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Hello My name is Jin Sato, One of Japanese MindStorms mania. I have to apologize my English is limited. (Japanese is mother tongue) BTW. On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:02:02 +0000 "Kin W. Lau" <kin.lau@ic.ac.uk> wrote: Actually. we created program for (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I made a wheel that could roll sideways. That way you don't have to raise and lower the turn wheel. Check out "Curvy1" at (URL) It needs some refinement, but the idea works. Bill Jasper Janssen wrote in message <36ac7ccf.83855140@l...et.com>... (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Of course I'm THE Tim. I might just not be THE Tim you are thinking of. Which is Who? Tim Followups set to lugnet.odd-topic.fun (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.storage)
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Alex I read your message and went to your web page and looked at your desigh and was wondering if you (or anyone else) can help me with resources for building robots for my 16 year old son. We Home school and are about to start using mindstorms for (...) (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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(...) Ave. (...) Is there anybody in the aera who would buy and ship for me ? (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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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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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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[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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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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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(...) 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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