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I am very tired so I'm not going to post all the newest patents, but here's a new one from today, and several recent ones. Long URLs below, or just search for "interlego" at (URL) was issued April 18, 2000, applied for Oct 1998. Looks like a (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Grabber arm
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I downloaded the instructions for building a grabber arm from the Mindstorms WWW site (I gather this is the grabber arm depicted on the 1.5 box). However, I found that the arm wasn't very good at actually picking things up. Although I didn't have (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ZNAP Hints?
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I've just bought two ZNAP kits on TRU buy one get one 50% off. I think it's a good deal, I got two motors with two battery boxes and wires, some flexible axles, and tons of ZNAP pieces for $30. I have no regrets, but I find the ZNAP pieces VERY (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: April Lego release available
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Hey Adam, "Adam Murtha" <amurtha@direct.ca> wrote in message news:Ft5HAK.CoG@lugnet.com... (...) Vancouver, (...) Do you mean VicLUG? That would be great. Steve (one of the first 3 of us) wanted to do something soon, but Silas (another of first 3 of (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
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| | Is LEGO safe in Fish Tanks? (Safe for the fish)
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This is something I've wanted to do for awhile now. We just bought a 33galuon fish tank and now have the room for some very cool ideas. Is LEGO safe for fish tanks? Will putting LEGO in the tank have any effects on the fish? Does the plastic leach (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Question for eBay experts
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What happened to the dual-entry bidding boxes that used to be on eBay? I haven't placed any bids on it since sometime in 1998, so I don't know when this changed or even if my memories of the old way are correct, but I thought that the way it used to (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: New LEGO Design Patent Today, Recent ones too
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(...) I'd say you're right. (...) Looks like Znap. (...) I have... no... idea! Looks like Duplo though. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=...=-=-=-=-=- jmbrown@mines.edu (URL) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Next Ohio Brikwars Meeting
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(...) Any and all weekends should be good for me, at least for quite awhile. Jeff Christner Visit Sixby Fire Tech at - (URL) support my LEGO habit. Ship by rail. Visit (URL) to find out how. (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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| | Re: More previews from BCS
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(...) it (...) be (...) ship (...) to (...) a (...) to (...) etc... (...) much (...) Cool, can't wait. (...) was (...) for (...) That'll happen when I find out a good way to get pictures of it onto my computer...I'm too lazy to find a normal (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Destroyer Droid (8002) Problems...?
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"Chris Busse" <cbusse@infi.net> wrote in message news:Ft8p46.KyB@lugnet.com... (...) 50/50 (...) All I did to it was cross the bands and connect them to "piston" pieces that are inserted into the #2 connector. The bands should be in an "X" pattern (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | set icon fixed
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Several bugs in the set icon feature have been fixed. You will need to re-upload your member icon for the changes to take effect. (this only affects member icons that are distorted and/or very large icon files). The bugs affected images with (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf) !
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| | Re: Question for eBay experts
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Todd L wrote about eBay bidding: (...) It's been like that for as long as I've been bidding, I think - more than a year. Don't remember it being any other way,, though I may be wrong. (...) Why would you want to do that? Now you're committed to $50 (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: April Lego release available
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Adam might meean the Friday May 5th meeting of the VLC (Vancouver Lego Club). And if any other Victoria/Island people want to come over and visit, you'd be welcomed! Next meeting has a Castle theme, everyone is building Castle stuff and bringing it (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
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| | underscore in email address
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email addresses for member accounts in the brickshelf gallery can now contain underscores. KL (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.announce.brickshelf)
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| | Re: Znap popularity?
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(...) That seems to make sense, right now motor + battery box + flex cables >= $15 with ToysuaRUs BOGO-50%(*1) (I love Lego Lingo). But what will happen to the after market price of lego motors when the glut of Znap strip downs hits? I don't have a (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: Znap popularity?
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(...) I've heard that they decorate ships strangely in New Jersey, but I've never actually seen it... (...) Warning: disturbing imagery pending... Funny you should mention carrots - I really haven't been eating many recently, ever since a stormy day (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.znap)
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| | Re: ZNAP Hints?
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(...) Well, like you know man, there's purple and there's nob and sockets and then there's like... structure And it's groovy, you know. Dig? Seriously though, if you want to strengthen up those opposable digits, just slide on down to your local (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.znap)
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| | LEGO Easter Egg builder goes nuts!
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If anyone needs me for the next few days, you might want to check the local funny farm. My wife may have just checked me in. The reason is that I just spent way too much time building a way-too-large easter egg. It's 32 bricks long and wide and 36 (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.fun.holiday, lugnet.general) !
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| | Proof-of-Principle For Evil Being's Lair
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Hi everyone, I'm not really a .castlehead, but this "proof of principle" has taken a Castle flavour so I'll post it there too--maybe you'll get a chuckle out of it. ;) The backstory is that I recently bought some Znap, and I happened to put two (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Help for povray needed!
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(...) <SNIP> Thanks, this helps a lot, but now there is one problem left: MLCad first creates the dat file to be converted, than calls L3P to convert it into pov and than it executes pov-ray with the above statement. If you do that for multiple (...) (26 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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