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(...) I've not tried this yet but... in the new geared motor sets there is a clutch plate with a Newton marking on the side. Also there is a ratchet design in the Cyber Wars kits. They use a shaft extender that rides on a gear to provide the ratchet (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: No way for a LEGO newbie to get up to speed? Unfair!
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Mark Tarrabain wrote in message <36A4501C.248EF8CE@l....bc.ca>... (...) The Mindstorms set is basically a Universal set with a microcontroller and two motors. Even if you don't want the computer the set is a very good deal just for the pieces and (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: ok, time for a stupid question...
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Chris, Differentials are used to distribute rotataion velocity between two axels. The differential is driven by a constant rotational velocity source and this velocity is distributed between the two axels in such a way that their average velocity is (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: TLG is loosing money!
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Steve Anderson wrote in message ... (...) in (...) While this is true Brio hasn't kept everything the same. When I was a kid Brio trains didn't have any plastic parts (mostly wood with metal for the magnets). Today's trains have a lot of plastic and (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Reason 5H bricks are good
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I found an application where two 1x2x5 bricks worked much better than 5 1x4 bricks. I was building a framework with Technic beams (basically the same thing I posted to lugnet.cad.dat the other day). I was inserting stacks of 1x4 bricks between the (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Customized pieces (was: Re: The virtues of the 1x1 with side stud)
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(...) What's even better: you can also put them together, and have a large hole with two doors. (...) Yeah. By the way, the 1*2 plates with H -beam attached lego uses to support the new 9V technic motor, have exactly the same profile as the rails (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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I have Borland C++ on 5.25 floppies. The manuals indicate that this is "AT&T C++ version 2.0". I can zip the 8 floppies and email to you. Are you interested? -Wes (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My own personal motherload of the month
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(...) Curses, foiled again. (1) 1 - hoist by my own petard, actually. ++Lar (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: FLASHING LIGHT ON LCD PANEL?
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Get Visual Basic.. It's easy to use.. <G> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Magno <cmagno@myna.com> To: Ben Williamson <benw@pobox.com> Cc: lego-robotics@crynwr.com <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 6:13 PM Subject: Re: (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robert G. Carney, Jr.'s castles!
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(...) Conwy and Caernarvon are two different castles. Caernarvon is where Prince Charles' ceremony to become Prince of Whales was held. It has Octagonal Towers, is sorta curved in overall shape, and I believe it is the royal castle in Whales. (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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