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September 8 Meeting Info
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Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:15:28 GMT
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LUGOLA and LEGO Builders-
We are looking forward to hosting the September 8 LUGOLA meeting at our home
in Irvine, CA. As always, all LUGOLA members and all LEGO fans (and
employees) are welcome.
Date and Time
Saturday, September 8, 2001. You are welcome to start arriving at 11:00
(some will be here sooner). If you want lunch, be sure to get here by 13:00!
We'll probably run into evening for a long as there is interest.
Place
Our home is located at 4 Redonda, Irvine, CA 92620.
If you are coming from the north, aim for the intersection of I5 and CA 55
in Santa Ana and take I5 south toward Irvine. Exit in Irvine on Culver
Boulevard, turning left on Culver (going under the freeway). Proceed to
Irvine Boulevard and turn right (at a traffic light). Take the first left
onto Yale. (skip the next paragraph)
If you are coming from the south, aim for I5 north of the junction with
I405. Take I5 north toward Irvine. Exit in Irvine on Jeffrey, turning right
onto Jeffrey. Proceed to Irvine Boulevard and turn left (at a traffic
light). Take the first right onto Yale.
Either way, once you are on Yale proceed to the second 4-way stop sign
intersection and turn right onto Hicks Canyon Boulevard. Proceed a few
hundred yards and turn left into housing development Canyon Creek. The gate
entry code is 7536 (or you can look us up on the display and phone in).
Going through the gate, turn left, turn right, and we are the second house
on the right (about 100 yards from the gate).
Eats and Treats
We will be serving grilled hot dogs and hamburgers with the usual
accessories around 13:00. You are welcome to bring drinks or accoutrements
or dessert if you like, but we will have the basics covered. If we are still
going strong come dinner time, we will order pizza or whatever.
Your RSVP
Pease advise at least a day or more in advance so we can get a rough head
count for lunch, food, and display space. You are welcome to bring drinks or
accoutrements or dessert if you like, but we will have the basics covered.
The AGENDA
As usual, expect the meeting to be unstructured. There will be lots of
sharing of models, culling through bricks to swap and sell parts, taking of
photos, and LEGO talk. Expect some discussion about setting up our own site
at lugola.org and the time and place for the next meeting.
Bringing Your Stuff
Sharing works in progress and completed masterpieces is one of the great
pleasures of getting together. We will have plenty of floor, ground, and
table space to display your models and layouts. If you find it more
comfortable or convenient to bring your own tables, that's fine.
Goings On At Our House
Since hosting our last meeting in November, David has chosen his LEGO model
per the LEGO Star Wars Galactic Challenge, LEGO has built it, and it has
arrived. You'll have a hard time getting in the house withoug spotting it <g>.
We spent July on a massive take-apart, sort, put-away, and reorganization of
the brick collection. (The Eiffel Tower and the Galactic Legislature are now
history.) The wall mounted brick cabinets now take up two sides of the
family room and we have added more Iris containers for the basic bricks and
large items. We made custom dividers for the Iris containers to separate the
drawers into 6, 9, or 12 compartments as appropriate. Thomas decided to
emulate the organizational technique used by the model shop at LEGOLAND
Windsor and sorted one set of wall cabinets and the rolling cart basic brick
collections entirely by color. It's handy to roll the blue cabinet over to a
worksite or take out a drawer with all 12 1x yellow thin bricks in sight at
one time. And it really speeds up sort and put-away. OTOH, we dropped a full
drawer once and ...
We have fully deployed the 12 modular brick bases (64 x 128 studs each) we
built last year and added some custom long spans with LEGO dimensions. The
PNLTC show at LEGOLAND finally pushed us over the edge to build a train
layout and David and Thomas spent much of August building covering the
entire family room and kitchen dining area. Susan built a set of buildings
to complement her Victorian house. Be sure to look in the store windows. My
contribution has been the brick bases, a lot of mountain building, the 3
bridges, and a not quite right In-N-Out Burger saved by Thomas's really cool
sign. David and Thomas built everything else, including a wonderful traffic
accident <g>. David concentrated on freight trains while Thomas focussed on
the passenger trains and programming for the two turn around loops
controlled by 3 RCXs that work together to keep the trains running without
human intervention. (Creating turn around loops with two rail electrified
track is a classic model train problem because the rail on the right at the
time you enter a loop becomes the rail on the left as you exit the loop,
creating a short circuit. The traditional solution is to electrically
isolate a chunk of the loop and use a manually operated switch to reverse
the polarity of the main line while the train is on the loop. Thomas
automated this by using Mindstorms and sensors. It's pretty cool!)
Your Hosts
David Michon (now 11)
david@michon.com
Thomas Michon (14)
thomas@michon.com
Susan Michon
susan@michon.com
Ted Michon
ted@michon.com
All of us
714 731-6060
Please call or email if you have a comments, suggestions, or questions.
We look forward to seeing everyone on Saturday.
-Ted
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| Hey gang! I'm posting this for Dave because he went on vacation. He wrote the balance of this post. Well, it's almost that time again! This next meeting is once again being held in Southern Orange County courtesy of the Michon family. There is much (...) (23 years ago, 26-Aug-01, to lugnet.org.us.lugola)
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