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(URL) PCS Industries (PCSI) Cargo Center 03> is a small cargo facility located on the eastern edge of Moonbase Alpha. Originally it was a supply station for the PCS government in the First Lunar War and was purchased by PCS Industries as part of the (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | LDraw.org's December 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the December 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Technic Beam 5 with Two Ball Sockets by Michael Heidemann (mikeheide)> (URL) POTM – Most Desired Part, Minifig (...) (17 years ago, 7-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Braiding Machine
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Greetings All, I built a three strand braiding machine that can be seen here: (URL) a video can be seen here: (URL) pleased with the results and hope you enjoy it. Regards, Tom (17 years ago, 7-Jan-08, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc) !
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| | Grunts - episode 7.
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(URL) S. (17 years ago, 6-Jan-08, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce)
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| | BayLUG Turns 10!
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I am pleased to announce that in 2008 the Bay Area LEGO Users Group (BayLUG) turns 10-years-old. We hope to have some special things planned for the year which will culminate with a birthday celebration in October. Keep watching our website for (...) (17 years ago, 6-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Grunts - Episode 6.
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(URL) S. (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce)
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| | Sliding Puzzle - NOTW Logo
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I really enjoyed this post about mosaic kits and a LEGO sliding puzzle design: (URL) As a Christmas gift for my daughter I built a slightly larger sliding puzzle design which completely covers a standard square green baseplate. Since she will (...) (17 years ago, 5-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Grunts - Episode 5.
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Got the navigation at this level sorted now. :-) (URL) S. (17 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.build.military, lugnet.announce)
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| | New Small Train Station MOC
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Hey there all you train-heads! I finally got around to doing another train MOC while I had some time off over X-mas. I went for a small train station like you might see in a little town in Europe. I did a bunch of image searching on the web and (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, lugnet.trains, FTX) !
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| | The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide
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I'm having a book signing this month for my new book The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide (No Starch Press), and I decided to officially announce the book here on LUGNET and invite everyone who lives in the Round Rock, Texas area to (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.nxt, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.tx, FTX) !
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| | Small change in the top menu of news and guide pages
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Hi all, following a very useful suggestion, I have finally implemented a new button in the top menu of the news and guide pages. Signed-in members will now be able to easily access their member profiles through the click of a "Profile" button next (...) (17 years ago, 4-Jan-08, to lugnet.announce)
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| | 8272 Snowmobile named in Canadian Toy Testing Council's list of best toys
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A friend sent me this link: (URL) CTTC also asks about 1,000 children test toys in their own homes for six to 12 weeks and then asks the families to provide a report of which are the most fun, and innovative. Among the Top 10 Children's Choice picks (...) (17 years ago, 3-Jan-08, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic)
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| | 2008/2009 LDraw.org Steering Committee: Call for Nominations
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Per the LDraw.org Bylaws at (URL) Subsection 6.03(a), the 2007/2008 Steering Committee hereby calls for the community to nominate individuals as candidates for the 2008/2009 Steering Committee[1]. Please post nominations in response to this message. (...) (17 years ago, 3-Jan-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | new moc: water tower house
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i vowed to myself to post this before the new year. i have berated fellow lug members for not posting their new mocs but then i distinctly heard mr. pot calling to mr. kettle, something about the colour black. back in april i completed a new moc, (...) (17 years ago, 31-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, lugnet.build.arch, FTX) !!
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| | Holiday Train (MOC Style)
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Hey all, I know, it's been a loooong while since I've posted anything (let alone a MOC announcement). But I've been working on this since before Christmas, and I think that I've finally reached the point where I must stop, or it will take over the (...) (17 years ago, 31-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.trains)
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| | Stone Soup
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I always liked the children's story (URL) Stone Soup> since hearing it read on the Captain Kangaroo television show many years ago. This vignette illustrates one scene from the story. (URL) (17 years ago, 30-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Grelnix
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New Mecha: Grelnix ==== Completed X-mas Day 2007. (URL) 6 weeks to construct. 33 inches tall. Nearly 10 pounds. 6 Technic Turntables. 2 Pilots - Head / Chest. Ball joints for ankle splay. Jet Pack - 9v Battery Box. Quad ball joint setup / neck. (...) (17 years ago, 28-Dec-07, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, lugnet.space, lugnet.build.mecha, FTX) !
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| | New LDraw part author tool: PlanarCheck
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(2 URLs) PlanarCheck> helps you verify that all quads of a part file are planar enough to fulfill LDraw.org Parts Tracker requirements. While a triangle is always flat, a quad may be warped. This can yield weird rendering results, as exemplified by (...) (17 years ago, 27-Dec-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Bovinius Minimus
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Ok, so I guess I'm in a strange old world naming mood this holiday season. Inspired by Siggurd's mini-quad (URL) decided to make a small octopod using small pistons. It uses two small pistons per switch, chained together as a 3 segment inchworm. (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Octomedius
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I was inspired by Philo's pneumatic wheel and his ratio of 1 switch per piston. (URL) right, in that when I did my Inchworms they all used two switches per piston, and he cut it to one. I wondered how short I could make one of my inchworms and still (...) (17 years ago, 26-Dec-07, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
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