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Does anyone know if the Technic Space Shuttle (8480) is still available through S@H? Or anywhere for that matter. A friend called to order one and he was told it was discontinued. I remember seeing something the other day that the off hours people (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: RcxCC Joystick controls
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(...) I think he's talking about the "gold half-ball" that comes with set #6463 I forget the name of it. It's lunar rover or something like that. theres a pic here: (URL) BTW I don't think the new super car #8448 has been talked about here lately (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FOTW? Nebuala Outpost 6899
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(...) FOTW level find, IMHO, on these is to get them under 3 bucks... I have. (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: RcxCC Joystick controls
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(...) Hmmm.... what "gold half-ball" is this? Perhaps you could be more specific...? (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have been researching this exact topic for almost a year now. I started off looking at the Handyboard do to its popularity and strong robotic application design but ultimately I've decided to use one or more Atmel processors do to their speed and (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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I have another solution to the IR -RCX range problem if you don't mind running a few wires. When I ran the Stage Crew organization at my local High School, I had a remotely controlled Tilt-pan head for an 8mm video camera suspended over the (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 3 sensors = 8 inputs?!
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Mark, It has been figured out how to get four touch sensors per input. This gives 12 touch sensors if all three inputs are used. Using this approach, a 16 channel Analog MUX can be hooked up. Sensing the four switch lines using Port A and the Output (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Yes! my idea worked! all you need to do is get the gold half-ball that comes in one of the space sets and mount it on top of the IR sensor! Voila, a go-anywhere robot!! (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have an interesting idea. . . What if you were to use the new gold dome that is included with the new space sets as that ball your were talkign about? maybe since it is coated in gold, if could bounce the IR light into the RCX, and it IS a lego (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I was at Kmart the other day looking around for any good Legos that I could afford, and I saw this megablock thing and I moved it to look at it and then I saw a Explorien Nebula Outpost(1) it was really banged up and the box was open, I think all (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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