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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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(...) 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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John A. Hern Jr writes: > Yes, but note that they are not a technical college, and that they are > doing this to recruit minority students to fill a quota. Would you want > to be operated on by a medical doctor who got his degree based on how > well (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Basement water alarm
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Brian B. Alano writes: > > > 2. The RCX clock seems to lose time, roughly > > (very roughly) a half hour per week. Anyone > > else noticed this? > > > > > PC clocks tend to lose time as well. 10 minutes a day isn't unheard of. > 1/2 hour per week is (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Analog/Digital IO
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Maxim sells a chip that I have connected to the parallel port on my PC and it seems to work well. I got the design from an article in Dr. Dobbs. The article was on using Linux to collect data. The author of the article has a book which has the (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
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(...) Can anyone substantiate this law? Can you point to a reference to it on the web? I know model kits usually don't give piece counts, and puzzles give only approximate piece counts (your 1000 piece puzzle probably doesn't have exactly 1000 (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd think it has an accurate crystal oscillator. (...) No, the frame counter in the ZX80/81/Spectrum (if yours is a ZX80 rather than 81, I'd like to buy it, BTW) simply counts the TV frames it produces. Those, in turn, would be about 60Hz in (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sets for sale.
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(...) A (...) Updated list: 1029 Tine milk truck 23 1183 farao 5 1955 Color Line Cruise Ship 55 2535 Shell Race Car 5 2536 Shell Water Jet 5 2537 Shell River Raft 5 2538 Shell Crossbow Flamer 5 2539 Shell Batwing Flyer 5 2540 Shell Fright Knights' (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: More light sensors in legOS
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(...) still (...) added (...) I'm working on similar measuring too. I'm getting quite stabile values, but quite noisy too... I don't know if it's the same problem (I'm reading the values in decimal). I've just converted "0x1F0" to dec... Too much, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Online LEGO Inventory Database
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I was wondering if anyone would be interested in an online LEGO parts & Inventory database... or if there is already one out there. If there's enough interest I would be willing to write a web-based database for it. I thought it would also be nice (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Mindblowing animation
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Man, that was GREAT! Too bad it's so large, finding a permanent home for it will be tough. Maybe Todd or Kevin can host it? (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Mindblowing animation
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That was very, very cool. I have a ton of space free on my webserver. Anyone mind if I trim off the commercial at the beginning and host it on www.marsrobot.com? Rich Thompson (URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | 396 Thatcher Perkins
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I'm thinking of buying a small collection and it contains 2 Thatcher Perkins trains. There are no boxes and only one set of instructions(very tatty and taped). I don't want these. Would anyone be interested in them? I need to know soon(ish). (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Your Feedback
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We want to know what you would like to see on the future KIDLUG. Check us out at kidlug.com and tell us what you think. Note, the support@kidlug.com email does not exist yet. Aaron (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: Mindblowing animation
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Awesome! Mind-blowing! Well worth the download time! I'd really like to see a 3D Castle Lego movie made with huge castles, story lines, battles, etc... <hint, hint Lego> Elliot Hyde <cross-posted to lugnet.dear-lego> (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Man, I can not get this thing to fully download! Does anyone have a really fast internet connection that would want to send me the file at: ebrouwer1@home.com? Please?!? Eric (...) etc... (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | New town-themed web site
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Hi, I'm a new member of Lugnet, and I've just scanned pictures of my LEGO city and posted them on the following web site: (URL) a pretty good-sized city with a host of different buildings and some train stuff. Check it out. I hope you enjoy it. (26 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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