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New Touch Sensor
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Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:49:20 GMT
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I was looking at the new parts for LDraw and was pleased to see that the
'879 Touch Sensor' was not called 'MindStorms Touch Sensor' as it might
have been, since the '8482 CyberMaster' also includes tree of these.
For those who don't know, the CyberMaster is a MindStorms-like LEGO set
that is (was?) only available in Europe.
As I understand there must be a high degree of quality in a part for it
be distributed. The Touch Sensor is no exception and it's a very nice
part indeed, but since it's the same part of the CyberMaster I see some
things that are not so well.
1. The Touch Sensor is the part number '32025'. Why it was numbered
'879'?
Well, at least in CyberMaster...
2. Besides no one has called it 'MindStorms Touch Sensor', it's clear to
me that _is_ a MindStorms Touch Sensor, since it uses the MindStorms
colors: gray body and yellow button. The 'Complete Assembly Shortcut'
only confirms this.
The tree CyberMaster Touch Sensors have a transparent cyan body, with
yellow, white and red buttons. All three are different. I propose a
'Complete Assembly Shortcut' for these tree CyberMaster sensors also.
3. Besides the good quality of the Touch Sensor, something that was
forgotten was that the CyberMaster Touch Sensors are _transparent_, and
that we can actually see the circuitry inside! When re render the '879
Touch Sensor' with the transparent cyan body it clearly looks empty and
unreal, specially in POV-Ray.
I don't expect someone to LDraw a circuit, but something must be drawn
inside in a silver color to make it look a bit more real.
Thanks. Great work guys!! :-)
Laurentino Martins
[mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt]
[http://www.terravista.pt/Enseada/2808/]
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| Laurentino Martins wrote in message <36FAD990.A9CE2366@m...pac.pt>... (...) The part number on the bottom only applies to the bottom section of the part, not the entire part, so a 3-digit number had to be used. (...) The way to do this would be to (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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