 | | RE: Interesting Article..."Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks"
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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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(...) 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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| | Re: Interesting Article..."Students fashion a 'living' metropolis from Lego Blocks"
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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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My 2-yr old's been wearing LEGO-wear for at least 6 months now... ever since my wife found it on clearance at TJ Maxx... -Jon (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.mediawatch)
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During the new Mag Ryan movie Hanging Up, there is Lego around at least in three different scenes. Mostly castle and pirates. Selçuk (24 years ago, 26-Mar-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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