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(...) (URL) The period for submitting MOCs anded on the 14th, but there will be a new challenge next month Jetro (15 years ago, 16-Feb-10, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Congratulations! What a beautiful model. I very much like your use of color, looks just like the wooden models of da Vinci's work that you'd see in a museum. Your sculpting is simple yet so effective at creating a very organic looking machine! (...) (15 years ago, 16-Feb-10, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) I'll sign up there then, thanks! (15 years ago, 15-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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In lugnet.technic, Joshua Delahunty wrote: <stuff> Sorry about that, hit the wrong button trying to fix the mistaken k's in Eric's name, and caused a double post. Went ahead with the fixes to show I realized they were the wrong spelling. :-/ -- (...) (15 years ago, 12-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) SPEAKING of TECHNIC... I noticed yesterday (thanks to your blog post on LEGO.com, actually, Eric), the The LEGO Group has stopped claiming TECHNIC as a trademark. Further, they're not insistent on fully capitalizing it any longer (I first saw (...) (15 years ago, 12-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) SPEAKING of TECHNIC... I noticed yesterday (thanks to your blog post on LEGO.com, actually, Erik), the The LEGO Group has stopped claiming TECHNIC as a trademark. Further, they're not insistent on fully capitalizing it any longer (I first saw (...) (15 years ago, 12-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) I do most of my chatting at (URL) Eurobricks> which has a dedicated (URL) Technic> forum. There is a pretty good amount of posting and quite a few Technic fans post there, including myself. blakbird (15 years ago, 12-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) TBs is not only a great source for information but the post comments are almost a forum by themselves. It's just a bit harder to stay up to date with everything because so far I haven't found a way of subscribing to comments without making one (...) (15 years ago, 12-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) :) I'm thinking to add a discussion forum to TechnicBRICKs for too long!... :( But actually hardly have the time to post what I'd like and have in queue, so a forum is just another item in the queue, as it would mean a considerable time (...) (15 years ago, 12-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hi Tobbe, Long time, no talk ;o) (...) Pretty much indeed, except for some activity in CAD section, main reason why I'm still here... (...) Little more to offer (TBs is very good, but it's not a direct replacement!). NXTasy forum is vary (...) (15 years ago, 11-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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Hi there! So I'm getting the gears running again and LUGNET has died, more or less. Where have all the Technic buffs gone to do their chit-chat? I've found this blog (URL) which keep me sort of in the loop... (15 years ago, 11-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) So do I... Now I just have to find how to align again the fingers without dismantling everything ;o) Philo (15 years ago, 7-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Really nice. And thanks for the LDraw instructions. I really like building this kind of contraptions and mechanisms. Jetro (15 years ago, 6-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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Here is my current favourite MOC: (2 URLs) It's a Lego implementation of an amazing mechanical puzzle invented by Oskar van Deventer and Bram Cohen, as seen here: (URL) I can't improve on the explanation given in this second video - just watch it! (...) (15 years ago, 6-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Fantastic work as always! (15 years ago, 3-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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(...) Yes, there are quite a few possible variations on this mechanism. There is even at least one in an official model: (URL) Hope you get it working. I always like a purely mechnical solution :) (15 years ago, 3-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Hmm, I had dabbled with a similar solution, but inverted (with the motor driving the bottom gear and the two side gears the two outputs, but discarded it for reasons that escape me at the moment. I must investigate this further. Thanks! Owen. (15 years ago, 2-Feb-10, to lugnet.technic)
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Here is yet another possible solution that I have found effective for something very similar (a vehicle that reverses its direction when it hits an obstacle). This one is purely mechanical (no electrical switch needed). (2 URLs) The mechanism relies (...) (15 years ago, 31-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic)
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I've just posted a new update to (URL). This is an unusual update in that it does not add any new years of models (although I am working on 1995). Instead it makes a number of improvements to existing information. Reformatted some older pages to (...) (15 years ago, 28-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX) !
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(...) It would depend on how much of the dead band you eliminate. Cleaning up bookmarks I came a cross this which might work: (2 URLs) Jetro (15 years ago, 27-Jan-10, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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