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Just Pseudopods of an N-dimensional entity

Others' Projects

I'm not really sure what happened... I remember Legos from childhood, of course, like anyone, and later, I remember being complacent that my mother wanted to sell my childhood set (now I know she asked less than a fifth of its worth).

Now, though, the insidious Lego Creature has resurrected itself, in thousands of the rectiliner extensions that are all we can see of this great four-(or more?)-dimensional entity.

Familiar 3-dimensional Crosssections I Have Known

I have begun to acquire sets of Lego pseudopoda. I was fine until I found myself calling Lego sales and asking "What's your most complicated set?" and ended up with a dinosaur being delivered to my office. Now, the list has grown; here's the current status:

Acquired	Set	Type	Models	Features
1996	8422	Technic	Motorcycle/Dragster
1996	8412	Technic	Helicopter/Aircraft
1996	8485	Technic	Dinosaur/Helicopter	Control Center, motors
1996	4150	Freestyle		(it was a free partyfavor)
1997	8480	Technic	Spaceshuttle/Submarine	Motors, fiber optics
1998		Mindstorms	Robotics Invention System	MIT brick-derived RCX (picture) 3 sensor, 3 motor (+1 intrinsic), infrared i/o, programmable, small LCD display, int/ext power

Calling to the Creature?

Other interesting items:

Set	Type	Description
9751	Dacta	Serial Interface and Transformer
9701	Dacta	Control Lab Building Set
N/A	M.I.T.	Programmable Brick (picture) 6 sensor, 4 motor, infrared/audio outputs, LCD display
N/A	M.I.T.	Cricket (picture) 2 sensor, 2 motor, infrared i/o, Microship PIC 16C84 cpu

Serious Virtual Legos

A project using Silicon Graphics Infinite Reality systems was in progress in 1997 to build complex models in virtual space. Now, you too can read about the LEGO Virtual Village Icon Name (3) Bytes (22499) Last Change, CST Document Title

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