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(...) I've been thinking about this too. The problem as I see it is that without some shaft encoders on the wheels, your robot doesn't really know how far it's moved, and therefore where it is in the map. If you power on the forward motor for 2 (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | New Touch Sensor
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I was looking at the new parts for LDraw and was pleased to see that the '879 Touch Sensor' was not called 'MindStorms Touch Sensor' as it might have been, since the '8482 CyberMaster' also includes tree of these. For those who don't know, the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Ghost and Majisto
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I'm looking to buy 1 complete ghost minifig and 1 stock Majisto with wand and magic scroll tile. I'd need them delivered by next Thursday, 4/1/1999 (no fooling). If you can oblige, lmk what you're asking for them. -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RE: Robot Mapping
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Check this reference out: "Autonomous Agent Map Construction in Unknown Enclosed Environments", Keith L. Doty and Steven L. Seed, Machine Intelligence Lab, DEE, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Chapter 10 of: "Sensors for Mobile Robots, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Star Wars sets are a dream come true
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Hey Ben- Reading your post as you waxed on nostalgically made me think of something disturbing-- "what if Ben is completely smitten with SW? What if he has been seduced by the Dark Side [1] and decides to go gaga into Space? Say it ain't so...:-(" (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Sets and bits'n'pieces for sale...
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(...) are these price Canadian$ or US$ ? Martin (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Glue for models
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woohoo! This is definitely in my field. When I was building models for LEGO we used two different types of glues. (this was different across different model shops, so this really only applies to Enfield.) For 95% of the gluing we used a mix of ABS (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Mini Auction - 6273 - Rock Island Refuge
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6273 - Rock Island Refuge Current Bid $210 (Ricky Summitt) (...) Increments will be in $5 units. Regular updates will also be posted to Rec.toys.lego. Winner pays shipping from UK - see below for approximate shipping rates. Cheers [SteveScott] (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: How do you convert light sensor data to bmp image
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Alex: Downloaded the netphm files from your site. Your right, it was alot easier. Now all I have to do is build my scanner. Thank you for your help Patrick McLean :) Alex Wetmore wrote in message <922292440.681002@phred.org>... (...) image. (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | A few SW sets left...
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Zellers Tillicum has at least 10 x 7128 Speeder Bikes sets and Zellers Hillside has 3 x 7130 Snowspeeders as of now. Randy (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.ca.bc.vic)
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(...) OH MY GOD! Sorry for shouting...my concept of reality was wavering before my face...I'm better now. Weren't these abundant at $35 at TRU just eight months ago? Now that I'm thinking about it I guess maybe this is reasonable, since I've only (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: A Sphere
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(...) sphere). Once the gmltc gets their website up and running I'll work on turning it into an asp page, and people will be able to design their own spheres and print them out of their browser. If you want a specific size sphere, I could send you a (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: SW & Slizers in Tesco's Amersham (BUCKS)
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In article <MPG.1164abb9ae89bc3...gnet.com>, richard.dee@nospam.virgin.net says... (...) That bad huh? - must have been dark ages stuff. I must admit from my quick look it seemed to me that the set was made up of odds & ends that someone found lying (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Internation Building Idea Book #1 - 1960-67.
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Gary Istok skrev i meddelandet <36FA815C.F67AFCF2@u...ch.edu>... [edited] (...) That's correct. (...) Lucky you! (...) (That's Eriksson I think) I really don't remember if it looked like that, but it's possible... I notice the page is from the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 14 Fright Knight Minifigs for sale w/accessories
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he following minifigs are for sale (no aution required). First come, first serve. They are all new. *Avail* Description Price EACH 3 Witch w/ Black hat and Red Tranparent wand 1.00 ea 3 Knight Red/Red blk arms, batwing helmet,sword,shield 1.45 ea 3 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Help with pointers
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(...) Actually, in 'normal C', to be completely correct you would cast the pointer conversion to show that you really knew what you were doing, like this: p = (char *) &x; Unfortunately, neither the free ware IC nor IC 3.2 support this. Here is (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: anyone out there?
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Alan wanted me to post this: From: Alan Clegg <abc@bast.firehouse.net> This won't make it to the lugnet groups, but a followup: TRU at crossroads does not have StarWars as of this morning, and the 'regional manager' informed me that "Oh, those have (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral)
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| | Star Wars sets are a dream come true
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A couple of weeks ago, my dad passed on some old pictures of our family when we were kids. Many of the photos show me playing with Lego (it's all I really did as a kid) One picture shows me with a model of an X-wing made out of Lego. The year was (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Name that goo!
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Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) used (...) that (...) wooooo this is just to weird. I was wondering _exactly_ the same thing and had logged on to post a message asking about it. I had assumed it was for added friction but I see I was wrong. (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Polarity Switch = Pressure Switch
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(...) 8462 comes with two of them, and is available from Lego S@H. I'd like to see reissues of the construction vehicles as well. alex -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | nebulos beetle [DAT]
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this one's been on my page for quite awhile but i'm posting it now that the 2443 ldraw piece was just released THANKS lcad people!!!! ..joseph g 0 Nebulos Beetle - 6932 Star Defender 200 Alternate 0 Name: BEETLE.DAT 0 Author: Joseph Gonzalez (c) (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Re: SW & Slizers in Tesco's Amersham (BUCKS)
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:22:26 GMT, Dave Ryder uttered the following profundities... (...) No, twas a theme here too. :o( It was the boat thingie, and the price was 14.99 IIRC. (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | SW & Slizers in Tesco's Amersham (BUCKS)
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All, Tesco's in Amersham have a small stock of SW Lego, Landspeeder (7110) 4.99 :-> Speeder Bikes (7128) 6.99 :-> X-Wing 27.99 8-< That's all, no Y vs. Tie or Snowspeeders. FOWIW, they also had a _large_ display unit of all the Technic (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: new stuff on my site (coach, trolley...again, LEGO Logo art)
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(...) I think Liquid plastic modelers cement would work reasonably well for glueing Lego bricks together since it is a solvent (and is intested for Polystyrene which should be sufficiently similar to ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene) to work). (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | SW shut out of SW
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As promised, my report: As I was running errands this morning, I personally checked out three Targets and TRU Bloomington. Targets Richfield, Edina, and St. Louis had *no* SW sets, as did not TRU. After "strike four", I was feeling like I really (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Robot Mapping
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I would also like to know about this. please cc any info to me too. =) chen (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | SW Lego @ Toys 'R' Us, Harlow, Essex
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Large stock of 7110, 7128, 7130, 7140 and 7150 seen in TRU Harlow, Essex, today. Prices the same as LL Windsor, except 7150 2 less @ 37.99. Chris (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: new toolz
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I've seen pipe wrenches 5 feet long and bigger, so this isn't out of proportion, especially in a mining environment. Though a huge ratchet and sockets would be more realistic, I AM glad for that new wrench - it will make a nice weapon in an AngryMob (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Sharp GP2D02
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Scott, The reason I wrote mine the way I did was so that I could avoid disabling interrupts for long periods of time. If you don't care about timer interrupts or things like wheel encoders, either program should work fine. My program uses digital 15 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: MPD Parts? (and a confession)
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(...) Cool. I have it implemented and it works tolerably well. (...) modelling (...) Rokenbok is mostly not compatible, only the plates have the requisite nubs on them. But that is cool since you can build any Lego construction off the plates and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Trip Reports?
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Sorry to SPAM the group with my last message. It was written in haste, and meant only for Fred. Ooops. :-( I've got a trip planning page on BayLUG, and I need to update this a bit, since it was originally written for the Grand Opening. It still has (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Big Rig Truck for Big Rig Truck Stop or others
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I have another new Big Rig Truck (5571) (its about $150 from S@H and pretty hard to find anywhere else since its been discontinued). and would like to trade it for a Big Rig Truck Stop set (6393). The old truck stop set is one of my favorite town (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Polarity Switch = Pressure Switch
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(...) Heck, I'd love to try some pneumatics, but you can't get a storage tank anywhere these days can you? All of the cool Technic kits are discontinued, no subs, (and while I'm whining) no shuttles, no tracked vehicles, only Throwbots and (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Sets and bits'n'pieces for sale...
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Michelle, Not to burst your bubble, but S@H sells a black roof pack for $5.50 that has 55 or 57 pieces in it, the only thing it doesn't have from your listing is the 1x3 and 2x3 slopes and the 3x2 peak, but it has more of the other ones you list. So (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Robot Mapping
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Hello, I am working on an autonomous mobile robot. Which has a sonar and infared sensor incorporated into it. Right now it can avoid objects, by sensing it and backing up and turning. I want my robot to take the information from the sensors and map (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Trip Reports?
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Trip report page coming soon... Check (URL) some photo bits... Do you have any graphic ideas yet? -Z- -- 8<----( clip and save! )---...--- (URL) Grand Opening Planning Page (URL) my main page (URL) the Firehouse (URL) the Round House (URL) my (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Polarity Switch = Pressure Switch
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I have not tried pneumatics yet. I know where I will look when I try them out. This is another neat clean working device. Nice work! Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com> wrote in message (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: S@H Canada Specials March 22-26, '99
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(...) Sold out (they only had 4 when I phoned Monday morning) replaced by: 2581 DUPLO School Bus $22.00 (reg $44.00) very limited supplies. (...) Gail Meagher LEGO: PI+++(6286) TR+++(4563) HM++(693) MOC++ #+++++ S+ LS++ Hal M+ A++ LM++ YB67f (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | Re: Help with pointers
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(...) When you do pointer arithmatic, you work in increments of what the pointer points to. So if you have a pointer to an int, as in the above example, when you add one to it, you actually make it point to the next int, not the next byte or word. (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Sets and bits'n'pieces for sale...
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SETS: 6281 Pirates Perillous Pitfall...85.00 6249 Pirates Ambush...14.00 BITS'N'PIECES: BLACK roof pieces:(41 total...10.00) 7 1*2 slopes 4 4*2 "tops" 10 2*2 slopes 3 2*2 "tops" 3 3*2 slopes 1 3*2 "top" 8 4*2 slopes 3 1*3 slopes (longer) 2 2*3 (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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