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Hi, everyone...
A documentary called “Lovemarks-LEGO” will be broadcast for the first time this
weekend. I was originally told it was going to be a full-length film about
people’s passions towards brands like LEGO, IKEA, Starbucks (etc), but it seems
it has been shortened to a half hour and will deal only with LEGO. (Maybe?)
Lovemarks - LEGO
Channel 51, Horizon
Saturday September 30th
8:30 p.m. (20:30)
Hong Kong
The documentary was filmed by Fuji TV in Hong Kong, but it may also run in other
countries that have Fuji TV, or on extended satellite networks.
Last year, the filmmakers filmed a live
model-build and interviewed both Nathan Sawaya and I as part of the
documentary. They said they’d also interviewed other folks around the world,
including folks from TLG.
Sean
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LEGO Certified Professional
www.seankenney.com
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This year’s National Junior Robotics Competition (NJRC) 2006 is more exciting
than ever. The organizers at the Singapore Science Centre has set some devilish
missions including one that requires your robot to literally go into water. To a
depth of 5 cm. Sounds like Mission Impossible?
Not for the students who make up the 397 Primary and 342 Secondary school teams
that are taking part in the competition.
http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/events.jsp?type=17&root=0&parent=0&cat=317
The Mindstorms RCX, motors and sensors are about to be tested to the point of
destruction.
A good time to get the NXT?
CSSoh
http://fifth-r.com/
where Robotics is the fifth R,
after Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic, and computeR
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Among other types of robots, Telok Kurau Secondary School fielded an autonomous
NXT robot in the finals of the East Zone Robotics Challenge 2006 which was held
at the East Zone Science Carnival @ Victoria Junior College on 21 Jul 2006.
The NXT robot was able to follow the black line and go up the ramp to cross over
to other other side of the playing field. This is the first time that a NXT
robot has shown its prowess in a public robotics competition in Singapore.
Here the NXT is just getting onto the bridge. The ‘river’ is made of green
beans.
More pics here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=195467
The EZRC 2006 is a robotics challenge for Primary and Secondary school students
mainly in the Eazt Zone of Singapore. The purpose of the Challenge is to provide
students with opportunities to exercise their creativity and problem-solving
skills in the field of robotics. Details are at their web site:
http://www.vjc.moe.edu.sg/S&Tcentre/programmes/robotics_challenge/robotics_challenge2006.htm
The EZRC 2006 is a robotics battle of sorts. Teams of 4 students have to build
and program a team of one or more robots to compete against another team, with
the aim of knocking over or capturing target objects in the opposing team’s
sector, and also to defend the team’s target objects from being knocked over by
the opposing team’s robot(s). The robots could be autonomous or remotely
controlled via IR or radio control.
A wide variety of robotics hardware was seen at the EZRC 2006 but the NXT was
clearly the latest of the lot. Remote control via Bluetooth is certainly an
option in the near future.
Although Telok Kurau Secondary School did not win any prizes, it put up a
commendable performance in that all 3 of its rookie teams got into the finals
with just about 2 months introduction to robotics. And so they have survived
their baptism of fire and now look forward to their next battle.
CSSoh
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Finally got a chance to have a closeup look at the much talked about Mindstorms
NXT when Prof Mitchel Resnick (of MIT Media Lab) was here for the LEGO
MINDSTORMS Education (LME) NXT Regional Pre-Launch at the Singapore Science
Centre.
http://fifth-r.com/laosoh/robots/NXT/nxt_launch.htm
First impressions: the bots look rather bulky, don't think they will be able to
negotiate the narrower parts of the FLL 2005 field. And the line following was
kinda slow. Fun though.
Gotta have them, of course! Earliest delivery expected in August 2006.
CSSoh
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Very nice, and for a good cause too.
As far as critiques go, I have none, except for the photography. Flash + Lego =
Pain. Try turning off the flash and using natural light, or reflecting the
flash off of a surface (ala those people that come and take your school photos).
-Stefan-
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In lugnet.loc.sg, Erik Olson wrote:
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In lugnet.loc.sg, Wee Yeh Tow wrote:
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Hello LEGO fans,
Last weekend, members from a Singapore Lego Fan Group, S0937FG, came
together to
recreate 2 quarants of the Roman Colosseum out of LEGO bricks. The
installation was done on-site in the Asian Civilisation
Museum(ACM),Singapore.The structure is approximately 1.8m long and 1.5m high
and took 2 days to complete.
The completed structure
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That is nice! Were there any special techniques used to build the curves? It
does look like regular square grid - and large enough to be smooth.
-Erik
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Hi Erik,
I’m not too sure about that because I was too busy building =P, but I managed to
get an answer from our designer who happens to be a trained architect =)
“There were no special techniques required, but I first counted and measure the
size of the intended building, then worked out a scale.. from there, the
architectural plans were then shrunk to proportion an in this case was either
1:10, or 1:20... i cannot exactly remebered...
Next was to draw grid lines of 1 stud intervals over the scaled plans, then
basic lego bricks are pieced to achieve the lare curve....this method is also
used for the colonades and grand stand seats....” -Eugene Tan(Designer,The LEGO
Colosseum Project)
Hope it answers your questions.
Wee Yeh
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In lugnet.loc.sg, Wee Yeh Tow wrote:
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Hello LEGO fans,
Last weekend, members from a Singapore Lego Fan Group, S0937FG, came together
to
recreate 2 quarants of the Roman Colosseum out of LEGO bricks. The
installation was done on-site in the Asian Civilisation
Museum(ACM),Singapore.The structure is approximately 1.8m long and 1.5m high
and took 2 days to complete.
The completed structure
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That is nice! Were there any special techniques used to build the curves? It
does look like regular square grid - and large enough to be smooth.
-Erik
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Hello LEGO fans,
Last weekend, members from a Singapore Lego Fan Group, S0937FG, came together
to
recreate 2 quarants of the Roman Colosseum out of LEGO bricks. The installation
was done on-site in the Asian Civilisation Museum(ACM),Singapore.The structure
is approximately 1.8m long and 1.5m high and took 2 days to complete.
The completed structure
Wee Yeh
Member, S0937FG
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