{"id":95575,"date":"2017-02-24T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=95575"},"modified":"2019-03-13T01:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T08:06:57","slug":"20170224-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20170224-01\/?p=95575","title":{"rendered":"Eventually you reach a critical mass of LEGO pieces where you can build most things from what you already have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My kids are fascinated by camper vans and recreational vehicles. (They keep asking to go camping, but not for the purpose of experiencing nature. It&#8217;s because they want to travel in a camper.) They wanted a camper van LEGO set, but instead of buying one, we went online and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/lego.brickinstructions.com\/en\/lego_instructions\/set\/60117\/rb\">found the instructions for an existing camper van set<\/a> and built it from the pieces we already have. <\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, the kids modified the result to suit their needs. The resulting camper van looks like a lot of fun, but driving it around may be a bit difficult seeing as it has a height clearance of 30 feet. <\/p>\n<p>Useful sites: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/brickinstructions.com\/\">BrickInstructions.com<\/a>     has instructions for LEGO sets, in case you lost yours,     or you want to see instructions for other sets. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/rebrickable.com\/\">Rebrickable<\/a>     contains user-contributed instructions.     You can tell it what LEGO sets you own,     and it will tell you what you can build from them. <\/li>\n<li>    <a HREF=\"http:\/\/brickset.com\/\">BrickSet<\/a>     has among other things a     <a HREF=\"http:\/\/brickset.com\/parts\/\">part finder<\/a>.     One thing I use it for is recovering the name of the set     by searching for pieces that appear to be unique to that set. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just look it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-95575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Just look it up.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}