dr_spock

Welcome aboard, Webby. Interior or no interior is up to you and your intention for the MOC. There is a help identify this part thread in the general section. You post up a picture there and chances are good someone would know it.

What type of balls do you curently have? Do you have any of the white/purple Friends soccer balls if you don't mind using girl theme stuff? Check Bricklink and order a ball that isn't in the color/style you current use.

Radon gas detector?

Yup, saw it on brickshelf last week. The fun part will be seeing how close to the real product when released.

How about plastic dye? Paint can come off in your mechanisms and ball paths.

Remote control bomb detonator?

Don't mistake the Hulk for a Leprechaun. It can be hulkingly smashing. Day 076 of 365: I Am Not A Leprechaun by dr_spock_888, on Flickr

Spartan Golf. Right in the balls. Day 075 of 365: Hole in One by dr_spock_888, on Flickr

Very nice creation. I like how you used all those catapult pieces in the coaster.

push button switch? transistor?

Aren't some of these parts individually orderable through LEGO Bricks and Pieces? Draw back is not all regions offer Bricks and Pieces. Service Packs were easier...

They stick a bar code label on the cup to indicate the cup as reused for the next time.

Cool MOC. It would make life so much easier. I was looking at lifts the other day after I changed the oil on cold wet floor. Too bad my garage is too small to fit one.

I believe WeDo fits into this forum due to similarity to Mindstorm, just as much as Duplo Trains in the Trains forum. There are adults with kids or grandkids and Duplo Trains. A couple AFOLs even used Duplo train switch tracks to make crazy logic gates. Some will find pcfw's WeDo stuff useful as some do with the Duplo Trains threads in the Train forum.

Day 073 of 365: Choose Your Destiny by dr_spock_888, on Flickr Day 074 of 365: We Like Fleshies by dr_spock_888, on Flickr

Nice work. Cool clockwork Jawas. If they are winded up, should they be exhausting smoke?

Eurobricks Site Guidelines for Ideas: LEGO Ideas: If you have a great MOC, that is also a LEGO Ideas project, you may present it on EB as you would any MOC, with a single link to the Ideas entry. Make the title about the MOC, not the Ideas business; don't be too shouty, and it is likely to be tolerated. You need to be thinking: 'I want people on EB to see my MOC and comment on it. If they like it, perhaps they'll support it on LEGO Ideas', rather than: 'I want Ideas support! If I post it on EB, perhaps more people will vote!.

Welcome to Eurobricks, Moosbert. Many new Technic sets coming out this year, especially that Mercedes truck...

Welcome to Eurobricks, Luka.

Welcome aboard, Cami. Happy building.

Perhaps: f. Death, killing, blood, terrorism, or torture h. Warfare or war vehicles in any modern or present-day situation, or national war memorials Have you read their guidelines? https://ideas.lego.com/guidelines

That sounds like stuff for Technics, Mindstorms, Model Team area. Start a new WeDo topic. You may have to explain a bit of what is WeDo as it not something discussed much here.

I'm rewriting American history like George Lucas with his BluRay edition of the OT.

I'll toss in my 2L Technic axle. Depth of field (DOF) is dependent on the lens, aperture and distance from the subject. Don't be afraid to try smaller apertures like f16, f18, f22... if it helps to get your entire subject in focus. LEGO is basically smooth without a lot of fine line details and you're displaying your pics at 1024x768 max on Eurobricks, so some diffraction may not even be noticeable. Experiment to find out how small you can go before it is unacceptable. Nothing is more annoying than someone showing off his MOC using F5.6 because that's his lens published sweet spot and the back half of his MOC is too out of focus to make out what he did there. If your camera has a smaller sensor, you have more DOF on the same aperture setting as on a DSLR. That's probably why people with small sensor point and shoot cameras have more MOC in focus pictures than those with DSLRs. If you have a high megapixel camera, you can shoot further back and crop the picture. DOF is a function of aperture, lens focal length, focus distance and sensor size. (There are DOF calculator apps.) If you're doing extreme closeup or macro work, you can use a technique called focus stacking to get a bunch of shallow DOF pictures into one sharply focus picture of your subject. Here is an interesting tutorial on depth of field: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-field.htm Besides playing with the metering modes--spot, evaluative, average, partial, you can also use Exposure Compensation to brighten or darken your shot. EV+/- Shooting RAW or JPEG or RAW+JPEG depends on how much time you have for post processing and space on your memory card. RAW gives you more room to fix exposure, white balance, etc. problems and tweak things after the fact. If you shoot action photography like your MOC flying off a ramp and smashing into pieces, you may want to stick with JPEG since camera buffer can store more JPEGs than RAW images and better FPS (Frames per second) with JPEGs. The more you can get correct out of the camera, the less work you'll have to do in post. Time spent in post processing is time not spent with your LEGO.

An American history break from the a Jar Jar a day. Who crossed the river and during what event? Crossing the Delaware River by dr_spock_888, on Flickr He was drinking out of his LEGO mug.