evank
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It's good, since we live on opposite sides of Earth. -
I think it would help make our case to the admins if we can say that someone is willing to be the subforum moderator. Otherwise we're creating more work for them. I'll raise my hand because I am masochist with no extra time. 🙄
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Lol so Alex blamed me, I blamed you, and you blamed Alex. Teamwork! 😁 Regardless, we all agree it's a good idea. A whole vintage Technic section for our retro creations, vintage software, and modern hacks!
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Wasn't it @Toastie's idea? Anyway, I personally have no problem using one Facebook profile for all of my stuff there :) but yes let's have a vintage Technic subforum! Someone would need to be a volunteer moderator, because inevitably people of a certain age will find a Mindstorms set from 2005 and decide it's quite old. :)
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Technic Pub
evank replied to jantjeuh's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
It's at Monmouth University, in Long Branch. That's only 15 minutes from Asbury Park. They constructed a whole new building for Bruce's archives and the museum exhibits -- it's exceptional!! https://springsteencenter.org/ -
Who you gonna call? @Toastie! That's why I joked a while back that I may be the only person here actually building things based on Interface A.
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Technic Pub
evank replied to jantjeuh's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
Anybody else a Springsteen fan? I'm one of those fans who's been to a billion shows. I know he's as popular in Europe as here in New Jersey. A local university just opened his official archives and a museum building to the public. I went last week and it's spectacular. -
Technic Pub
evank replied to jantjeuh's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
I'm 51. My daily is a 2025 Chevy Equinox EV -- that's confusing because they still sell a full-gas, non-hybrid Equinox, too. But mine is full battery, not hybrid. It gets about 300 miles in the summer. I also have a fun car, it's a 1995 Mazda Miata five-speed, quite slow but way more fun than the EV (except when driving in a straight line). -
@Toastie I rescind my first response. My new opinion is that we should ask the EB admin (I don't know who they are) to create a subforum called Vintage Technic, defined as anything pre-Mindstorms. Then we can all post away without the modern cars and stuff.
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@alexGS what does the group being public or private have to do with posting there? I made the Square Pistons group private because it got enough members to attract spam and low-quality posts. Whereas the Interface A group is only 50 people and barely anyone posts there beside me ... I've been thinking about turning it off.
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I like the ongoing Interface A megathread. I vote for not changing anything. Update: I might be a hypocrite and make a new thread next week, because I anticipate having something unique to announce!
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LOGO on a C-64 was the first thing I ever did on a computer! I was 10 in 1984. One day, without any notice or fanfare, they rolled an A/V cart into our classroom and taught us how to program LOGO's turtle graphics on a Commodore 64 . That was the extent of the lesson. But it was AWESOME from my perspective. We also tinkered when we should've been doing something else, in the process discovering the alternate screen colors and alternate key symbols. The next year, I switched to another school and signed up for an elective programming class, where we learned BASIC in a lab room full of Apple ][+ and //e systems. My parents then bought a //e Platinum for our house. I told my mother, "I wish there was a way to connect the Apple // to my Legos!" --- I remember that moment with 100% clarity. (Actually I remember all of this stuff like it happened today.) We certainly didn't know there WAS a way, it has JUST happened, and we had no access to this. Thirty years later, in 2016, I turned 42. I was home that summer recovering from bone tumor surgery. I was beyond miserable, until my friend Ben suggested tinkering with "that 1980s Lego computer interface" ..... WHAT!!?? Turns out he had a sealed/new-in-box Lego 9700, 9750, 9767. That turned my frown upside-down! Since then I became an Interface A junkie, switched to a great new career in academia, bought a house, got married, and joined Eurobricks. :)
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I forgot about this! I never did buy one of those mini-PC things. I did buy a drone. :)
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Please copy me on that email. I'd like to see the cable in detail, part number, etc.
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I understand your concept about making it fit by running slower, but beyond that you're over my head with those electrical details. 1996? You mean 1986.