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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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| | Re: Next Fest?
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(...) What's the saying? "Gas, Grass or ABS, no one rides for free?" (1) Well, I'm still in GR and staying here this week. Next week? 1 - the original differs by one letter, and the case of another. :-) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.co.den)
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| | Re: Working around the 3 output limitation
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Linc Smith writes: > The ideas in the later posts of this thread are in my opinion what Lego > **is**. It is innovation in the face of "limited" options. Any device will have limitations. The beauty of Mindstorms is that anything I build with mine, (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Some Running Thoughts about THROWBOTS
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(...) Richard, Does the message you just posted to the .announce group really qualify as a "general-interest announcement to the community (breaking news about products, releases, contests, events, and sites, etc.)" ? It seems more to me like (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: LIC SW info
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(...) the (...) I just realized the answer to this dilemma is staring me in the face. On top of my computer sits sets no 6709, an Indian on a horse with a headdress(1) The headdress is quite a complicated shape (lots of curvy feathers) but it has (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: CyberMaster building
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Laurentino Martins wrote in message <3691F0BE.20380F8@ma...pac.pt>... (...) I just finished the Mindstorms motor, and am planning to work on the RCX. I don't know how similar it is to CyberMaster. -John Van (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | slightly out of topic..
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anybody know which stores besides toyrus that offers bargain prices for great technic sets for parts to built great robots in san francisco bayarea? thanks -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 71427.dat the real thing
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Dang, I'm out of a job.Oh well, I guess that was I better model than I could do. John VanZwieten wrote in message ... (...) (27 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 71427.dat the real thing [DAT]
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I thought you RIS fans wouldn't want to wait two updates to get your hands on this one. Enjoy. -John Van 0 Electric RIS 9V Motor 0 Name: 71427.dat 0 Author: John VanZwieten 0 Unofficial Element 2 24 -40 16 -40 40 16 -40 2 24 -40 72 -40 40 72 -40 2 (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Re: Some Running Thoughts on THROWBOTS
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Richard Wright wrote in message ... (...) <snip>... Hey Richard, I am in agreement that the Throw-bot idea (competition to dominate) is antithesis to what I feel Lego is, but there are some good parts. Of course the parts without the violence would (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Anybody out there familiar with Auto CAD 14?
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 04:50:36 GMT, Clay Aucoin uttered the following profundities... (...) There is a utility that converts lcad and ldraw to dxf format. Be warned, though, the file size for even a small, 60 piece model in Lcad takes a **long** time (...) (27 years ago, 6-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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