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(...) I haven't heard of this - what is it all about? Jasper (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Variations on the "ADDER SUBTRACTOR" ("differtrans" ?)
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(...) Nono, a hotmail address you can read once a year is your friend. Of courtse, personally I run sendmail on the linux gateway box, and I have a few spam-accounts there. For now, they get forwarded to my regular account and then sorted into a (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: My new lego web pages
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(...) This is lugnet, but whatever. WOW! How did you do the studless rendering that is the "heading" of the tank page? That is very nice looking. (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | [eBay] 70's, 9V Train for auction
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I have place the following items on eBay: 445 Police Units 540 Police Units 2150 Retro Station 4532 Level Crossing 4536 Blue Hopper Car 4539 Level Crossing 4552 Cargo Crane 4555 Freight Loading Station All are in unopened boxes. Click on the bottom (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: executing instructions quickly
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(...) If your macro just calls the "move" routine it will make absolutely no difference because your are in effect typing in the above anyway. If your macro inserts the code for "move" inline rather than calling it it will be only very slightly (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Variations on the "ADDER SUBTRACTOR" ("differtrans" ?)
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The motors drive the differential housings directly. You can chose whether to drive the large or small end of the differential depending on what kind of ratio you want out of it. The axles extending from the unit in tan1.html are used to drive (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Note that my fathers design (the 2nd one on the page) also allows you to get rid of having the offset gear on a 2nd level, but you would have to use two 16t gears and a 8t pinion. We were trying to reduce the usage of the pinion gears because (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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An article on the magazine, _Robot Science and Technology_ (relatively new publication), describes the micromouse competition and algorithms for maze solving. You can look up the HP somewhere and maybe get a back issue or something. I forgot which (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | re: Variations on the "ADDER SUBTRACTOR" ("differtrans" ?)
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I am grateful to one and all creating these 'Variations on a theme' for the differentials! I saw Leo's initial design, ordered the extra differential from S&H (actually, it was a Christmas gift, lucky me!), and assembled it. Nice function, but much (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: nomad - revised
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(...) hmmmmmm, missing hose sections. why is that? it looks okay when i run it through ldraw and ldlite. does it have something to do with the file lines being truncated? (see, my thesauraus-a-day calendar was worth the three dollars even though (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | nomad - revised [DAT]
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another revised model that mr. vanzwieten was good enough to do hoses for. thanks to john for his work and to steve bliss for the excellent ldraw add-on program. ---...--- 0 Voltair Nomad - 2152 Robo Raptor Alternate 0 Name: NOMAD.DAT 0 Author: (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Re: Variations on the "ADDER SUBTRACTOR" ("differtrans" ?)
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Cyberia writes: > Hi, fello legoroboticists. > > My son Michael has a web page via Geocities, where we decided to begin to > assemble various lego oddities to share with other enthusiasts. Did I ever say how much I find Geocities web pages annoying? (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, fello legoroboticists. My son Michael has a web page via Geocities, where we decided to begin to assemble various lego oddities to share with other enthusiasts. Much interest has centered around the "adder/subtractor" transmission, a design that (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: UK prices of Star Wars
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The NatWest will open a Euro account, but you have to have a sterling current account as well. They will allow you to open both at the same time if necessary. There are charges on foreign currency accounts, but for 1999 these will be waived for Euro (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: The end of the UK Shell promotion...
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During a chat with the owner of my local Shell station, he told me that the Lego promotion had been 2 years in the making! Apparently, the plan was to launch in time for Christmas 1997, but some aspects were not in place to meet the launch deadline, (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Qui-Gon character translated to minifig...
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(...) I'm not sure... TLG has done printed heads for oddball things before, like robots and the UFO guys, but they might change this. I'm not actually sure which I'd prefer...preprinted wouldn't do it justice, but molded might promote Town Jr-ism. (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: My first Original Train Locomotive Creation (age 9 or 10)
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Master Modeler James as usual does not announce new stuff very well. ;-) Follow his link and check out his SLAG CAR! Very cool. Nice use of inversion, the entire car body is inverted but the slag bucket is not. (URL) drop center flat is also (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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(...) This shouldn't be an issue at all. I am almost ALWAYS at a monetary disadvantage in auctions, especially if I am bidding against Tony, Larry, Rob, or Gary ;-) (...) THIS one might be an issue. (...) | Please do not associate my personal views (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Formation of local train club
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Excellent news. Needs wider circulation. Hence my post to a few more groups. (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.mi.det, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi)
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| | Re: resistor packs and expansion board.
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I just saw the following: The artwork on the schematic sold by Douglas shows that RP1 is a 1Kx7 where as your schematic and parts list shows it to be a 1Kx4. Response from Douglas: I do not know where that information came from. The list we (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Well, most of you have seen Qui-Gon (Liam Neeson's character) on the different Star Wars Prequel Web sites and in various magazines. My question is this, while it's hard enough to imagine how LEGO will create minifig versions of classic characters (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | BrickCommand 2.0
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BrickCommand 2.0 ===...=== Wow, a lot of software has been released lately! Well, I guess I'll add another to the pile... I've released the next version of BrickCommand today. There is a lot of improved functionality over the previous version (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Native 68hc11 C compilers
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I definitely would be interested in hearing more... (...) I have had excellent results with the Introl C compiler demo. In fact, the demo has more than enough capability to do some very interesting things. Just for the fun of it, I wrote a (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Wireless communications
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Hi all, Lately, there have been a few questions on wireless communication between a handyboard and a PC. I knew Jan Sipke van der Veen had designed a something that would do just that, but I found his homepage was removed - he graduaded from (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: New Service Packs for 1999..
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(...) by (...) post (...) anonymous (...) Absolutely! I was unclear. Even disregarding the Terms of Use (which I'm not), I have personal moral objections to the forwarding of private information, anonymous or otherwise. What I had meant to state is (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: 40 New Photos of my city; More
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Wow! Very impressive! I love the relief on the face of the mall building. And the flags are a very nice touch. You must have quite a bit of space to work with (and plently of bricks). A superb effort indeed. -- Michael Hopkins Visit my lego page at: (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: SEV2
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Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) would (...) with (...) if (...) Of course, that's kind of what I had in mind, it is your model after all. I've made a start on it. I broke the model up into subparts so that I can manipulate and turn them (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: New Service Packs for 1999..
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(...) ^^^...^^^ (...) ^^^...^^^ If you mean assistance in concealing the identity of a poster who wants to post the name and/or address of a TLG employee, then the answer is No Way; anonymous postings are against the Terms of Use of the lugnet.com (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | resistor packs and expansion board.
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Fred, I thought I found a minor mistake in the parts list for the expansion board. But I now believe I didn't. The artwork on the schematic sold by Douglas shows that RP1 is a 1Kx7 where as your schematic and parts list shows it to be a 1Kx4. Since (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Native 68hc11 C compilers
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(...) I have had excellent results with the Introl C compiler demo. In fact, the demo has more than enough capability to do some very interesting things. Just for the fun of it, I wrote a multitasking operating system and some basic libraries for (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Formation of local train club
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Well, I met with the local guys who have been showing Lego trains at the GATS (on and off since '85 I learned!) and let me tell you! But first off, I should say that, originally, I wanted to be in a group such as the PNLTC and so I started (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | can nqc control index of values?
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I have been using the Smalltalk Bot-kit for programming, and I think it's great. But as the code grew, I ran into a Spirit exception, that locks up the port. Anyway, I'll move the code to nqc, but I was taking advantage of a feature I don't see in (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Service Packs for 1999..
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(...) Agreed. I've been following the "we should write letters" thread, and (while I come down on the non-form letters side) I agree that it is a good thing. However, most people don't have the slightest clue of where to send such a letter. Could (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | 40 New Photos of my city; More
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All: Hello! I have a whole TON of announcements about changes to my site! I've added a whole ton of stuff in the last 2 weeks. A list of the most recent changes are at (URL) Here's a brief summary: - I just put up about 40 new pictures of my city (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Thoughts on having preferred customers in auctions
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(...) I would agree that this would be considered unfair - regardless of why you're doing it, you are tilting a (theoretically) even playing field, which is one reason people run auctions rather than straight sales(1). (...) What I have considered (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Orange bricks & plates, for sale by auction
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The following is an update on special Orange elements from 30 copies of the #3047 Trick or Treat bucket, which appeared briefly in Target stores last Fall. For more information, start at: (URL) monetary amounts are in $US. --Todd ===...=== ====== (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | My first Original Train Locomotive Creation (age 9 or 10)
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During Christmas Break my mom dug up some photographs of when I was 9 or 10 years old. To my surprise one photograph showed the first train locomotive I built. My only LEGO train set at that time (approx. 1979 or 1980) was the first blue track cargo (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | My first Original Train Locomotive Creation (age 9 or 10)
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During Christmas Break my mom dug up some photographs of when I was 9 or 10 years old. To my surprise one photograph showed the first train locomotive I built. My only LEGO train set at that time (approx. 1979 or 1980) was the first blue track cargo (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.build)
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| | 2 1999 mid-sized Ninja sets at Zellers
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Emperor's somethingrather and another set are there now ($35 & $55 roughly) Randy (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
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| | Re: Gordon's Brick Programmer Version 1.4.2
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Hi Jim, (...) The basic Mindstorms software does not fully exploit the programming model made available via the Spirit OCX. It imposes tight limits on program complexity and does not provide access to all of the features implemented by the standard (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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