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(...) Can someone explain just what amway is? I'm not familiar with the name... Jasper (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) *shudder* Despite my not-quite-purist's outlook, cutting Legos up if the thing you make are already available otherwise just freaks me out :) well, I just recently ordered some Service sets: 2 gear sets, 2 small beam sets, 2 axle sets, and two (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) In this case one motor is being used as a generator and the other as a motor, correct? You aren't powering both motors. I think its neat, but don't understand the use of it in the context of 4wd. The differential is much smaller then two (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Using motors without a power source.
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I'm new to this group so I don't know if this idea has been mentioned but here it is: First, I connect the two motors in the MindStorms kit together with a wire and nothing else. Below is a crude ASCII art representation: ***...*** ***...*** * * (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: FOTW: Stash of old sets in Brighton, Mass., U.S.A.
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(...) OOPS -- that's Brookline, not Brighton!!! --Todd (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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(...) I believe that the maximum size of the datalog is 2033 entries, minus whatever you need for program data. If you want to figure this out dynamically from the PC, get the memory map after downloading all programs to the RCX. The maximum datalog (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FOTW: Stash of old sets in Brighton, Mass., U.S.A.
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[Followups set to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos] There's a cool little news & gift store in Brighton which has a stash of old LEGO sets -- some going back to 1987. Store: Brighton News & Gifts 311 Harvard St. Brighton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Directions: Um, (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: 6990 Monorail FS
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The price on this might have been set a little high. I'll offer both sets for $300. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Lego Has updated its online Catalog!!
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(...) Didn't you guys try to look at the Time Cruisers models through the special glasses included in each set? The Twisted Time Train looks like the Metroliner with the green glasses and the 7740 Intercity train with the red glasses. Notice the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: DATALOG and C
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(...) SetDatalog is listed in the SDK page 91 as an Immediate Command. If that is true then, if you put the command in with some downloadable RCX instructions, it does whatever it does right then and is not actually sent with the RCX program. (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | IrDA anyone ?
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I wonder would it be possible to communicate with the RCX using an IrDA compliant IR port such as ones on Notebooks or H/PC. I know someone had done it with his HP palmtop. Is IrDA standard IR port operating within the bandwidth of the RCX IR port ? (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Everyone: My handy boards were working fine all this time but suddenly they seem to have developed a problem. The boards do not show the interactive C welcome message. I tried downloading the pcode file a number of times. That file downloads (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Trading black slopes?
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I am making a black pyramid, and have purchased several of the black roof packs from S@H. However, to make it look nicer, I'd like to build it using all 2x2x1 45 deg slopes. So I am looking for people who would like to trade 2x2x1 slopes for 2x3x1 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Thoughts on Turning
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(...) yup, and the 2nd design on there (my dad's design) doesn't require 5 length axles anyway. i knew that i could get 5length axles, i just didn't have any (they are a bit rare still) and cut up a 10 length axles. i can remember doing the same (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: slightly off topic: two questions (one of them for EE types)
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(...) Two things... there are two styles of pots avalible one is an "audio" pot and the other is linear. The audio pots are usually marked with a 'A'. Since the audio pots are primarily designed for adjusting the volume level, they actually have a (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
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(...) What he said. Leave Amway alone. They manufacture and ship billions of dollars of product each year, and they pay my school taxes to boot. :-) (...) Whoops. (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: DATALOG and C
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To find the current maximum size of the datalog, get a MemMap. There is a pointer to the start of the datalog area and also a pointer to the top of the memory area. Subtract these two values for the current maximum size of the datalog. -Brian (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | S@H Specials, Jan 25-31
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People readable format ;-) 25 Jan 1999 31 Jan 1999 Duplo/Freestyle 2605 Duplo Dinosaurs $44.00 22.00 2693 Duplo Firestation $49.50 25.00 2600 Duplo Bronto Dinosaurs $27.50 14.00 System 6444 Outback Airstrip $22.00 11.00 6496 Whirling Time Warper (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.announce.lsahs, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Prijzen Star Wars
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(...) Mwoh... Een stuk of 12 sets 2140 so far, en daarvan is er nog een naar turkije gegaan, en een naar australie, en de andere 10 zijn 2-2-6 verstuurd. dus dat is maar 5 zendingen, naar een totaal van 7 of 8 personen. Maar goed, nu wel LarryP als (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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