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My mod of 8081 with PF elements. Very easy and almost withou change the original model. You can instructions on my LUGs topic:
De afbeelding toont de kunstinstallatie "Open Space, Open Function (2010)", gemaakt door de Nederlandse kunstenaar Jason van der Woude. De foto is genomen in de Verbeke Foundation in Stekene, België, en werd geüpload door de fotograaf Ronny Daems.
Over het kunstwerk en de locatie
Kunstenaar: Jason van der Woude.
Locatie: Verbeke Foundation, een museum voor hedendaagse kunst in Kemzeke, Stekene, België.
Beschrijving: De installatie is een structuur of 'glazen huis' gebouwd met hergebruikte ramen van verschillende groottes en kleuren, wat resulteert in een muur van gekleurd glas met een houten vloer en uitzicht op de natuur.
Context: De Verbeke Foundation staat bekend om haar unieke combinatie van moderne en hedendaagse kunstwerken die vaak spelen met thema's als ecologie en biologie, en het domein omvat zowel binnen- als buitenexposities in een natuurrijke omgeving. Veel fotografen bezoeken de locatie vanwege de fotogenieke kunstwerken, waaronder deze installatie.
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Visitors translate a DNA sequence (a row of wooden blocks) into a sequence of amino acids using wooden “translator blocks”. They then use a static version of the FASTA database to look up a set of prescribed amino acid sequences to find out which organism the amino acid sequence is from.
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/schools/relate/ (unfortunately a dead link from the EBI)
www.yourgenome.org/downloads/function_finder_forweb.pdf (dead link from yourgenome.org) see www.yourgenome.org/activities/function-finders
at DNA, Diversity and You via www.sanger.ac.uk and www.ebi.ac.uk
Functions overview
•Engine
•360 degrees rotating cabin
•Rotating operators chair
•Ladder
•Suspension with central pivot
•Telescopic boom
•365 head
•Cabin door
•Hood
•Autolev
It performs well on frozen earth (as seen in video), carpet, a pile of clothes and other somewhat rough surfaces, it can't climb on smooth objects (it slips away), on the other hand it tends to turn better on a smooth surface.
It may be slow but is sure has decent torque, it's slow because of the gear set I used (worm-worm gear eqaul to a speed reduction of 1/8).
To perform well it needs a somewhat rough surface to ride on, especially when climbing, climbing on a sloped wooden plank for instant is pretty much impossible for this vehicle, the tracks simply slip over the wood.
In the video it stops sometimes because I lose contact with the IR receiver, the crane on top of the vehicle is in the way when I make the vehicle drive in my direction.
I really hope it snows tomorrow, I'd love to test it out in the snow :D
I learned from KOLO this new project since last year May's National Stationery Show, a portable travel notebook which combines photo storage and journaling functions using a flexible refill system. As you know, KOLO is almost entirely about photo archiving and presentation, they obviously did a great job to create clean and stylish product lines but most of these products are to be used *afterward*. You select photos, plan layouts, do scrapbooking stuffs, archiving and presenting the final outcome as a decor or sharing with friends and relatives after events. I was extremely excited to see how they would execute this travel notebook idea and come up with a final product, which you can carry with you during travel and making memories on the fly. I had a lot of expectations because bringing archival quality to a product you use everyday inevitably requires a whole new mindset. I mean KOLO can be perfect in their top notch material quality but an object you would use on daily basis subjects to a whole new set of hazardous situations especially when we are talking about travel. What a challenge.
I got this prototype Essex in small size (they have a medium sized one) a few weeks ago and tried to use it during my Frankfurt/Tokyo trip. Since I was going to taste what it's like to do photo journaling in real-time on this product, I carried it everyday along side with my Polaroid camera. I also used my Pivi-300 portable printer to print photos from my digital IXUS. The best companion to Essex seems to be instant cameras and instant photography is obviously going to come back as we are probably going to have new Polaroid films available in end 2009. Fujifilm is refining their Instax mini line while there is a rumor that they are working with Lomo to have something soon to be released in April about 'instant', not to mention Zink's collaboration with Polaroid (PoGo), Dell (Washabi) and Tomy (Xiao). IMHO, I think KOLO should gear Essex to work with instant photos coz you won't want to wait until you go back home to print photos and write something about your travel afterward.
Essex features the same wonderful cloth cover with a small window on the front. You can choose to have one of the following refills held by elastic band on the spine: monthly/weekly diary, ruled/blank notebooks, photo pocket notebook, etc. I think you can put 3 notebooks inside the cover but if are like me loving to capture everything from receipts, stamps, photos, restaurant name cards, boarding pass, tags to maps, the photo pocket pages will not be enough and it quickly blow Essex up into a thick wallet the elastic enclosure won't close. The tiny little back pocket on the back cover also seems to be useless in my case.
In fact, I should've chosen a medium sized Essex because the photo pocket notebook in small size Essex is for 3x5 photos so my Polaroids and even Instax mini photos don't fit well with it. Up to this point during my trial, I decided that I had probably mis-used Essex as a capturing tool for everything. "How to use Essex" becomes the next question in mind, and I'm sure this will happen to any user in the future. When you think about it, a clean and stylish product also demands certain usage restrictions, like in a beautiful KOLO album, you just don't put every photo in it.
Having said that, I still want to pursue my perfect photo journaling notebook with the following requirements:
works well with Polaroids and Instax mini
portable size but smaller than A5
pockets to store receipts, tickets, etc
paper good for roller ball, fountain pen and watercolor
soft cover to handle bulging contents
refill notebooks can be filed pleasantly to an album or archive system
customizable to personal style
enclosure not intruding front cover
photo and writing on the same page possible
clean cover design, tough to resist travel tortures
archival quality
I'm sure these requirements are not that far fetch, but execution will eventually meet design and inevitably facing lots of scrutiny versus brand identity and personality. Product design and innovation, a fun game to watch as a by-stander but I never forget to appreciate the ingenious hard work behind.
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Locals refer to this unique and wondrous site merely as 'The Train Wreck'.
The Train Wreck, seven box cars scattered over a One kilometres patch of forest, the debris from a high speed freight train crash in 1957 or 1958, South Of Function Junction near the Whistler Blackcomb resort in British Columbia, Canada. Too expensive to clear up, apart from the engine unit, the Whistler community decided to leave the wreck in situ and allow the birth of an amazing location, a bike trail and even an art gallery thanks to the incredibly vivid and stylish graffiti that covers each and every box car.
The train wreck is sort of a local secret, and I only found out about it's existence from one of the young hotel receptionists at the Crystal Lodge Hotel in Whistler village, who told me that it was great for photography and hiking. So for this series of photographs, let's wander along the forest pathway, passing waterfalls and crossing the train tracks, into the wilderness to discover those not so secret carriages from the train wreck.
The walk begins at Olives Community Market at 1200 Alpha Lake Road, Whistler, BC V0N 1B1, close to Function Junction in Whistler BC. Behind Olives there is an unmarked pathway into the dense and beautiful forest, though you only find this out upon asking in Olives community market where the ladies serving fantastic gluten free and fresh foods were incredibly friendly and helpful in handing me a printed piece of paper with directions to the train wreck itself. Here, walking at a fairly leisurely pace, almost one hour into the forest trail, the railway track takes a devious left turn and inwards to the forest are the striken box cars, like fallen warriors on the battlefield.
On the point of giving up, an hour into the trail and old legs and dogs paws screaming 'Enough already', we came back out onto the railway track from the forest. Up ahead I walked around a bend and saw in the distance a very sharp left handed bend. Could this be the point of derailment I thought? Walking closer, my eyes looked left once more into the forest and there I could just see the faintest of glimpses, a rusting, shattered box car.... we had found them at last.
The box cars now have wooden ramps onto some of the flanks and roofs, and this facilitates a rather exciting bicycle cross track where the foolhardy and adventurous can hone their skills. I climbed up on tghe box car rails, and on one of the ramps to capture a few angles myself. But on a bike.... yikes!
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Photograph taken at 11:23am an altitude of Five hundred and ninety five metres on Monday 15th September 2014 of the Cheakamus Falls (unnoficial name), off the Sea to sky highway 99 out of Whistler, South of Function Junction and into the forest on the banks of the Cheakamus River in British Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D800 29mm 1/15s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Hand held. AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
LATITUDE: N 50d 4m 51.38s
LONGITUDE: W 123d 3m 21.02s
ALTITUDE: 595.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE SIZE: 103.00MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) SIZE: 14.28MB
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Processing power:
HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.0 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
Model of one of the largest crawler draglines in the world in scale 1:28.5.
All functions motorized using three SBricks and Power Functions motors:
- Hoist gear: 1 XL motor
- Drag gear: 1 XL motor
- Swing drive: 2 L motors
- Boom hoist: 1 M motor
- Left crawler track: 1 XL motor
- Right crawler track: 1 XL motor
- Two access ladders: 2 9V micro motors
Power is provided by each a Power Functions rechargeable battery box in the lower carriage and in the upper structure.
Besides the motorized functions, there are four floodlights and another four interior lights, using four pairs of Power Functions LEDs.
Access to the machinery house for the service personnel is given by two doors on each side. The operator's cab is accessible through another door.
Five removable panels, one on each side, one on the back and two on the roof give access to the hoist and drag motors, the boom luffing winch and the two swing motors respectively.
The real dragline was in service in Australia in the Rix's Creek Mine in the Hunter Valley.
My son and I built our first Lego Steampunk Airship, featuring a Gatling gun, helicopter blades and wings using Power Functions.
Please see the video to see the fun actions this makes.
My latest TT is based off a sorta-modified chassis pioneered by Zetovince/Mahjiqa. Due to this the L20 is actually bigger and heavier than the Blazefury, an F1 car for the road. All in the sacrifice for detail. Let's just imagine IRL that the L20 is smaller like is should be.
Tipping the scales at 980 tonnes and featuring a clamshell bucket of 43 cubic meters, the Caterpillar 6090 FS is the world's largest series produced hydraulic excavator. Two diesel engines deliver some 4570 hp. Funnily enough, these powerplants do not come from the Caterpillar product range. Instead, two Cummins QSK 60s are installed.
In fact, the roots of the mining shovel range of Caterpillar are the famous O&K (Orenstein & Koppel) excavators from Dortmund, Germany. Thus, CAT's 6090 FS is in fact a repainted O&K RH 400, originally developed in 1997. O&K's mining product range has later been taken over by Terex and thus the RH 400 changed colors as well. For a short timespan, Bucyrus International was the new owner, just to be taken over themselves by Caterpillar back in 2012. Since then the standard color scheme is yellow with black. Production facilities have meanwhile been transferred from Germany to Indonesia. Not long ago, Caterpillar withdrew the 6090 FS from their product range.
My model in scale 1/28.5 is fully remote controlled. Power comes from three rechargeable Power Functions battery boxes, two of which are in the upper structure, one in the lower works. Four SBricks allow full bluetooth control via Brick Controller 2 smartphone app and gamepad of the following functions:
- Independent drive of the left and right crawler tracks, each by a Power Functions XL motor.
- Slewing of the upper structure, using two Power Functions M motors.
- Boom, stick and bucket motions as well as clamshell bucket operated pneumatically. Each of the four functions uses a Power Functions servo motor which in turn controls a corresponding pneumatic valve.
- Air compressor using two of the large pneumatic pumps (the spring-loaded type), powered by two buggy motors.
- Independent boarding ladders on the left and right side of the engine module, powered each by a Power Functions M motor.
- Spinning engine fans (2x) and oil cooler fans (4x). Each group of fans is powered by an old style 9V geared motor.
- Work lights at different positions around the upper structure, using five pairs of Power Functions LEDs in total.
"While my time in Montana is winding down, I know that I will carry this experience with me for the rest of my career. I have been lucky enough to meet some great BLMers, learn about State and Field Office functioning, and experience, first-hand, some significant BLM projects. I’m really grateful for this opportunity and thankful to Al Nash and the BLM Montana and Dakotas team who hosted me.
After departing Washington, DC on Sunday August 2nd and connecting through Minneapolis, I arrived in Billings, Montana to beautiful, sunny weather and friendly people. I checked-in to my hotel and began exploring the city. One of the most noticeable differences between Billings and Washington was the landscape. Billings has lower population density and is surrounded by iconic, western scenery. I definitely was not expecting everything to be so spread out. Without a vehicle, it’s hard to imagine how people would get around.
On Monday, I went in to the Montana state office and met with Al Nash, the Communications Chief for the State. Al was previously the head of communications for Yellowstone National park so he had interesting stories and wisdom from years of service to share. Al introduced me to the rest of the Public Affairs employees in the state office and we started planning what I would do on my trip. The first step of the trip, we decided, would be to tour the fire dispatch center.
Alyse, the new media professional in the Montana office, took me up to the fire dispatch center on Tuesday, where we toured the facilities and the tanker planes that drop fire retardant to fight fires. While I had always heard that such planes existed, it was fascinating to see one in real life.
On Wednesday, Brad Purdy (another public affairs person from Montana) and I went up to the Pryor Mountains to help with a wild horse and burro gather. The team removed four horses from the wild that day, and we even got to see the famous wild horse named “Cloud.” The wild horse and burro crew is really outstanding. They love the horses and it shows in the quality of their work. It was great to see them in action and I’m happy that we have such horse-loving people running the program.
The rest of my trip has been focused around the planning and execution of the coal listening sessions in Billings, MT and Gillette, Wyoming. These events have been months in the making and have had a lot of planning go into them. The Billings event was August 11th and had over 200 attendees. We heard from ranchers, miners, environmentalists, representatives from native American tribes, politicians, and countless members of the public. There were over 70 speakers (many attendees did not want to speak) and everyone was polite, friendly, and considerate of other people. What a wonderful representation of Montana! I leave for the Gillette session tomorrow and am excited to see how that session is different from Billings."
-Robert Poulson-Houser, Washington, DC Intern
Black Cat with Power Functions!
I noticed no one has ever put PF to this set, so I had to do it!
1 servo motor
1 XL motor
1 battery box
1 SBrick
Let's you drive the truck with your smartphone.
All power function parts are packed into the truck's chassis, so the interieur is not modified at all!
I also added double tires on the rear axles
4x360 degree turning engines, opening doors and removable roof for easy access, and a little surprise in the boot for those sprint finishes!!
Bigger is better! www.flickr.com/photos/karenleahquinn/8311428574/sizes/h/i...