 | For all things related to LEGO, go to their official site www.lego.com. But also, for certain extra parts, go
to their Shop-At-Home page: http://shop.lego.com.
You can also visit LEGO's educational arm, Pitsco LEGO Dacta's on-line store here:
www.pldstore.com. If you
live in Canada, contact their licensed dealer, Spectrum. |
| For wonderful informational resources, visit the LEGO Users'
Group Network at www.lugnet.com. Their
newsgroups are located at http://news.lugnet.com.
They are carefully 'moderated' and suitable for young children and retired Engineers (like
me). These are the finest newsgroups I have ever encountered and are a model for
what the Internet should be. |
| I have used two kinds of software to program my constructions
(robots?). One is NQC, created through the efforts of Dave Baum. To find
out about it go here: http://www.enteract.com/~dbaum/lego/.
The other is National Instruments LabVIEW. It is sold by Pitsco-LEGO-Dacta
under the name ROBOLAB. |
| Step-by-step instructions, where they occur, were created using
a computer-aided-design program called MLCAD, and it can be found here: http://www.lm-software.com/mlcad/e_default.htm.
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| Three short movies were almost made using Vision
Command, a webcam repackaged by LEGO, and the software included in the set. I
ended up using the soundtrack only from that! The movies you see were made
using Nikon stills assembled in QuickTime 5. www.apple.com/quicktime/ The file sizes
are in the order of 100K. They are truly not movies but 'Stop-Motion
Animation'. For LEGO models it's a good choice. |
| The macro-photos were taken with Nikon Coolpix 950 and
4500 digital cameras. I think Nikon does the best. But don't take my word for
it; visit http://www.steves-digicams.com/,
a high-quality review site. |
| The macro-photos were cataloged and edited using ThumbsPlus by
Cerious Software, www.cerious.com. |
| The site was built with Microsoft FrontPage 98. What can I
tell you... don't all links eventually lead to www.microsoft.com?
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