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Re: Legoworld 2005
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Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:14:08 GMT
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Hi Steve, hi all
In lugnet.org.us.laflrc, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
> Looks like they had a cute little GBC with about 17 modules at Legoworld 2005
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1452041
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1452042
Yes, we had a lot of fun with it. It was a French-Italian project, most modules
having been built by Philo and myself, plus a few by other friends.
It was a big success. The table was always crowded with visitors and both adults
and the children found it intriguing and enchanting.
It was a success also on the aspect of robustness and stability. During the
weekend, it has been running from 9am to 5pm with no stops, requiring very few
assistance. The weakest point of the circuit was my small catapult module,
because I built it just a couple of days before the event and it lacked some
testing.
Philo had an RCX counting the passing balls. IIRC the GBC handled more then
10,000 balls per day.
> And, here's a full-sized pinball machine, that appears to use at least 13 RCXs.
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1447916
It's really impressive, a very complex project. The playability was not perfect,
but IMO this doesn't reduce the value of the project. Some of the technical
solution are really brilliant, for example the 13 RCXs communicates through a
sort of "optical bus", a big channel between the two rows of RCXs internally
covered with alu foil.
Don't know the names of all the people who contributed to the project, anyway
all of them are Dutch.
Ciao
Mario
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| (...) Very cool. We totally understand the popularity. We saw it at BrickFest. It's great to see people just standing there watching it run. (...) We know how that is, also. Sure, the first four or five work great, but then we start throwing them (...) (19 years ago, 25-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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| Hello Mario, Steve & all (...) It was a great pleasure to be able to build a bigger GBC, an even greater one to see the sparks in the eyes of children... The consecration came tuesday when I was able to talk about GBC with KKK himself ;o) (...) I (...) (19 years ago, 28-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc, lugnet.technic)
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| Looks like they had a cute little GBC with about 17 modules at Legoworld 2005 (URL) here's a full-sized pinball machine, that appears to use at least 13 RCXs. (URL) (19 years ago, 24-Oct-05, to lugnet.org.us.laflrc)
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