Sariel

Very clever! I've been slowly working on a traditional "horizontal" rolling balls clock for a while, and I can appreciate just how tightly packed your variant is. A horizontal clock is enormous, with plenty of space taken by rocking ball containers and a long way to travel for each ball. What you've done in a vertical variant is incredible.

It's simply sitting over the battery's power button, it's not connected to the surrounding structure and it has a 2x2 round bottom tile on the bottom.

I like building small. I find it challenging and I appreciate the fact that it tests your skill rather than your wallet's depth. Big MOCs are often impressive and very challenging in their own ways, but personally I'm under impression they are sometimes built on a "I don't need skills, I have money" principle. In any case, I just like to occasionally test how small I can go with something fully RC: Pics & reading: http://sariel.pl/2015/02/tiger-2-king-tiger/ Here are some selected pics, thanks to the Thumbnail Helper tool:

Nice photos. I actually found that something as light as your car but with two RC buggy motors does indeed rip its tires, and can drift perfectly fine on dry floor. Not sure I should be happy about it. I liked my tires.

It's a deliberate choice. I don't want you losing all your results from e.g. the model scaler because you clicked on another tool and the link took you to it.

This error only happens when you drew nothing. Are you sure you can't draw? It definitely works in Chrome.

My bad, it was a technical problem I just fixed. To solve the Tools bar problem, I made it stay in the upper left screen's corner and be only title-tall. It expands on hover. How does that work for you?

Well, good old Bricklink lets you view all parts from a chosen year, here's 2015 for instance: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catID=&itemYear=2015&searchName=Y&searchNo=Y&q=&catLike=W

Thanks. I guess you're viewing it a low resolution, so some overlapping is inevitable, left or right. I could just make the menu icons smaller but it will change very little while making the icons much uglier. And I'm concerned that menu on the right screen size can get mixed up with the scrollbar, especially on mobile devices. Maybe if I moved it to lower left window corner it would help?

I've done some tidying up on my tools - now they're all in one place, some of them are improved and there is one brand new. I'm sure at least some will be useful to you, so let me walk you through it step by step: 1. My 5 most popular tools are now available from a single website: tools.sariel.pl. The idea was to make things easier to bookmark in your browser etc - now you only need one address instead of five (there's also an animated hamster, so there's that). The tools are, of course, still available separately under their independent addresses, listed below. Additionally, every tool now has a small bar on your screen's left side that lets you navigate from one tool to another. 2. There is one new tool available to you: a Thumbnail Helper (thumbs,sariel.pl). If you have pictures in a Brickshelf or Majhost gallery, this tool provides easy way to put them in a post - you can do it in few clicks, and your post will include thumbnails that open up big images - this way everybody wins. This tool generates BBCode that works on pretty much any forum and it can extract up to 100 images from a single Brickshelf / Majhost folder. It does not include subfolders - you need to process them separately. Here's how it works: - paste the URL address of your gallery, e.g. http://www.brickshel...ry.cgi?f=390121 - if the gallery is not yet public, the tool can still access it if you provide your Brickshelf/Majhost login and password - it will then simply log to your account once to scan the gallery. Now, I realize login and password are sensitive and you may prefer to keep them private. In this case, you'll need to wait until your gallery becomes public. For what is worth, this tool was originally developed for our Polish forum, and no passwords have ever been stolen - the tool does not store them anywhere, just uses them once. - once the gallery is scanned, you'll see up to 100 first thumbnails. Click the ones you want to show to select them, and if you change your mind click any thumbnail again to deselect it. There is no "select all" option at this time, sorry - this tool was intended for adding a small selection of pics to your post, not for bombing it with 100 pics. - once you've selected the thumbnails you want to share, copy the entire code from the bottom textarea. Simply click the "Mark the code" button, then press Ctrl + C - in your forum post, press "Toggle editing mode" button (the very first one in the menu above the text area, with flip switch icon), then paste the code (Ctrl + V) in desired place and press the "Toggle editing mode" button again - you should now be seeing your post with a row of thumbnails in it. You can still write above and below it. Once you post your post, the thumbnails will be clickable, opening up full-size pics from your Brickshelf / Majhost folder 3. Changes to existing tools: Wheels Chart (wheels.sariel.pl) - "Rim diameter" column added - the entire chart can now be sorted by simply clicking any of the dark gray column headers, e.g. "Weight". The default sorting is by total diameter, ascending. The column with pics is, sadly, not sortable. - all dimensions are now expressed in millimeters, inches and studs - several new wheels added - several values corrected / updated / complemented Unit Converter (studs.sariel.pl) - added two units: millimeters and stacked minifigures - new, more accurate method of rounding up the decimals employed Gear Ratio Calculator (gears.sariel.pl) - no changes Model Scaler (scaler.sariel.pl) - side margins added to avoid the Tools bar overlapping the working area I hope the tools meet your needs. They remain, as always, free to use. PS. Now, where's my "jQuery maniac" badge? ;)

The values in my book are taken directly from Philo. If they are different than declared at his website, then he probably updated his website since then. As for difference between Lego data and Philo's data: well, we know how Philo got his numbers because he's shown us the entire process. Lego showed nothing. So I guess anybody can repeat Philo's tests and check if he gets the same values. Interesting question, I have recently observed that RC buggy motors powered from the RC unit perform much better with 1.2V Eneloop rechargeable batteries than with brand new 1.5V Duracell ones. I mean, it was a very, very clear difference and these Eneloops weren't even freshly loaded.

Exactly the list of things I've never seen Lego supercars driving on :)

Your guess is as good as mine. And I'm not sure you need a Torsen or a lockable driff in a supercar, I mean supercars don't really go off-road.

It's not that very small. I was unable to damage it with torque so far. Keep in mind that this is a complex 3D printed part, it may require some filing before it works properly.

I guess I could even publish numbers from a single trusted source :) The problem is that for a really trustworthy, accurate measurements you'll need a caliper, ideally a digital one. It's not a commonly owned piece of equipment, but it's really useful.

That's because the list only covers the wheels I own, because I do all the measuring and weighing.

I could, but I don't have it so I can't measure it (Lego tire/rim names tend to be a milimeter or few off, strangely) nor weigh it.

Thanks, I don't travel much, though. Here's the app anyway: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.com.digita.BikeComputer&hl=en It's for Android, but there's surely something similar for iOS too.

I was using Move! Bike Computer app in that video. Basically any app that tracks your speed with GPS will do.

A substantial update of wheels.sariel.pl is now live. Important: please refresh the page if you’ve been there before. Change log: - moving cursor over an item now displays subparts of a wheel: a rim and a tire, each being separate link to the Bricklink’s catalog. This does not apply to single-piece wheels. - moving cursor over a wheel’s subpart – a rim or tire – now displays a list of matching tires for rims, and matching rims for tires. Again, each image is a separate link to the Bricklink’s catalog. - the list’s header now stays on screen when scrolling down and up - some diameters are now shown with greater accuracy - almost all items now include rim and tire widths - several new wheels added to the list I hope the tool serves you better now. Please share info here if you encounter any bugs.

I have no idea how you can download .ldr file as .pov file. It downloads and opens correctly for me.

Very well said. Besides, people seem very quick to suspect TLG of stealing designs. It does not seem too logical that a huge company would employ an entire team of highly qualified and well paid (meaning: costly) designers specifically to browse the web and steal people's stuff. I mean, I had people telling me TLG stole my Tumbler model, but having built both these Tumblers I can positively say it did not. Not only the models are very different, but it actually appears that TLG's designer (whom I know and who's well aware of my model) made a specific effort to avoid resemblance.

Well, then maybe it's time to check the email address you asked me to sent it to, because it's sitting there since 6 hours (spam folder, maybe?). It's .ldr file. I don't know where you got a .pov file from. I triple-checked and the file I put on the Sendspace is .ldr file:

First of all, if you wanted to have my Servo gearbox in MLCad, you just had to tell me. Here it is: https://www.sendspace.com/file/y0vrau Second, your first link points to a file with my Scania Racing Truck, with Servo gearbox added somewhere behind it. I'm not sure this is the result you wanted. You can save models as separate files in MLCad, you know. Right now it looks like you're putting everything you do in MLCad into a single file.

Evil laser hamsters made my day