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----- Forwarded message from Issac Merkle ----- From: "Issac Merkle" <the_gaff@hotmail.com> Subject: External Power Port Problem..? Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 06:08:01 PST I have two RCXs, both of which have stopped responding to power applied to the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Just wondering...
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(...) --Mark Nelson (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Just wondering...
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(...) --Mark Nelson (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | GCC 2.8.1 for HC11
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A great link for people doing HC11 work: www.msoe.edu/eecs/ce.../resources Here they have Wookie, a HC11 simulator for Win32, the WinBug11 downloader, a DOS HC11 simulator, AS6811 and ASLINK (relocatable assembler), and something I've sought for a (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Printable Parts Catalog updated
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Wow, same day. Any faster and I'd have it out before the official parts release. (URL) Patrick Sayre-Little | "Someday we'll look back on all this wsayreli@polymail.calpoly.edu | and we'll run into a parked car." (URL) | -anonymous (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Just wondering...
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(...) Well, if Prescott is south east of the Twin Cities, then Tuesday night there is going to be a Minneapolis Lego Fest you could attend. Check out the news group lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp. I would point you directly at the article but I haven't (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Path to put files
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With my latest model I had to create nothing more nothing less than 13 'mock-up' parts reaching a total of 17 DATs lying around with my models in the Models directory. Isn't there a better place where I can put those? They are not models, they are (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | External Power Port Problem..?
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Esteemed Colleagues, I have two RCXs, both of which have stopped responding to power applied to the external power port. With batteries, they function correctly; with a 9.6v Lithium Ion battery pack attached to the external port, nothing. This has (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: multi-device output controller (fwd)
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How about an RCX to RS232 connection to use off the shelf components? Check out this link. (URL) sells a simple serial servo contol that services up to 8 motors via an rs232 port ($49.95). I have seen a simple version adapted for a Palm Pilot for (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: SW price comparisons.....
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(...) The worst place has to be the shop in the Howard centre in Welwyn Garden City. Tie-tighter/Y Wing £44. X-Wing £29 I'd have to say even at the best prices that have been quoted the SW sets strike me as pretty rip-off level prices. For example, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | SW at last in TRU Hayes....
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Subject says it all... As stated by someone else, TIE is 2 pounds cheaper than LLW at 37.99. They did have them all, tucked away in the Technic. They still have loads of football starter sets, too. All of them at 15.99....... (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | SW price comparisons.....
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Compiled from availability reports..... Tesco is the place to go for Speederbikes and Landspeeders. £1<LLW TRU is the place to go for Y-wing vs TIE and Snowspeeder £2<LLW (TIE) £=LLW (SS) Beatties for x-wing £=LLW (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Browser Add-on?
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In (URL) one can read: lugnet.cad.dat Special non-discussion group for posting LDraw .DAT files, which can be viewed through the web interface using a special browser add-on [...] Where is this browser add-on? Laurentino Martins (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: multi-device output controller
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Thanks for checking this out. This is important to know. I assume, then, that the duty cycles are 1/8 through 8/8 as well as off, which would be 0/8. Can anybody verify this (with a scope or something)? I have long wondered whether the duty cycles (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Who had the 5571 Inventory?
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Unless of course Lego rereleases it due to popular demand from lugnet ... :) You realise of course that your mentioning the set made me go and look it up on lugnet. Which made me think 'wow - that is a cool set - I want it'. Which will of course (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | CyberMaster Electric Touch Sensor [DAT]
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OK, this is my first experiment in LCad. :-) It's a change to the 877-879 LCad 99-02 part by John VanZwieten to look like a CyberMaster touch sensor. It's body it's transparent cyan and a color change only changes the peg color (that can be white, (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dat)
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| | Re: parts DESPERATLY wanted (steve: please read)
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(...) Sure. They should be available in the next update. Until then, you can easily substitute available parts. (...) Nope. I don't have that part, so I can't model it. (...) Now there's an incentive. (...) A mess. (...) If I get some time, I will (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Studs
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I've been 'testing' the CyberMaster version of the Electric Touch Sensor in POV-Ray and noticed a few details: I don't know if the contacts of the studs where yellow in some time in the past, but nowadays they are silver. Maybe they could should be (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Stepper motor design
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(...) It realy depends on what form of stepper motor you are using and how the coils are wired up. if you can arange it as two sets of coils you could drive it by hooking one motor output up to one pair of coils and the second motor output up to the (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Just wondering...
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Hi, Lugnet'ers. I've heard some people in Michagan are going to hold a Lego Fest, and am just wondering, how do you host one? What stuff do you need? How do you keep everyone's Legos seperate, so they don't get mixed up, and lastly, what do you need (...) (26 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.build)
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