 | | New creations: VCR and Car —Ben Williamson
|
| | | Hi folks, Two new Lego creations are up on my pages at: (URL) just finished the VCR, which has a motorized top-loading deck, and a tape with spools that are engaged and driven by hubs once loaded. There's an NQC program that loads the tape when you (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | |
| | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Robert G. Fay
|
| | | | | Love that car. Bob Ben Williamson <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.05.9...nde.way... (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | | |
| | | | | RE: New creations: VCR and Car —Ralph Hempel
|
| | | | | (...) <snipped descriptions of VCR and new CAR> Ummmm, Ben. Don't you have a job or something else to keep you busy? I used to show email about Moz and his (3 or 5) Supercars or Larry and his 25? Space Shuttles as proof that I'm not crazy. Now she (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | | |
| | | | | | | RE: New creations: VCR and Car —Ben Williamson
|
| | | | | | (...) Hey man, it's the weekend! And I, um, went to bed at 6am this morning after getting the core of the VCR to work. Then I got up at 10am and made it yellow and built the RCX into it, and started work on the web page. So, what do normal people do (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Mario Ferrari
|
| | | | | | | Ben, I like your creations. Great job! How do you take the nice pictures of your models: digital camera or what else? Mario (URL) seems we share more than a single hobby... (I refer to climbing) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Chris Moseley
|
| | | | | | Ben Williamson wrote in message ... (...) Cool site Ben, I like the look of the earthmover :) And the way you've grabbed ideas from a not-yet-released model. Larry is at: (URL) is at: (URL) my Lego is in NZ, and I'm in Sydney. I'm intending to put (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Chris Moseley
|
| | | | | | (...) Moz (25 years ago, 18-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | | | |
| | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Fredrik Glöckner
|
| | | | (...) assume you have suspended the steering components from the 8462 Tow Truck? That's a great idea, and I've just started doing that myself. I have previously made independent front suspension using other kinds of pieces, which means that the car (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | |
| | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Chris Moseley
|
| | | | | Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) Your 8880 mods seem marvelously done. I'm impressed by how narrow you've got the suspension track now. Wow. Moz -- moz1 at ihug either .com.au or .co.nz (URL) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | | |
| | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Ben Williamson
|
| | | | (...) I've just added building instructions for the front and rear suspension, so you can see what I did. Photos at: (URL) if you're in the middle of building your own, then no peeking! ;) Your rally car is very cool, btw. I like people who have (...) (25 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | |
| | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Fredrik Glöckner
|
| | | | (...) it's a digital one, that is.) I see that you've used four units long suspension arms. Will not this cause some toe change when you opertate the suspension? Since the steering link is six studs, I mean. (...) My approach is almost totally (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | |
| | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Ben Williamson
|
| | | | | (...) It's an Olympus D220L, pretty basic but it does the job. Sometimes I wish it was a little less wide-angle, but otherwise good. (...) Yes it does, but not so you'd notice. I messed around with it to get the steering link at the right height to (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | | |
| | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Chris Moseley
|
| | | | Fredrik Glöckner wrote in message ... (...) And I use Larry the same way. Moz (25 years ago, 22-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | |
| | | | | | Re: New creations: VCR and Car —Fredrik Glöckner
|
| | | | (...) And we're all happy. ;-) Fredrik (25 years ago, 23-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
|
| | | | |
