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(...) Regarding connecting the 'football' to other Lego-there are two solutions I can think of that are Lego-only (one is rubber bands and the other is...much more creative.) Anyone who can come up with a third way will greatly impress me. :) -Dave (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) You may have to develop a series of disguises or fake accents in future. (...) Your picture has been posted at the border ;^) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Well, while some instructions only have 20 click thrus, others have 600 or more. But just for discussion purposes, if you take an average, that average is 200 per instruction. But setting that aside, the key is that there are more than 42,000 (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.inst)
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(...) Real life sport, my antipodean friend. These LEGO themes need to be examined closely, though, and evaluated to determine their usefulness. Hence I'm interested. Because, remember... ALL other themes are merely spare parts for Trains! Hope that (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Before Pods. Before Moonbase. Before Spiff. There was the Annual Classic Space Building Contest
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Okay, so maybe Spiff was first, but still... It's that time again, and this year's theme is Futuron! Was fluoro orange just not your thing when the IP2k2 contest was around? Couldn't take destroying your precious bt1 models just to enter a contest? (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.build.contests, lugnet.space)
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YES, YOU SEE MY POINT!!! (there I go yelling again. :-P ) Um well what I said was "Yes they took my suggestion but yes they'll never admit it for legal reasons." Pretty much I was saying that Lego makes what they can sell. I, and many others, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.general)
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Yeah! LegoDirect will never pay intellectual roalties to all the all the people who screamed for extra bulk packs but lots of people suggested it and they took the suggestion! Jeremy (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And I built a skatepark in '96 and made skateboards out of the 2x2 plates with wheels under them. Lego has just ripped us all off!!! :-) :-) :-) Jeremy - (again) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Loyal to .castle? [ROLL CALL]
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Well welcome Alex!!! I was thinking about you today! Glad to see you finally have posting rights and have posted your first posts!!! Welcome to loyal castle club!!! Once note though, you are number 37. And no need to thank me for helping you - it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.castle)
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-Castle ROLL-CALL: ¯¯¯...¯¯¯ (1) Jeremy Scott - .castle since I came lugnet... .castle until I DIE! (2) Joey Finnell (3) Yaron Dori - proud to be a part of castle (4) Dan Thompson (5) John "Hendo" Henderson - not .castle only, but always around. (6) (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Ross Neal's ISCC Contest entry: BN EMD GP-50
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Since he has no activity here on Lugnet, posting wise, I sure hope he at least gets to see these encouraging responses. Ross, you have a telent!!! I cannot believe the models you have created at such a young age. Being fairly inexperienced in (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I think we should aim for two, and have four as an option for the rumble after the main matches are on. Calum (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I've never actually seen a lego football in the 'flesh', so I'm not even sure how big it is. Is it a standard no. of bricks in diameter? If so you should be able to clamp it somehow with Lego only. But I don't necessarily object to blue tak. (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) The trouble with this is that it's not necessarily true. Take 100 Lego turntables and connect them up into a vertical column. By this measure, it has 100 DOF - but as a mechanism, it has no more flexibility than a single turntable (1-DOF). (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Maybe I missed something, but didn't I read somewhere that this would be an event where four robots would be run at the same time, one approaching each side of the box? This seems to imply only two. Matthias Jetleb (23 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Wow, that is a cool display, especially from people who communicate long distance in planning. You've really outdid yourselves compared to the first show there. Leaps and bounds eh? I can't wait to see what you have in store for the next show. (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.loc.ca.ns)
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| | Re: Helicopter was Re: Newbie has an idea
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(...) A Lego remote controller would be cheaper than a second RCX. ---...--- Steve Baker ---...--- HomeEmail: <sjbaker1@airmail.net> WorkEmail: <sjbaker@link.com> HomePage : (URL) : (4 URLs) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Yes. (...) Depends a lot on how much work your robot is doing. If it's just running the computer with no motors or sensors turned on - then probably 12 hours. If you are running lots of motors and sensors then it's more like 3 hours...but it (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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Nick, Setting the timeslice to a low number (5ms is fairly low), negetively effects overall system performance. Time used by the operating system for task switching is taken away from applications. If a switch takes .5ms (for example) and you switch (...) (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Ross Neal's ISCC Contest entry: BN EMD GP-50
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Incredible, and has handrails too...you've really outdone yourself on this one. The best EMD rendered in LEGO® I've seen yet! -Harvey (23 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.trains)
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