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  1. Captainowie
    Wow, loving the space shuttle module at 1:46!
  2. Captainowie
    I must say I cringed a little when ever I see it going down stairs! I also love the little knob on the top of the cannon, just peeking through the enclosure. Like Jeff in Men In Black II. Great work, as usual. Owen.
  3. Captainowie
    I would actually argue that the 10th anniversary should be celebrated somewhat earlier, in October of this year. This thread http://news.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/?n=270 discusses the proposed standard.
  4. Captainowie
    My goodness, the quality of entries, and of the photography, thus far is phenomenal. Best of luck to all entrants! Owen.
  5. Captainowie
    11. Crop Duster Crop Duster Functions: Retractable undercarriage Engine and propeller Pose-able control surfaces Tail skid turns with rudder Part count:199 WIP topic Regards, Owen.
  6. Captainowie
    Sorry for persisting with this, but I still don't know what I'll get if you raise less than 100k. Your response is inconsistent, as to be "fully committed" to something implies a significantly higher level of certainty that "do our best".
  7. Captainowie
    So what you're saying is that if you get more than 60k but less than 100k, I get something that looks like the "First SBrick" rather than something that looks like all the pictures you have that you name the "current design"? That is very concerning. I guess that's what you mean when you say "there's a chance we have to redesign the brick to employ uniform electrical contacts in order to cut the costs", but you could have made it clearer that the "chance" was based on the amount of kickstarter funding your get, rather than being able to order large numbers of units. Yes more funding translates to more orders, but they are not the same thing. Owen.
  8. Captainowie
    Here in Australia (presumably this holds for other countries as well), you can purchase pre-paid cards from places like the Post Office that work exactly like a credit card, except that you don't get any actual credit.
  9. Captainowie
    Question to the developers: Do you foresee any problems getting the controller app integrated into the official app stores like Google Play store and equivalents?
  10. Captainowie
    Hmm, that electric tram looks an awful lot like that diesel locomotive! :-) Nice job with the TGV too. Anyone else think that the photo of the train being loaded onto the plane is the mechanized equivalent of a large snake eating a crocodile? Is the engine mechanism (I assume that's what the wheel on the back does) smooth? Those U-joints look like they're about at the limit of their useful angle. Well done nevertheless.
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    I meant this one http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=32034, so that all the connections between the frame and the legs are in the same plane. I'm not a LDD user, so I can't see Bricktrain's solution, but if it works for you, then great. Owen.
  12. Captainowie
    Protection measures are there for a reason - just be careful!
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    Hi Ummester. My suggestions would be: Extend the axles until they are level with the front stand, and use a #2 axle joiner to connect them to the leg. Let me know if that doesn't make sense. That really depends on how sturdy you need the lock to be, and how often you will need to change positions. For example, to lock them up, you could place a technic brick through the two gray axles you have, and fit the studs on the brick into the anti-studs of the plate above. But it'd be fiddly to get unlocked. To lock them down, you could simply have something that limits the travel of the axle frame until just after it's passed the fully down position, and the weight of the model will hold them in place. Solutions go up from there in technicality! Hope that helps Owen.
  14. Captainowie
    A lovely example of studded building. I'm just a little concerned about that string - it looks too fine to be official LEGO. Owen.
  15. Captainowie
    Some rough measurements from the video indicate that if you discount the movement up and down the tower, the robot builds at about 10^-3 m/sec, which would reach "space" (about 10^5 m up) in about 10^8 seconds, which is approximately 3 years, so you could cut your time down drastically by lifting the tower sections up along with the robot, such that it doesn't have to come all the way back down to pick up the next two sections. At the end of the build, that trip would take about 8 months one way (at 5x10^-3 m/sec). However, to be a 'space elevator', you need to go all the way to geostationary orbit, which is about 3.6x10^7 m up. This means that it'd still take a thousand years even if the tower sections were right there with the building robot at all times. At that altitude, the trip back down would take about 200 years.
  16. Captainowie
    Well I've sourced the remaining yellow parts, and finally got around today to taking some nicer photos. Now all I need to do is find someone who can photoshop in some Swoosh.
  17. Captainowie
    It does sound like all you need is some linkage that keeps the linear actuator body from moving. Something very much like what efferman suggests. Alternatively, as Rockbrick points out, you're starting and finishing with angular motion, so do you really need to use linear motion at all? I seem to recall some Bionicle parts that are half gear half liftarm that might help with your mechanism clearance issues.
  18. Captainowie
    Yes. That's the only way it's going to work, if at all. A 'copter has to accelerate itself at 9.8 m/s/s (effectively) just to get liftoff. A fixed-wing craft only needs a fraction of that. Something that doesn't need to break free of ground-effect can survive with much shorter (= lighter, simpler) wings. I'm still doubtful that you could get enough thrust even then, but I just can't see it working any other way.
  19. Captainowie
    Surely if you're going to make it precisely 2L long, then you're also going to change the pitch of the thread such that this isn't an issue??
  20. Captainowie
    Just noticed an entry for something called a "Hot Blub Tractor" in the HoF thread. Slight typo, methinks. :-)
  21. Captainowie
    Some kind of version control (SVN, Git, formalised filenames, etc) will be essential.
  22. Captainowie
    It's explicit in the rules that there are no digital entries - the photo that you submit should be an actual photo of your actual model. I would say that the corollary to that is that you're limited to the parts that you have (or are willing to buy). Yes, that gives an advantage to those with a large parts collection, but those people are always going to have an advantage with physical builds. If you start saying things like "here's what I built, but just imagine that it looks like this render", then it what's the point of having a physical model at all?
  23. Captainowie
    There was quite the discussion of it in the contest rules thread - see http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=96430&st=125#entry1914246 for the final ruling.
  24. Captainowie
    Don't forget that each length of pneumatic hose counts as one part - your picture has one large length of hose, but the model has several small lengths.
  25. Captainowie
    And here they are: 199 parts by my count.
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