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| (URL) As mentioned last month, LEGO Factory has just now been updated with quite a few improvements - including individual part pricing rather than by-the-bag pricing among several other things. There's a new LDD (v1.6) released, which also runs on (...) (19 years ago, 8-May-06, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | Jamocklaquat to make another public appearance
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| Eric Sophie's rather cool Multi-RCX Lego Mindstorms robot Jamocklaquat is currently being exhibited at The Cathedral Arts Festival in the Grace Church Van Vorst in New Jersey until June 2nd 2006. There are pictures, and an in-depth story at (2 URLs) (...) (19 years ago, 7-May-06, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce, FTX)
| | | | | NXT Programming with Next Byte Codes
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| I am pleased to announce that I have posted a beta of a command line compiler for a new programming language for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT programmable brick called Next Byte Codes (NBC). NBC is modelled after traditional assembly language. It is (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | 3 life-size human busts built for Herman Miller "See magazine"
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| Hi again, everybody! Back in February I was asked to build three life-size monochromatic human busts. They were included in Herman Miller's award-winning design magazine, "SEE", alongside an article about the humanization of architecture and design. (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.build.sculpture, FTX)
| | | | | NXT firmware to be open source
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| From (URL) press release>: "The LEGO Group today announced that for the first time it will release as open source the firmware of the LEGO® MINDSTORMS® microprocessor – the new NXT brick – the core component of its next generation robotics toolset. (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce, lugnet.technic, FTX)
| | | | | 2006 LDraw.org Steering Committee Election Results
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| The winners of the 2006 LDraw Steering Committee Election are (in alphabetical order by last name): Kevin L. Clague Chris Dee Tore Eriksson Tim Gould Willy Tschager Congratulations to the new LDraw Steering Committee members! Willy Tschager (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !!
| | | | | NWBrickCon Registration Reminder
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| (URL) Just a reminder. NWBrickCon registration will be increasing from $38 to $44 on Saturday May 6th. So register early at (URL) the website> and save yourself some money. We are working hard and the event looks to be shaping up for one of the best (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.people, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.loc.us.wa, lugnet.loc.ca.bc, lugnet.loc.us.id, lugnet.loc.us.or, FTX) !!
| | | | | Re: The NXT NDA is relaxed...
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| (...) Indeed, I just published some NXT technic stuff (motors behavior, NXT cable hacking) on my site: (URL) to come... Enjoy! Philo (19 years ago, 1-May-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.announce)
| | | | | Newswatch: Fifth Legoland Park in Kansas City area in 2009
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| Exciting news for residents of the midwest United States! I read this in the 4/28/2006 Kansas City Star. "Joco" is the local shorthand for Johnson County KS: a very well-to-do, family oriented suburb on the western side of Kansas City,MO with (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ks, lugnet.loc.us.mo, lugnet.mediawatch) !!
| | | | | Lots of LEGO-words built for celebrity press event
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| Hi, everybody! I finsihed up another project a few weeks ago, and I'm finally around to posting about it now... The models I made weren't very intricate or complex, but they were fun to build nonetheless. On April 6, TLG held a press conference in (...) (19 years ago, 22-Apr-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny, FTX)
| | | | | Bricksouth is just a week away!
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| Just a reminder! April 27th - 29th is BrickSouth, a AFOL Display and get together in Atlanta, Georgia. This is in conjunction with First Lego League's International World Festival held at the World Congress Center during those dates. AFOLs have been (...) (19 years ago, 19-Apr-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, FTX)
| | | | | Brick Bash 2006 A Success!
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| Brick Bash 2006 was held on Saturday, March 11, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This was the second year for this event, and it was a great success, experiencing a growth of more than 200% from the previous year. Thirteen exhibitors from around the Great (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.events.brickbash, lugnet.announce, lugnet.events, FTX)
| | | | | SCLTC Coming to Fullerton Railroad Days
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| SCLTC will return to Fullerton Railroad Days (FRRD) for the fifth consecutive year in May 2006 with one of its largest operating LEGO train displays ever. The layout features a mix of new creations and old favorites including an extended version of (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org.scltc, lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.build, FTX) !
| | | | | LEGO models on the cover of New York Family Magazine
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| Hi, everybody! Last month I built 2 two-foot apartment buildings that were photograhped and featured in New York Family Magazine. One of the buildings was used for the April 2006 (current) issue cover, and the other was printed alongside the table (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.loc.us.ny.ny, FTX) !
| | | | | WAMALUG Display at the National Air and Space Museum, April 15 2006
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| Hi all, This was the second year that WAMALUG participated in Explore the Universe Day at the National Air and Space Museum. Museum visitors got to see a nice variety of Space and space related MOCs, and also were able to build in a free build space (...) (19 years ago, 18-Apr-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.space, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.va, lugnet.loc.us.dc, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX) !!
| | | | | Mindstorms.NET Request for Comments
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| I've been working with José David Parra on the next version of his (URL) RCX.NET> project, because 1.) the NXT system is coming out, and 2.) RCX.NET is basically a .NET wrapper of Spirit.ocx, which means it's not so nice to program with. Another (...) (19 years ago, 17-Apr-06, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.scout, FTX)
| | | | | Brickvention news!
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| Only a couple of months to go! (URL) Planning is going well, and we've already got lots of people bringing interesting and fun things to display. Displays will include: M>ltc train/town layout Separate area for town buildings Large Space display, (...) (19 years ago, 16-Apr-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.au, FTX) !!
| | | | | Call for a Group Train/Town Layout at BrickFest™ 2006
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| (URL) Call for a Group Train/Town Layout at BrickFest™ 2006 It is time to start planning for one of the next great Train/Town display at BrickFest™. This will be a great way to show your 9v electric train pride and help save our way of model (...) (19 years ago, 16-Apr-06, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.trains, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
| | | | | Save 9 Volt Trains Forum E-mail Feed now Available.
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| As I now realize some folks prefer E-mail push systems to Forum pull systems we are offering an E-mail feed for all forum posts on (URL) . For those that would like to get notification of new forum posts E-mailed to you we now offer a mailing list (...) (19 years ago, 14-Apr-06, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains) !!
| | | | | Updated Adventurers newsgroup
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| Hey all! I've completed some updates to the Adventurers newsgroup. Please drop in and let me know if there's anything else that you think should be added. (I was thinking of making a separate page for Steampunk MOCs.) Special thanks to Marc Nelson (...) (19 years ago, 14-Apr-06, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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