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(...) The next advance cycle has occurred. There are many items for sale at prices below other current parts auctions. Feel free to drop by and browse. (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Pneumatic valve
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Hi Linc, Yes I did have trouble finding smooth enough valves. So I made a new design (which I've posted on my website) which works with any valve (at least any one I own). I'm now working on a pneumatic walker which I expect to post early next week. (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego Has updated its online Catalog!!
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(...) I'm with you on this one. With the previously noted exception of the town junior double-sloped piece for the x-wing rear landing gear, I'm very impressed with the construction and new piece selection of the SW sets. I'm going to have to buy (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: navigation with compass
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Here's some info on a compass sensor from Dinsmore Instrument Company for about 12 bucks. FYI (URL) >>Having said that at some stage I'm going to hook a compass up to my RCX, (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: navigation with compass
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For compasses and other methods of orienting oneself to the world, check out these firms: (URL) The 1490 is great for simple navigation (URL) Message----- From: Hao-yang Wang <hywangATpoboxDOTcom...ugnet.com> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Seen these?
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(...) Very nice. Thanks for the tip! Now I can do a decent R2 for Ldraw. Maybe some minifig torsos, too. -John Van (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Lego Financials
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Fri Jan 22 Wall Street Journal, page B1, contains a story saying Lego plans to report a loss for 1998 for the first time in its history - 1996 profit $73mil, 1997 profit $9.6mil, 1998 profit negative $31mil on estimated sales of $1.3bil. Article (...) (26 years ago, 23-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | L3P Add-On Version 1.0 released
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well, i've implemented all of the features i had intended, which was my goal for going to version 1.0. The L3P Add-On allows you to use a graphical front-end to export your .DAT files to POV-Ray using L3P. Instead of having to hack together a (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | .swf player?
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Hi. I just downloaded the entire directory of (URL) now I have some .swf files that I can't seem to open locally. However, from the website, it works just fine. Do I need to install/run my trusty local webserver? Should I be getting sound, btw? (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Aplogy.
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I'd like to apologise for those multipe, psotings I just did... I was just so ... overwhelmed, I needed to share :) Jasper (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Mindstorms on a Mac - patches now available
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Dave Hylands and Scott Taylor have each developed a patches that allow a Macintosh to run the Mindstorms software under Virtual PC. The patches are available at (URL) reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Story about Lego on NPR's Morning Edition
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(...) Maybe the way to go is pricing them considering the "purchasing power" of the individual countries. Software companies done that in turkey, and works well againist piracy. It's awful paying 10-20% more for the same lego set while earning 1/5 (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Has updated its online Catalog!!
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(...) That's exactly what came to my mind, while reading Larry's dear lego post, stating that a clueless "brainy" from TLG expresed that "juniorization" is the way to go for all sets, and TLG is happy with that. Selçuk (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Man, do I love View Source....
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without it, I wouldn't have found: (URL) 800 * 600 res images of: - the Tie/Y wing set. - Darth vader. - Darth Vader + R2 + eithe rluke or a random Ywing pilot :) - Luke, Han, mechanic, R2 Lots more figs. We're talking Close ups of minifigs in (...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Clear image of/with R2D2!
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(URL) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Seen these?
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(...) Also try: (URL) has some cool stuff, of whichj I'm not sure itr's available in the regular site. Jasper (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Seen these?
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(...) So.. how did you get these URLs? I'm waiting with bated breath, Jasper (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
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(...) How typically US centric. Tsk, Tsk. Jasper *tongue firmly in cheek* (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Seen these?
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(...) (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: "Bright Side?"
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(...) I dunno. There's a lot of other things they sure haven't listened to. "You asked for..." is probably just marketing-speak. (26 years ago, 24-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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