miguev

Lovely C model, I'll definitely build it if you ever make (any kind of) instructions for it :)

I love this, everything in it makes it up for skid steering, which isn't too bad anyway. And yes, I think 8879 or SBrick could make skid steering work quite well when taking turns not too tight.

I liked this ad from 2013 models, there's also a making of that's fun to watch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXvwkhDXITs

The CV joints in your 2nd pic in post #14. Even with compressed shock springs, they look to me like they'll pop out when subject to stress, unless the M motor isn't stong enough and stalls first. I'd replace them with U joints and replace the M motors with L motors if you have them (same RPM, 2x the torque).

A bus! :) Very much looking forward to seeing this come together. I haven't seen many Technic buses, but searching on YouTube should yield at least a couple of them with working RC doors. I'm also interested in this, as one of my MOC ideas is a Volvo 7700 red bus (in service where I live now) but I think it'll be a few years before I try seriously.

I can't wait to see the video! Nice to see people doing trials with these tires, it looks like if you don't put the rule to use them everybody will go with the big, bigger, biggest tires they can. I like your limited slip diffs, saw something similar in a TC6 model and now waiting for rubber bands to give it a try

Welcome back to the light, you've landed on a really good forum. What themes do you enjoy best? (City, Creator, Technic,... Duplo? ;)

BookDepository FTW! I had no idea, now I feel even more of an idiot: ordered direct from nostarch.com at $5 more and, to avoid a shipping charge nearly as expensive as the book, shipped to a friend in the US, so won't have the book until Summer, at best. I'd appreciated BookDepository being highlighted in your videos ;)

I'm sorry to hear you're going through this! And disgusted about people even making profit out of it This may earn me disrespect / hate from this community, but I'm coming out of the wardrobe: I read your first book from a PDF without paying. Can't recall where it came from. At the time, I had little (if any) clue about who you were or what you did. I can't remeber whether I knew about your YouTube channel before reading the book, but I certainly wasn't following you on YouTube. Yours may well be the first channel I ever subscribed to, and quite a few other things followed from reading your book. I've been meaning to get it in print ever since, but been putting it off for too long... eventually felt like crap when reading about your experience, and ordered it now. I still feel bad for what I did, and I'm sorry. Yet, at the same time, I'm kinda happy about the effect it had on me. I learned about you and your work, which got me hooked back into LEGO Technic, which led me to crave for more on YouTube and eventually find this forum... and I haven't loved a forum as much in well over a decade (since I found my local Linux User Group). All this started with your eBook because, at the time, my only time for leisure reading was my short daily commute on train / bus / walking and my only read on a 7" tablet (same now). I could have arrived to the same by simply searching on YouTube, but it was your book that prompted the searching in the first place. I'm unsure that would have happened without your book, at least for the next several years (small kids, busy work, etc.). Does that mean you need eBooks to reach more audience? Kind of, but maybe you can take a benefitial intermediate approach: preview-only eBooks. Amazon has been doing this for years and I've found it very useful many times. Sometimes it helps me confirm I want to read that book, sometimes it helps me realize that's not the book I'm looking for. Looking back at your first book, a long preview (TOC, chapters 1, 2, 3, 10, a few pages from 14 and 15) would surely have hooked me up, and very likely made me buy the printed book back then. Shorter previews may do the trick, but I find the typical "chapter 1 only" previews pretty useless, I'm always left just as clueless as to whether I want to read the whole book. I totally agree that Incredible LEGO Technic is a book for enjoying on good-quality paper, not on a screen. I wouldn't say the same about your first book though, it's more of a text book, full of text to read and lessons to learn. If you're working on another Work of Stunning Beauty, definitely ditch the eBook format. I'd only consider it again for a more text-book-like book. I'd be sorry for the people who really use Ebooks a lot because they wouldn't carry the paper book around. Been there, done that. I'm not even past page 46 of Incredible LEGO Technic and it's precisely because I don't carry it around. But if releasing eBooks is impacting your chances to continue this wonderful work (regardless of why), I'd be totally supportive of dropping them. In the end, you want to create great content and we want to enjoy it AND support you to create more.

I love how deep in water this can go, amazing! Come to that, where is the steering servo?I've been thinking on how to do something like this but couldn't figure how to do the steering with the servo in the cab.

Heavy Mental! I had overlooked the Fox because having 8XL motors and 6 IR receivers was far beyond my inventory, but this makes me think maybe the right thing to do is expand that poor inventory!

Looks good! How about an L motor for drive? Gotta be stable on turns with that battery box in the belly :)

I suspect the same. Extra annoying for me since I'm not even in Germany, but it seems Switzerland is considered part of Germany when blocking access to some YouTube videos. On my desktop, sometimes I get a more clear message that the video is "not available in Germany" (and I think, when have I been teleported there?)

Oh, and Big Congrats to the winners! And thank you Jim and all participants to make this happen. I just managed to catch up with about 8 pages of unread threads to all I had missed out, amazing models!

"This video is not available" is all see in my phone, all the time. That's Android YouTube app. I want to see this big guy in action!

Damn it, I'm adding this little plain to my wishlist. Good thing it'll be in stores for a while, because I don't think I can slot it in for this year :D

8887 Power Functions Transformer 10VDC I got this one a few weeks ago for the EV3 rechargeable battery, and a friend got it for the same plus the LiPo battery.

I'm still hoping for an AWD RC motorized 42038, that RWD one looks good but steers terribly...

So far only found one, and I'm happy with him :) https://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=kingofmay

Wow, I'm impressed someone took the work to digitize my MOC, thank you so much! It looks really good, very accurate and to the last detail :) I'd be also surprised if mlcad didn't complain about some time the connections in the frame! I must confess, I was hesitant to post an update here about this being in Rebrickable, the thread being a bit old and inactive by then, but I now feel I owe it to you all: http://rebrickable.com/mocs/miguev/bmw-r-12-motorbike http://rebrickable.com/mocs/miguev/bmw-r-12-sidecar Video instructions may be more amusing that useful, but with the imminent new arrival in the family that's all I could manage 0:) Oh wait, I just noticed the brakes (on the handlebar) are not horizontal as in my original MOC, I guess mlcad made it too hard? I'm not familiar with the software 0:)

I've only tried bricklink so far, and while the platform is a blast from the past, I can get the stuff I want :) Mind shipping AND custom fees, most sellers are serious people and will declare goods values accurately. You may want to buy want to avoid international sellers sometimes, I do when I want to order more than €50 and a Swiss seller has what I need at a reasonable price. Also consider buying sets, of any size. I find Sariel's reviews very useful to decide which "parts packs" will fit me best.

+1, don't be disappointed and don't let that discourage you. Oh, I only got 14 points in TC5... I was super happy and surprised I got any points at all! The whole point of participating was to prove to myself that I could build something within the given time and rules. The sense of accomplishment came from achieving that (humble but realistic) goal. Maybe one day you win. Maybe one day I win. But that doesn't matter, the play is the goal! Similarly, I recently fell in love with some card games (e.g. Pirate Fluxx) and I never ever win, but playing is some much fun! :)

Really good work, I don't know about the HoF but I'm sure this would have gone into Sariel's last book :)

I'd love to see smaller PF elements, an XS motor would be awesome for so many applications, and an even smaller (than AAA) battery box would have nice too, e.g. one containing a PP3 9V battery. We kind of already have the MiniZip for that, but it's missing an on/off switch 0:)

Steering with the servo was kind of a mistake, Efferman's MOD to steer with mini LAs is a BIG improvement. I guess it was a Marketing decision more than a design one. Still, I rather have one more servo than one more M motor :)