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(...) It's also a good idea to make all lights but one 'shadowless' so you don't have the spotlight effect of crossing shadows. I often put a shadowless light at the point of the camera, to make sure everything we see is reached by *some* light. (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hey Philo, thanks for the advice. I have commited the part to the parts tracker. I am not sure about the Needs Work notice. I just added a '(needs work)' to the name and a little comment section in the file. I hope thats ok. Rolf (14 years ago, 30-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) No, they were. There was a European polybag and a different North American polybag. The two sets of bags came with two different secondary barcodes, so if you had the US codes and bought some random minifigs from Europe, you wouldn't be able (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually it is true. They reappeared last week ;) Tim (14 years ago, 30-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, that's not true. A number of Target stores here in .au still have plenty of stock of Series 1. (14 years ago, 30-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They certainly were available. And the US even had sufficient stock unlike Australia where they sold out of most Toy Stores in less than a week. Tim (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is not so wierd for LEGO as you might think. On this side of the pond we've became pretty much used to the subject of North-American exclusives, amongst others the nice blue version of the "My Own Train" Passenger Wagon from set (URL) (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) You can try to replicate the sun with just one bright light source that is very far away, but the light will not scatter the way it does on the surface of the Earth. That, and if you have ever tried to take a picture of LEGO outside on a very (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks! So these weren't (officially) available in North America, then? Seems weird to do a regional release for something like this. (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Rolf, Maybe you can submit it to Parts Tracker with a Needs Work notice? It certainly looks good enough for many uses! Philo (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) These are known as collectable minifigs, and were sold "blind" in non transparent polybags. There was a barcode trick though, permitting us to dertermine wich figure it contained. Two series of 16 different figures each have came out in shops (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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This is the part I was seeking. It works great; it looks great. TNX * 10**6! Joseph (...) (14 years ago, 29-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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I recently found "(URL) which shows twelve "Series 1" Lego minifigures of various kinds. Neat! But I can't find these available to buy anywhere on "(URL) or in fact any mention of them on "(URL) itself. What gives? I see the figures available on (...) (14 years ago, 28-Aug-10, to lugnet.general)
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I'm getting back into Mindstorms after a long hiatus. Let me resurrect this old thread, to see what the answer is in 2010. :-) What text-based languages are most mature and best-supported these days for programming RCX and NXT? Is RobotC still (...) (14 years ago, 28-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: 87926 White Cylinder Half 3 x 6 x 6 with 1 x 2 cutout [DAT]
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Hey Joseph, I think I have a mock-up; the bottom is unready. Rolf 0 Cylinder Half 3 x 6 x 6 with 1 x 2 cutout 0 Name: 87926.dat 0 Author: Rolf Osterthun [Rolf] 0 !LDRAW_ORG Unofficial_Part 0 !LICENSE Redistributable under CCAL version 2.0 : see (...) (14 years ago, 28-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | [FreeLUG : French Enthusiast LEGO(c) User Group] Les nouveautés vendredi 27 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 ---...--- ** Connecter un Module GPS au NXT, en bluetooth ** (...) (14 years ago, 28-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.fr.freelug)
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| | TRU sale Aug 27 to Sept 2
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TRU flyer good from Friday August 27 through Thursday September 2. 30% off all LEGO Ben 10 sets (6 to choose from). They claim to have "NEW" city sets, but they are not on sale. Free shipping when you spend $100 or more (read fine print on website). (...) (14 years ago, 27-Aug-10, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) *NOW* you're thinking like a Mindstorms person ;). Seriously, I'm glad it's working. The 1 ms difference could be due to a lot of things... but if it's not that critical, then it's not a problem. (14 years ago, 27-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) (After an almost two months break, I'm back in business again...) It's not "my" light settings, but L3P's automatic settings. I have tried to tweak them, but I experience extreme difficulties to find a way to make it work decently all over (...) (14 years ago, 27-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well, I've built a 2 sensor version of Brian's idea using parallel sequence bars (I tried your idea Kevin, got stuck, then Brian chimed in). I just did some testing by building a rig to press the 2 sensors "simultaneously." I was able to get (...) (14 years ago, 26-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Takes one to know one. (14 years ago, 26-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) I like it! As they say "There's more than one way to skin a cat". I work on computer servers that have 128 CPUs per chip and 512 CPUs per pizza sized box, and I knew that there is no true parallelism here with the NXT :) I like your design, (...) (14 years ago, 26-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 7848 Toys R Us Truck
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So driving a delivery truck for a toy store has to be a sweet job right? No worries and you're bringing joy to lots of sweet little kiddies around the world right? Guess again! It's release day for the latest version of Monkey Sport-The Bloodening (...) (14 years ago, 26-Aug-10, to lugnet.reviews, FTX)
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(...) cough GIGGLE cough Janey "Thinks Dave is Naughty" Red Brick (14 years ago, 26-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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Had an "Aha!" moment this morning and discovered another way to create 15-degree angles: (URL) The impetus was to find a way to scale up my equatorial sundial to a larger size. Here is a rough draft: (URL) More at (URL) 62 Bricks> (14 years ago, 26-Aug-10, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGOLAND California Ambassador Class 2010 BI
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Hello Joshua How does one aquire these building instructions? With friendly greetings, Manfred Moolhuysen. (14 years ago, 25-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) ALE = Adult LEGO Enthusiast (as pointed out) By "arrived," I meant BI so close to official that it's hard to tell apart from the "real thing," and so good that TLG (or, at least, a part of it) allowed me to use LEGO enthusiast-created tools (...) (14 years ago, 25-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well it's possible Joshua was actually referring to amber fluid, however I think he probably meant "Adult LEGO Enthusiast". Or maybe both. ROSCO (14 years ago, 25-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks Brian, I am hoping to play with all of the ideas, and really appreciate the response. Robotics, programming, and the NXT are all quite new for me, but I already having fun trying out the solutions provided, and learning the G progamming (...) (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Build session on August 28th for BrickCon 2010
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Here's a quick reminder about the build session this Saturday at the Bellevue Library in room 3 starting at 2pm. Besides just a time to work on your robots, ask questions, etc, I will be presenting an idea for a racing robot competition at BrickCon. (...) (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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(...) I'm not sure how much time you have, or what resources... but you might be able to do this with a single set. If you put an arm on each motor, such that "track A" would hit a peg and turn the motor clockwise, but "Track B" would hit a peg on (...) (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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(...) <snip> (...) Hi Joshua, What does ALE stand for? No offense, but in the world of BI's, I thought we'd been here for quite a while?!?!? Kevin (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Well, just for diversity here's a slightly different approach. Make the first block a "Reset Timer" block, then split the program into four sequences. Each is simply a "Wait for Touch Sensor", followed by "Read Timer" block with the result (...) (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | 87926 White Cylinder Half 3 x 6 x 6 with 1 x 2 cutout
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Does anyone have a dat file or a mock-up for the referenced part? TNX Joseph (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Merlin confirms £18.5m LEGOLAND® Windsor Hotel deal
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(...) Source: (URL) (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Merlin confirms £18.5m LEGOLAND® Windsor Hotel deal
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Aug. 23, 2010 Merlin confirms £18.5m (apx.USD $28.4m) LEGOLAND® Hotel deal LEGOLAND® owner Merlin Entertainments has confirmed it has agreed a deal for an £18.5m hotel to be developed at the Windsor theme park, as revealed by Property Week. Merlin (...) (14 years ago, 24-Aug-10, to lugnet.general, lugnet.legoland, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | My minion is bored sale: 25% OFF Parts
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My minion is back from vacation but has not yet gone back to school, thus she is bored. Keep her busy by placing some orders in my store! All parts are 25% OFF! (URL) (14 years ago, 23-Aug-10, to lugnet.market.brickshops)
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| | Re: LDraw BFC Tool
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(...) SNIP If I am right, this file would have error messages with L3P and DATHeader as the two lines are identical. So one line has to be deleted. cu mikeheide (14 years ago, 23-Aug-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)
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| | Re: The TCLTC Changes Its Mind
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(...) I'm sure that I have no idea what you are talking about, Dave. But further to the point: who are you calling "old dog" you Pre-Cambrian Canine! Pot, Kettle, FTW :-p JOHN (14 years ago, 22-Aug-10, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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(...) Conveniently vague? You?? Why that's extraordinary! Old dogs really can learn new tricks... gdr Dave K (14 years ago, 22-Aug-10, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, FTX)
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