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Hi, Just started reading this group and the info so far has been great. I was wondering if anyone can recommend any books on gears and gear train designs. Thanks much, regards (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | What's the flywheel for?
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I remember reading that the 5225 motors that come with RIS are internally geared and include a flywheel. I understand the internal gearing, but what's the flywheel for? Thanks, Jonathan -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Fun with hoses continued
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Terry, I haven't seen any hose ends from you. Maybe you're waiting until I publish the spreadsheet to do them yourself. I'll probably continue testing until the middle of next week, then if I continue to get good results I'll publish the spreadsheet (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Thoughts on having preferred customers in auctions
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Michael Ulring wrote in message <36AE9BC8.CC361301@e...uc.edu>... :2. My preferred bidders will bid higher than they would otherwise :because they are always mentally including their discount in their bids, :thus driving the price higher than it (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pyramids
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Great job! You knew all that algebra and geometry had to be good for something someday. Sure enough - for building toys. Rob Farver wrote in message <36b1be61.7834646@lu...et.com>... :Incidentally, while writing Tom on this subject today I came up (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Space stuff up for grabs
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Greetings-- I'm not into space (at least the non-classic space), so when I found myself with some unwanted space sets I decided to get rid of them. It was tough to let the two blacktron I guys go, but here they are (one in 6895 and one in 6886). (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Mildly offtopic: POV Height Fields
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Tim McSweeney wrote in message ... (...) doesn't (...) DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH DOH ! boy do I feel stupid, reading the help file again closely I see POV also supports PGM (portable gray map) I guess I didn't notice the subtle difference (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | New Page
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I have a new mindstorms page up at (URL) take a look at it and tell me what you think. ---...--- ---...--- Sam Edwards "On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key." -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New page
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I have a new mindstorms page up at (URL) take a look at it and tell me what you think. ---...--- ---...--- Sam Edwards "On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key." -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mildly offtopic: POV Height Fields
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Lee Jorgensen wrote in message <36B0F4C4.CFAAD57D@u...st.net>... (...) Yeah, I've got the fully paid for paintshop pro 5.0 as well. but tis doesn't support 16bit grayscale images, only 8bit, I guess the real problem is with pov-ray, the input format (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | WTB: Unopened 3054
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I'm looking to purchase an unopened UK Kellogg's Promo Technic Motorcycle (set #3054). Please e-mail me if you have one to sell (or trade). Thanks. Andy (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RE: Where to buy Mindstorm
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I got mine from etoys.com also. Ordered Sunday night arrived yesterday. Just checked their web page. It shows the main system as well as the Robo Sports expansion package in stock. Kirk (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FW: Where to buy Mindstorm
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Oops, just rechecked, Etoys only has the Robo Sports package. (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Variations on the "ADDER SUBTRACTOR" ("differtrans" ?)
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(...) Geocities uses javascript to pop up those pesky windows. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer take advantage of the Internet Security settings. Add www.geocities.com to the restricted sites. You can use then use the custom security (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | COLOR in ldlite
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I've been playing with the 0 COLOR command in LDLite and noticed some problems. When I include: / 0 COLOR 129 trorange24 44 153 51 0 255 153 51 0 255 / 0 COLOR 44 transorange 129 255 153 0 255 255 153 0 0 and when I use color 44, I get the orange (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | 6811 Downloader MCL, version 1.1
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hi cappy & others (sorry non-mac people), i've put up a revision of the Mac 6811 Downloader MCL. this version checks that everything's copacetic before dumping the .s19 file into external RAM. in other words, it checks that the desktop is properly (...) (26 years ago, 29-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: 8094 Control Center
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(...) :-) (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re : Where tp buy Mindstorms
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Hi All I have just returned from a holiday in the US - I live in Australia... Top of our shopping list was MS ! We have a lot of luck / success ......We found a set at the Learning Smith shop South Coast Plaza , LA..... Now the box had been opened (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mildly offtopic: POV Height Fields
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You could try Paint Shop Pro (5.01) from (URL) my (really) quick trials, it seemed to be able to save 16-bit PNG format. (it had 16Million colors) -Lee. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto://jorgensen@bankoe.moc (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | measure motor torque with a light sensor
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If you hook the motor to an input and then set up the input to read light sensor - you can measure the retarding torque on the motor (100 is stopped, 0 is free) (this from Chris Rogers) -Ben (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Where to buy Mindstorm
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I just got mine in the mail today from Etoys.com. You might try there. I looked all over (for a month now) and they finally got a bunch in stock. (...) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | IR Light Sensor Tutorial
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Cool ... I just discovered an "IR Light Sensors & Technology" tutorial at Wirz: (URL) -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Next version of LDAO
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This seemed like as good a place as any to report LDAO bugs. I found that the rotate function doesn't work on type 2 lines, in fact it crashes the whole program. Perhaps you can't make it rotate type 2 lines, but if it could avoid crashing... On (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Pneumatic robot and pressure regulator
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For those of you who are into pneumatics: I've just posted a simple robot with two wheels and two pneumatic legs. And on the pneumatics page I've added a pressure regulator. CU Bert Visit my site on Lego, Robot's and Visual Basic at (URL) you check (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Still waiting for a Mindstorms RIS?
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(...) I too was (and still am!) anxious to get my hands on a Mindstorms kit. I ordered one from www.tigerdirect.com a few weeks ago, and they just sent me a notice saying it will be shipped on Feb 5th. Waiting ... After poking around at the MIT site (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mildly offtopic: POV Height Fields
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(...) Yeah I had seen that, but I don't want a ranom landscape, I want to use one I've sculpted using photoshop, the layout of the mountains etc is important. (...) Ok I found it, It's downloading slowly. I'll try it out but it still looks like it (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Small search program for LDRAW parts - version 3.0
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Steve Bliss skrev i meddelandet <36b0c996.28083142@l...et.com>... (...) programs (...) of (...) Why didn't _I_ think of that? -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Mildly offtopic: POV Height Fields
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Tim McSweeney skrev i meddelandet ... (...) lugnet.cad.rendering (...) want to (...) primitive (...) format for (...) as a 255 (...) to (...) but (...) any (...) From the POV-ray documentation: 8<---...--- Appendix F.5 Height Field Tips Try using (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDLite and memory (or lack thereof)
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(...) I've been having a lot of problems with this also... I'm running with 48 MB of RAM and I still can't open multiple windows, or even run LDLite while something like Netscape is running in the background. I have to close all other apps to use (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: LDAO Modeler is awesome!
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(...) a (...) sure (...) part. (...) which (...) I just now figured this out, and yes, I see why you call it limited. At the same time, it would be better than the editor for doing models. The enhanced editor is what is great for part creating. Try (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Where to buy Mindstorm
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Try the FAO Schwarz online site. They have them in-stock. Mine is supposed to arrive tomorrow !!! (URL) you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Variations on the "ADDER SUBTRACTOR" ("differtrans" ?)
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From: Mark Tarrabain <markt@lynx.bc.ca> (...) anyone's (...) unusual (...) see (...) and (...) When presenting sizes I think it would be most useful if the motors were also included. The motors placement is a key part of the design and makes the (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: SEV2
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(...) If you send me the files I'll see what I can do. Tim (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | Full-size SW "sets" at Legoland CA ?
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I'm wondering if they will have full-size StarWars sets on display at LegoLand CA at its' opening? Hmmm.... That sure would make the Preview day well worth it, as taking pics of them would be easier with less people around. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Removable lightsaber blades confirmed
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...and if they were nice, the lightsaber blade is sized to fit in the end of the cannon piece, so after collecting several small sets, you can put them on an X-wing to have it firing its' cannons. We'll see... (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Man, do I love View Source....
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(...) If you go to the www.lego.com/starwars, you can get to a list of all the images and the zip file - you don't need to search for the URLs. I think its called "Download" or something like that if you go to the (I think) Products section. --Bram (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Qui-Gon character translated to minifig...
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(...) Sounds cool. Jasper (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Man, do I love View Source....
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More importantly, the zip file of all the images is there ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer | (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: LDAO Modeler is awesome!
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(...) Ah. That makes a lot more sense. Try selecting "Update Tool Menu" on the Options menu. This will update the Tools menu and the command buttons with the latest tools, one of which is the Modeler. Modeler is a lot like the Editor, except it's (...) (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Old Window in new color!
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(...) (Gasp!) You forgot 6375 Gas Station! ;) BTW, it had a clear pane. Jeff (26 years ago, 28-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
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