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Re: Interesting Article..."Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks"
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Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:54:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bryan Beckwith writes:
> From the article: "In all, the city required more than 100,000 Lego pieces,
> which the company donated." Yowza!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~mr4/technology/sub_crickets.html
All about the crickets. They have one on the page that shows it to be a
good bit larger than a minifig, but quite a bit smaller than an RCX.
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~mr4/technology/sub_cars.html
All about the cricket cars. They're certainly not minifig scale. They look
nifty though.
Adrian
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www.brickfrenzy.com
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