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I did not do the math on the power functions components. So thanks for sharing that! Yup I guess the Europeans get to enjoy a better price for once. I am little disappointed that Technic does not seem to evoke much passion here in the US. Well (...) (14 years ago, 12-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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I know at another very large toy company that there is a person who comes up with the price of a toy (fulltime employee(s)!). It does not always have to do with the actual cost in creating the product. There has always been a suspicion that Technic (...) (14 years ago, 12-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Straight currency conversion does not account for many things that have a significant impact on price: 1. VAT. So far, we've managed to avoid that evil, and it's been noted to account for a substantial amount of the price the Europeans have to (...) (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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The chain is not necessary. It was a quick way to hook the motor to the differential. There is sometimes a delay in the system because the pump is such a small load (even when the valve is completely closed). To avoid this delay, add mechanical (...) (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(From Businessweek: July 23, 2010.) How LEGO Revived Its Brand In an excerpt from Design Is How It Works, former BusinessWeek staff writer Jay Greene explores LEGO's troubles and its comeback By Jay Greene Paal Smith-Meyer is waving a BusinessWeek (...) (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.books, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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(...) The answer to the higher price is Power Functions content. 8258 Crane Truck ---...--- 1x - XL motor ($10) 1x - Battery Box ($7) 2x - Linear Actuator ($30) 1x - Pole Reverser ($5) ---TOTAL---...---($52)---- 8043 Excavator ---...--- 4x - M motor (...) (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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The chain is not necessary. It was just a quick way of hooking the motor to the differential. There is sometimes a delay in the system because the pump is such a small load even when the valve is closed. One way around this is to give the output (...) (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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| | some ships in Atlantis colors
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Hi, it's been quite a time since i've posted something on lugnet. Here are my latest mocs: (URL) For microfig scale lovers: (URL) Finally also another capital cityship in microfig scale: (URL) Cheers, Didier (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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I have just started playing around with leJOS on Linux with a lot of success--I would imagine that it would run nicely on OSX as well. (...) It does appear to be, sadly. ;-P -- Andrew G. Meyer (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés mardi 10 août 2010
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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 ---...--- ** La gare de Fay aux Loges, partie 3 ** par Jac le (...) (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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Hello Nathan, Is there a technical reason you use a chain link between the motor and the differential grear? Would it be unsave to engage the gears directly in this case? With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen. (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Nathan, I really like your solution. I've seen a number of automated vales, but almost all had the drawback that they could generate considerable stall load on the motor. This solution appears to be much more efficient. Jetro (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) For a very long time (too long according to many) LEGO has used a conversion rate of 1Euro=1USD when the actual currency conversion is quite different. At this moment, 160Euro=209USD. The case of the Crane Truck was especially 'painful' as (...) (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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I wonder why the US price for the Motorized Excavator is so high. See the comparison to last year's flagship product: 8043 - Motorized Excavator USA Price $200 Europe Price 160euros 8258 - Crane Truck USA Price $150 Europe Price 160euros I used the (...) (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Fig-TEES(tm) Now you can have your company logo on a compatble part
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(...) Tommy, you are such a tease:-p Be sure to post when they are up-- I can't wait to see them! JOHN (14 years ago, 11-Aug-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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(...) Got them in so now a go. For simple commercial logos can engrave on them also. Pictures up in couple days at brickengraver.com and brickprinter.com (14 years ago, 10-Aug-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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(...) I'm sorry I don't have any real experience with the software, I just happen to hear about it through the "big bunny buck" short film. Roland (14 years ago, 10-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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I haven't posted in this forum since 2008 and haven't built much, but upon looking at the new 8043 Excavator set at Toy's R'Us, it became apparent that although the new linear actuators dramatically simplify the process, they are not the only (...) (14 years ago, 10-Aug-10, to lugnet.technic)
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Hello I have an old RCX set (with USB infrared tower) and i would like to use it under Mac OS X. I wanted to check NQC but if i understand right i need the Macintosh USB & Ghost communication package for USB tower, which i couldn't find online. (...) (14 years ago, 10-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés lundi 9 août 2010
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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. Nouvelles brèves ---...--- * Le magazine LEGO Club de retour ! * - 9 août 2010 (...) (14 years ago, 10-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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(URL) Click the pic for more details... AC (14 years ago, 10-Aug-10, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés dimanche 8 août 2010
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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 ---...--- ** 6579 - Le surfeur des glaces ** par rémi bourré le (...) (14 years ago, 9-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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(...) Wow, you're right! I was able to import an OBJ version of my minifig created with LdrDat2Obj. It didn't like the 3DS version I created with LDView for some reason, however. I'm reading one of the tutorials on animation right now. I have a (...) (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) A warning though: When you download the trial version of Poser 8 they ask for your credit card number. And in my case they charged $1 to it despite the trial version being free and the invoice showing $0. Mike (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I'm pretty sure you can do these kinds of things with blender (URL) it has a steep learning curve, and you'll have to create the minifig models from scratch. Roland (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I did a little research. You can create bones and poses in Daz3D Studio and Poser. Poser 8 costs $250, but you can buy Poser 7 for $50. Daz3D Studio is free, but you have to buy a $30 plugin to create your own bones and poses from scratch. (...) (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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I built this model a couple of months ago, but hadn't gotten around to taking any pictures. So, I took it out this morning, took pictures, and made a web page. It's my version of a house in the style of early large brick houses of the area. See: (...) (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town)
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(...) Actually horizontal offset is indeed by Jason ( (URL) ). I just made the vertical one. Erik (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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--snip-- (...) Thanks. A quick BS search on 'Ideas' turns up a number of similar galleries with all sorts of fun brick-maths and other tricks. Tim (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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As many of you know, I'm the Mindstorms coordinator at BrickCon. As such, I need to make sure that anyone bringing robots will have room to display them. So if you are thinking of displaying a robot, please let me know by email (remove the spambot), (...) (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) PS. This is a pretty good replacement for Brickwiki (although with less text) (URL) You should add some links to your galleries of trickery to it. (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) I was looking for that technique but didn't find it. For some reason I thought it was Railton but of course that would be you ;) Tim (14 years ago, 8-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Some great ideas in that BS gallery, Tim - thanks. Don (14 years ago, 7-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Nice - mine is a little different, however. (14 years ago, 7-Aug-10, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Don't forget the tenth offset ;) (URL) And there was also a good ressource on BrickWiki about offsets (but BrickWiki.org gives a white page :/ ) Erik (14 years ago, 7-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 6 août 2010
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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 ---...--- ** Le patrouilleur des Affaires maritimes ** par Jac, (...) (14 years ago, 7-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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(...) Sorry for that. I didn't want to spoil your teaser immediately - here's my solution: (URL) (bricks slightly separated to show how it fits together. (14 years ago, 7-Aug-10, to lugnet.build)
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--snip-- (...) I've had these on BS for about 6 years and I was far from the first to do it. (URL) Not sure if there's any quarter plate steps (URL) in here> but there's certainly the makings of 1/3rd plates. Tim (14 years ago, 7-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Well for something so trivial I sure have a lot of people e-mailing me asking how I made them. And nobody who's telling me it's a simple thing has offered a technique of their own, yet. So let's see some quarter steps! (14 years ago, 7-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) Half steps are fairly trivial... try quarter steps. They're possible ;) Tim (14 years ago, 6-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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