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This Book Nook set was a great build. I love the architectural touches. Good use of some beveled tiles to evoke Dwarven stone carving.

The balrog is impressive with tons of articulation. The attachments to the frame are a nice touch for easily displaying the set opened or closed. The balrgo easily detaches for more posing and play options.

I may check out the other Book Nook set #LEGO has put out.

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So I tried a few things, namely switching Virtualbox network modes. But I could not see packets between the VMs.

I imagine when traffic is between VMs #Virtualbox is not putting the packets in the TCP/IP stack where #Wireshark on the host can see them when. Only when the traffic crosses to the host or the network beyond does Wireshark (or #tshark) see it.

I don't want to capture traffic on the VMs themselves (having to install Wireshark or something else on Windows 98...).

So I searched around and found the article below in the Virtualbox wiki on network tracing.

You can essentially configure the NIC on each VM to capture all packets and log them to a pcap. So this is what I'll use.

virtualbox.org/wiki/Network_ti

www.virtualbox.orgNetwork_tips – Oracle VirtualBox
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Good news is the network of the VM works, with DHCP. I wasn't really sure if that was the case or not for Windows 98. So the VM boots up and gets an IP automatically.

Now, because I want to capture packets to reverse engineer the protocol, I've set up the VM in bridged mode so that 1) each VM gets its own IP that I can filter easily in captures 2) I can send packets to each VM from the host without having to sep up NAT traversals.

I've done this and VMs get IPs just fine. Then I launched #Wireshark, pinged some host on the internet and I saw the ICMP traffic.

Then I pinged one VM from another... They pong just fine, but in the pcap... Nothing.

Latest #robot in sea trials. An old 12v trolling motor provides propulsion. A #RaspberryPi pico is always-on and runs the basics, sensors, h-bridges and such.

An RPi4 will be the main autonomy hub to enable detailed mapping and surveys and such. But for now I can just push #mqtt buttons in #HomeAssistant and move it around.

I built it almost totally out of scrap and epoxy. What a delightful waste of time! 😜

P. S. Note the #lego crew on the bridge.

Hey #afols und #afobs!

Wir haben einen kritischen Punkt erreicht und brauchen/wollen ein neues Aufbewahrungs- und Sortiersystem für unsere #Klemmbausteine. Habt ihr Empfehlungen für idealerweise modulare, stapelbare Kisten/Schubladensysteme für gleichermaßen große und kleinteilige Kategorien?
Wir wollen weiter nach Steine-Art sortieren, nicht nach Farbe.

(Auf dem Bild sind nicht alle Steine zu sehen, nur ein Teil der etwas besser sortierten. Und die "Mischkiste")