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Subject:	Re: Interesting Article..."Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks"
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch
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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:23:32 GMT
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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 either. The stuff about the "Cricket" sounds interesting. I wonder exactly how big it is. It sounds like it doesn't really do anything you couldn't do with an RCX, but evidently it is small enough to fit in a car. However, since it's unclear whether the cars are at minifig scale, fitting in a car might not be so great. Anyway, interesting article. Bryan Beckwith FUT: lugnet.mediawatch "Jason Reljac" <jason@reljac.com> wrote in message news:GAuBIy.CIx@lugnet.com... > Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks... > From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette: March 16, 2001 > > http://www.postgazette.com/regionstate/20010316lego6.asp > >

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		Re: Interesting Article..."Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks"
(...) 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)

		RE: Interesting Article..."Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks"
(...) 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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		Interesting Article..."Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks"
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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