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I have no idea if TLC reads this particular news group, but; ***** I want a Technic sun and planet gear assembly! ***** I want everyone else who wants one to say "me too!" The Technic line has produced a number of standard engineering assemblies (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I know what these are but, you can simulate the same effect of the sun/planet gearing system using existing pieces.... I did a model back in HS for my CAD class 10 years ago on Sun/Planet gears while it was missing the outside tread gear ring it got (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yeah! To scale! I need some 1.5-million-stud-length axle pieces...:) Actually, this is a great idea for an "ideas" set. Hey, I need to get out my copy of "Dark Crystal" so I can build Aughra's observatory! best LFB XFUT-> .dear-lego (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) ME TOO!!! (...) Yes, there are many other parts that we'd like Lego to create. Don't forget this old message and the responses it generated: (URL) were many ideas posted for new parts as well as modifications to existing parts. T. J. (23 years ago, 26-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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Meeee toooo!!!!! I just saw "Pitch Black" again! Eric (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Well, while we are on the topic of technic wants... I want a brick with a threaded hole that a worm screw could fit through. My son has just discovered Thunderbirds (which by an odd turn of fate I was avidly watching in 1964 in Madison Wisconsin, (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hmmm. Maybe you could use the droid escape cylinders, and wheels with tires instead of gears? Another use for the droid escape??!!!????? (...) I tend to agree. Things like bulk beams, 1x2 & 1x3 half beams (no studs, no cross-holes), bulk beams (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have a plan to go back over these posts and compile a list, perhaps to suggest that we could model some in LDRAW so we can see how they might work. What do people think? Psi (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Elijah. Have you seen this: (URL) and the fantastic bit of work by Leo Dorst found at the link in the top part explain how you can use a worm gear to make a piston device in two different ways. If these don't work I would have thought it (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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(...) Yeah! Orreries rule! Check out: (URL) pic: (URL) quite a good one of a simple orrery that only models the sun, earth and moon. I'm sure it would be possible to use a turntable or 40t gear and then put gears on the arm to change the gearing to (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Barnes" <barnes@sensors.com> To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 10:33 PM Subject: A campaign for sun and planet gears (...) Okay, Here it comes! Me Too! (...) and (...) want (...) (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) work. (...) That's Great! I'm glad that all ideas for new parts will be collected and archived. It would be great if the spreadsheet (or whatever file the archive is on) would be available on Lugnet. While I'm thinking about it, I've got (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Legal ramifications of posting? (Was: Re: A campaign for sun and planet gears)
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"SB" == Simon Bennett <simon.bennett@ntlworld.com> writes: SB> I have a plan to go back over these posts and compile a list, SB> perhaps to suggest that we could model some in LDRAW so we can see SB> how they might work. What do people think? What (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Dah, I Thoufght the origional Idea of the Posting was to get Lego to make these parts!!! So I think the poster of a part Idea, would be estatic if Lego started making them. Yes there are legal issues, but in this situation, easily resolved. To Clear (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That was definitely a long-term back-of-mind thought when I posted originally. I'm always aware that TLC read Lugnet and look at the Guarded Inn situation, it seems to work! (...) I certainly would, and I'd not be so crass as to take TLC to (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.cad, lugnet.general)
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(...) If I suggested the part, I'd be VERY glad they made it, as it would probably already be "built" into many MOCs that couldn't be built without it. -- | Tom Stangl, iPlanet Web Server Technical Support | Netscape Communications Corp | A division (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) IANAL, but it seems to me that: Most of the pieces that were mentioned in this thread (and other related threads) are simple modifications of existing pieces (make XYZW part shorter, separate ABCD into two pieces, remove the bump from 1234...) (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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"DA" == David Arnon <arnon@NOSPAMsilicon-value.com> writes: DA> Given that TLC has a patent on its bricks design and still lost DA> the case against MegaBlocks (or was it another brand?) I think DA> that in any other scenario you should prepare for (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Your concern has merit. A posting on a news group could most definately be viewed a "prior art" and effectively prevent Lego from receiving a patent on the design. And from some of the Lego history I have viewed on the web they appear to be very (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jun-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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How about a new axle extender? This one would be almost the same but with no ribs on two opposite sides. This would allow a driving ring to slip easily so that a micromotor could be used to actuate it (if you rotated the driving ring 90 degrees you (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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