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Greetings, Minnesoda lego fans! Is anybody out there (Todd assures me you are) and if so, let's talk lego...trains, if you please. I love'm and was wondering if there was anybody else into them enough to warrant a starting up an "Upper Midwest Lego (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | New pictures of 700, Potential challenge to big red
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Finally, (Thanks to Steve) some new, cleaner pictures are up on the PNLTC webpage of my SPS 700 4-8-4 Steam Engine. (URL) was browsing Larry's designs and he seemed to note that Big Red was the longest non-articulated engine around. Hmmm, perhaps (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Work on Ldraw
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John Bauman wrote in message ... (...) Kind of - Jacob Sparre Andersson is working on a complete redevelopment, there are things like LDLite and L3P out there, as well as LDrawAddOn (LDAO), most of which are linked off the JJ Memorial page. HTH Moz (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: INTERACTIVE C
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We have developed a library of functions so that one can write HB-style code and run it either on the HB or compile it with the library and run it on a PC. It hasn't been thoroughly debugged, but works consistently (There are some timing issues that (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Give a MiniFig a Hand
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I have a Blacktron set that I obtained through an auction that is in wonderful shape, with one exception... one of the minifigs is missing a hand :( Would anyone have a black hand to sell me so that I can make my poor minifig whole again? Do Minifig (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: RCX Limitations, griping, etc. :)
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(...) Ahhhh....but alas my friend, that is where the challenge lies. Hey...the Apollo missions had less to work with. :) (...) Well...the RCX *is* the commercialized version of the MIT work. (...) Yep, I agree. (...) ...and just a tad too large to (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Anybody out there familiar with Auto CAD 14?
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If there is anyone out there that knows how to use Auto CAD 14 with the pieces that are in Ldraw & Ledit, please get with me. Thank You, Clay Aucoin, caucoin@cruiseshoppes.com Information Technologies Director, Web Services Division Cruise & (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Interrupt Request line
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Hi all, Does anyone know how to get a the interrupt line on the handyboard. Been looking at the documentation, and was a bit surprised that the interrupt was not available. Am I missing something? Charles Hacker Lecturer in Electronics, Computing (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | 5 Unit articulated container car
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As promised... Tail end of Containers page now has a few snaps of my 5 unit articulated container car. This baby is huge. This one car goes all the way around a semi circle of track with some spillover. 12 axles, 6 bogies/trucks, 10 articulation (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Pitsco Catalog
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Yup... I got the wrong one, now that you mention it. I found this one on catalogcity.com. In the very near future there will be a call placed to get the real catalog that I thought I was getting. There are lots of interesting robotics related stuff (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Program
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Yup, here it is: (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Special Piece Count? 6382 Fire Station
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message <19990105.163211.509...no.com>... (...) The only other one I know of (i.e. "have") is the Police Command Base, 6386. Any chance somebody has 7 groved 1x2 red bricks? My town's fire department would finally be able to (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Port problem with RCXCC (and not with nqcc)
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(...) No handshaking is used with NQC. The packet protocol itself uses ACKs which in effect perform control flow (everything is done lock-step). Dave (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Program
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AHHGGG, my harddrive crashed and in the process of rebuilding my intire system. I saw where the RCXCC was updated to Ver 2.0, but lost the web address. Could some one send it to me or repost to the list. Thanks, John A. Donaldson -- Did you check (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ideas for a Science Fair Project
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I just took the Six-Sigma Course at work. In it we did a real neat experiment. We made paper heliocopters out of paper. Then we tested it by dropping it from a pre-determind height. Then we changed to wing lenght, tested, added weight, tested, (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | No Target Clearances near me!
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I was just at Target today, and looked on the Lego aisle. I didn't see anything marked clearance. There was a small Lego wild west section down the aisles a little ways that was on clearance, from $7 to $4. Also, there were few random Lego and Duplo (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Ideas for a Science Fair Project
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Putting together Legos isn't likely to impress the judges, but using a Lego creation could well be nifty. I propose the following: make a robot that will throw a paper airplane. The study is in how the design of a paper airplane changes its flight (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NT 4.0 and Mindstorm ?
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Elmer, works fine for me. I successfully installed Mindstorms on a notebook and desktop. Both systems run under NT4.0 Workstation and SP3. The only small problem was that I had to use the COM1 port for the IR-Tower. Juergen Elmer Mateychuk wrote in (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | AucZILLA IX -- no updates for 5 Jan 1999
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AucZILLA IX bidders, auczilla.com at running at Digiweb (digiweb.com) and they're having NFS (network fileserver) problems again today. All the scripts run fine, but about 100 times too slowly. I doubt I'll be able to get updates out to people (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Work on Ldraw
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Is any work still being done on the Ldraw-Ledit package(other than parts files)? (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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