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Hi All, Just got my first Technic Polarity Switch and quickly put together a Pressure Switch for Pneumatics. Check out: (URL) and let me know what you think... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics)
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| | FORTH editor/IDE
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Is anyone considering, or in the process of, writing an editor for pbFORTH on the PC? I am thinking of doing one in the style of RCX Command Center ((URL) but don't want to reinvent the wheel if there's one on the stocks. I haven't tried pbFORTH (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: people i would most like to build with...
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Gary, Hey, I live in Ann Arbor, and I am a "Town&Space" head too. Perhaps a Michigan Legofest? :) Scott Sanburn (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: names
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(...) Will you resist the temptation 2nd time around it TLGs lawyers decide that the 'LegOS' name is a possible infringement? :) Richard(OS) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | FA 1802 Pirates Tidy Treasure on eBay
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New polybag, 1802 Pirates Tidy Treasure. (URL) interested goto: (URL) Available. Thanks, -Rob Doucette. (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: 3-wire converter for homebrew sensors
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(...) [snip] (...) Ahh, but the stipulated purpose for Pete's sensor brick is that it gives a _linear_ response that isn't corrupted by the non-linear diode drop caused by currents that are often less than 2ma and perhaps not past the "knee" region (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Help with pointers
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Hi all little question: How can I ad a value to a pointer ?? int *px, x; px = &x; px = px + 1; (????? pointing to the lowbyte of x for example) Is it just NOT possible with IC or am I missunderstanding anything ???? Thanks for any help. -- Thomas (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: people i would most like to build with...
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(...) Ed, Terry (and all the rest of you folks), I too would love to have a LEGOFEST, where we could get together and exchange ideas and concepts. Since I'm a TOWN head (with a smattering of Castle, and a dash of Train) I probably would be a "fish (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: anyone out there?
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Mike, very nice assesment of the Cary area... I've a couple comments: (...) I managed to get 2 copies of the Flying Ninha Fortress for $69.95 there the other day. They were marked so on the shelf (or at least thats what I thought). I also picked up (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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Hello, some friends asked me today why I did resist the temptation of putting my name in the OS name. (It just never occurred to me.) However, there was somebody around who speaks Polish. He pointed out that Noga is Polish for leg. Totally caught me (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Tracked Extraction Unit [DAT]
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Now that all of the parts are official, I thought I would post this model. I built it a few months ago as a space version of an ambulance. It later turned into this, which I call a Tracked Extraction Unit. It sounds so much cooler. :-) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Idea Book
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I found a new Idea Book #697. Printed in Germany it has a 1997 copyright date and has 43 pages. There are over 40 stickers in the back of the book. If anyone is interested, they can have it for $6 US and postage, or perhaps a trade. Mark Parker (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | SW Lego, Beatties London
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FYI SW lego sighted in the Holborn branch of Beatties: Landspeeder 6.49 Speeder bikes 8.99 Snowspeeder 15.99 X-Wing 24.99 Tie + Y 39.99 I think that's the same as others have noted. Regards, Dave R. (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: spare parts and sets that would be good
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The Lego/Datca catalog has accessory parts packs for mini figs and some of the instructional sets. Some Technic parts in bulk ie: differentials, gears(50 - 100 per bag) and pneumatic parts. It's a freebie catalog, get it from their web site. -- (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | SW Lego @ Norwich
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Arrived Tuesday. Toy Stack had all but the X-Wing, and the speeder bikes had sold out by Thursday lunchtime, while Jarrolds (a local department store) had them all. Prices in UKP (noted where different from LL Windsor, as suggested by Richard Dee (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Name that goo!
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(...) It's used by the machines that assemble the mini-figures to tell which side is the front, so it can line the face up properly. The "Linda Blair thing" is strictly optional! ;-) JG (Of course, remove ".nospam" to reply) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | MPD Parts? (and a confession)
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Okay, so it is easy to display an MPD file, but what do people think about allowing part files to be MPDs? This would allow making the sub-parts that are related to a part to be packaged with the part. The trick is how to determine what file an MPD (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: anyone out there?
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Small world - hopefully you were here on Saturday when the weather was nice. Sunday was kind of nasty ... ;-) Here is my assessment of the LEGO market in the Cary, NC area where I also live. If you are familiar (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| | Re: Compiler
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Hi Lou, new binaries would be nice. I did create an archive, but I didn't feel like pumping those Megabytes over my modem yet. Mine is about 3.3MB, though - did your install script really strip all those executables? Markus. (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: 3-wire converter for homebrew sensors
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(...) I wonder if you have looked at the simple method for connecting sensors to a RCX on my web page? It really only takes 6 diodes and a capacitor to create a powered sensor interface. Add a opamp if you need gain. This work was originally (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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