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Re: modular components for sharing designs
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
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Sat, 10 Feb 2001 23:39:09 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Paul Hartzog writes:
> well,
> in bricklug chat room we got to talkin
> about brainstorming a standard airlock size
> for MOCs, and then came up w/ the idea that
> rather than impose a std, we could just make
> little modules that would join 'your' MOCs
> airlock to a standard, i.e.
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> Your ship <=> airlock module <=> other MOC
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> so then it occurred to us that something like
> the Workbee could be used to move these
> airlock modules around...
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> the upshot of all this is that when we have
> gatherings, we could all build components,
> and then show up and they could all hook
> together.
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> additionally,
> we could standardize some sort of technic
> connection for the airlockmodules, and/or
> we could build a large spacebase and then
> dock all the ships to it via the modules
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> btw, these airlock modules are basically
> = to docking rings ;-)
>
> -paul
Hi,
This is really cool. As long as The Standard makes sense, I'd totally go
along with this idea. So, who designs this thing now and where do we get to
see it? Looking forward to this sort of stuff...
For anyone interested in things like this, check out this thing I'm working
on: http://minispy.tripod.com/lego/hexadyne/index.html
(not too much is up yet, but the FAQ will sort of explain it for right now...)
cheers!
Joel K
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| (...) I think that this is a neat idea. I'm not that big into the racing aspect of the Consortium, but I do like the idea of the Standards. The credit idea is also excellent in my mind. It levels the playing field with respect to ships, functions, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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