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Re: What's your current project?
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Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:22:40 GMT
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I am currently working on a number of projects:
The one project taking up most of my free time is a tower crane. It
only stands a couple of feet high, but that is fine for mini-fig scale;
however, it does use a lot of Technic pieces. The first phase of this
project will provide a crank at the base to turn the boom, a crank
on the boom to move the cradle back-and-forth along the boom,
and another crank on the on the boom to control the height of
hook. The second phase will incorporate an elevator of some sort
that will allow a single mini-fig to travel up to the "cab" attached to
the boom. The third phase will attempt to consolidate all the
controls to the base of the tower. The fourth phase will attempt
to integrate an RCX--I'd like to write a program that will find bricks
of a certain color, pick them up, and dump them in a bin.
I am also working on a new fire station for my boy's Lego city. They
finally decided that the Town Jr. thing was not satisfactory due to the
lack of garages where their fire engines could be parked. They also
want me to build the sixby pumper for the new station.
I am also conceiving a robot that will climb stairs using the Mindstorms
RCX.
Finally, I have ripped out the undercarriage on the 5561 4x4 and
rebuilding it Technic-style. I am using pieces primarily from the 8880
SuperCar; however, I have decided to use the smaller shock absorbers.
The real challenge here is how realistic can one build this. The 5561
body is not that long. I would like to provide 4-wheel drive, 4-wheel
independent suspension, and mid-mount V6 engine. However, I don't
think that I will have room to give it a real transmission, and a working
transfer case is questionable.
Ed "Boxer" Jones wrote in message <36101A37.6F45@aol.com>...
> I'm still in the design phase of my latest creations. Nothing definite
> yet.
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| (...) This is a nice project, I think. One problem would be to get the wheelbase narrow enough for the 5561 body. I have a couple of ideas to do this. First, you can use the traditional 8880 suspension setup, but replace the beams on each side of (...) (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.build)
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