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The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide
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The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide

by Allan Bedford
September 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
376 pages
10h 26m
English
No Starch Press
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The Ruler

Simplicity, as you’ve already seen, often provides for the best solutions.

You can use a ruler made of LEGO to measure distances between pieces of large models. For instance, perhaps you’re laying down the foundation for a large LEGO house. You can use the ruler to check the distances between the walls. Or, when you’re working on a sculpture, you can use it to check proportions of different parts of the model.

In the case of making your own ruler out of LEGO, it couldn’t be much simpler. Figure 13-7 shows you the Bill of Materials for this tool.

Bill of Materials for the ruler

Figure 13-7. Bill of Materials for the ruler

The construction of this little project is almost ...

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