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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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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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| | LDraw Add-On 2 Now Available
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[follow-ups set to lugnet.cad] The new version of LDraw Add-On (LDAO) is now available. This is version 2.0.1 (For those of you who downloaded December's beta-test, this is the fix). The main new feature is a Modeler tool. This tool works with (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad)
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Hi All, Has anyone modeled any of the Lego parts in Autocad or AC Lite? I have done a few and hope to do enough to be able to build some models in AC. Jerry... -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Robert G. Carney, Jr.'s castles!
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(...) Whoa, Nelly!! These are some of the best Lego castles I've ever seen! I've been to a number of the castles he built, and the detail is amazing! I'm sooooo jealous! Jeff P.S. Sorry for the exclaimation marks, but I had to express my admiration. (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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Michael Gasperi writes: > I've been working on the mechanical part for a rotation sensor. So far it is > a 100% lego solution. I still need to work up the software. You can see some > early pics and a description at: > (URL) very cute. I've got a (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Handy-folk, I recently discovered that there is an experimental version of Java for the 68HC11 microcontroller. Cool! It has been in field testing since June, and looks promising. The developers tell me that a beta version should be released in a (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Thanks Ben: this bit of code did the trick, I am now pie free. ;) i really gotta learn C. or just keep my fingers crossed and hope someone GTREAT at programming writes a Basic to NQC compiler. any takers? 10 clr 20 a = peek (sensor 1) 30 poke (out (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: is Mindstorm/RCX Y2K Compliant???
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Actually, The way the markets have been going lately is that it is just as likely that bargain hunters will be waiting for just such an occurence so they can get some good deals. Will this be enough to offset it completely? Probably not, but I bet (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I am planning to port NQCC to DOS to use an old Laptop I have to program my bots. My old laptop has an ancient 286 processor so I have trouble locating a proper compiler that can target it. I don't mind if the compiler itself needs to run on a dual (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've been working on the mechanical part for a rotation sensor. So far it is a 100% lego solution. I still need to work up the software. You can see some early pics and a description at: (URL) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: ok, time for a stupid question...
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(...) <clipped nice explanation of differentials> (...) This has long been a curiosity of mine; I understand the general idea of increasingly braking an idler gear on the axle that is going faster (I presume the braking is proportional to the (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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