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Well, it looks like I won't be getting the tremendous quantity of good deals like I did last year (can you say 35-40 6099's for $5 each?) but I did get something in the mail on Sunday (I guess it came Saturday but I didn't check it until Sunday (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Indeed. There's a very cool hands-on display at the Exploratorium (for anyone fortunate enough to live within driving distance of San Francisco) that has a single motor input, and two wheel outputs. Motor runs, and both wheels turn at the same (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I believe the one you are referring to is found at: (URL) Mark (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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=>Chris Stanley wrote: =>> =>> what exactly is the purpose of a differential gear? i've got several of =>> them, i've seen them used in various projects, but i've never quite =>> managed to figure out what they do. Zachary A. Bourk" (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Chris Stanley writes: > what exactly is the purpose of a differential gear? i've got several of > them, i've seen them used in various projects, but i've never quite > managed to figure out what they do. > > ok, there. i feel much better. thank you. (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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The following is an update on special Orange elements from 30 copies of the #3047 Trick or Treat bucket, which appeared briefly in Target stores last Fall. For more information, start at: (URL) monetary amounts are in $US. --Todd ===...=== ====== (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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The following is an update on notable train-rlated elements for sale in AucZILLA IX. For more information, start at: (URL) monetary amounts are in $US. --Todd ===...=== ====== ===...=== LOTS ASK CURRENT ===...=== ====== ===...=== [ ] 16 White 1x4x3 (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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Chris: I believe it allows the two wheels attatched to one drive shaft to turn at different rates, thus allowing the gear-motor system to corner without skidding. -Zach (...) ---...--- Zachary Bourk UCSD, EE http:\\www.geocities...ystem\4968 (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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From the news page at rebelscum.com: "Lego Sends Out Promo Toys Lego has sent out a promotional toy for Star Wars that is a scene set inside a small box with two figures wielding light sabers. The one I heard about arrived at a newspaper. I don't (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Excellent tip... I see this in my area as well at WMs. A Target tip that new bargain-hunters might not know: always scan down the endcaps at the back end of each toy aisle. Stuff piles up there, fairly randomly, during the chaotic few weeks (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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what exactly is the purpose of a differential gear? i've got several of them, i've seen them used in various projects, but i've never quite managed to figure out what they do. ok, there. i feel much better. thank you. -- Chris "Clueless" Stanley (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Seeking Strategies on Humanoid Robots/Walkers
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-----Original Message----- From: Mike Fusion <tltpj@csd.uwm.edu> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 9:16 PM Subject: Re: Seeking Strategies on Humanoid Robots/Walkers (...) ones (...) sorry, i (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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One more note on arithmetic... The firmware supports operations where the second operand is either a constant or a variable, but not other sources (such as input values, timers, etc). Present versions of NQC don't check this, so code like "a -= (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Speculation: Monorail, Disney, Past Coincidence?
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(...) But if I understand TLG's reasoning correctly, the act of publishing your own ideas would make those ideas unusable by TLG. Something to do with copyrights and such? So maybe you would be better off _not_ publishing all those great ideas, and (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: MSP Fest?
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(...) Time to warn the employees of the Lego Imagination Center :^) Seriously, Welcome to the Twin Cities! In many ways the hunting for sets can be challenging and rewarding. There are 30+ Target stores, 6 Wal-Marts, 7 or so TRU's, numerous K-Marts (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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Jasper Janssen writes: > On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 19:53:26 GMT, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Russell > Nelson) wrote: > > >Did you *tell* it which year it was?? > > > >Then why do you think it cares?? > > It's a microcontroller. Therefore it has an internal (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Multiple FAQ's (was CFD: lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Stop with the flame bait, you silly lad. (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Older Dacta Community Vehicles IS still available at Kaplan
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Cool. Did they give you a free street sweeper? I got one per set when I got my last 2 copies of this set, back in June of last year, to make up for the fact that "the set isn't complete" but near as I could tell, they were. (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Attention Lugnet Philosophers! A quandry....
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(...) There is a thread about this on RTL at the mo too. I think if you went for complete completeness, you'd have to get each set of the theme in every different package (that is, language) it was ever released in. And even the most fanatical of (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.general)
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Well, what do you know? I may be in MN soon after all. I've got my new assignments, I will be supporting two projects and one of them is in MSP. Watch this space. ++Lar (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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