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I have made the following personal observations about LEGO, and why it is my medium of choice for robot building. LEGO is very easy to assemble. You can figure out what you want beforehand, without really needing to worry too much about (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Pneumatic Tanks
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I actually did a project in college that involved water rockets made out of pop bottles. We used a bicycle pump to pressurize the bottles. We found that the pump would break before the bottle did. Eric -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LIC SW info
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(...) Yep, those would be cool. Solo in carbonite would be reminiscent of the Adventurer's mummy coffin. Oola would be cool, but look for that "selective compression" to take over again... :) Somehow I don't think we'll see Salacious as he's too (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Mystery lighthouse model
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Eric Brok wrote in message ... (...) It (...) by (...) from (...) model (...) Unfortunately, no, but you could rectify that by taking and posting some pics on your web page. Please? : ) Matthew Verdier "You can't just say you're King because some (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Pneumatic Tanks
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Make that three. My water rocket launcher is power by common household water pressure (45-70 PSI) and gets up to 75 ft. in the air with a 2 liter bottle. As for video the rocket accelerates so fast you can only see a water column appear on the lauch (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MSP Fest?
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Larry, I would be glad to meet you and even take you to the venerable (sic) Lego Imagination Center if by chance you haven't already been there yourself. As for your interest in the club, I don't think proximity should necessarily be an issue. There (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: NT 4.0 and Mindstorm ?
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No problem. It also runs on the beta 2 of NT 5 (alias windows 2000) Carol Chisholm -----Original Message----- From: Elmer Mateychuk [mailto:chilecom@cab...egina.com] <mailto:[mailto:chil...gina.com]> Sent: 06 January 1999 01:38 To: (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | MSP Fest?
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I will, if I can slide onto an earlier flight, have a basically all day layover in MSP on Sunday, 7 Feb 1999. Anyone interested in a fest or get together of some sort? If there's no interest, I will just go to the LIC at the MOA and hang out. (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Train Club
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(...) I don't get this group, but someone emailed me this post, so here I am. :-) I have been on the case of the PNLTC head honchos to allow non local club members but no joy yet. I'd be interested in participating in a club, but cannot commit to (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: Best way to write the registered trademark symbol in HTML?
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(...) Because the ® symbol in typical typefaces (Times, etc.) on typical systems (Windoze, Mac, etc.) displays as a large, obnoxious O-sized symbol instead of a nice little raised o-sized symbol like TM (™) does. (...) Huh? Why isn't ™ (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)
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