Before I continue one with the commissioned building talk, I wanted to take a few moments and announce a new feature to iPaB. Now on the summary page for each store, you can download the summary to a CSV file.
What next, you may ask? Well, print it off, take it to your local LEGO Store and verify what it says in the spreadsheet still holds true. If it doesn't, there should be room (under each part description) to make notations. Then at your leisure, go to the BrickBuildr web-site & update your store's inventory! :)
Let me know if there's any problems with the download.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
BruickBuildr & Twitter
I've had a personal Twitter account for a few years now. And in those years, I've micro-blogged about LEGO and my other personal interests, about life, work, and random ideas. And if you don't mind that, add me as a friend. But the spirit behind BrickBuildr was to build a web-site, using current social technologies -- Flickr in this case, to be very fan-of-LEGO-centric.
And over the past few years, I've collected personal blogs (like collecting e-mail addresses in the 90's). There are features that I like/dislike about each & I would talk about things on that new blog until I got bored or frustrated, then move on. A few months ago, I decided to move all of my fan-of-LEGO-centric blog entries to one location -- this blog. There, you will see blog entries dating back to 1998 where I announced that I was getting back in to playing with LEGO. Not that I feel that Blogger is the best blogging solution, but it's been the most convenient.
And everywhere you look, almost every solcial networking site has some type of micro-blog. And like a creature of habit, I experiement looking for the the best one, but sometimes the best one isn't the most popular one (see Betamax vs. VHS debate) and the most poplular one wins out -- Twitter. Love it or hate it, it's part of our technology zeitgeist.
So I set up a Twitter account for BrickBuildr and my fan-of-LEGO-centric thoughts. I also created this Twitter account because of something happening over on Brickworld. And this got me thinking, like watching an Apple press release/announcements via Twitter, you'll be able to follow BrickBuildr's Twitter account for similar information when my wife and I attend Brickworld. And I'm sure that my comments will be just as unfiltered & snarky. :)
But the real reason why I'm setting up the Twitter account is every day LEGO-centric things happen that I find interesting, everywhere. Some are noteworthy, but I try to keep the chatter down on the blog to an entry every other day at the most. I figured that on Twitter, I can post daily some of the interesting stories I run across, but for editorial reasons or time, don't want to post it to the blog. And I promise not to tweet about "I'm off to work" or other stupid chatter that's not LEGO-centric meaningful... and we'll see how long that lasts. :)
And over the past few years, I've collected personal blogs (like collecting e-mail addresses in the 90's). There are features that I like/dislike about each & I would talk about things on that new blog until I got bored or frustrated, then move on. A few months ago, I decided to move all of my fan-of-LEGO-centric blog entries to one location -- this blog. There, you will see blog entries dating back to 1998 where I announced that I was getting back in to playing with LEGO. Not that I feel that Blogger is the best blogging solution, but it's been the most convenient.
And everywhere you look, almost every solcial networking site has some type of micro-blog. And like a creature of habit, I experiement looking for the the best one, but sometimes the best one isn't the most popular one (see Betamax vs. VHS debate) and the most poplular one wins out -- Twitter. Love it or hate it, it's part of our technology zeitgeist.
So I set up a Twitter account for BrickBuildr and my fan-of-LEGO-centric thoughts. I also created this Twitter account because of something happening over on Brickworld. And this got me thinking, like watching an Apple press release/announcements via Twitter, you'll be able to follow BrickBuildr's Twitter account for similar information when my wife and I attend Brickworld. And I'm sure that my comments will be just as unfiltered & snarky. :)
But the real reason why I'm setting up the Twitter account is every day LEGO-centric things happen that I find interesting, everywhere. Some are noteworthy, but I try to keep the chatter down on the blog to an entry every other day at the most. I figured that on Twitter, I can post daily some of the interesting stories I run across, but for editorial reasons or time, don't want to post it to the blog. And I promise not to tweet about "I'm off to work" or other stupid chatter that's not LEGO-centric meaningful... and we'll see how long that lasts. :)
Thursday, January 22, 2009
LEGO Digital Box Augmented Reality Machine Shows 3D Model
Picked up from Boing Boing Gadgets (by Joel Johnson):
I can't wait to play with the upcoming LEGO Digital Box, an augmented reality machine that will display a fully assembled 3D model on the top of boxes full of LEGO. It's built by German company Metalo and will be installed in toy stores around the world. [NOTCOT]
I've heard about this a few months ago... It sounds like pretty neat technology.
I can't wait to play with the upcoming LEGO Digital Box, an augmented reality machine that will display a fully assembled 3D model on the top of boxes full of LEGO. It's built by German company Metalo and will be installed in toy stores around the world. [NOTCOT]
I've heard about this a few months ago... It sounds like pretty neat technology.
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