 | | Re: Legos get you into college
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: Basement water alarm
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: Analog/Digital IO
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: How many bricks are there in a lego set?
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Basement water alarm
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Sets for sale.
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: More light sensors in legOS
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Online LEGO Inventory Database
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: Mindblowing animation
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | RE: Mindblowing animation
|
|
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)
|
