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Re: modular components for sharing designs
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lugnet.space, lugnet.build
Date: 
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:21:26 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Joel Kuester writes:
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.


Your ship <=> airlock module <=> other MOC

so then it occurred to us that something like
the Workbee could be used to move these
airlock modules around...

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.

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

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

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, size, etc.

Since a person could choose whether to make their ship compliant, or not, it
gives a little leeway to guild members (which I like).  I think that a
little icon could be added to the web pages of members that says: "This ship
is Hexadyne compliant" or some such statement with a link back to the main
Hexadyne page.  It gives a little bragging right to the developer as well as
advertisement for Hexadyne.

Now, not only do I have to buy my parts in real life, I have to buy them in
the brick world as well. Looks like I need another job.... :-)

-Duane



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(...) Exactly, and as far as racing contests, they won't be a major focus. I was expecting that the actual combat contests would be pretty popular, tho. (...) that's exactly how I was hoping it would work. (...) LOL... I hadn't really thought of it (...) (24 years ago, 12-Feb-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)

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(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Feb-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)  

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