som hade den... Nu lär jag åka 12 mil till lindesberg o hämta den istället. meeen.. de är de värt =) (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: LPub Rotation Step angle woes
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(...) snip (...) Alas. That is what I'm supposed to see, not what I actually do see. Something is convinced that the 0,0,0 rotation is actually equal to the default 3D angle, which causes requests for the real default 3D angle to be over-rotated. (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) What about (URL) BlueBrick>, as discussed in (URL) #3>? Might be good to coordinate efforts. Benn (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Working Container Crane
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Finally got it working! I just finished a working container crane. It uses a nxt, three motors, a light sensor and a electromagnet. (yes it is not completely pure) The crane will randomly choose a container from the ship and more it to a randomly (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | November 15th, 2008 SMART meeting
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Time is sneaking up really quickly for our next meeting! The meeting will be November 15th at DigiPen from 2 to 5pm. The mini-challenge is a walking robot race - walk to the end of a field, turn around, and return to the starting spot. See (URL) for (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Proof of concept - Vid 2
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(URL) it's RCX'ed That was slightly more difficult than I thought It isn't perfect--still needs a little tweaking, but it's a great start The monorail switch mechanism needs to be improved but the rest is pretty good So there you are Dave K (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Beating up, kicking, and verbally abusing an old dead rotted horse...
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(...) If Matt or someonelse rewrite the code (open sourced or not) I would suggest to use a framework that is available to most of the OS like Qt or GTk. That way it would be really easy to port to all OS not just the most known. Wine is working (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Given the reports that its using MFC, it would be easier to rewrite a new version from scratch than to port the existing one. (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) For me, the great think about Track Designer is that it runs just fine under the Wine Windows emulator. I've used it that way under my X86-64 Linux machine for several layouts, including working on NALUG layouts for train shows. I've never (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks, Gail. You perhaps don't get a lot of followups to your posts, but I distribute items like this and your TRU sale notices to our (NALUG) email list, and you can be sure that you are often causing money to be spent! :-) Keep it up - your (...) (16 years ago, 6-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Jo....2000 var min smärtgräns. Sorry att det blev dyrare ...eller hur man nu ser på det grrr. De säljs ju på bricklink för närmare 4000 och det lär ju inte komma ut fler så grattis. Den andra som gick på eftermiddagen var lite rolig...de hade (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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(...) (URL) att labba med siffrorna i slutet så hittar ni fler bilder. (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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(...) Och här är ett urval av bilder: (URL) Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.se)
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(...) Open the source code! My guess is that's the best thing which can be done. Set up a open source project, and even if nobody contributes immediately, maybe a day... and of course you can still develop it (and the source code will never be lost (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, back when I was searching high and low for it, we wanted to intigrate the source in with visual basic to control our switching and such on the layout. Its great that you've found this gem even if it was 5 years later. I still have a (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Now I'm debating whether I should do some development on it myself or let someone else do it or open it up for collaborative development. I have been able to compile it but only with an older version of Visual C++ (version 4.0). Plus I have (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Forgot to mention, that it includes a 10020 (built once, but that once), and a 4555 which has been slightly used. WBR Sonnich (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hi I have had kind of a dark age for some time, and I want to sell some stuff (URL) I have a bunch of catalogs 1971, 1979-200x in different languages and other parts... if interested, then write me an offer. WBR Sonnich (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) That is great news, Track Designer is very useful, I use it all the time when I do a LEGO train show as I have a different layout for each show. It still works very well but it would be nice to see a few enhancements. David (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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The Nov-Dec LEGO Club magazine has a code (SPC118E) to get $5 off your S@H order of $35 or more (before taxes etc). One discount per order. Good in Canada until Dec 31, 2008. Nice news is that you still get free shipping on orders over $99 with this (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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I really like it. The five engine/wing is blended nicely into the design. I also like the fact that the wings aren't all the same, which gives a bit of assymetry to the symmetric design. :) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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Item #8111 River Dragon Retail Price $7.99 Sale Price $2.98 Item #8115 Dark Panther Retail Price $14.99 Sale Price $4.98 Item #8947 Bionicle Radiak Retail Price $6.99 Sale Price $4.98 Item #TS-62 T Shirt Classic Character Adult S/M/L Youth M/L (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Great work continuing a great tradition! I really enjoyed the MOC. God Bless and thanks for sharing, Nathan (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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I'm no space fan, but you've captured a lot of what I associate with the genre in one nice slick MOC. Good work! I would love to see a slightly longer version, but the scale of the various wing components and the angles of their alignment is (...) (16 years ago, 5-Nov-08, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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