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Another question for the FAQ: What are 'Samsonite' legos? (The truth is, I would like to know the answer to this myself...) Greg (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: 6990 Monorail FS
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Thanks for everyone's patience as I muddled through this one. The sets are now sold. -- Thomas Main main@appstate.edu (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | 86 blue plates...eBay
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I put up 86 blue plates, here's some info: These are Lego plates, they are 1/3 the height of a basic Lego. They are 100% Lego. Here is the breakdown of sizes: 12 1x4; 9 1x8; 12 2x2; 6 2x3; 12 2x4; 6 2x6; 3 2x8; 3 2x10; 4 4x4; 7 4x6; 3 4x8; 3 4x10; 3 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: SEV2
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(...) Thanks! Me too. If anyone cares to do an animation, I'd love to see it, as it would take me several months. I'm not povray camera savvy either. -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: SEV2
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(...) Right. Symmetrical yes, but all the base pieces are rotated 45 degrees around their respective y-axes. With respect to the model, the picture shows the turret rotated 45 degrees. It was much faster to design the tank that way to get the same (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | akari - revised [DAT]
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john vanzwieten has been sprucing up a couple of my models with his spreadsheet program. he did a fantastic job on the hoses of this model (6923-alternate), especially considering that the hoses slightly kink just beneath a brick. thanks again, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Re: ** voltage dropping and current limitting**
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(...) Use an LM317T adjustable voltage regulator and 2 resistors. If you can't find a data sheet on it on the net somewhere, someone should be able to give you the formulas for figuring out the resistors. Find national semiconductor on the net and (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Next version of LDAO
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Steve, Earlier, I made a request for a one-button "Inline All" feature for LDAO. I was wondering if this could be implemented to allow the user to (a) inline all sub-models, (b) inline all sub-models and parts, and/or (c) inline all sub-models and (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: The end of the UK Shell promotion...
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(...) Looks like.... _WE_ might be getting it! cool! I can't wait to find those sets at the local shell station. Jasper (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Serial Output Drivers for the Expansion Board
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Hi, Could *each* of the digital output pins on the Expansion Board be used as 9600 Baud Serial Output Drivers ? Could a higer baud rate be used with any of the digital output pins ? Could someone clever than me create the libraries and the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Speech Synthesis?
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Hi, I've been thinking to use a speech synthetizer for my robot as well, (mainly to warn humans to stay away from my toy), and a good solution that I found for the problem is: (URL) here is a decent eval of it: (URL) Philippi. Steve Wall wrote: (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Downloading
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OK, attempting to answer this one now. it is sounding to me like you have a problem with the serial on your 6500, not a problem with the handy board. try this. download Zterm (a terminal emulator) from: (URL) to the printer port (get the option by (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Expansion Board Files
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argh!@ my last email (which may arrive before this one) is in reply to this. repeating it in the proper context: yes, there was a linefeed bug in the expsens.c file in hbexplib.zip. it should be fixed now. please re-download from the expansion board (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Native 68hc11 C compilers
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Dear Graeme, Visit imagecraft.com ,they have got a C crosscompiler for the 6811.I believe that library functions for the handyboard are also available there. Yours sincerely, Nitin (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Downloading
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yes, there was a linefeed bug in the expsens.c file in hbexplib.zip. it should be fixed now. please re-download from the expansion board software page and try again. let us know if this fixes the problem. thanks a lot. fred In your message you said: (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | *** AUCTION ***
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Heya all ! Here is my auction. All sets are completely with boxes and instructions. Sets signed with "*" have only front and back parts of boxes but are completely with instructions and all parts. The rules are simply: You can bid minimal $3 on (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Thoughts on Turning
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It is a very nice mechanism. But, at least in my implementation, only one motor is pushing your vehicle. Some of my larger bots have needed more power than one seems to crank out. After gearing down further it is painfully slow. I'm currently trying (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | The end of the UK Shell promotion...
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Just received this from Lisa at Shell UK: (...) so... ...get 'em while you can! Jon. Jon D Hayward Chatham, Kent, Great Britain Jon-D-Hayward@Chatha...stel.co.uk My [first attempt at a] home page - promotional / discontinued / UK-only sets for sale (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: navigation alorithm
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Michael, A few sophomore engineering students here at Penn State Abington have built a micromouse from LEGO and a Handy Board. It has been entered into 2 micromouse contests sponsored by the Phila Chapter of the IEEE. It was quite challenging both (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | ** voltage dropping and current limitting**
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Hello out there, I have a 24 vdc supply, how can I drop the voltage to about 13 or 14 volts? Would I use resistors across the supply? Or what??? Thanks in advance. -Michael (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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