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(...) Oh Dave, I know you may be good at building a BIG, and heavy bots, but when it comes to finesse, your skills leave something to be desired. Look. I see it thus: If you(someone) can build a bot, that fits within the starting size and can either (...) (13 years ago, 22-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Not exactly a clone brand. A clone brand is one that seeks to just copy LEGO's products, most like to make a quick buck. Clone brand products can be easily used by themselves. Not quite so with ME Models's metal rails, though you could if (...) (13 years ago, 21-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I vote yes to this as well. Spirit of the game baby, its alive and on the inside! Cheers Janey "Who do we get around here to add stuff to the webpage???" Red Brick (13 years ago, 21-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) And if we can get a clarification on the rules that if *any* part or piece of the robot falls below the top plane of the board, it automatically loses This will prevent the 'hook' grab onto the back and/or sides of the wood. IMHO, the hook (...) (13 years ago, 21-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | ItLUG Lecco (Ballabio) 2011 - Updates
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Some updates from the biggest italian event. - 34 AFOL registered at the moment from 4 different countries - 2000 square meters for exhibition - Activities confirmed: 1) Sumo robotic contest 2) Line follower robotic contest 3) GBC 4) Cad workshop 5) (...) (13 years ago, 21-Apr-11, to lugnet.events)
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| | Grattacielo Pirelli
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My latest MOC, inspired by LEGO Architecture theme, is a little reproduction of Grattacielo Pirelli (Pirelli tower, well known as "Pirellone"). Grattacielo Pirelli is located in Milan (Italy) and it was the seat of Lombardy region since last month. (...) (13 years ago, 21-Apr-11, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Oooooh, cool idea. I like that, custom switches out of the metal track. Definitely keep us posted with your creations. Benn (13 years ago, 21-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Steve, The Votes are in, and we all agree that as long as the sensor is sold by lego, the Brickfete Robot Games will allow it, and consider it fair use. Thanks for the question. Regards Chris B.E.D (13 years ago, 21-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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(...) Rob, All I read was that you are going to build a bot for this, and I think that's great! I also want to tell you that your image is spot on for the game board design, and that the B.E.D. (Brickfete Enforcement Division) hereby is borrowing (...) (13 years ago, 21-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Being a visual kind of guy I just wanted to confirm the following layout for tug-of-war (not that I'm promising anything but I am considering attending....) (URL) these boards/tables are 2" off the ground? -Rob A. (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hi Steve, I still like the idea that if a bot lets goof the rope, its a loss. I am getting old, and I do not recall any robot in the old game letting go. In all the years of bot games, I do not recall too many robot that were deliberately sneaky. (...) (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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---...---posted on behalf of Steve---...--- Canadian folk, I've tried to post these questions to Lugnet a couple times, but it seems Lugnet has forgotten me. So, you get them directly... Steve ---...--- Forwarded message ---...--- From: Steve (...) (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) Touché, Dave! (URL) JOHN (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) agreed... Rob Stehlik is another one of my favorites. Bruce Sheridan also... mainly because he was one of Chris' biggest rivals and talked a lot of smack... (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) diehards embracing a clone brand! (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: So who is building a bot for Brickfete??
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(...) Snipped some silly stuff Dave said... Dave you are one of two of my favorite bot builders... so Dave, if you dont have two awesome bots for Brickfête I will be shocked, and sort of sad. Seriously, Dave (Chris stop reading this and go about (...) (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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In lugnet.org.ca.obb, Chris Magno wrote: snip (...) What??? You can build other stuff out of lego besides castles??? No one told me! I've been wasting all my lego building endeavours on castle! Next thing you'll tell me is I could *gasp* build like (...) (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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(...) 2) and only useing the old RCX platform. sigh, I recall the days when the RCX was hip, and cool. So I will be building a bot. Chris B.E.D. (13 years ago, 20-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | So who is building a bot for Brickfete??
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The rules are up on the events page... (URL) Tug of War and ROBOTS Fire Fighting ROBOTS in disguise!!!! (or in Da'skies, if you are Chris) ....And it got me to thinking... Can you EASILY build one bot that does both? Or is that just a waste of (...) (13 years ago, 19-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.obb)
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| | Re: April 30th, 2011 SMART meeting
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Just a quick reminder about the next SMART meeting in about two weeks... -- David Schilling (...) (13 years ago, 19-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Canadian prices
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(...) Hey Pete! Quite an old topic, and yes, seems to be quite unfair, considering that we have to add our HST on the order. I solved this by ordering in the US and picking up my orders down there when I go through. I have them shipped in Maine, (...) (13 years ago, 18-Apr-11, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think I used a copy of Notepad.exe and renamed it to ledit.exe if my memory serves me right. /Tore (13 years ago, 18-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) If that's all that's needed, wouldn't it be easier to just create a file called "ledit.exe" in the appropriate folder - no binary hacking needed. (13 years ago, 18-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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All right, I had never heard of Jordan Schwartz. But I just went and visited brickstud.com, his web site. Holy smokes. Eighteen years old, and he can build like that? Holy. Smokes. Jordan, you have an excellent future ahead of you, whether or not it (...) (13 years ago, 18-Apr-11, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Since "ledit.exe" is the same size string as "parts.lst" perhaps someone could try editing the L3PAO executable in a binary editor and replace the string so it looks for a file that still exists in the current ldraw distribution. (13 years ago, 18-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Sounds like a nice product, I look forward to getting hands on with it so I can explore making switches and interlocks with them. Having track loose like this really opens the door to new switch geometry and more realistic and functional (...) (13 years ago, 17-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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Jordan Schwartz’ fascination with LEGO earns him internship in Denmark March 22, 2011 by Rick Massimo. Growing up in East Providence, Jordan Schwartz knew what he wanted to do with his life. His mother, Lisa, says that while recently going through (...) (13 years ago, 16-Apr-11, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.people, FTX)
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(...) Add force decimal separator to be = '.' as in LDraw, even when national system settings says ',', like for example here in Sweden. The option "-sw0,5" generates error, of course. /Tore (13 years ago, 16-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) Hi, has anybody a working address to get in touch with Jeff? It appeairs that the problem with the LEdit.exe: (URL) unsolved and also the autorender problem: (URL) w. (13 years ago, 14-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) LD4D uses packages in order to reuse existing actors and animation sequences that use them in other animations. But it is some what limited in the way an actor is a static collection of parts (e.g. minifig space man). But you could still reuse (...) (13 years ago, 16-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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(...) I tried a version of this last year with my advent calendar for my niece. She got the big castle set (in 24 sections) with a princess added in one of the two towers. It was quite popular, but I can't say for sure that it wouldn't have been (...) (13 years ago, 12-Apr-11, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.scala, lugnet.general)
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(...) Not when using my LDA program. (But OTOH, no progress is made on that project.) Take the walking minifig in this scene: (URL) is called Fig02 in the main animation script. To make him walk, all I had to do was to just add the line: " (...) (13 years ago, 13-Apr-11, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Three Musketeers En Garde!
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(...) Collectible Minifigures Series 4 has a Musketeer with the hat and sword. (13 years ago, 16-Apr-11, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) Awesome. Where do the hats and swords come from? I don't recognise them. (13 years ago, 16-Apr-11, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Brickfête - Events List
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Well, As my fried Vince from Slap Chop fame says, Martini, Bikini, No Wienie's. ummm, no sorry I think I should have said, Fête!!!! (1)(2) The Brickfête team has not stopped plugging away since the first announcement a month ago. In that time the (...) (13 years ago, 16-Apr-11, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.ca.obb, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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The three Musketeers secret meeting at the castle ruins gets rudely interrupted by the Cardinal's guards attempt to arrest them. (URL) As usual, click the pic for more details. AC PS. Custom decals courtesy of CC-Anthony Sava. (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX)
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| | Re: Zellers, TRU and Walmart sales starting April 15th
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(...) Clicking the links on the website (now that the sale has started) gives eleven $24.99 sets and ten $39.99 sets. $24.99 (2/$40) Creator - Propeller Power City - Prisoner Transport (7286) Creator - Transport Truck (5765) Atlantis - Angler Attack (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: Sheffield man’s love of LEGO lands him with debt problems
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(...) I may have read this wrong but the total here seems under 600 USD or so and that's "relatively serious" ??? Maybe it's just me but that doesn't seem like a lot of money to me. But maybe I'm sort of inured to talk of 4 trillion dollar deficits (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Re: ME Models Metal Rails
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(...) Anything is possible but the problem is, if we went with a full channel underneath, it could potentially weaken the metal too much. We haven't done enough testing or research on that aspect, but what I can tell you is that it would be a (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) All of our curves will come in 22.5 degree sweeps. In short, if you lay them out 8 studs apart, you will be able to draw a radii line from the center of the curve that will intersect all of the junctions. (...) I will put them up on the ME (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.trains)
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Sheffield man’s love of LEGO lands him with debt problems Written on April 14, 2011 by Nathan Cameron An autistic man from Sheffield has found himself with relatively serious debt problems after over-indulging in his favourite hobby – LEGO. (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk, FTX)
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| | Merlin still committed to expansion and IPO
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Merlin still committed to expansion and IPO By Roger Blitz, Leisure Industries Correspondent Published: March 29, 2011 Merlin Entertainments plans to step up expansion with further theme park acquisitions and developments, and remains wedded to (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | X PRIZE Foundation Unveils World's Largest LEGO DNA Sculpture
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X PRIZE Foundation Unveils World's Largest LEGO DNA Sculpture Created by Brick Artist Nathan Sawaya The "Building Bricks of Life" to Be Displayed at National DNA Day and FIRST® Championship in Support of Archon Genomics X PRIZE PLAYA VISTA, (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Sir Ken Robinson receives LEGO Prize 2011
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Sir Ken Robinson receives LEGO Prize 2011 Through the years Sir Ken Robinson has advocated that schools and teachers throughout the world should inspire creativity in children. For many years Sir Ken Robinson has had a mission: to change the way the (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | StickerYou Announces Licensed Deal for LEGO® Custom Stickers
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StickerYou Announces Licensed Deal for LEGO® Custom Stickers – Continues to Build Success One Sticker at a Time (PRWEB) April 14, 2011 StickerYou is proud to announce the addition of another world class brand to its award winning custom sticker (...) (13 years ago, 15-Apr-11, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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| | Zellers, TRU and Walmart sales starting April 15th
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Zellers flyer in effect Friday April 15th through Thursday April 21 (except where noted). BOGO 1/2 price on all Star Wars, City, and Hero Factory sets. Save 30% on these six LEGO Board Games. $9.09-$34.99, reg $12.99-$49.99. Creationary HP Hogwarts (...) (13 years ago, 14-Apr-11, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: For Chris
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Janey C. L. Gunning wrote: snipped it all... Cause all that matters is Baconfête. Chris, did you read that bacon thing? "One hundred particularly eager bacon fans spent $100 on VIP tickets, which got them into the event (...) (13 years ago, 13-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: For Chris
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(...) Snipped (...) Wow, if the Hobby Show can get Vince, perhaps someday Brickfête... errr I mean Baconfête will too. Cause if I have to see you do this routine live... I dont think I will survive. That was routine, not poutine, which is another (...) (13 years ago, 13-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: For Chris
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(...) Mike, This is FANTASTIC news. YES, yes YES, with proper permits, and approval I can say that BACONfete will be part of www.Brickfete.com 2012. Your 2010 registration fee will allow you full on grease filled access to Baconfete. We will need (...) (13 years ago, 13-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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There's a BaconFest in Chicago.. (URL) about a BaconFete 2012 in Toronto? :) --Mike. (13 years ago, 11-Apr-11, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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