Thanks Beavis. <huh huh>
They certainly are. What's the koolest or kinkiest thing anyone out there
ever built out of Lego's?
dale
p.s. I built a full-size windmill that provides electricity for a city of thirty thousand people.
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>In article <1994Jan10.1...@bme.ri.ccf.org> dhou...@bio.ri.ccf.org writes:
>|They certainly are. What's the koolest or kinkiest thing anyone out there
>|ever built out of Lego's?
>|dale
>|p.s. I built a full-size windmill that provides electricity for a city of thirty thousand people.
>I built a RISC Alpha/486/Pentium compatible processor which runs at 500Hz,
>a 128 bit bus which runs at the same speed, and one or two really cool games
>for it. :-)
I built an Excelsior-class Starship capable of Warp 9.95, with four double
phaser banks and a photon torpedo load of 50. I had to special order a bunch
of those clear-plastic, cylindrical pieces for the photorps. 8^)
[Is this a dumb thread, or what??]
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Lego's are cool !!!!!
Yahooo! I can finally post! (I hope). Thanks to all who helped
make this a rec. group!
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Hey... Windoze is made of lego!! I suppose that's why it is so compatible
with ya megacool CPU. LEGO inc = Microsoft?? Nah. Legos work ya know...
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A windmill that supplies 30,000 people with electricity, a RISC type alpha
processor and an Excelsior-class Starship? Ok.
Jeff
Far out man! I built a small truck (about 10 meters) but that one only made
about 7.98 Warp. How did ya manage that?? Well, mine was powered by steam...
Could be that... :)
/Norton
/> I built an Excelsior-class Starship capable of Warp 9.95, with four double
/> phaser banks and a photon torpedo load of 50. I had to special order a bunch
/> of those clear-plastic, cylindrical pieces for the photorps. 8^)
/>
I guess that mu full size Ferrari Testarosa with a cute gal in the pasangerseat
isn't much t brag about then, right?
/> [Is this a dumb thread, or what??]
/>
It could be worse... ;-)
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I built a RISC Alpha/486/Pentium compatible processor which runs at 500Hz,
a 128 bit bus which runs at the same speed, and one or two really cool games
for it. :-)
Kewl, will Intel or you manufacture them later? I sure would like
one - and the best part is I might even improve some pieces =8-]
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Hey... Windoze is made of lego!! I suppose that's why it is so compatible
with ya megacool CPU. LEGO inc = Microsoft?? Nah. Legos work ya know...
Well then it must be a piece of equipment from MotorOLA or something.
Christian A. Weitenberner (cawe...@mtu.edu) wrote:
|>Lego's are cool !!!!!
Of course, but what is this newsgroup for ???
Just three tiny little charachters, ok?
FAQ
Nah... Ferrari suck...
> /> [Is this a dumb thread, or what??]
> />
>
> It could be worse... ;-)
Yeah... I could be a thread about lego Macs...
/Norton
Yeah, well I had this really cool fire station set with little movable firemen
and little plastic windows and . . . . oh, forget it.
I built a device to bring world peace and understanding in my basement,
but it doesn't fit up the stairs. (;^]
>[Is this a dumb thread, or what??]
SHUT UP! STOP SAYING THAT ABOUT MY LEGOS!!!
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No way dude! No matter how poor LEGObuilder you are, you can never make
something that lousy as a Mac... Thath the truth, Ruth!
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/> Lego's are cool !!!!!
/>
/>
/> Yahooo! I can finally post! (I hope). Thanks to all who helped
/> make this a rec. group!
/>
Nope... I never read this, which means that you will have to try again! ;-)
/> Just three tiny little charachters, ok?
/>
/> FAQ
/>
Hey! Those were capitals! The tiny version looks like this:
faq
/>
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btw. Welcome to your version of paradise, nirvana or likewise! :-)
me too
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I built a fully functional M1 Abrams MBT with them and promptly blew my
buddy's T80 MBT to bits with it. And he thought Meccano is better than
Lego!!!!! Hahahahahaa!!! What a loser...
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> > It could be worse... ;-)
>
> Yeah... I could be a thread about lego Macs...
>
> /Norton
You mean this machine isn't really the toy I thought it was?
For a contest last year, I built a robot that was built entirely out of
Legos, except for the CPU board/motors/sensors/etc. This introduced me
to structural Lego building; creations that are strong enough to be dropped
from a counter to the floor and remain intact.
My team's greatest triumph was with the arms of our robot, both of which
were 18 inches long, elbowed, and supported solely at the shoulder. The
arms could be opened and closed with the motors, which took an enormous
amount of torque, requiring the Lego geartrain from Hell (An early version
had 5 shafts in parallel. It was discarded when we saw all 5 shafts twist
and almost snap...)
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: They certainly are. What's the koolest or kinkiest thing anyone out there
: ever built out of Lego's?
Seriously, I built a robot arm with two motors. For the control, I built
a lightsensor driven relay switchsystem (4 relays) which were controlled
by computer screen. The light sensors were attached to the monitor, and
computer just lighten the areas under the wanted sensors, so the wanted
relays would switch on/off. This was easier and safer than to hack the
I/O busses of the computer itself. The robot itself had two magnetic
relays attached, from which the computer would know the position of the
arm. So, to move the arm to nominal position, motors would just run until
the switches were switched by magnets attached to the model also.
Of course, nowdays it is a bit easier. They have ready switch systems
and PC software to do these with Legos.
By the way, are there anyone here who attented 'Young Scientist 1990' contest
kept in Copenhagen ? I remember there was real nice Lego competition
held there as spare time amusement, and practically I won it. Well, my
lego team was just mentioned as a bit better than others, and practically I
did all the work.. It was a light sensor driven motorated carage with
a moving car which we built.
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Lego's are waaaayyyy cooolll!!!
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: Except when you tread on a Lego brick with a bare foot.
I can't believe you'd say that! I have a pile of legos in my room,
and when I was a litle kid the feeling of all those little bumpy things on
my feet sent me into a tizzy. It was my favorite method of destroying
old cities to make way for new ones: the lego newspaper ofter read
"Hundreds Die as Fat Youngster Destroys City Hall". My mother thought
I was wierd, but stepping on legos was the greatest.
Peter Freilinger
I'm from Maine, not Harvard. Honest.
That would be "Hvad staar udtrykket 'rec' i 'rec.toys.lego' for?
Swedes sucks in ways nothing has yet sucked !!!
In the name of all things, that doesn't suck : GO AWAY with your saladrecip..
Advocados with GARLIC, move the conv. to alt.sex.gastrofilia
>German : Ich bin ein dumkofp
>Ngumbu : Ngota kakkamba ngalan cer?
Not much of an language expert are you now ???
>
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There is no such thing as gravity.....the Earth sucks !!
.
I built a brick.
It was red.
I threw it at my Macintosh.
Now, now. I have a pc and a mac powerbook and i love them both like children
Would you throw a brick at child? I thought not. Shame on you!
=)
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Dale> In article 6...@civlab1.civil, cawe...@mtu.edu (Christian A. Weitenberner) writes:
>Lego's are cool !!!!!
Dale> They certainly are. What's the koolest or kinkiest thing
Dale> anyone out there ever built out of Lego's?
A fairly round cylinder. The trick is to just join one corner to one
corner when joining two bricks. This causes the formating of a fairly
rotatable joint. Think of it; non-orthogonality!
...and I just play with Legos for father-son bonding ... yea that's the ticket
...father-son bonding.
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Well, I built a ducky and a henny.
That's the problem with Lego these days - too many custom bits (i.e. fire
station kit = 1 fire-station-shaped brick and a fireman).
Anybody else remember the days when Lego people didn't even have faces
you could wash off in the machine?
Slainte,
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For those of you who don't know what I mean, you basically use the 4x2 blocks
to create a solid box, at least 6 pegs per side, with a 2x2 hollow down the
centre, and a lever inside formed by a stack of 2x2 blocks with the bottom
of the stack being a long piece. Bolstered by long pieces (you place the
assembly on one end of one of those big green platforms), on the other end e
of the platform you make something that will hold a rubber band. Then you
stretch the rubber band to the lever system, place it around the 2x2 column,
and place a 1x2 piece betweent he band and the column. Then, by pressing
down on the long piece attached to the column, the contraption will 'shoot'
the small piece a fair distance.
It was great.
Then again, I also liked to make bows and arrow from my Tinkertoys, too.
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: Now, now. I have a pc and a mac powerbook and i love them both like children
: Would you throw a brick at child? I thought not. Shame on you!
What else are bricks good for?
sheesh
Boom, crash, pow.
(Acutally, that's why i bought a tub of Ritvik for. What, me smash up my
precious, precious LEGO? Especially when LegoCorp isn't making any of the
really cool parts anymore? [Fiery dragon fans go to hell :] )
- Colin
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---> Boom, crash, pow.
---> (Acutally, that's why i bought a tub of Ritvik for. What, me smash up my
---> precious, precious LEGO? Especially when LegoCorp isn't making any of the
---> really cool parts anymore? [Fiery dragon fans go to hell :] )
Ah, but have you ever seen what rain can do to your Meccano stuff ?
Hope you haven't.
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>: > I built a brick.
>: > It was red.
>: > I threw it at my Macintosh.
>: Now, now. I have a pc and a mac powerbook and i love them both like children
>: Would you throw a brick at child? I thought not. Shame on you!
> What else are bricks good for?
Throwing at Canadians who post boring and neurotic life stories about how
they over-analysed creation with simplistic (*GASP!*) colored pieces of
interlocking plastic and what eventually became of that behavior???
(Not to mention correcting us on our misuseage of the plural "LEGOs")
But I digress... What's the difference between my extensive set of LEGOs
and my old Macintosh IIcx?
A) I've never had a system bomb playing with the LEGOs...
B) I can actually accomplish something using the LEGOs...
C) My LEGOs have never developed a "stiction" problem with their
harddrive...
D) I never have to smack my LEGOs to get their attention...
E) The LEGOs have advanced sets, the Mac has no such thing...
F) The brightly colored blocks are SO tasty... :)
Macintosh: The computer with training wheels that never come off.
Jim LaBreck - n874...@henson.cc.wwu.edu - PentiumMan (tm)
Also, Lego is great for Great Egg Race machines, just be careful with the tension
in the elastic bands - Lego's not THAT strong :-(
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They do? Where can I get one?
My trouble is that I am a reasonable programmer and Lego builder, but
I know nothing about electronics.
Someone please tell me that it's possible to by a Lego controller
interface for the PC (and, I hope, with some sensors and stepper
motors).
Andrew Kay
>Well, the coolest things I made out of Lego were the ubiquitous rubber-band
>2-peg shooting guns.
I made something similar, but it shot marbles instead, and with decent
velocity, I might add... ask my sister, she'll remember. :)
>Then again, I also liked to make bows and arrow from my Tinkertoys, too.
Standard Tinkertoys or GIANT Tinkertoys? We made swords, maces and all
sorts of nifty stuff from my set of GIANT Tinkertoys. The long green
pieces really whistle when they get moving fast enough, and boy do they
leave some MEAN welts. Ask the neighbor's kids... *evil grin*
Jim LaBreck - n874...@henson.cc.wwu.edu
: They certainly are. What's the koolest or kinkiest thing anyone out there
: ever built out of Lego's?
A friend built a miniature guillotine that actually worked (well, it
wasn't sharp enough to cut, but it did fall), as well as a gallows. This
same man also built a tombstone in all black, except for RIP 1993 which
was done with white legos.
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I once ripped the servos out of my radiocontrolled modelcar and builded a radiocontrolled Lego car. The bad side of it was that the Legomotor didn't had the strength to get a decent speed >20 km/h, but anyway it was very funny!!!.
Jan Ellesgaard
I once built something that was put into orbit; it was made completely of
lego.
I think Nasa named it "the Hubble Telescope" or something similar.
For strength I used Duplo bricks for the main infrastructure, but I broke all
links with Nasa when they didn't let me make it a lego manned facility - they
said it would be too costly to send me up there periodically to move them
around and to say "charlie one to foxtrot seven receiving you loud and clear.
This is Lego Telescope station one." Etc.
Igon Mad
P.S. A little note -
Nasa allowed me to finally install Charlie the pilot last week - did you see me
on T.V?
Oh yes, in the past I also managed to get several clever droid figures into politics. One of my rejects (CLin t0n1) mysteriously vanished about 24 months ago...
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Hey, I thought that Macs already were made from Legos, except that
my Duplo blocks don't work with Macs...
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>I have a little question
>What do the phrase 'rec' in 'rec.toys.lego' stand for?
The phrase "rec" in "rec.toys.lego" stands for "recreation."
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>>|They certainly are. What's the koolest or kinkiest thing anyone out there
>>|ever built out of Lego's?
>>|dale
>>|p.s. I built a full-size windmill that provides electricity for a city of thirty thousand people.
>>I built a RISC Alpha/486/Pentium compatible processor which runs at 500Hz,
>>a 128 bit bus which runs at the same speed, and one or two really cool games
>>for it. :-)
>I built an Excelsior-class Starship capable of Warp 9.95, with four double
>phaser banks and a photon torpedo load of 50. I had to special order a bunch
>of those clear-plastic, cylindrical pieces for the photorps. 8^)
*I* built a little man and a house to put him in. Um. Well, I didn;t have
much Lego at the time.
jds
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I think we have had this discussion about logo and logo's on alt.toys.lego :^)
So its about time we had it again!
James
Ah, but imagine what *fire* will do to LEGO! I used to have an earring
which was fashioned from a mangled piece of LEGO that was retrieved from
a toaster. An inquisitive two-year-old had put it there. Red two-by-eight
flats never looked so good!
I have myself used and programmed a kit for PC, there was light and pressure
sensors with conventional motors (no steppers).
From where to get these, I don't know. Was there something about these in
the Lego FAQ ?
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I made both of these too, but my guillotine really did decapitate its
victims. I think this had something to do with my being an adolescent
boy at the time.
(Actually, to understand how the guillotine worked, you have to bear
in mind that this was long before any of the Lego "people" were
produced. I made my own "people" out of a few blocks, of which one
represented the head. The falling "blade" actually knocked the
victim's block off.)
-- David A. Karr (ka...@cs.cornell.edu)
=> Ah, but imagine what *fire* will do to LEGO! I used to have an earring
=> which was fashioned from a mangled piece of LEGO that was retrieved from
=> a toaster. An inquisitive two-year-old had put it there. Red two-by-eight
=> flats never looked so good!
Yeah, it's true that fire is a big enemy of LEGO.
Imagine what the result would be of a fire in a LEGO factory!
One huge multicolored lump of plastic!
But how are you going to make a Meccano boat that floats ?
When I was a kid I used to have selfmade (aren't they all) LEGO boats
in my bath. The fun was that I never got bored, for I could change the
boats at will. Most of the time the water got cold before I started to
wash myself.
=> >>|They certainly are. What's the koolest or kinkiest thing anyone out there
=> >>|ever built out of Lego's?
=> >>|dale
=> >>|p.s. I built a full-size windmill that provides electricity for a city of thirty thousand people.
=> >>I built a RISC Alpha/486/Pentium compatible processor which runs at 500Hz,
=> >>a 128 bit bus which runs at the same speed, and one or two really cool games
=> >>for it. :-)
=> >I built an Excelsior-class Starship capable of Warp 9.95, with four double
=> >phaser banks and a photon torpedo load of 50. I had to special order a bunch
=> >of those clear-plastic, cylindrical pieces for the photorps. 8^)
=> *I* built a little man and a house to put him in. Um. Well, I didn;t have
=> much Lego at the time.
And *I* built a large woman ;-)
I seem to remember one was 4WD, 4 wheel steering, 4 wheel independent
suspension.
I don't know if any scans of any such marvels have made it to the ftp site or
not.
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A friend of mine collects the Christmas legos, but he didn't get them this
year. Can anyone tell me where I might be able to find them?
This is the result of going REC ?
Jeez, I liked the group more when it was ALT. At least I didn't get 100 posts
a day, mostly full of bizaare posts by strange sounding people. Where are all
the regular posters ?? -- lost in the white noise that's where.
It would help if we had a daily FAQ about things like:
1 -- LEGO say that you should not use the word LEGOs, and they should know.
2 -- Someone put LegoWars, the bloody GIF which no-one knows anything about,
and Plastic Men on an FTP site..
3 -- a compilation of those Gifs of gearboxes. (Which I'm determined to find a
use for one day..)
This sounds like a bit of a flame, and I guess it is but really, a newsreader
swamped with people talking about throwing bricks at Macs and claiming they
built the Hubble telescope ?? -- maybe a hardlink to talk.bizarre is due huh ?
Is this gonna calm down and get down to being the cosy little group it used to
be or wot ?
-- the SillyWiz --
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for my opinions the rest of the time so| Macintosh.
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Does seem like we've gone the other way, doesn't it? (rec -> alt) Ah,
well...
> Where are all the regular posters ?? -- lost in the white noise
> that's where.
Or lurking 'til the standard net.silliness dies down and people lose
interest in posting tripe. I tend to lean on the KILL file rather
heavily when groups switch heirarchies....
>It would help if we had a daily FAQ about things like:
>
>1 -- LEGO say that you should not use the word LEGOs, and they should
>know.
Oh, grr! Not this thread again... PLEASE folks -- it just doesn't
matter. I call 'em "legos" myself -- no caps, evil plural form -- and
still can sleep at night. Take it to alt.flame...
>[...] -- maybe a hardlink to talk.bizarre is due huh ?
Only if it's one-way... :-)
>Is this gonna calm down and get down to being the cosy little group it used to
>be or wot ?
Give it time, the TRUE brickaholics will come home to roost soon
enough...
- Mike
|> Anybody else remember the days when Lego people didn't even have faces
|> you could wash off in the machine?
Let's see. Here are the types of Lego people I can remember:
1) A type that used the same head as the current model, sans face. They
had neither arms nor legs, and basicall their entire personality was
defined by the color of their shirt, pants and cap. (or hair)
(these guys eventually ended up as "androids" in our sci-fi models.)
2) Another type that was nothing more than a set of shoulders with flexable
arms (and a hand on the end) with a head stuck inside. Face variations
included glasses, freckles. Hair and hats plugged to a peg on top and/or
around the ears. Best use: Pull off the heads, make the arms *really*
long and build "Robot" from Lost in Space".
3) Assorted giant Duplo people (and animals!). Good for mutants/ogres.
4) The "current" crop with movable arms and legs, and the variations
thereof.
Now, what did I miss?
Before we had any of these, we used two different things for people. The
first model was a 2x3 for the feet, then a 2x2 for the tummy, then 2
1x2 (one was always the clear plastic) for eyes/head, topped off by a
2x2 thin piece.
----- (So they looked something like this from the side)
-----
| | | We also insisted upon a certain color scheme,
| | | "good guys" would have two alternating colors,
----- e.g. red/white, blue/yellow, and bad guys would
| | have solid colors, e.g. all red.
| |
------- Girls would have "skirts" (a 2x2 roof tile and a
| | 1x2 replacing the 2x3). Hats were easy to make, and
| | we even had a "Snoopy" that was all white with a
------- black 1x4 behind the eyes (for ears). One pirate
even had his 1x2 "eyes" replace with 2 1x1, one clear
(his good eye) and one black (a patch).
The simple and common block structure made it simple to build furniture,
cars, etc. for the people to use. (although the lack of arms ruled out
most tools, and some variations couldn't fit in the high-backed chairs!)
The other simple thing we used as people were the small round 1x1 pieces.
We would do this if we were making very small scale models. Imagine our
horror when we saw them being used as food and drinks in some sets!
--
+ Mike Kelly, Notre Dame Department of Physics mke...@doc.helios.nd.edu +
+ +
+ Trudge: The slow, weary, yet determined walk of someone who has no +
+ choice but to continue. -the Book of Weird (describing grad school?) +
Immensly funny these dudes -- I remember the set of 2 cowboys sat on a fence
-- ha ha, well comical.
>(these guys eventually ended up as "androids" in our sci-fi models.)
>
>2) Another type that was nothing more than a set of shoulders with flexable
>arms (and a hand on the end) with a head stuck inside. Face variations
>included glasses, freckles. Hair and hats plugged to a peg on top and/or
>around the ears. Best use: Pull off the heads, make the arms *really*
>long and build "Robot" from Lost in Space".
Also the arms could just extend & extend & extend..
>
>3) Assorted giant Duplo people (and animals!). Good for mutants/ogres.
>
>4) The "current" crop with movable arms and legs, and the variations
>thereof.
>
>Now, what did I miss?
>
>Before we had any of these, we used two different things for people. The
>first model was a 2x3 for the feet, then a 2x2 for the tummy, then 2
>1x2 (one was always the clear plastic) for eyes/head, topped off by a
>2x2 thin piece.
I remember build-your-own-people. I can also remember opening the catalogue
with the "current crop" ones in for the first time.. times like that won't
come back round for a LONG time.
ObLegoTrivia: "Castle Master" was designed with the aid of Lego.