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| (...) I started a Half-Life 2 mod two years ago called Block Party. Search the lugnet.gaming newsgroup for its older name, LEGOLAND, and you'll find the other posts about it. (URL) Look for a (very) limited release in a few weeks. -Jordan Bradford (19 years ago, 29-Aug-05, to lugnet.gaming, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.452) |
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.442) |
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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| (...) I'm using two upside-down 1x16 TECHNIC beams to straddle 24-tooth gears on each end (see my great ASCII art below, top-down view, not to scale). I might not even need tension in the chain at all; the tread links slide on the flat bottom part (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.437) |
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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| (...) I don't know if it fits into the standard or not. I didn't plan on using it as my first device, anyway. I'm going to build a simple large hopper for the previous person's contraption to feed into mine, and then I'll have a feed chute or (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.437) |
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption
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| What's funny is the other day I was thinking of building a marble machine with LEGO. After reading about this contraption system, I got super-motivated and built myself a ball pump last night. I only spent a few hours on it, but I think I have it (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.436) |
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| | Magnetic sensor
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| I was reading posts in RTL and found one about a LEGO robotics summer camp selling a bunch of their stuff. They have a nice little magnetic field sensor on sale: (URL) Putting one of these under a track could easily sense when a train was passing (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.400) |
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.384) |
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| | Re: Avoiding motor stalls
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| Jordon, Its hard to say for sure, but it looks like you are losing torque in the gear conversions. The clutch is a good idea, but will still strain the motor when it comes to crunch time. There are two things that I can think of to help you. 1 - (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jul-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.383) |
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| | Re: SHOTTLE!
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| From the Count's website: "You dont just have to put ships inside. For example, you could make little rooms/habitats that fit inside each container. Using the six Technic axel holes on the outer side of the lid (which still accept axels even with (...) (20 years ago, 27-Aug-04, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.377) |
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| | 4512 is great to modify
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| I got a 4512 Cargo Train yesterday. It's my second train set, and I really like it. It derails on tight curves, though, but then you wouldn't expect a cargo train to be flying down the track anyway. I noticed while building the engine that it was (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.375) |
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.372) |
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| | Re: Shop@Home website
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| (...) That's good to hear. Right after I made the original post on LUGNET I went to the LEGO website and filled in their feedback form, too. So LEGO's getting the comment from two places. (20 years ago, 12-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.371) |
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| | Shop@Home website
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| Would you please make the clickable images larger? They are only 384x288 pixels, which is pretty small. I want to see super-up-close detail, so give us some higher resolution photos, please! (20 years ago, 11-Aug-04, to lugnet.dear-lego) !
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.371) |
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| | RC racer sets
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| LEGO's online store has three RC sets, (URL), (URL) 8369>, and (URL) 8475> (currently unavailable). There's also a Radio Shack exclusive, (URL) 8376>. 8369 is brand new, and its description says "The first LEGO Racers RC car that can conquer the (...) (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.371) |
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| | Re: 4.5V? 9V? 12V?
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| (...) Buy one of (URL) these> and have at it! (It's 9V, like all new TECHNIC models.) Or get (URL) this kit> (you get extra parts). (20 years ago, 10-Aug-04, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.371) |
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.370) |
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| | Re: Multi-RCX Communication
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| (...) legOS allows this with a networking protocol. leJOS allows this if you're willing to work with Jini. Both of these require replacing the firmware with either C or Java. You can build your own networking protocol in any language, really. (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.368) |
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.368) |
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| | Re: RIS 2.0 upgrade CD? (part 3805)
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| (...) 2.0 adds new programming features which are mostly noticeable in the graphical programming environment that LEGO supplies. If you're using a different language, though, then the differences will be handled by the compiler. NQC was updated to (...) (20 years ago, 5-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.368) |
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| jordan, bradford (score: 1.368) |