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| (...) PS - the thing I would want the radar to do is to guide a bucket for an excavator. The goal being to dig lego bricks from a pile with the bucket. So I think I can get away with it not being super-accurate or resolute. I'm really looking (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LPub whish list
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| (...) I do understand your concern. But it would be a nice feature ;o) And in line with a lot of official LEGO BI. (...) Maybe the "LPUB [BOM|PLI] PART MARGINS x y" that already define the distance from annotation string for axle length would be (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.cad)
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| Would it be possible to have my password reset. I have forgotten all of my old passwords. I'd like to be more involved. I appear to be Lugnet #1444. Thank you, -David Winkler (19 years ago, 6-Feb-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LEGO Adult Fan Convention at Legoland California?
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| Great topic Todd and timely too. GPLR (Greater Portland LEGO Railroaders) are already working on something up here in Portland. There have been so many requests for another BrickFest PDX that we thought we'd do it again! So far we've started talking (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.events)
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| | Re: LAFD, NYPD minifig-scale models
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| In lugnet.town, Jonathan Lopes wrote: (snipped) (...) I've tried a couple of times to build one of those. But I could never come up with a satisfactory design for the cab/windscreen. (URL) Photo here> It's the combination of the flat windscreen and (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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| (...) I raised this issue in June when discussing GBC reliability, seeing that 1 bps implies a measured time interval. Of course, what is the interval?, I asked. The general consensus is that it is a 30 second time interval. As such, the worst you (...) (18 years ago, 7-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Touch sensor problems
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| (...) Try cleaning it with warm water and a mild detergent and then use some sort of rubber/plastic restorer on it. It's probably shrunk somewhat as it's dried out over the years. If that doesn't work then scavenge a membrane keyboard. -- -- God (...) (21 years ago, 5-Oct-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New MOCs
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| (...) I like to avoid compression of vehicles, just having compression of a shorter train length depending on the layout, as other model railway enthusiasts do. It's 8mm:1ft scale. I could try 9-wide, but it's more effort - perhaps in the long term (...) (18 years ago, 3-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: GBC at BrickFest 2006
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| (...) There are actually three ways to approach this: 1) Using something reflective on the far side of the ball chute - have the sensors light bounce back into the sensor - so the reading decreases when something gets in the way of the reflected (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | The Supply Tender 'Ratsée'
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| The Ratsée is a brigantine rigged (or hermaphrodite brig, if you prefer) tender which is the supply vessel for the French squadron of Port Brique. Her simplified rig allows for easy handling by her small crew (Master, master’s mate and half a dozen (...) (18 years ago, 6-Sep-06, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | My Photos From Ambler
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| The photos I took are on the web: (URL) are in a kludgy catalog layout with a few credits. Yell at me if I goofed up any credits. (In particular, whose knights were those? Dan's or Jim's? Who built the red-and-white station, or the fuel tank?) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Nov-00, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug)
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| | Some traffic for our nesgroup
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| Hi, I thought someone should post something, so here is what I've been up to LEGO-wise. I wanted to build the airport monorail that I got in that garage sale find last summer, since my sister's new boyfriend was coming over with her for birthday (...) (25 years ago, 6-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.col)
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| "...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was. And (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | Re: New 2006 Technic Set Pics
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| (...) Aha ... thanks guys! Definitely a V10 ... yet more pistons to gather dust then ... :o Looks like there's quite a lot of change in the chassis too then - thinking about it, they've cut down on the old style technic beams and gone as much as (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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| Ok I think I have something. Each cylinder is free to slide longitudinally on the frame. This movement is constrained by a vertical pin (or 1x1 round brick) on each side of the pilot truck. These pins engage a transverse groove (currently a pair of (...) (18 years ago, 5-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Numbers on Minifigs
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| (...) following: In a LEGO-mold a number of pieces are produced simulataneously (e.g. say 20 2x4 bricks at the same time). Each of these pieces has a different number (so for the bricks from 1 to 20) to be able to identify which part of the mold the (...) (18 years ago, 2-Sep-06, to lugnet.fabuland)
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| | Some Lego cleaning experiments
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| A few weeks ago a family member sent me a big box of old legos that I had played with as a kid (we're talking 26 yr old lego - boy guess that dates me doesn't it). I was so excited to see those blue rails, red lattice fences and neat old windows. I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Articulation with "working" connecting rods
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| (...) Hello Sebastian, The best I've manage to work out on this is with my 4-8-4 Northern engine as shown at: (URL) In this case, I put the leading wheels forward of the steam cylinders. The cylinders stay attached to the same bogie/truck that drive (...) (18 years ago, 4-Sep-06, to lugnet.trains)
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