GroundskeeperWillie
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Wow, that a lot of PF in a small space. Looks really cute, well done! -
If only they would ship a battery box with the sets from time to time so we wouldn't run out of them. Oh, wait...
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This is a great mechanical solution that also looks really cool. It nicely avoids a ton of motors and control elements that would be necessary if each platform had to be controlled on its own. Well done I was worried at first that the up/down movement would not be fast and accurate enough but that looks really smooth as well.
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[WIP] Volvo EC750E
GroundskeeperWillie replied to cloud's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
That's a really interesting way to extend the LA's. I'm looking forward to see how it works out. It does look like there might be a friction problem with the turn table under load. -
This looks really good. Is the cabin turned by hand or did you manage to squeeze a knob in there to do it?
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I second this. DaVinci Resolve is the (free) sequencer you want to learn. And this - NO vertical video. It is a terrible a waste of your viewer's screen space and patience.
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Got my two units today My shipping story is that it's been a about three weeks since I got the tracking number and nothing happened until late last week. But now they're here. My OnePlus 1 (android) phone could not see them (it just displayed a "Scanning stopped!" message) so after a few attempts I took out my old android tablet instead. It detected both units right away. When "starting up" a firmware update was started automatically, but unfortunately the "This will only take a minute" message is rather inaccurate in my case. The unit flashes red, alternating fast and slow, but after an hour there's no progress in the app's progress bar. I'll leave it running as others have, and if it's not successful I'll try another phone. Even if it's not a great experience so far, it is nice to know the unit's behavior has been seen and corrected before. Update: Re-reading this thread, I gave up on the seemingly stuck FW upgrade. I was not able to turn off the unit so I just restarted the app and tried again. This time it completed in about a minute, with the progress bar moving steadily all the way. So, I'm in business!
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I'll be happy to help with Android testing
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This is really great. Well made and looks authentic so far. I always loved that siege tank animation and you've captured it wonderfully. The legged tank from the game was also great but that would be next to impossible to implement in LEGO...
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I hate to bring up the "secondary bot" subject again, but I feel we are left with very few possibilities for demonstrating the signature move. Just to be clear; if I build a flipper or an axe, I can only demonstrate this into thin air in the entry post/video? But in the discussion topic there are no limitations? Did I get this right? I don't want to argue about it, I just want to make the rules absolutely clear.
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That's creative! I was thinking an EMP cannon. But these solutions are hard to sneak past the contest rules ;-)
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Impossible LEGO
GroundskeeperWillie replied to Boxerlego's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
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That is awesome! Great car and video. That looks like a small RC car that performs just as well as any semi-pro small non-LEGO RC car. But to control it properly we'll be needing physical controls rather that just a touch screen. Once the BuWizz and app gets delivered that's a problem we'll need to address. I'm thinking something similar to this project for the SBrick:
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You could use smaller wheels and duplicate them on top to enable upside down movement...
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So, no BuWizz powered bot?
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Great job! I can't believe I got through so many years of math without seeing the formula of a heart curve. But now I just did
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Wonderful creation! But now your next project has to be a LEGO washing machine...
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For what it's worth, I had success with using both the IRLink and IRReceiver and LeJos with the NXT. I have not tried the EV3. I believe I used a bit of custom driver code found of the LeJos forum.
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This looks really great. It has that real menacing industrial robot feel to it Looking forward to seeing it completed and put to work.
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Really impressive build! Well done. I'm missing a photo that really shows off its huge scale. Would be great if you could include some household object (Sariel often uses a soda can) in a photo to show the scale.
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Now that you mention it, I can't recall even providing a shipping address. IIRC the message from Kickstarter was that backers would be contacted to provide shipping address. Did anybody else provide an address?
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Awesome - thanks, Jim!
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What a great job. It looks very polished, even more so than the real machine. It has a lot of features in common with the 52054 and I like that you've managed to include both drive train, fake engine and pendular axle, all missing on the Xerion. Of course it is also wider so there's more space to work with. Well done!
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This is a really nice MOC. Especially the attachments all look really good. The tractor itself looks a bit out of proportion to me, maybe it's mainly the wheels that seems too small. The Xerion tires might help. Also the hitch in the back doesn't look too sturdy but other than that it the functions look great