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Archive for January, 2006

January 29th, 2006

Treasure Reef

Today’s entry features a creation by a Czech LEGO fan named Jindrich Kubec.

It’s called the Treasure Reef and is really two models in one. I came across the announcement on LUGNET a few days ago and was very impressed. The diorama consists of two main areas, plus a story in pictures:
First, there is […]

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January 24th, 2006

Bay Area LEGO Train Club at Pleasanton Train Show in Nov. 2005

Last November, BayLTC participated in the Pleasanton, CA, Great Western & Atlantic Train Show at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. The event was held on the weekend following Thanksgiving. View the pictures on Flickr or on Brickshelf (once moderated).
Our next show will be at the TCA Cal-Stewart Meet in Santa Clara, which will […]

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January 23rd, 2006

Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group Meeting on Jan. 22, 2006

Yesterday I attended a BayLUG club meeting at the home of one of our members, Dave Porter, in Woodside, CA. Dave sets up a LEGO train layout in his upstairs loft every year around the holidays and it is going to be torn down in a week, so he invited the club to […]

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January 20th, 2006

It all starts with LEGO

When I was a little kid my great passion was building things (usually spacecraft) out of LEGO. When I was 10 I learned about computer programming thanks to the Commodore PET computers at my school. I really think that the mental process is much the same, and that my experience with LEGO led […]

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January 17th, 2006

Kellogg’s LEGO Sculptures at Williamsport Airport

My wife and I visited her family in Williamsport, PA last September. There is a very small airport there which just has one gate, served by US Airways Express turboprop planes. So imagine my surprise when I saw LEGO on display there! They had a glass display case with LEGO sculptures of […]

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January 17th, 2006

Bay Area LEGO Train Club at San Jose Train Show in Sep. 2005

Another long-delayed set of photos from a club event. This time, the BayLTC layout from the Great Western & Atlantic Train Show is featured. The show was held at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San José, CA. View the pictures on Flickr or on Brickshelf (once moderated).
Our next show will […]

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January 17th, 2006

Bay Area LEGO Users’ Group Meeting on Sep. 11, 2005

I am finally getting around to posting pictures from this meeting. We met at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto, CA on September 11, 2005. The meeting featured models on display and a lot of buying, selling, and trading of parts. See the rest of my pictures on Flickr or […]

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January 16th, 2006

BayLUG exhibit at MoAH

For the past few weeks (starting just before Christmas), we have been running a display at the Museum of American Heritage in Palo Alto. It has been insanely popular, with more people coming to see the exhibit than the room could even hold at once.
This is the second year that we’ve had a […]

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January 11th, 2006

Hot Mindstorms NXT News from MacWorld

At MacWorld I was talking to the LEGO Education (Dacta) guy there and he told me some interesting things about Mindstorms NXT that I hadn’t heard anywhere else.
I already knew that the FIRST LEGO League would be allowing use of both the old style Mindstorms RCX and the new NXT in the coming season. […]

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January 9th, 2006

Mindstorms strikes again

A little over a week ago I finally got around to ordering a LEGO Mindstorms set for the first time. I’ve been a LEGO fan for years but never got around to trying Mindstorms, LEGO’s robotics kit that has been around since 1998. One big reason was that I usually buy LEGO in […]

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