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The website NXTprograms.com has many free Project Instructions for Lego Mindstorms NXT 1.0 and 2.0 sets. They come with the PROGRAMMING code too! "If you have a LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT robotics kit, then this site provides free building instructions and downloadable programs for lots of fun projects. Projects designed for the young and young at heart! Only one NXT kit required, no extra parts are needed. Full building instructions with color photographs. No programming experienced required! You can simply download and use the programs provided. "Know some programming but want to learn more? Study the fully commented programs to learn how they work, modify them, and use what you learn in your own programs." There are DOZENS of projects, sorted by category, for NXT 1.0: * Fun and Games * Music and Sound * Cars and Vehicles * Weapons * Machines * Sensor Systems * Animals There are also dozens of projects, sorted by category, for NXT 2.0: * Fun and Games * Cars and Vehicles * Music and Sound * Weapons * Sensor Systems Projects are rated for Easy/Intermediate/Advanced/Expert Building. They even have a YouTube Channel!

Yes, you got a good deal because the Lego Mindstorms 8547 set's Recommended Retail Price (per Brickset) is 234.99 Pounds. Have you visited the official Lego Mindstorms website yet?

I wonder how Nathanael Kuipers was able to post (and retain) a PDF on his Brickshelf gallery. I thought Brickshelf stopped hosting PDFs ~3 years ago; it would be great if they are allowing them again since they upgraded their server. Does anybody know for sure?

@ Ishc-viss-j: In the model I built using Zblj's LDD building instructions, I used one 9244 "Technic, Universal Joint 4L" (4-studs-long, shown in the first picture below) and one 61903 "Technic, Universal Joint 3L" (3-studs-long, second picture below) to make the rear driveshaft fit:

@ rumpletump: Nice BIG Technic model! Were you inspired by Richard Hubley's Tracked Dump Truck (pictured below)?

Nice tractor! I agree with Finntech -- the rear wheels could be a little bit larger and the rear fender set higher:

@ AR: I opened LDD just now, and it's still the LDD 4.2.5 with Brick Version 604.1 (from the update that occurred on January 26, 2012). How long has it been since you last used LDD?

@ Sheepo: Do you work in an auto-related industry? How did you learn all about advanced steering and suspension geometry? Just curious....

Well, I clicked on your first hyperlink, but all I got was an empty adf.ly "Please Wait...." screen that lasted for 5 minutes.... The SUV looks a bit like a Fiat Topolino:

Yes, you should contact Lego Customer Service to get a free replacement: "For assistance in English, call us toll free at 1-800-838-9647. We are available Monday - Friday 8 am to 10 pm. Saturday & Sunday 10 am to 6 pm EST. "For assistance in French, in North America, call us toll free at 1-877-518-5346. We are available Monday – Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm EST." "To contact Customer Service outside of the US, Click Here."

It's looking like a great model!

Some more color experimentation on Zblj's "Rage" Motorcycle (from JunkstyleGio's Brickshelf gallery):

I wonder how the "Rage" motorcycle would look with the wild "Poiple" wheels used on the upcoming 6231 Lego Hero Factory "Speeda Demon" set (photographed by BS01 Cholie at the recent New York Toy Fair 2012):

[bUMP] For those who missed NK's Supercar ("An AWD double wishbone suspension convertible supercar with special doors Sets used - 1 x 8458 Silver Champion and 1x 8466 Offroader"), I uploaded a copy of the 35.8-MB PDF Building Instructions onto SkyDrive (since the Rapidshare link above is no good anymore, and MegaUpload is dead).

Hey Alasdair, when are you going to finish this MOC's Building Instructions? I thought you were "Faster than a posting DLuders"....

@ Meatman: Sheepo has several gearboxes (with Building Instructions) on Sheepo's Garage Download page. On this post, Jurgen Krooshoop asked, "Can you tell me how to convert a SR3D file into an MLCad-file ? I didn't find an Export as .MPD file in SR3D. If I know how to convert the files, I can make MLCad instructions from your SR3D files for you if you like." To which Sheepo replied, "Hi Jurgen, thanks for your help!!! Convert it is very easy, you only need change the SR3D extension .L3B to .LDR, and you will can open it with MLcad and LDview ;)" The 5th-Generation Ford Mustang (mentioned by Sheepo above) looks like this -- the MPS is good for "pony cars" as well as Supercars:

There's a lot of functionality built into this cabriolet (19 photos on szecs' Brickshelf gallery):

Marco Pirola (a.k.a. caterpillar345 and mpj) posted this of his Lego Technic Mercedes-Benz Actros 8x4. His Brickshelf gallery has 6 photos of this Power Functions fully-motorized tipper truck that has a "Model Team" appearance to it:

We're getting a bit off-topic now, but if you look at the Comments on the first article in this TechnicBRICKS sequence (all describing the upcoming 9396 Helicopter set), Mark Bellis wrote: "It's doubtful there's cyclic pitch change. I think it's one of the first things some of us will try once we've built the set. The loss of the flex system and the 8856 swash plate parts has hindered this. I wonder how much more it would have cost TLG to include it. At least one prototype would have included it if the model builders were trying!" In the second TechnicBRICKS article linked above, Fernando Correia wrote: "While the Collective Control seems almost granted (all blades seem to be at the same pitch in the pictures), the existence of a kind of swash plate for Cyclic Control seems a lot less probable (I'm crossing my fingers...)."

@ Blakbird: Your renders make it easy to see how the MPS modules all fit together! Thanks for your work!

Your Work-In-Progress (WIP) looks good so far! I like the use of the Unimog's portal axle pieces.

Well, that's why people use Brickforge's Brickstore to build their Bricklink wanted lists!

Sure, I'd like your LDD .lxf file!

@ Lost_In_Noise: Before you post any more pictures, be aware that the maximum picture size on Eurobricks is (nominally) 800 x 600 pixels. Your images above are huge. Try resizing your BIG pictures by using the image "resizing" program that Sariel uses: http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/ , which "resizes whole folders of files in just few clicks." Then, you can upload the resized (smaller) images to Brickshelf and link it here immediately using the "Deeplink" method outlined here. By "deeplinking", we can see your picture(s) immediately (without having to wait ~2 days for the Brickshelf moderator to make them "public".