Subject:
|
Re: New Touch Sensor
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.cad.dev
|
Date:
|
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 01:05:19 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
760 times
|
| |
|
|
Laurentino Martins wrote in message <36FAD990.A9CE2366@mail.telepac.pt>...
>
> 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...
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.
> 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.
The way to do this would be to color the body transparent cyan, and use
color 16 for the button. Then one shortcut would work for all three
versions.
> 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.
Since I can't see inside my touch sensor, I won't be ldrawing the insides,
but someone with the transparent version is welcome to do this.
> Thanks. Great work guys!! :-)
Your welcome. The IL Legislature goes on spring break for the next two
weeks, so I hope to complete the light sensor as well. (And some other
things I've had to leave hanging--sorry Terry.)
-John Van
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: New Touch Sensor
|
| (...) IMHO this numbering method makes no sense at all !! First, the 3 parts are not separable and makes no sense using them separated. LEGO decided to number them like if it was a _single_ part and have put the 32025 number in the _main_ part which (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
Message is in Reply To:
| | New Touch Sensor
|
| 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 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
|
3 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
