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Re: Portable Bot Factory
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Date: 
Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:46:40 GMT
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First I have to say I'm a castle fan. -now I'm going to have to admit to
lurking in space- and I've been fooling around with these for a while... I
normaly stuff them with various plant pieces and once I've finished a
mountain or hill brickwise I give it a once over from my specialty pieces
box. Also they make great armour and weapon holders. But lately I've been
using them to buil guns for the figs (from realistic to space) this works
perty well to, with some tool sets binos and cameras... even a few megaphones...

   Just a comment,

         God Bless,

              Nathan

In lugnet.general, Jon Palmer writes:
I've always loved the idea of building something from a limited supply of
parts.  Over a year ago I bought a decent sized Plano tackle box.  I filled
this with parts for weekend car trips where I knew I would get bored or have
free time:

http://www.thesportsauthority.com/product/index.jsp?productId=972005&cp=7169
57

Yesterday my girlfriend was showing me some tiny cases that she keeps some
of her jewelry in.  This made me think that it would be cool to use
something like this for LEGO.  That night I bought a little double sided
Plano tackle box (3414) at walmart.

This is the end result:

http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/factory00.jpg
http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/factory01.jpg
http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/factory02.jpg

This thing is tiny.  It's a bit bigger than my digital camera.  I filled it
with as many small bot-making parts that I could think of.  I like to think
of it as an emergency building kit.  Something you could put in your
backpack or throw in the glovebox for a road trip.

I'm gonna mess with the contents of the box for a while to try and get the
optimal mix of parts in it.
Here are 3 more pics of the first 3 bots I made:

http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/bot10.jpg
http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/bot11.jpg
http://www.zemi.net/imageblog/bot12.jpg

I chose to make 3 small bots (I figure I can make many more with the parts
left over) but you could also use the case to make larger bots with more
parts.  Also with just a little modification I bet you could set this up to
make microfig ships.  Or how bout a slightly larger case for micro-moonbase
construction?

Tell me what you think. :-)

-Jon
--
| The Shipyard - http://zemi.net/shipyard
| The Moonbase Project - http://www.classic-space.com/moonbase/start/
| My Lego Creations - http://zemi.net/lego
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