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Re: Finding "real" upgrade sets and flex axles on eBay
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Sat, 11 May 2002 13:01:34 GMT
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Liz,
I was going to post a statement about everybody winning on my first post,
but I couldn't word it nicely so I left it off. I should have tried harder.
I noticed there seems to be someone on eBay buying out Robotics Discovery
Sets. I think he's bought 75% of the sets I've seen go through there, and I
found 15 of them in the last 6 months in his feedback. I'm sure he's bought
a lot more. I wonder if he's a teacher trying to find a cheap way to stock a
classroom? At $65 a pop for 600 parts, 2 motors and touch sensors, it's a
good deal even before the Scout unit (which doesn't suck completely).
I've been doing a bit of BrickLink buying myself. I once bought 6 1x14
beams, just because I didn't have them. Shortly after I got them, I started
making Markus Matern's Large Killough Platform. It needed 6 1x14 beams! If
that isn't an argument for hording parts, I don't know what is.
I'll bet that Lego class is exciting. I coach a kid's snowboarding team in
the winter, and I think it would also be fun to coach a Lego competition
team. But I have no connections to any schools, and I'm not sure how they
would react to a freak like me approaching them about it.
I've got most of my Lego in Plano boxes too. It really helps me find the
parts I need quickly.
- Benton
In lugnet.robotics, liz@bookwyrmz.com writes:
> Sorry, didn't mean to come off so disgruntled. Just kinda bent with
> Lego at the moment. I end up scouring eBay and BrickLink for parts I
> ought to be able to buy from them.
>
> I'm in the middle of counting parts, because I've ended up with so many
> odd lots, my trays are *way* too full. And yet, there are some parts
> I'd still like to have more of. About to dump extras on eBay I guess
> and hunt for the parts I do need. (Although probably going to get
> specific parts on BrickLink -- now there's a profit for you, if they
> manage to sell all the separate parts -- some gears are SO expensive --
> but I can't imagine the time involved.)
>
> My class has 18 kids in it now, and I swear with them around, some of
> the rarer gears sprout legs. It's just Murphy and the socks in the
> laundry type effect, not any stealing or anything... but the parts
> still end up lost. Then you have the parts that multiply like hangers
> in the closet.
>
> My husband says I'm compulsive for counting these zillions of parts
> (and they're sorted down to each separate part into "plano" style trays
> in humongous tackle boxes and kept track of in Excel), but when you
> have six groups of mostly 9-12 year-olds building Mindstorms at once...
> plus, we're headed for FLL competition sometime later in the year in
> Dallas with one team of 10 or two teams of 9 -- not yet decided... I'd
> be insane if I didn't try to stay organized and have every part counted
> and readily at hand.
>
> Although, I have to say, some of these kids are SO sharp... It's worth
> the effort to watch their brains clicking away in fast forward.
>
> BTW, at the start of every class, I show them websites of neat
> Mindstorms constructs. This robotics list has been an incredible
> source of inspiration to them, as I show them the neat gizmos you all
> are inventing. They are SO impressed by the ingenuity in these
> creations. It really inspires them. Thanks to everyone who has
> shared; I know my class is not the reason you are sharing, but the kids
> definitely benefit.
>
> My only disappointment is not being able to download the movie of the
> OrthoGlide Mill in action. They would have loved that, but I kept
> getting an error. Bummer.
>
> Liz B
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| Sorry, didn't mean to come off so disgruntled. Just kinda bent with Lego at the moment. I end up scouring eBay and BrickLink for parts I ought to be able to buy from them. I'm in the middle of counting parts, because I've ended up with so many odd (...) (22 years ago, 11-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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