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  • #48059

    In reply to: Threadjacking

    Benjamin C Good
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    >> We got the purple classic space torso in Series 22 collectible minifig “space creature”; now the helmet and airtanks are subtly included in a $130 lunar new year parade set.

    Nice, I hadn’t picked up on that. This set was not on my list of ones to buy. I was able to get several space creatures on BL without too much difficulty, but I’m wondering how much these parts are gonna go for on BL and how available they’ll be. I remember when the Exo-Suit set was out, I never got any green astronauts other than what came in the set, because they were super expensive on BL and yet all got bought up quickly.

    I’m also wondering if they’ll be on the LUGBulk list this year. I’m pretty sure the torso was not on there last year, I seem to recall looking through the list more than once trying to find it without success.

    #47869
    Nancy Flury Carlson
    Participant

    I found a perfect LDD design for the nuclear power plant I want to build. Downloaded LDD. Exported BOM list. Couldn’t figure out how to isolate a submodel so downloaded Studio. Defined a submodel in Studio of just the Containment building. Exported parts list for that submodel. Trying to work with both lists to estimate the parts I need for the submodel. I was thinking I could do this in preparation for LUGBULK this year but it’s looking like I will need another year to just figure this list out! I’ve been reading through various LUG threads and found much useful info. So here are a few initial questions as I am wondering whether I should really continue this project, which is definitely going to take a lot of resources.

    Will Krista be doing the Studio course at CCAC again in the future?

    The LDD model specs 48×48 base plates – 8 of them – is that size compatible with our MILS setup or should I plan to build on 32×32 MILS bases?

    Kudos to everyone who participated in the Color thread, I’m really happy to have the resources outlined there especially the Ryan Howerter chart. Although the whole idea of color is killing me, as I’m going through my parts spreadsheets and looking on Bricklink, and many of the parts are not available in the colors from the design plans.

    #47461

    In reply to: Mils Questions

    Mac
    Participant

    @bengood921 Thanks for the information. I was just looking online and saw several examples using the 4×4 plates on top. Here is one example from brick train depot.
    https://www.bricktraindepot.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Cams-Brick-MILS-BTM-Green.pdf

    I was just curious is there was an advantage of using lots of smaller plates on top, rather than fewer larger plates. I could see it giving you more control over your design perhaps, or maybe there was a cost savings. I was also thinking it might help with the plates being flatter since it would allow a little more movement between plates.

    But it is good to know I can use whatever I want.


    @pnbrenem
    and @willmcdine Thanks for pointing me to the instruction 5 on L-gauge’s site. I had seen the site, but not dug into their instructions yet. I like your idea of just using the baseplate without MILS. I might start there and then slowly upgrade to MILS. I have some baseplates and could get my tracks set up on that. Maybe I will wait until the LUGBULK parts to start converting to MILS.

    Sadly I dont think I can make Brickfest Live. But perhaps you can post a couple photos.

    Thank you all,
    josh

    #47427
    Mac
    Participant

    @timf That sounds awesome. I guess the first main step is to figure out how much space will be available.

    In the mean time I am going to work on slowly converting my tracks to MILS plates. It is something I want to do anyway, so it isn’t a big deal. I am looking forward to being part of the next LUGBulk to be able to order more parts for MILs plates and ballasting the track. But in the mean time I will probably see what the local lego store has and maybe place an order on online.

    Is there any limitation with running many trains at once? Since the new ones are bluetooth it probably isnt a problem to talk to many trains at once. I just was curious if there is any challenges.

    The other thought I had was the batteries and charging them. I was doing some research to find a nice set of rechargeable batteries. Does anyone have a recommendation? Should we think about having a charging station to keep all the trains powered up.

    Josh

    #46873
    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    >> If people cannot determine that Steel City LUG is from Pittsburgh then maybe it is no loss.

    It was less about informing people and more about looking cool. Of course, most of the time the two cups will be sitting unused next to each other behind my module. People can probably figure it out from that. Or from my shirt, my badge, my business card, my brick-built sign, or my general vibe of awesomeness.

    >> 500. I have none to spare.

    Well, since I ruin everything, why not ruin Josh’s LUGBulk order? You can’t spare 20 percent of what ordered? What’s wrong with you? Actually, that’s really a lot. What are you going to do with them all?

    I have just over 100. It has been plenty for testing. The standard for GBC is to take at most 30 balls at a time, although I’ve been trying to design an intake container that will take 100 or more at once, because sometimes people just dump full cups in when redistributing balls when it becomes necessary. At some point I might have a GBC large enough that 100 balls is not adequate, but I think I am years away from that, so I will cross the bridge when I come to it. I did not order any balls on this year’s LUGBulk.

    In the BtB video, there’s that giant clear bridge with all the big wheels, I think he discusses it in the video: at some point there were issues with no balls getting through, it was something to do with the weight of all the balls causing the bridge to sag or something like that. The builder admitted that he had not tested for that because he only has 30 balls at his house.

    #46268

    In reply to: Stud.io

    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    I had a very satisfying Studio experience last night and today.

    During May and August, I’ve put in a lot of hours in on Studio designing my build for BFPA. It is twenty-seven 32×32 baseplates (arranged 9×3) that will be landscaping for a minifig-scale display. There will also be buildings, which I’ve also been working on in Studio. Eighteen of the baseplates have at least some water on them. First there’s a layer of tan plates put directly on the baseplates. Then a layer of clear 1×1’s and 1×2’s (LUGBulk 2022 participants may be aware that I ordered 5800 of the latter), and finally a layer of trans-light blue tiles on top (which we’ve also LUGBulked multiple times over the last several years). Then the rest of the green-grass landscape will be MILSed around that.

    Despite doing weeks of design work on Studio, I did not click two parts together until last night. I got out the baseplates, and I got out the bags of clear plates. Then I wrote down all the tan plates I would need on a 3×5 card. It was easy to do because I’d made my master Studio file of all ten landscape sections. I opened the Model Info, sorted the inventory by color, and scrolled through the tan and noted the number needed for each type of plate. I didn’t do a count, but it was at least several hundred parts of maybe twenty different types, ranging from 1×1’s to 16×16’s*. Then I went to the tan containers downstairs and collected the parts. They filled up most of a gallon bag, with the largest ones in a second bag.

    I used Step View in Studio in the design space to build each section, just like I did with my GBC. For each section, I did the tan plates, and then the clear plates, and then moved on to the next section (I haven’t done any tiles yet). So when I got to the end of section 10 this afternoon, it meant that when I got to the last step of tan plates, the parts required in that step should be the same as the remaining parts in my bag of what had been hundreds of parts. Would it work out? Would there be a screw-up somewhere along the way? The suspense! And behold… it totally worked! And it was sooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome. High fives all around. Studio is great.

    I might post a progress pic later tonight, either to the Ben thread or the BFPA thread so people will have an idea of what’s coming. We’ll see.

    * Just as I finished typing this post, I saw that the 3×5 card is in fact sitting right here on the desk, so I went ahead and ran the numbers. It’s 19 types of part, for 369 parts total. So my estimation powers didn’t let me down on this one.

    #46262

    In reply to: Stud.io

    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    Ben’s August 2022 Studio post #2 – Importing files

    I started typing up my ‘Editing Submodels’ post on Saturday morning, but I didn’t finish it before it was time to leave for the party on Saturday, and I haven’t done any submodel editing since then. So that one is on hold. Instead I’m going to talk about importing submodels, and I’m doing it now in part because I just reached a good pause point in my Studio work and I really need a break from it.

    At some point I vaguely recall complaining that when you import a model into the file you’re working on, where the imported model actually appears in the model seemed rather arbitrary to me, and it was a difficult to work with. Part of the problem here is that I’m used to AutoCAD, where when you insert a block, it will always ask you where you want to put it, and you can type in coordinates, and you can click on a specific spot to locate it. But I finally figured out that in Studio, where an imported model comes in is not so arbitrary after all. I might be stating the obvious here, and maybe we learned it in class and I didn’t pick up on it, but it took me way too long to figure out, and so a big motivation for this post is to potentially save other people some time and effort. It turns out that: An imported model will appear in your file at the exact same LDU coordinates as it appears at in its original file. So, for a simple example, if your imported file is a single submodel, and the handle for the submodel reads 0,0,0 in the file where it was created, then that submodel will appear at 0,0,0 when you import it into another file.

    This is super useful to know. I figured it out while I was doing the GBC redesign in July. For both the BWC and BFVA designs, I made the gearbox assembly at the bottom of the tower its own file, and then imported it into a second file and built the rest of the tower on top of that. I can’t really articulate a good reason why I decided to do it that way, but that’s how I did it. The idea was that I had the bottom portion exactly the way I wanted it and it wasn’t going to change, and so it was easier to have it into a submodel so it’s just a single step. But I still kept it as its own file, juuuuuuuuust in case I needed to change it after all, which it turns out I did multiple times. I would change the original file, remake it into a submodel, and then in the working file, I’d delete out of the old imported file and import the updated version. In June, for whatever reason, after importing the base of the tower, I moved it before building on top of it, and so every time I brought in an updated version, it would be in the wrong spot, and there was more moving stuff around and it was a big hassle. When I did the July version, I figured out that I should leave everything where it was, so that when I imported the updated model, it would pop right into place where it needed to be. It was great, high five.

    For BrickFairPA in September, I am bringing a minifig scale display that sits on 27 baseplates – 9 wide and 3 deep, to cover an 8-foot banquet table. For transport purposes, they break into 10 sections of either two or three baseplates per section, the design for how they go together is somewhat irregular. In the past, I had started on landscaping for various projects by laying out all 27 baseplates in a single file, but this time I took Renee’s advice and made ten separate files, one for each section. But I also still wanted a master file, so I could make sure they all look the way they’re supposed to put together, and more importantly, it gives me a total part count all in one location (so I don’t have to open ten files and then do the math), which is important because there’s certain pieces I know I don’t have and I need to BL them and now I need to do it soon so they have time to arrive and I have time to assemble them, and I need to make sure I’m ordering enough.

    I created all ten files plus the master right away and started laying down parts. At some point in the process (early on, but not at the very beginning), I realized that I could import all ten files into the master, position them in their relative spots, write down all the coordinates for each submodel, and then reposition each model in its individual file to line up with those coordinates. That way, as I continued to import updated versions of each one, they would automatically appear in the correct spot in the master. Using a pen quickly got cumbersome, so I ended up making an Excel sheet for all the coordinates, and it took longer than I’d expected. But it worked. One thing I finally did was set Section 1 to 0,0,0. I’d hesitated to do that until now, because it didn’t make sense to me to have the center of a baseplate be at 0,0,0, because it then means that the actual bottom left corner (which is what you’d set to 0,0,0 in most situations) is in negative territory. But I quickly realized that since it’s all relative, it doesn’t really matter. What did matter is that if I knew Section 1 was at 0,0,0, and I knew that the on-center distance between baseplates is 640 LDU, it became pretty easy to check the math and make sure I got all the numbers right and that everything’s where it’s supposed to be. My first pass was without using 0,0,0, and it was a bit of a logistical nightmare and stuff kept getting messed up.

    Unfortunately, I’d already started putting plates on top of the baseplates before it occurred to me to implement this plan, and it turns out the rotation was wrong for each section based on how I was adding parts to them, so almost everything is imported at 180 degrees rotation, because to fix it would have required redoing a lot of parts already placed. It would’ve been nice if they’d just all been zero, but now it’s at a point where it doesn’t matter, they’re coming in correctly every time without any effort other than remaking a file into a submodel every time it’s time to import it again. It did occur to me while I was typing this post that I could possibly correct the problem by using the ‘Copy & Mirror’ function, assuming I can get it to mirror in the right direction, which presumably I can.

    The fact that the submodel coordinates are always halfway between the most extreme points of the submodel along each axis was a hassle too. When I finally assembled the master, most of the sections had a single layer of plates on them and so the submodels were all the same height, but a couple had nothing on them and therefore were a different height and came in not lined up vertically with everything else. Doing the math would have been easy so that I could manually adjust them, but at that point it sounded exhausting, and so I found it easier to stick orange temporary plates on those sections to get them to line up. The moral of the (boring) story is that if you’re gonna do something like this, set it up at the very beginning, not after you’ve worked on it for a couple hours, you’ll be glad you did.

    As a bonus observation, I noticed in the past week or so that when you’re working on a file, on the tab at the top where the file name appears, they put an asterisk on it once you make a change to it since the last time you saved the file. In other words, it’s reminding you that you need to do a save if you don’t want to lose the changes you’ve made. As soon as you hit control-S, the asterisk will disappear, and after that, as soon as you make a single change (which could be adding a part, removing a part, adding a step, creating a submodel, etc, although simply panning or rotating the view does not appear to trigger it), the asterisk reappears. It’s a nice feature, and since I just noticed it, I’m not sure if it’s the result of a recent upgrade, or if it’s always been there and I just wasn’t very observant. To my knowledge, I don’t have any other programs that do that; I checked Excel, and I have an up-to-date version, and it doesn’t do that. In school, frequent saving was drilled into us and I have a habit of saving way more often than really necessary, but I’ve found the feature helpful. Especially after I’ve converted an entire file into a single submodel, it has this feeling of ‘Okay you’re done now’, but then the asterisk reminds me that I still need to save it.

    Incidentally, I’m finally getting good use out of the Model Info in Studio. It turns out that I am really great at underestimating how many of a part I will end up using, or how many I have used. For example, I tiled my water using trans-light blue tiles, and I have tons of 1×2’s and 1×4’s cause we’ve LUGBulked them more than once. But I had exactly three 1×1’s (courtesy of the Joker Manor, thanks Santa 2017!). So I added 93 of them – which was all the store had – to one of the BrickLink orders that was delivered to me at BFVA, and I didn’t worry about adding more to another order because I figured that 93 was probably about twice what I would end up actually using once I laid it all out. Now that that portion is entered into Studio, I can see that the actual number of 1×1 tiles I used is 304. Which means that I have to order more, and it turns out that the best option in the USA is a guy who also delivered to me at BFVA, and so if I’d planned ahead better I could’ve had him bring them to me then, instead of what’s going to happen now, which is that I’m going to have to pay to have him ship them to me. I have a similar (boring) story for another dozen or so parts on the list. It’s made me realize that expanding this build in the future (which is definitely the plan) will be more difficult than I’d thought, because I’m going to run out of part sooner than I’d thought.

    Bonus stat, the current part count for the landscape – which is not actually done, it’s just done enough that I can start ordering parts – is 6215. Fun stuff.

    #45869

    In reply to: Blogged

    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    From BrickWorld Chicago 2022. It’s a really cool build, and I was impressed by their decision to make a modular collab based on pizza-slice shaped sections.

    Notes about this one as I watch:

    – There’s a lackey sighting at the 3:44 mark.

    – Hanlon queues up Micah’s appearance shortly after the 4:50 mark. (Yes, it made me el-oh-el.)

    – I had assumed that the big inverted tires were Micah’s, and so I was surprised when at the 8-minute mark Spencer announces that he built them, although he does say he got the idea because it’s one of Micah’s favorite techniques.

    – In one of the LUGBulks, Dan @randomdan proposed the large LBG grate piece that only comes in the v2 UCS Millennium Falcon (I can’t remember if it was 2021 and it was on the list, or it was 2022 and then it was removed before the list was finalized). Around the 10:45, Danny – who gets props for being a confident speaker – mentions that he uses the parts in his section of the build, and that he has them because they LUGBulked them. Something something great minds think alike. Danny also points out the motorized windmill, which isn’t running, which is important because…

    – At the 11:50 mark, a different guy points out the motorized windmill, it’s like they’re both taking credit for building it. I’m not sure what’s going on there.

    – Around the 14:15 mark, they talk about a technique for recessing the tiles on the castle wall, it’s a neat effect, I’d never seen it done before, and I didn’t notice it when I saw the build in person.

    #45868
    Renée
    Participant

    The plotting and scheming continues, in plain sight:

    Squirrels on roller skates! And I’m pretty sure that’s a jar of Nutella up on top of the cabinet, LOL.

    Both the floor and the back wall are built studs to the side, which is cool. The squirrels are only dark orange and black, the easiest to get (Picnic in the Park City set) outside of LUGbulk.

    #45570

    In reply to: Threadjacking

    Matt Redfield
    Keymaster

    If you’re north of the city, ask here if you want someone to take your box with them and we’ll see if we can arrange that.

    That means the yankees could get their LUGbulk on AFOL day! Count me in.

    #triggered

    I was at the Pirates-Yankees game on Wednesday night o_O

    #45554

    In reply to: Threadjacking

    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    >> Can we create a “Pinned Topic” section on the side of the page? for things like Meeting/build challenge threads, threads of importance, ect?. I’m tired of having to come and search for a thread because it has fallen out of the top 12

    I second that. I’ve been thinking about this for awhile too, although the best I’d come up is to simply expand the ‘Recently Active Topics’ list to a larger number of topics, say 24. There’s times when a topic can be off the list even though it was active just a few days earlier. We’re a chatty LUG.

    The question then, is what gets pinned and what doesn’t. I would think Threadjacking and the Pick a Brick wall threads do. I would also say threads for the upcoming meeting, the upcoming build challenge, and upcoming major events and conventions get pinnned, and then shortly after they’re over, maybe a week, they get removed and replaced. Oh, and the current LUGBulk thread should get pinned. And also the ‘What the heck is Ben doing’ thread, although I may be a little less objective on that one. Otherwise I’m not thinking of anything, although other people might.

    #45059
    Rich Millich
    Participant

    I am not participating in LUGBULK this year, but my headcanon makes the Apocalypse fun.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Rich Millich.
    #42845
    Renée
    Participant

    Here we shall plan the Squirrel Apocalypse Collaborative. Thanks to @bengood921 for the title.

    So far I only have two squirrels, and three acorns, from the LEGO CITY Picnic in the Park. They’ve already been incorporated into my Kleenex Box Q1 Challenge build, but I’ll probably have to pull them out temporarily for my Home & Garden show MOC. I don’t really buy a lot of sets, BrickLink has been my goto for a lot of parts.

    Things are looking good so far in LUGBULK for the squirrels, but not so good for the acorns.

    #42788
    Renée
    Participant

    I really should create a new one. Not only do I have a few more colors, like pearl black, I hadn’t even had room for my favorites, the translucents. And now I probably have a better plate color for a background. Not pictured: my cheat sheet printout with the bricklink color names on it. So glad I didn’t have to learn LEGO’s names for LUGBULK.

    #42600
    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    The short version of LUGBulk 2022 is, I picked trans-clear 1×2 plates because it would cost at least $800 to buy what I definitely need on BrickLink. The trans-red 1×2 tiles are a similar situation.

    #42286

    In reply to: It's A Wonderful LEGO

    Jason Middaugh
    Participant

    Thanks so much for the shout out! We can hardly believe it. Just hit that magic number last night. Thanks so much to the SteelCity LUG for all of the support! Most of the bricks in the prototype were purchased through the LUGBULK!

    https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2022/01/cny-familys-lego-its-a-wonderful-life-hits-goal-will-be-considered-for-official-set.html?outputType=amp

    #42090
    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    Mostly I wanted to see if I could get Frost to have the gift-giver delivery all the presents listed every day, rather than just the ones attached to the particular number of the day.

    Do we need to use the same colors as the parts in the pic? It’s hard to tell, that looks like it might be a reddish-brown Travis brick, which isn’t a common part, even though we LUGBulked it several years ago. I’m pretty sure I own zero of them. It also looks like that might be a reddish-brown 1×1 round plate with bar extension.

    #41940
    Rich Millich
    Participant

    12/2/2021:

    Built two paddock stall facades, 20 studs wide to match a pit lane stall, and only 2 studs deep with an overhanging 4 stud shelf well above the cars. In this way I can plug these on, still have a 3 stud space between the stall and the necessary pit wall.

    They’re sturdy enough that I can pull them right off the baseplate and plug them on with little worry.

    I’ve also designed them with a 1×8 brick space to display the race team taking up that stall.

    I now need 6 of the garage roller door with handle. I know we got this in last year’s LUGBULK, so I know they’re out along us. Who’s got them?

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    #41443

    In reply to: Moonbase

    Rich Millich
    Participant

    In response to Ben’s thoughts:

    * If we decide to try Moonbase, it doesn’t have to be directly related to past efforts, mostly because we probably won’t plan to connect to other LUGs any more than we have done so with City/Town efforts over the years. That said, it sure is nice that the Moonbase standard is built with older bricks that most builders already have.

    * As far as worrying about the quality of builds… nah. As a quarterly build challenge, or even in a formal display like the SWR space of past years, a number of styles do work, including a more brutalist and simple style in bleys like the regolith below.

    * Established Spacers can more easily build larger spaces and the connections in all cardinal directions and even up and down.

    * HOWEVER, this trends toward Moon City rather than Moonbase, which opens up many more possibilities than standard Space, enabling every builder we have to try Space.

    * I am totally with Ben in that MILS is a major deterrent for ALL collaborative displays, and to the best of my knowledge, only train track and large hillside landscaping has demanded it. I don’t imagine we should require that for a quarterly build challenge.

    * We used tan baseplates and DBG rock walls for the SWR George’s Landing series, so there’s no reason we can’t use them for the collab challenge, or even green for an alien planet with existing greenery. We just need builders to pipe up with which 32 x 32 plates (including landing pad plates) that they may have on hand to figure out a standard. I have a few tan AND LBG 32 x 32s hanging around from SWR and LUGBULK that I would be happy to lend for the effort, as I’m not building large scale Space right now.

    * I believe that LBG is just a color in this case, as the towers can be Classic Space blue with yellow-black-yellow details, Neo-Classic Space, Unitron, Spyrius, any faction really. If we treat this idea like a Moon City with a small individual commitment like a ground based 16 x 16 space, or an elevated airlock sized passage, this becomes easy for new Spacers.

    * This feels like a full display for ourselves instead of one meant for an audience, and so, builders should be encouraged to have fun with the concepts available and only make sure we can grow the display organically with each other based on whoever could be “next door”. That’s kind of how SWR flowed together, and this idea can work the same way. We just need to communicate and intentionally connect as many ideas to each other as possible. That’s how we combat the systemic, artless vibe. Quite simply, interaction between builders in a fun, relaxed flow is what makes it all work.

    * Prototypes for larger builds involve what I call archetypes. Leitmotifs? @timf, you may have some better knowledge about the word I’m trying to use. Basically, we can all show different styles and brick combinations that look Spacey, whether it’s sleek and studless, organic, studly, greebly, hoses and pipes, or inspired by any architecture from Star Wars to Star Trek to Aliens to, well, any favorite film that anyone has seen or has interest in, from the 1950s to now. These small, several brick archetypes, like pillars in architecture, can definitely be expanded and repeated in any larger build and adopted by others.
    For example, I like stacking wedges and wedge plates so that the notches on the side walls look like vents.

    * Rovers are awesome. If a builder isn’t interested in a Space building, well, how about a Space garage that connects to one?

    * Finally, if we’re considering a type of big, permanent development in the Space theme, that is a whole different ball of wax, considering that multiple Spacers, including myself, already have well developed factions that are worthy of interaction. That is a MUCH larger discussion, and worthy in its own right. Could this become a Moonbase environment? I’d vote for a nexus portal where our existing, differing factions have all been marooned and have to try to work together. Would WhiteTron dislike BlackTron? Would ALL of the Space factions show up based on the figs we have? How cool would it be for every LEGO Space faction to wind up with a Moonbase tower, including our own custom factions?

    This is a case where builder variety might be a LOT cooler than trying to expect many standards, kind of like how SWR worked out.

    #41374
    Tim
    Moderator

    I recently had two 1×4 brown tiles break at one end. They were from LUGBULK (I think 2019 but may have been 2018). I had ordered 100 so now I have 98 left. 😀

    #41368
    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    >> I’m waiting for Ben to come see the displays for himself.

    I didn’t come to see them yesterday cause I was too busy spending 9 hours sorting your LUGBulk orders 😛

    And Josh told me yesterday that they’re on FB, my mention of Flickr was deliberate.

    #41276

    In reply to: Blogged

    Josh
    Keymaster

    Yeah, I was surprised she used that in the article. We’re ok though. LUGBULK exists. People are allowed to know it exists and what it is. The problem, and restriction is over ACTUAL prices. LEGO does not want those shared, ever.

    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    Yeah, in this situation I would expect a lot of people to at least be willing to bring the same stuff they had at BFL. I can only speak for myself though. I currently don’t plan to be part of this one. I don’t see any reason right now to believe that the Covid situation will have improved between now and then. I also won’t have anything built. I took apart the space plants build a month ago when I bailed on BFL. I have been making big progress on organizing and taking inventory around here, so I’d originally hoped to have at least a one-table prototype built for this event, but although progress is excellent, it’s still way slower than I’d hoped, and I definitely wouldn’t make it in time. Since I’m leaving town in two weeks, I’d need it to be done by then, and at this point I’m also assuming that our LUGBulk order is gonna show up any day now and I’ll be spending serious hours sorting, which will be time well spent, but will also take from available building time.

    #40902
    Benjamin C Good
    Participant

    >> We had 27 members participate

    That got my attention, that’s gotta be a record for the group for participating in anything (other than quarterly meetings and LUGBulk), possibly by a large margin. Sweet!

    #40289
    Krista K
    Moderator

    We’re about a month out from the event. We can talk more about this at Q3, but wanted to get a few things rolling before then.

    For anyone who can’t make it but wants to display, I thought maybe we could set up North, South, East, and West drop-offs (kind of reverse of what we did for LUGBULK). I’m happy being a drop for the North, but if anyone else is available (from any direction) to load their cars, let me know.

    Here’s the doodle for staffing. I did put some overlap between shifts so that there’s coverage during lunch.
    https://doodle.com/poll/4cagtqceuvhvdc6t?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link

    Also, there’s still plenty of table space still available (hint hint @loganc @mrmain18 @amplef0rth @playingwithechoes @jcc117). The theme is Pittsburgh, but anything you want to bring is okay.

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