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(...) you are confusing mAh capacity (the amount of energy stored in the battery) with how fast the batt can deliver the power. the two are not the same. the fuse is in the design because nicad cells can deliver a *DANGEROUS* amount of power if (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Sir Steve interviews someone from Lego
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(...) Well we know they have manufactured some - they were shown at that Japanese Toy Fair - I was impressed by the likeness. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Millennium Slizer for a tenner
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(...) The crooks only reduced them to £12 up here. Ian Bishop, Ayrshire, UK (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 2 Wanted Parts - Not Rare
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(...) I need some really simple parts but I can't get hold of them in reasonable condition. 2 1x2 yellow plates for double 4559 conversion, I would also need 2 1x2 black plates and 2 extreme slope pieces in black. 2 2x8 Dark Grey plates - for 12V (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: NEW PICTURES
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Kevin, well lets see it then!!! :) I got my old colection of Lego down from the loft, and the tracks where in there :)....I seem to remember having a yellow bulldozer technic set when I was younger, and I think thats where the tracks came from....I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Control six Micro Scouts with a fiber optic module?
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I had this really sick idea last night, and I thought I'd throw it out for discussion. In theory, you could control up to six Micro Scouts or Code Pilots using two motor outputs and one sensor input. Each of the six fiber optic cables from the fiber (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.microscout, lugnet.robotics.codepilot)
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| | Re: LDS ver 0.28
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GOTO was very easy to program. :o) A little more seriously now: I think it belongs to the BASIC-like syntax I have chosen. Especially in IF statements. Anyway, noone is forced to [ab]use it. I don't think WHILE-WEND will be too hard to code, and it (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: NEW PICTURES
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Shaun, hmmm I had wondered where on earth you got those helmets from in the AT-ST...I looked everywhere for them...Now I know!!:) I dont know if I'm prepared to start cutting Lego about though!! (...) well. I (...) Glue (...) get (...) but (...) You (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Still have lot to sell/trade
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I still have a ton of pieces to sell or trade away. Once again most of my pieces are over five years old so please don't ask for something brand new. I still have a lot of town, tech, some castle, and misc accessories pieces to rid myself of. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | IR sensitivity of CCD cameras
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As has been noted, a lot of CCD cameras are very sensitive to IR. You can take advantage of this by building IR illuminators out of half a dozen or so higher power IR LEDs. I think radio shack sells them. String them in series, add the appropriate (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pure theory on castle auction ...
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(...) In your first post, you wrote: (...) Try changing "this is more of a plug than anything" to "the auction is more of a plug for Castle World than an attempt to make money by selling customized figures". That would help clarify what you were (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: LDS ver 0.28
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(...) Better to have both. GOTO has its uses, albeit rare. --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Can we have a Newsgroup for KIDLUG?
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(...) OK, I just set this up. (...) All right -- well, good luck! -- sounds like a great thing if you can make it happen. Hopefully the new group will help some! --Todd (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.org)
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| | ------( Terms of use for lugnet.com )------
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.kidlug)
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| | ------( Welcome to lugnet.org.us.kidlug )------
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Welcome to lugnet.org.us.kidlug, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.org.us.kidlug (group): KIDLUG: Kid LEGO Users Group lugnet.org.us (group and hierarchy): U.S.-based user groups, clubs, and organizations for LEGO® enthusiasts: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.us.kidlug)
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| | ------( Terms of use for lugnet.com )------
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TERMS OF USE FOR LUGNET.COM OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS lugnet.com ("LUGNET") is a privately owned Internet site designed and run primarily for the benefit of those who enjoy building with, discussing, collecting, buying & selling, trading, and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | ------( Welcome to lugnet.org.ca.vlc )------
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Welcome to lugnet.org.ca.vlc, a LUGNET discussion group. CHARTER/PURPOSE: lugnet.org.ca.vlc (group): VLC: Vancouver LEGO Club (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) lugnet.org.ca (group and hierarchy): Canada-based user groups, clubs, and (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.org.ca.vlc)
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| | Re: De Bouwsteen club
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(...) Hi! Coming back to this thread now that things have settled in more... There is a hierarchy of groups for organizations/clubs in the US, and now just starting is one for Canada: lugnet.org.us lugnet.org.us.baylug lugnet.org.us.dixielug (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | 3033 1200-Piece Blue Bucket
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Here is an example of an inventory with the bags identified. It's tab-delimited, so the columns won't line up, unless you mess with your tab settings or import the data into a spreadsheet. Read Todd's message in this thread about bag-inventories (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Gloat
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(...) cool! despair is run by 3 friends from high school that i worked with for a few years at a previous job. oh. you mean your lego site, huh? :) :) -dave, the smart*ss -- David Wiggins o: (214)574-1443 Sr. Facilities Engineer, Dallas P-NAP p: (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: LDS ver 0.28
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(...) Good!! (...) Reasoning for GOTO? GOTO is a construct which can very easily be abused. better to have "proper" strcutures likw while-DO, repeat-until etc. Alex (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Just a doodle
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(...) Just stack up some building fronts and stuff, and make the background sky blue. But you knew that. (...) I like it! Perhaps, being at the brickshelf, you are planning on posting the instructions to it? -Tom McD. when replying, new (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Classic Space Gray Baseplates Wanted
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I am looking to purchase as many old gray space baseplates as I can find. I am looking for the ones with roads and landing pads on them. I am not even sure what is fair pricewise but I am sure we can work something out. If anyone has any to sell, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Town test
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test test test..... The rain in spain falls gently on the plain. Bye, bye miss American pie, drove my chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry. Saw the good ole' boys drinkin whiskey and rye sayin' "This will be the day that I'll die..." (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.town, lugnet.off-topic.test)
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| | Re: Hangar 33
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(...) Yeah, they looked that way in LEdit too. I just went with it, though I did receive a suggestion to make the entire floor of tiles instead, which sounds intriguing. -Tom McD. when replying, spamcake doesn't make good landing pads because of (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Just some questions...
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(...) CAVEAT: I'm probably full of it, but here goes.... My understanding is that a 12 V NiCd battery pack would not damage the HB, since the HB can handle up to 12 V. The problem is that in order to charge a 9.6 V battery pack, the HB built in (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: My RCX's life as a dog or hacking the x10
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(...) This was a big surprise to me also. I found my little B&W camera sees the output of the remote control very brightly. Even with the big lens I added to considerably sharpen the picture vs the pinhole "lens". Even remotes with filters on the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sir Steve interviews someone from Lego
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(...) To be fair, the LEGO guy said right in his first answer: "Because future launches are confidential, I can't say what will and won't be available in 2001 (yet)." It's not *his* fault that the interviewer then went on to only ask questions about (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: FA (Ebay) Old Space Sets
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(...) Lugnet == fast eBay == slow Also, for sellers: Lugnet == trusted eBay == unknown I've just signed up a search on the eBay Personal Shopper. Now, I can't figure out how to get back to the service. I hope they plan on sending me e-mail, or I'll (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | 2001 sets!
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I know that this alittle early, but..... With the SSG interview done and "published". Although there were NO real answers! Accept we will get some Imperials in 2001. Anyone want to take bets on some 2001 sets. Here are some of mine: ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Senator Palpintine / Emperor
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(...) Well, the story as I understand it is that he (Palpatine/Darth Sidious/The Emperor) is a Dark Lord of the Sith, a dark side equivalent of the Jedi - basically the whole Empire/Rebellion/Galactic Civil War thing boils down to "a bit of a tiff" (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: How good is 8485 Technic Control Center?
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Michael Cotsford <cotsford@lexra.com> wrote in message news:FqG00C.Eww@lugnet.com... (...) motors (...) Correct, my error. (...) but (...) Was there ever a US version of this set?? I wonder what portion of the shipping cost from DYA can be (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: What is Znap?
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(...) You're right. It does look useful for that sort of thing. It's just...Not Lego, you know? It used to be Tyco, Ritvik, etc. copied Lego. Now Lego is copying Erector, Tinker-Toys, Ramagon, Construx, etc? Just gives me an icky feeling inside, the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.znap, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hangar 33
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Larry, (...) Looks like the parts are buggy, all the lines should be lined up. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn-> ssanburn@cleanweb.net Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) Page -> (URL) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Hangar 33
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Very nice scene. Very nice indeed! One question for space plate experts... take a look at the plates in this image, where the T and + intersect tehre is a bit of a difference in the yellow lines... Do the real ones mismatch on line width, or do we (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.space, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Another (semi-) standard field for inventories
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(...) Very interesting. I was wondering if bag-contents changed over time. But I could only think of one or two people who I was fairly certain would know the answer, and I wasn't sure they'd feel like sharing. So thanks for passing on that bit of (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Tiger 1 WW2 Tank
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(...) I see. Clever! I have only been able to bring myself to paint a couple of Timmy heads, so I know what you mean. ;] (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Just some questions...
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(...) The self-resetting thermal fuse that's part of the HB ought to be just fine (see item F1 on the HB schematics). I think that if you use a 9.6 V NiCd battery pack with less than a couple thousand mAH capacity, you probably have nothing to worry (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: ZB Sale: 6195 Neptune Discovery Lab $45
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(...) These can almost be like the infamous K-Mart blue light specials. I was at the Raleigh ZB last summer when they announced that all clearance items were an additional 50% off for the next 30 minutes. Mike --- Mike Walsh (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Is it possible to have too much LEGO?
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Interesting subthread. I guess I'm from the "build it per directions" school. I tend to build stuff to learn what there is to learn, then I go off and build my own stuff from scratch. Only very rarely do I modify TLC sets into something improved... (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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