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(...) letters from "italicized" (slanted) to standard block letters. And the "O" lost its little loop. For interesting comparisons, check out the 1973 LEGO catalog. It will show both types of logo's. That was because some sets were carryovers from (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Robot Building Instructions from the O'Reilly book
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Hi, I finished computer-rendering all the building instructions from _The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots_. They're online here: (URL) and Hank have both been updated, so the entire set is RIS 1.0 and RIS 1.5 compliant. I used MLCAD, l3p, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | Re: Overcharge Battery
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(...) Actually, if you had stored them fully discharged then they would likely be as good as they day you bought them. That is the best way to store NiCds. However, if they are kept at a C/100 trickle charge to prevent open-circuit discharge, they (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Any way to reduce polygons?
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When converting models to dxf format with dat2dxf, you end up with a tremendous number of polygons in the converted model. This means that any program used to view the file has *tons* of work to do. Anyone know of way to simplify dat files down to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Proposal: A web page to showcase people's work
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(...) Liam, Sorta like a weblog then, where you put new stuff at the top, and older stuff trickles down the list? (Only, it sounds like in your case, you desire to limit the default viewing to the single most recent item on the "podium"?) This sort (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Will's Spring Cleaning Auction - Update 9
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Ahhh....spring is in the air (at least it is here in central NC :-) and the cleaning bug has struck! As a result I have finally gotten around to deciding which Lego sets I can afford to live without...and here they are. This is an auction, so here (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Lego storage with good availability in the UK
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I recently found some nice flat stackable boxes in Robert Dyas. The Organiser-160 has 14 compartments of various sizes (not adjustable), and I've successfully put all of my Technic/Mindstorms stuff into a bunch of them - all except for the big (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.storage)
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| | FA(eBay): Technic, hulls, tiles, thinwalls, gold/silver, corrugated, many more parts lots
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Auctions ending on 20 Mar 2000 ---...--- 43 Technic plates (URL) 84 black Technic beams (URL) 47 black single bend beams (URL) Motor, battery box + wire (URL) Pair of huge wheels + tires (URL) 4 green 12x24x1 large bases (URL) 40 grey wheels + (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: which viewers are getting used?
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(...) IANAG, but I thought the mime types were viewer-indifferent. Looking at (URL), it appears the mime-types depend only on which language-extensions are used. (...) we frequently use? Steve (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Stavo cercando un sito ....
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(...) ... (...) Conoscevo i primi due ma non il terzo, e stavo giusto chiedendomi cosa fosse un Gundam...:-) Praticamente Goldrake o Mazinga UFO Robot ecc :-))) Ciao Mario (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: US Customs Duties on Lego Shipments from Europe?
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(...) Here is the message: (URL) that this status only applies to construction toys imported from countries which we have "Normal Trade Relations" (NTR) with (used to be called "Most Favored Nation"). I don't think there are any European countries (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Website
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(...) ...Nyah... Just 'ad sized' or so :-) something 400-500 wide and < about 100 or so seems to look good and somewhere around 50k seems to load ok even at home. I've got the ad-rotator up now so u can see the two ads I've got so far to get an idea (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | UK Reddifest Train Layout
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From humble beginnings... Amongst the pictures of the recent LegoFest held by a small group of AFOLs in the UK are several of a train layout with some custom trains and stations. Nothing yet on the likes of some of the US layouts, but we all need to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Any way to reduce polygons?
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(...) I'm assuming you are generating a single, flattened stream of input, instead of defining subobjects which correspond to the subfiles in a model. If I'm wrong about that, ignore the rest of this message. One thing to do is to intercept any (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Any way to reduce polygons?
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If you are converting to POV format for rendering, perhaps you can find something useful in this thread: (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Inside a 4548 Speed Regulator?
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(...) I've noticed that too. I've opened up one of my contollers once, because some sand grains got in between the speed knob and the housing and I had to clean it. I didn't check what you've asking about, but I think there is not mutch risk (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Efficiency was: Generating power
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in article e0.222e2ae.25fbc2e7@aol.com, lego-robotics@crynwr.com at lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote on 3/11/00 7:40 AM: (...) That may have been my figure. Here's what I did. I connected two motors together and put a crank on each one. With no load, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | announcing Jain's Guide
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Jain's Guide ((URL) the premier guide to the fighting men, women and equipment of the sector is looking for reporters and photographers to submit stories and photos of the equipment and mecha used throughout the sector. ...Have you ever dreamed of (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: announcing Jain's Guide
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Stephen F Roberts <wubwub@wildlink.com> wrote: ...I suppose for legalese reasons, I should point out this is not a real ad for employment, just a call for submissions/ad for my site :-) (...) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: New minifig-scale anthromorphic lifter/loader
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(...) I really liked this model. I chose a camera angle from directly in front, and low. It looks great with the claws coming out at you. (URL) (58K) So what happens to the decals? Why don't they show up when rendering in POV? -Chuck (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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