Category Archives: Instructions

Early draft of CTB-6600 instructions

September 17, 2010 – 8:21 am

Off an on over the last few days I’ve been working on a new set of instructions.  I’ve long wanted to capture instructions for my 6 Car Airport Shuttle and I finally did so last weekend.  The actual capture work in ML-CAD didn’t take long, a few hours at most.  As I’ve noted before, generating [...]

By Mike Walsh | Also posted in LEGO | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Converting the Emerald Night to 9v

January 26, 2010 – 11:44 am

I built the Emerald Night a while ago and it has sat in the box down in my basement ever since.  It is a beautiful train although it really does need additional passenger cars.  A month ago when I had the e-mail dialog with my Dad about the Emerald Night, he asked me how it [...]

By Mike Walsh | Also posted in CAD, LEGOPalooza, LUGNET, NCLUG | Tagged , , | Comments (20)

CTB-6500 Instructions Available

January 1, 2009 – 11:22 am

I finally tracked down the LDraw part I was missing to properly generate the instructions for my CTB-6500 Yellow Monster Truck.  The instructions are now available for download as a PDF file (6.67MB).  Enjoy! This is my first set of instructions done with LPub4 which greatly simplifies the process of documenting a model.  The cover [...]

By Mike Walsh | Also posted in Custom Kits, MOC | Comments (0)

NXT Robot solves Rubik’s cube

December 6, 2008 – 7:39 am

Every once in a while you stumble across something that is just really cool.  This morning I was reading the Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter and in the Off Topic section it had a link to a a Lego MindStorms robot that solves Rubik’s cube.  Well I just had to check that out. Check out [...]

By Mike Walsh | Also posted in Caught My Eye, Odd and Ends | Comments (0)

First Results from LPub4 – CTB-6500

November 30, 2008 – 3:50 pm

For the past day or so I have been playing with LPub4 here and there.  I am happy to post the first results of my efforts.  I can only say “wow” – Kevin Clague is the man!  I never thought I would see the day where we would have WYSIWYG creation LEGO instructions but that [...]

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