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In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> In lugnet.technic, Mark Bellis wrote:
> > In lugnet.technic, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
> > (SNIP)
> > > > In lugnet.technic, Nathan Bell wrote:
> > > > > Congratulations to Kevin Clague who won best technic MOC and most
> > intriguing MOC!!!! He got two Technic awards and got a free Technic crane.
> > Mr Christyatsen (who was there for the first time) gave him the new title of
> > Pnuematic master!
> > > >
> > > > pneumatic master.....truth, truth and nothing but the truth!!!
> > >
> > > When Kjeld make this statement I got goose bumps. I still do when I think about
> > > it.
> >
> > (SNIP)
> > >
> > > Kevin
> >
> > Congratulations Kevin, well deserved!
> >
> > Of course the pressure's on now to stay at the top. Wish I could make it across
> > the pond to Brickfest to give you some extra competition! :-)
>
> I'm not that big a fan of head to head competition. I think that every person
> who brings a MOC is a winner, as are those who don't.
I mean "competition" in jest, since we are a community learning from each other.
I do feel a bit tucked away out of sight in the UK. It seems that only the US
is currently big enough to attract enough attention from TLG. I'm also trying
to deal with the disappointment of having to give up exhibiting my trains for a
while. Having recently won a prize with one, beating all the conventional model
trains with a Lego one, makes it all the harder to give up. I don't intend to
be a "one hit wonder"!
Perhaps it stems from my finding it difficult to appreciate myself. Few people
seem to appreciate someone who is always the best, since they can never be the
best themselves, yet I had thought I needed to be the best in order to prove my
worth. Lego Pneumatics is such a minority interest that it's not really a way
to impress anyone anyway!
In terms of winning things, I can't complain, since I won a Death Star from the
AFOL survey on the LegoFan site. It looks great on my dining table :-) I still
think it's more satisfying to win through merit rather than chance though.
> One thing to note is that Steve Hassenplug, that genious robotics/techic guy
> (who is also great to be around in general), did not have any MOCs in the
> technic room. He did have some non-GBC MOCs in the GBC room, though. This
> opened the door for my sweep.
>
> I appreciate the recognition that "Best" and "Most Intriguing" give, but yet,
> there were 20-30 great MOCs in the technic room, yet only a few got general
> recognition at the group meeting. As I was walking up to get my two awards, I
> immediatly thought of Nathan and Cale and their great MOCs, that didn't get
> group recognition. We all like to be appreciated.
>
> I'd rather see something like "Crowd Favorites", and allow for maybe 5 crowd
> favorites, without any indication of most favorite. This allows special
> recognition without such specific things like "Best".
>
> Mark, you build great MOCs using advanced pneumatic design techniques. While it
> is human nature to feel a bit of rivalry, more than anything it positively
> inspires me to build and learn. I'm always striving to push my own knowledge
> and learn new things. In looking at your designs, and understand where you're
> coming from, I learn new things, and get a broader understanding of pneumatics,
> mechanics and physics.
>
> Your building, Pixel's building, Mark Tarrabain's creations, and most recently
> Siggurd's creations provide me with a lot of inspiration.
>
> If you wanted, your MOCs could possibly be entered in abscentia I think. You
> could send them to me, and I could take them to Brickfest.
>
> Many, times AFOLs said, "It is hard to appreciate these technic models from
> pictures. Seeing them in action makes all difference".
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > Mark
>
> Kevin
Yes, it's particularly the case with pneumatic models, since they just look like
a mass of beams and hoses till they move.
BTW what are flex tubes made of? Is it polypropylene (like rubber band
holders), polystyrene or ABS? I'm trying to find a way to get hold of a large
quantity of it but I need to know which type of plastic to look for!
I regret not having had time to build much in pneumatics since 1996, when the
pick and place robot came to life. 1996 was when I started on the trains, but
since I'm laying them down for a while it might be time to catch up with
pneumatics again. The octopus arm and 6-legged robot were really just
concept-proving doodles and I scrapped them before I'd had time to build
practical MOCs. The circuits remain for use in other applications.
Here are the pneumatic gate circuits I promised you:
AND / OR / NAND / NOR gate:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1346510
XOR / XNOR gate:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1346511
You're already using the second one but it formalises the set of gates. I have
more drawings to do before I can write the BrickJournal article, since I need to
start from a level most people will understand :-) Hopefully it will encourage
more people to build the kind of models we do.
Mark
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