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Eric Kingsley wrote in message ... (...) but I (...) but (...) of (...) Parents were annoyed with Jar Jar also. My three year old doesn't even like him. (...) a (...) for (...) I thought the new movie was rather disappointing. I believe one reason (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | L-Draw - Future is the Net?
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As part of my project for college I am finding that a large number of Pro Acitectural Cad systems suppourt the use of distributed libraies.(Ie you can inline parts from a remote host.) Any plans to make this possible in L-Draw? alex (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Usefull little feature idea for Ldite [was: Re: Help with LDLite]
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I've been really wanting to see a little feature get implemented somewhere along the way. When I first saw that Ldlite had a "rotate model after drawing" feature, I was expecting that it was in preperation for this feature: The ability to generate (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Mindblowing animation
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Eric, (...) Wow, that is so cool! The way the castle constructed itself, the minifigs, just awesome. I could see a three or four hour movie with each theme. Awesome! If anyone wants to see it, I can send it to them. It is a bugger to download. Scott (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Analog/Digital IO
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(...) For digital values, you can use a parallel port card, or even handshake lines on a serial port. For analog, you can again use a parallel port, and hook up an external A/D chip. As long as you're not trying to get too many bits of resolution (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Lose the Plastic Thingies (tm)
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(...) Well, they have a prefab building system. I picked up a Playmobil catalog at Target and it was frightening how much the lines were similar, right down to the color schemes for things. (Playmobil has a blue and white railway express train and a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Analog/Digital IO
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hey -- how about a game card! that gives you digital (joystick buttons) and analog (resistor readings). fred In your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Anyone ever build the Glacier Express?
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(...) I built some cars and a loco modelled after this line. Unfortunately I don't have any really decent pictures of it. You can see it on these pages: (URL) both show the less-prototypical cars better than the very prototypical engine and (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What are you going to do with all those half price 8448's?
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lawrence wilkes <lawrence_wilkes@msn.com> wrote in message news:FpBGtD.77o@lugnet.com... (...) fest, (...) day or (...) matter (...) club (...) club. (...) Excellent idea. BTW - neat page, and nice mid-engined variant. Was that made entirely with (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Lego-Ideas.
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(...) Thanks Alex. I think I mentioned "rape and pillage" in a previous post about the Vikings. And then there are the Beserkers..... (that's where going beserk originated from). Just go see the movie "Erik The Viking", a Viking comedy spoof from (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: L-Draw - Future is the Net?
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In LDLite on MS Windows, the .dat files are searched for for by trying to do an "OpenFile" in several directories. It would be very easy to replace the "OpenFile" with a call that gets a file via ftp or html. I dreamed of adding an attempt to get a (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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(...) I've seen non-US sets (without piece counts) at ZanyBrainy and KB retail stores. (I got a European 8480 Technic shuttle at ZB and saw some non-US model team sets at KB) (...) The best is the Legoland brochure that I got in a European 6091 .. (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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For those of you who collect or have an interest in the old '50s and '60s LEGO Esso Service signage and pumps, there are a few new items to collect. My UK LEGO friend Phil Traviss (very knowledgeable about UK/European LEGO!!!) mentioned to me a few (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: L-Draw - Future is the Net?
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(...) Wouldn't this be really really slow while before the web cache fills up? I suppose you could test the speed without a rewrite by samba sharing an LDRAW directory across the internet and then setting your ldrawdir path to something like (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: 6755 - Sherriff's Lockup
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Thanks for the advice! I got a brand new Bank/General Store set quite cheap in a toyshop I stumbled into whilst visiting my girlfriend and I seem to recall that's where I picked up the Fort as well - I'll be gutted if I can't complete my little town (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Yet another CLUELESS about MIB
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In lugnet.market.auction, Mike Poindexter writes: Ignoring the nitpicking (polybags and 50's/60's sets)... (...) No, I think the disagreement is more about what is in mint condition, not what mint is. The title of the auction in question was "LEGO (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | RE: Analog/Digital IO
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Is that how it works? I remeber a time when some students were using a joystick for a project and recall them dealing with some sort of PWM. As to whether they were the joystick position signals, I'm not entirely sure. (...) This message is for the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: http://www.letsbuyit.com?
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What about suggesting something like 8448 supercar. I missed out on the Argos deal :-( Does anyone want to sell one? Is it one of the most expensive sets except for the mindstorms /cybermaster sets. Or maybe the trains are more expensive? David (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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(...) As a matter of fact, I picked up some boxes at a KayBee store not too long ago that also didn't have a piece count on the box. It was a Night Lord's Castle (6097), and contained a different set of catalogs than I was used to as well (having (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Interesting robotics link
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philippe possemiers writes: > Maybe this link might be interesting to acquire some ideas : > (URL) the collapsing frame, except that you'd have to have six motors to do it right. (26 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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