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Re: Legoworld 2005
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Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:51:24 GMT
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On Tue, October 25, 2005 11:14 am, Mario Ferrari wrote:
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> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1452041
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1452042
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> 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.
Very cool. We totally understand the popularity. We saw it at BrickFest. It's
great to see people just standing there watching it run.
> 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.
We know how that is, also. Sure, the first four or five work great, but then we
start throwing them together. "Oh, I have another idea... and another... and..."
:)
I'm sure by now you know exactly what to do to fix the weak points.
I wish I was there.
> Philo had an RCX counting the passing balls. IIRC the GBC handled more then
> 10,000 balls per day.
That sounds about right. We put a GBC in a train layout a couple weekends ago. It
had a ball counter that went over 11,000 both days.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1443018
> > 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
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> 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.
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> Don't know the names of all the people who contributed to the project, anyway
> all of them are Dutch.
If you know more, I'd love to hear about it.
Steve
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