as long as my daughter still digs them, I can too. They offered Legos as an elective and they have them following the instructions.
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Dale Leavens wrote: > I do too but Janet gave all ours away several years ago. We had a big bucket > full and she just gave it away! Imagine, just gave it away! > > Somewhere out there some kid is having fun and I'm not. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Dan Rossi > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 11:52 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] I love Legos. > > > While watching the Steelers pluck some Ravens yesterday, I was playing > with Legos. > > We are going to remodel the kitchen at some point. It is a very small > kitchen and with wanting to take down one wall, space is limited and oddly > placed. > > I broke out the Legos and made about a 1/10 scale model of the floor > layout > with door openings, chimney push-outs, included. > > Both Teresa and I started playing and seeing who could build more accurate > scale models of appliances. She made one seriously nice looking stove and > oven, but I think my refrigerator takes the cake. It is a pretty good > replica of our fridge. Top fridge with pull out drawer freezer. The Lego > model has a door, with handle, that swings open so we can check > clearances. The freezer drawer pulls out, and even stops. > > I used a scale of 1 Lego dot equals three inches. > > This worked out quite well as we could move appliances around and see > where cabinets could fit. I made a bunch of cabinet spacers that were two > dots, six inches wide, that way we could just keep adding them in to fill > a space until we could see how much cabinet and counter space we had. It > worked so well for us. Since, Teresa can't understand my descriptions, > and she is very good at drawing what she is thinking, but then can't > explain the drawing. > > With the models, especially since they are three dimensional, we could > just move things around and see how well they fit. With the doors on the > oven and fridge opening, we could easily see clearances without having to > do a lot of calculations. > > Obviously, since it isn't a perfect scale, more detailed measurements > would need to be made, but this certainly simplified the process. > > I have used Legos for many things over the years. They really are a > wonderful tool. > > -- > Blue skies. > Dan Rossi > Carnegie Mellon University. > E-Mail: [email protected] > Tel: (412) 268-9081 > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > >
