Anyone Bored?

[Clark Gilbert]

If so try this Lego MindStorms thingy, it's really cool.....


http://mindstorms.lego.com/bookmarks/3dsimulator.asp


(dont take this tread off topic like all the other ones)

:D

[David Kelly]

that is really cool. it's almost like the real thing. i'm going to have to save this for my robotics independant studies class when school starts.

[EddieMcD]

Brings me back to my FLL days.

[Carolyn Duncan]

It takes me back to... last month when I was bored and started to build a castle, without books I might add.

[EddieMcD]

Who needs an instruction manual?

I'm assuming you also build without regards to color. I can make a great castle out of my collection of Legos, but they look ugly.

[Carolyn Duncan]

The only thing I try to do is keep the sets from getting mixed up. The only reason I do that is because I entered a thing one time where you used all your lego sets to build a theme/story. The thing was you had to follow the given directions. If I ever do that again I don't wanna have to dig through five gallon buckets for pieces. I do have tons of legos that didn't come as a set theat I build anything I want with, I even painted on them to make faces and stuff.

[EddieMcD]

I mix sets occasionally, but I usually keep my starfighters the seperate (with, of course, modifications to keep them running at optimal efficiency ;) ). I can build a giant base, and let the fighters defend it.

-Ed "A big fan of sci-fi" McDonnell

[Carolyn Duncan]

Oh! Forgot about my Star Wars RCX kit sets. I keep those really neat and folow the books on those. There's so much in the 3 books to build that I haven't built it all yet and I've had the set sinse Christmas! Alas, all of my legos are still in Virginia and will remain there, with my pets, for awhile. :( :(

[mike o'leary]

i used to play with legos all the time...my brother used to choke on them all the time too

[Carolyn Duncan]

That's not very good

[mike o'leary]

i didnt think so either...

"mommy! mommy! colin eat my lego again! make him give it back!"

[Carolyn Duncan]

That's gross. hehehe :) It's funny though. Bet it was hard not to laugh when it was removed...
*remembers the last time her dog ate crayons...*

[Clark Gilbert]

I've choked on a lego once.....(i was trying to pry to small pieces apart with my teeth and it came off and flew down my throat)....it wasnt that fun....i even had to go to the hospital but they couldnt help or find it since x-rays dont scan/read plastic parts...

[Carolyn Duncan]

I use my teeth to separate legos and have never swallowed one.
*knocks on wood*
But I've had plenty of x-rays.

[mike o'leary]

my next door neighbors uncle once swallowed a toothpick. it required surgery, not just x rays

[EddieMcD]

Can the X-Ray detect wood though?

[mike o'leary]

apparently it can

[EddieMcD]

I guess it depends on the thickness.

[David Kelly]

i've swallowed a screw at a comp before. i guess it came out. i don't know

[Clark Gilbert]

Didnt u choke on it at all.....or didnt it even hurt??


(funny but not super appropriate avatar attached)


:D

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
Didnt u choke on it at all.....or didnt it even hurt??


(funny but not super appropriate avatar attached)


:D


it was one of those really small ones. so it didnt hurt.

[Carolyn Duncan]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
Can the X-Ray detect wood though?
Wood is solid so it will show up as a white spot on an x-ray. Even clothing shows up on x-rays. You can see throught it but you can also see it.

[EddieMcD]

i've swallowed a screw at a comp before. i guess it came out. i don't know

I'm afraid to ask.

[mike o'leary]

im just wondering why you had a screw in youre mouth in the first place...

[Clark Gilbert]

Where are u tonight.....i was also wondering why u had a screw in your mouth....doesnt it taste bad???

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Clark Gilbert
Where are u tonight.....i was also wondering why u had a screw in your mouth....doesnt it taste bad???

we were going up to our next match and some wires came out of our controller arm thing and it had to be fixed or we wouldn't be able to do anything. there was no where else to put it except in my mouth.


and clark, i went to the Bush race at IRP (Indianapolis Raceway Park). Lot of fun:D

[mike o'leary]

ok i suppose i can understand having the screw in yorue mouth...i myself have put screws and nails and stuff in my mouth often enough...but you bite it. how does the screw go from youre teeth to youre throat without you thinking 'hey this could be bad' and spitting it out?

[Carolyn Duncan]

David got hungry. Thought he was Johnny Five...
"Johnny Five Alive!"

[A. Leese]

Carolyn was right about the wood showing up white on a regular x-ray. And screws and toothpicks and things are not that abnormal things for people to swallow..I've seen worse things in the ER..

I love Legos! Unfortunately they don't have FLL teams anywhere near me, so I was never involved in that. In fourth and fifth grade, however, my school had the technic sets that you hook up to the comp and then can program to do stuff. I learned how to all sorts of things with those (even made a few mini robots that did things like pick up paper clips), but nothing complicated. I think everyone loves Legos. One of our engineers who's in his mid-60s once made the comment at the Lego store in Dowtown Disney that "everything [he] loves to play with is in the 8 to 10 years category and made by Lego." I thought that was funny.

~Angela who always follows the directions in making Lego things, but never with K'Nex (anyone every played with those?)

[EddieMcD]

I don't think many of us were ever in the FLL. The FLL started in '98 as an experiment open to 12 middle schools in the nation. it only went national in 99 (note that this is the fall, so it would be the '00 year for us). The only people in FIRST that could've been in the FLL are people who are going to be sophomores, or juniors in the case of those 12 schools (like me).

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by EddieMcD
I don't think many of us were ever in the FLL. The FLL started in '98 as an experiment open to 12 middle schools in the nation. it only went national in 99 (note that this is the fall, so it would be the '00 year for us). The only people in FIRST that could've been in the FLL are people who are going to be sophomores, or juniors in the case of those 12 schools (like me).

i've never actually participated in the FLL, but i help mentor our 3 middle school teams along with a couple other students. This will be our team's 3rd year. I started when i was a sophomore, now i'm gonna be a senior. It's a lotta fun sometimes. Other times you just wanna choke some of the kids. The coolest part i when you take the kids home to play with them yourself.

[EddieMcD]

You mean kits, right?

You know what, I don't know why I didn't help mentor our middle school the past 2 years.