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Sariel

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  1. Sariel
    I'm happy to report that after several days of polishing the app is now much more complete: gear images included planetary wheel hubs included you can reset any pair to 1:1 ratio by long-pressing its ratio compatible down all the way to Android 4.4 Happy using! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.sariel.brickgearratiocalculator
  2. Sariel
    No. Sorry but I'm just one guy and if I have to learn programming for mobile devices then one system is enough to keep me busy and for obvious reasons I'm going with the system that has 75% of the market, not 20%.
  3. Sariel
    Thanks Zerobricks. App update 1.3 should be online inside 1 hour, among other fixes I've managed to stretch the app compatibility down all the way to Android 4.4. Anyone should be able to run it now.
  4. Sariel
    You don't yet because I didn't feel the need for such an option myself. But since it's needed, I will figure out how to add it shortly. What's the correct torque? I'm thinking about the images.
  5. Sariel
    I'm happy to announce that my first Android app featuring a LEGO gear ratio calculator including 14 gear wheel sizes, calculation for up to 10 pairs of gears and output for 23 types of LEGO motors is now available for free for Android 7.0 and higher: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.sariel.brickgearratiocalculator I hope it helps with your projects!
  6. Sariel
    Anybody else can't stand looking at that thing? It neither looks well nor drives well.
  7. Sariel
    Don't forget half of a kidney.
  8. Sariel
    So, the new planetary wheel hubs inspired me to build one of the legendary Russian off-road monsters:
  9. Sariel
    Oh, it has quite a lot of applications. Similar concept here:
  10. Sariel
    MLCad and LPub3D.
  11. Sariel
    On the other hand, I once got the 75098 Assault on Hoth set for review, and we all know how it went - the set was a disaster and I was really hard on it. I never got another Star Wars set for a review. To be fair, this might have happened because LEGO decided that my channel isn't a good target for Star Wars reviews. It was around the time when I stopped buying SW sets for reviews because their popularity was limited.
  12. Sariel
    It's a bit funny to be a yardstick for doing reviews quickly ;) Two points I'd like to make: - I was getting Technic review sets from LEGO long before LAN existed, as far back as 5 or 6 years if I remember correctly, and for a long time LEGO had no problem sending them even 2 months early, with the embargo date clearly set. Things have gradually changed to what we're working with today, with the 42110 being a prime example of all of us being forced to race to publish the review first. Not a comfortable set-up, but I guess this is the price of having more reviewers in the program and of LEGO trying to fight leaks. - personally, I just can't afford buying all the Technic sets myself. Family reasons require that I put my money elsewhere and for me, the support from LEGO is basically "to be or not to be" in terms of reviews. Without this support, I could maybe buy one of the larger sets from each wave, and not necessarily the flagship set.
  13. Sariel
    No, I'm not overly happy with this chassis. Going with the standard PF batbox created plenty of problems.
  14. Sariel
    What can I say, I was always jealous of how many explosions Michael Bay can squeeze into his movies, so... Photos: https://bricksafe.com/pages/sariel/kv-1kv-2-tank More details will land at my website later.
  15. Sariel
    Today let me take you on a detailed tour of the real Liebherr R 9800, in which we can even sit in the operator's seat:
  16. Sariel
    Some LEGO's own in-house modelling software. Didn't get a chance to see it close.
  17. Sariel
    And finally, here'a a brief behind-the-scenes video from LEGO:
  18. Sariel
    Here's my behind-the-scenes video and full story with pics will be coming to my website shortly:
  19. Sariel
    Yes, we had no return-to-neutral mechanism, that's why we've used realtime telemetry from the cabin, to watch positions of the joysticks and pedals.
  20. Sariel
    Because there were exactly TWO front shovel R 9800's in the world at the time of making our video and we couldn't get any of them.
  21. Sariel
    Yes, pistons bounce, and the colors differ because we've been filming this over 2 days and we got cloudy weather halfway through the second day, this shot was taken right then. If LEGO wanted to use CGI, they probably wouldn't have bothered with sending us to Australia to get the real R 9800 in the first place.
  22. Sariel
    Sorry, what CGI? There is no CGI, every shot was for real. Yes, we really slammed the bucket in the ground, you'll see the same shot in my own video which comes out tomorrow.
  23. Sariel
    Yes, it is the same exact model as the Lego one. Please, at least try to do some research before commenting. It doesn't have an opening bucket because R 9800 comes in two configurations: front shovel and back shovel, and at the time of our filming there were only two front-shovel R 9800's in the world. 1. Yes, we did. The computer screens were showing us telemetry from the R 9800's cabin. Positions of joysticks, engines' status and such. We couldn't drive an 800-tonne machine by just looking at it from afar. 2. The app was a development version, since we've done it several months before the 42100 set's release, so it wasn't exactly the same as final app, but I don't know the details. It looked and worked the same. 3. As I've already explained, LEGO had developed a way of transforming Bluetooth signal into wi-fi and back again. Essentially they've brought an engineer who built two devices: one that pretended to be the Control+ hub to the phone and one that pretended to be the phone to the Control+ hub, and they communicated using wi-fi. Once we got that working, the wi-fi range was only a matter of big enough antennas. 4. Can't comment on that, sorry. 5. A little under 6 months. 6. We had 2 days on site at Australia. Before that, we've made several trips to Colmar, where they build R 9800's, to measure the cabin and build prototypes. 7. The core team was 4 people: 3 LEGO employees and me. Wait for my videos to learn more.
  24. Sariel
    There was a guy from LEGO who had equipment capable of turning Bluetooth signal into wi-fi signal and back again. And 100 meters of range with wi-fi was only a matter of getting right antennas (yes, there were two, and we had a Star Wars lightsaber fight with them ;) ). I don't know about switches. I've just made the foot pedals mechanism, the cables were not my responsibility.
  25. Sariel
    It's official: what we've been doing for the last half of year together with LEGO was turning a real-life Liebherr R 9800 into an RC model. And guess who drove it :D More video content will follow soon! My behind-the-scenes video: And finally, here's a brief behind-the-scenes video from LEGO:
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