I am referring to the little
(1 new)
that shows up on the front page when there are unread messages.

I would prefer if that text were bold, like so:
(1 new)

because then it would stand out more when quickly scrolling the page as well as not require me to zoom in on my phone to just quickly check if there is anything new.

That text is in a span with class "new-flag" and just adding

Philo's awesome 3D scanner

http://www.philohome.com/scan3dlaser/scan3dlaser.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP35jI7SCMA

has found an impressed audience (including me).
I thought it would be nice here to have a link collection of references to it,
as I just stumbled over yet another site mentioning it.
Funny to me also are the headlines under which the folks mention the scanner.

http://gizmodo.com/5693604/lego-laser-3d...-more-lego

http://www.brothers-brick.com/2010/11/17...raw-parts/

http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2010/11/22/...l-pending/

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/11...anner.html

I just thought I'd share that I'm almost done with my latest software tool:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wardlws/655...hotostream

Please let me know if you have suggestions for improvement.

Thanks,
Scott W.

What happens if you mix a 3D printer with LEGO and some electronics in the MIT Media Lab?
You get this:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/TinyProjector

Having looked at the awesome 3D printer results,
I think the next 10 years will be the "years of 3D printing".
Simply everybody will 3D print at home - I cannot even imagine in full
what this will mean to creativity... Amazing...

So at a party I recently had the opportunity to properly play dreidel for the first time and it was fun. I'm sure this has been done many times before, but here's a simple dreidel model. Use colors of your choice for the sides (or stickers, markers, etc.).

Attached Files

  Dreidel.ldr (Size: 1.81 KB / Downloads: 2)

I'm firmly of the opinion that we need to get the flex parts out there. I don't care how but we need part numbers and parts and every length that has appeared in a set. In my opinion it is quite terrible for users of LDraw to have no easy access to usable parts that could be auto-generated in seconds by some of us.

So far the release has been held because of technical issues with the library. This is no reason to not have the parts out there as we can always replace them if a decision is made.

http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...s/75-1.dat
http://forums.ldraw.org/showthread.php?t...199#pid199

So my proposal:

1) We quickly come up with a naming system

2) We auto-generate self-contained parts in all appropriate lengths (I already have perl code for this)

3) We submit one of these to the Part Tracker

4) Once it is certified we adjust the others to take into account comments and put them up

4) If the system is changed in the future we auto-generate again

Tim

I have the ability to add syntax highlighting site wide (forums, wiki, the upcoming main site). It works for most common programming languages but there's no module for LDraw syntax. Before I waste time writing a module for LDraw syntax, is this something that would be of interest?

LEGO Friends vs. Minifigs by Dunechaser, on Flickr

The new mini-dolls are going to be fun.

I've made a short time-lapse movie of me building the Unimog:
Youtube Video

Hi all,

I'd like to call on those who use Linux and LDraw to help edit this page on the wiki

http://wiki.ldraw.org/index.php?title=Ge...ed_-_Linux

Given the huge variety of linux flavours and tricks for getting things to work I think user-editable content is a better idea for this one that fixed content.

Tim