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  1. miguev
    Nicely done! Fast on flat road, strong on rough terrain, and sturdy! Man, I dream of building like you some day
  2. miguev
    Those saying "you are too old for Lego" need to grow up. Just a bit ;)
  3. miguev
    Sometimes good enough now is better than better but later... so I got a cheap 250 mAh battery here and now, rather than wait much longer for a 600 mAh. Just tried on a 5292 motor and I'm impressed! An AWD 350 grams chassis using , and a V2 IR receiver. I'm impressed! Performance is awesome, can't wait to try the same with 600 mAh. No point in spending $$$ in a lipo battery anymore.
  4. miguev
    Yep, you nailed it, I was too lazy to even think about it. I just shifted this join by 1 stud: and now I can pick up many more blocks! :) Shifting by 2 studs wouldn't work because then you wouldn't be able to empty the bucket when raised, it would only stay with it's bottom flat horizontal. Shifting the point where the LA joins the other end of this inner lever didn't seem like it'd work either, the LA would not be able to fully retract.
  5. miguev
    Well worth coming from an "insider". I always thought the logic was more generally: reserve the next big, greatest thing for the post-Xmas sales, otherwise you won't sell the older things! Stock must go, you can't start selling the latest until you get rid of the previous thing. And this is not just about Xmas+toys+parents+kids, but also about geeks+gadgets and pretty much everybody+everything. Anyway, many stores in Switzerland will start selling (at least some) 2015 Technic sets on Dec 17th, tight but soon enough for Xmas eve.
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  7. miguev
    Thanks again for the LDD and detailed steps relative to original instructions. You details (beyond step 57) out, as an exercise for the reader I guess... it was fun Is anyone planning to MOD the bucket arm? The range of bucket tilt makes it really hard to pick up big blocks, I just tried today and was much harder than with the 8043-B model, which allows tilting the bucket back/up when the arm is lowest. Little video to explain this better:
  8. miguev
    Sounds really bad, I'd personally give it a go at taking it apart, it sounds like something's out of place and hitting other bits around and it won't live long :(
  9. miguev
    Efferman, your timing was perfect. I was just about to start building my 42030 and now it's got your MOD. Thank you so much for the last LXF, really helpful!
  10. miguev
    Yeah, sorry for deviating the conversation, and thanks for the video! I anticipate I'll get an EV3 for Xmas and can't stop thinking of near-real-time applications
  11. miguev
    Oh, that queue sounds problematic, ideally you should be able to cancel commands that have been obsoleted by newer ones.
  12. miguev
    How much smaller can you make the archs / mudguards with this? I don't see much of a difference in the video, although the bump steer is gone for good.
  13. miguev
    Nice video!
  14. miguev
    I wouldn't store them standing like normal books, they may look like they can stand it for a long time but I don't think they can, they'd deform rather quickly
  15. miguev
    A driver would be nice, but invoking gatttool would be enough for now. High latency / low frequency would be a problem for many applications, but which latency is high? I'm not sure what you mean by getting a response from the SBrick, when does the PF element move? I mean, if I sending a command with gatttool to (e.g.) move a PF Servo 90º/100% to one side, how long does it take to start moving? Does the response from the SBrick come back only when the servo reaches the destination position? Uh, 4 lines, 4 questions, I can do with a big cup of RTFM
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    You just made my day! I was finding myself unsatisfied with the limit of just 3 motors on the EV3 and thought about controlling an SBrick from the EV3. Been putting off looking into it with the pessimistic assumption that the would not be supported by ev3dev... You prove me wrong, you make my day :)
  17. miguev
    Parallel building FTW! :) If it wasn't for the kids, I'd sell booklets and keep PDFs safe. But they're already all over the place.
  18. miguev
    I hope this thread is not too old to reply to (this one is older)... Brickshelf was down again, close to the end of November, making it hard to review TC5 contest entries. Looking at Brickshelf and Bricksafe with a critical eye, I see you're doing very well at making Bricksafe a lot better of a choice, at least in terms of reliability. From the details I see at http://bricksafe.com/outages it sounds like it's "just you running one server". As a regular user with years using Flickr, I'm very much spoiled by their uptime / SLA, so this made me wary of your uptime / SLA. But you're not alone in this, right? You're hosting your server in CloudFlare and they do a whole lot of work to keep your server reachable, and they are very transparent in their post-mortems! So, I think I'll move to Bricksafe. Good work, please keep it up (literally). I'd love to see an issue tracker to file bugs and feature requests though.
  19. miguev
    Glad to hear that, thanks! :)
  20. miguev
    Thanks for the links, but I'm still torned between the 600 mAh ones and the locally available 200 mAh ones. Should I stay away from either?
  21. miguev
    I tried and couldn't find how, could someone please link to this? Thanks!
  22. miguev
    Thanks Sariel for such great reviews, and even all of them at once! With no pneumatics in 1H2015, I'm hoping we can hope for the 2H flagship to the something like the Unimog (big, pneumatic with motorized pump and air tanks).
  23. miguev
    Lovely! One more reason to get my kids a 42026 :)
  24. miguev
    One suggestion: would you expand the "new pieces" section to include pieces that are (a) new from the same year, and (b) abundant? This idea comes from being surprised by finding (7 of) part 15462 in the 42030 set and nowhere in its review, only now I (searched for and) found it in your .Thing is, if you think of people who would get / buy 1 or 2 sets per year, what would be "new pieces" for them? I'd say all those released only the same year.
  25. miguev
    I see. I take it that worse steering geometry (and needing more room inside mudguards) is the least bad. I was dreaming of using the 42000 portals in a trial truck, but it seems I should stop dreaming (and start building 0:)
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