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Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks... From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: March 16, 2001 (URL) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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From the article: "In all, the city required more than 100,000 Lego pieces, which the company donated." Yowza! I was disappointed to read that they made their roads out of construction paper instead of the road plates. I bet they didn't use minifigs (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) It looks like the crickets are basically Mindstorms RCX's, in smaller packages. If you follow the link at the bottom of the page, it takes you to CMU's page about it. A little digging finds the following pages: (URL) about the crickets. They (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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I wonder if the incline that they built is a replica of the Mt. Washington Incline in Pittsburgh. Anyone from the "Burgh" know? Tim (not a native Pittsburgher but my wife is - Yoi!) "Jason Reljac" <jason@reljac.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) IIRC (from Mindfest), the "Cricket" is about the same length and width as the 9V battery which powers it, so it is significantly smaller than an RCX. With the battery included, the entire assembly probably fits into a 4x8x3 space. There are 3 (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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