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(...) Or third, a synchro drive constrained to a ninety degree throw. This is simpler than the independent wheels since it doesn't require an extra motor or complicated mechanism for raising and lowering. It is also easier than the rotation sensor (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Fishing for a tasty linkage/gearing/robotic building thread... (fwd)
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----- Forwarded message from Mario Ferrari ----- From: "Mario Ferrari" <mario.ferrari@edis.it> Subject: Re: Fishing for a tasty linkage/gearing/robotic building thread... Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:39:53 GMT I like a lot your idea of a "phisical" (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I like a lot your idea of a "phisical" program stored on a 2 x n plate. You could use one sensor eg on the left side as a sort of "clock" mechanism which marks your steps. Doing so you very precisely know when to read the right sensor which is (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Moving AUCTION (Update 18)-All sets Going 2 - Many Sold
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Hi, Sets with no bidding activity in 24 hours will be Sold on the following update. New Sets in Sealed Boxes Set Number:Set Name: Bid (US$): Bidder: Status: 6991 Monorail Transport Base $150 E. Lee SOLD 1 6991 Monorail Transport Base $150 GB Chek (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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(...) Yes- and as far as larger buildings, selective compression goes a long, long way. Sure, the doors to Notre Dame are REALLY BIG, but if we use the regular "Large Arched Wooden Castle Doors", it's still a realy big door. And yeah, the towers are (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Does anyone know William Grant?
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I'm trying to get hold of William (Will) Grant from Woodworth, Los Angeles. Does anyone know how to get hold of him? Thanks - Ben (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Wot???? Have I read this right? 6278 as in Indigo Island?? I'm afraid I'm not interested as I've already got 2 of that one - but I'm intrigued - where on Earth did Tesco dig it up from - that went out of the catalogue aeons ago, didn't it??? (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Sith Infiltrator
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(...) I have that book, and I don't think it's really the same size as the Falcon (err, the Infiltrator, that is, not the book! :D). It does seem to be smaller. (...) That is true. Also, the whole back end of the ship doesn't fold down, etc. (...) (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: LEGO Design (was: Where does everyone live?)
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(...) Whoops, you got me. Forgot all about that one. But on the other hand, it was never available in the Netherlands, where I get most of my Lego... Okay, lets try again: Complete in: Unitron, Spyrius, Insectoids, UfO, Space Police I+II, Blacktron (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: castle minifigs list please help
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the scans are ok. thanks. you can get my castle .dat files from (URL) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Request regarding "Spoilers"
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(...) wrote: (...) I'll just chime in here and point out that Owen and Beru are from the Lars family, not the Skywalker family. Popular conjecture is that Beru is the sister of Anakin. eric (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Fishing for a tasty linkage/gearing/robotic building thread...
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Michael Gasperi skrev i meddelandet ... (...) An idea we have (but no implementation ideas yet), is to drive the program in discrete 'steps', sampling the sensors during the step, and decide the action. This would make exact turns possible. The main (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Old Lego colors
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Kevin Wilson <70641.507@compuserve.com> skrev i meddelandet <373A3D5F.B68B7A79@c...ve.com>... (...) Well, in my old Idea Book (from ~1960), (URL) can see a lot of blue pieces. I know for sure I had them too, but never as many as reds and whites. The (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question about classic ESSO Service Station
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Gary Istok skrev i meddelandet <3739E513.D9092180@u...ch.edu>... (...) You can also see it on my scans of an early Idea Book (URL) more precisely: (URL) and (URL) sure looks like the edge is painted red, or something like that. I am almost sure this (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 99-03 Voting: Quick Comments
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(...) Coz they didn't? The nut is a unique part, as far as I can tell. It is round, and ribbed on the outside (ribs parallel to the axle), and I've never seen a part that could be machined down to make it. (well, not easily, you could probably (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)
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(...) And, BTW, isn't this intuitively obvious, since CPUs are, in fact, iterative? Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: recursion (was RE: Would-be hacker queries.)
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(...) I seem to remember the point of the Ackermann function is that the amount of computation required to evaluate it explodes very rapidly with small changes in parameter values, and it is recursive and rather simple. I also seem to remember "so (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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(...) Yeah - but I think it is a bit different in the US. I've only been to the USA once - and I don't know if other people have found the same thing - so tell me if anyone else disagrees... but one of the overwhelming things I found in the USA was (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: All UK Groups subscribed?
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(...) Very easily I'd say - that's happened to me at first. When I was new to lugnet one of the first things I did was look for local groups near to me - I found the section for my part of the UK - I think it was the London list and found it was (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Request regarding "Spoilers"
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(...) Maybe not. If the existence of Luke and his sister were kept secret from Vader, then he could well assume that Luke was the son of Uncle Owen. -- Terry K -- (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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