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saw several of the silver bucket for $7.97 at TRU in Mckee & Capitol. they have probably 6-7 left, also saw the red classic bucket for $9.99, looks pretty cool. anyone know where I can buy duplo bucket/tub? (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | BayLUG now on KTVU BayInsider website
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Well, it took a bit of work, but we have a couple of basic pages on (URL) but I can't load it with Internet exploder 5.x (however, Netscape works fine). Let me know what you think of the pages. So, I can't explain the failure, since I'm using (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.oak, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.sj, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf.con)
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| | Re: Santa Fe Warbonnet
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Hello David, Tom and everyone else who offered to host my pictures, Thank you very much! As I told someone, I haven't felt this popular since my last payday! Talk about camaraderie amongst lego lovers... Carrie (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | FS 8414 Mountain Rambler NIB
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I've got a few 8414 Mountain Ramblers to sell for $30 including shipping USPS Priority Mail in the US. Cool Parts: Technic Universal Joint Pinion Gear Steering mechanism 2 Spring Shock Absorbers Clear/Red 2 Cylinder motor Tracks w/3 wheels yellow & (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Mecca Bound;-)
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(...) How do you manage to get away with bringing a computer on vacation? I get enough crap from my wife when I bring my (radio) scanner. (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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(...) it. (...) the (...) curves. (...) speed (...) the (...) each (...) Hey james I have played with makeing highspeed lego rail. Not much to it realy just place a 2x4 standard brick on the outside of the curve at the track joints. I have done this (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Mindstorms at JavaOne
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Since I wrote this, I've seen the setup in person. The Palm V's are connected serially to a Sun PC which broadcasts IR from a standard Lego IR tower to the tanks' combat arena. The messages sent to the tanks use 3 bits for the tank id and 5 bits for (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Scottish Legofest
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One of my local dept stores has 15% off all Lego at the moment, so now is the time to say if anyone coming to the Scotttish Legofest wants to accept the offer of cheap SW (or other) Lego. I'll be going the rounds of the stores tomorrow afternoon so (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Fright Force on sale at TRU
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As the title above states, 6031 Fright Force is on clearance at TRU for $2.97. They also had the 6007 Bat Lord for the same price as well as the 6716 Weapons Wagon and 6706 Frontier Patrol. I know that the Wild West sets have commonly been reported (...) (27 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
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| | Re: 6894 Blacktron Alienator
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Huw Millington <hmillington@cix.co.uk> wrote in message news:FDH0C9.11M@lugnet.com... (...) By golly, yer right! I just got through with the "Alienator", and then did the Invader using the same header. Guess that's what you get for using (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models.sets)
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| | Re: LEGO Factory in CA?
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Tom McDonald (radiotitan@spamcake.yahoo.com) wrote: : In lugnet.general, Mark Benz writes: : >Hi, : >Someone at my office just told me he saw on the Local News (KRON-channel 4) : >last nite that TLG is planning to build a FACTORY in Marin County CA. (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: KTVU Offer for Lego Users Club
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(...) Sounds like a legal out so that links to adult sites and less than desirable content can be deleted without hassle. It probably will work in our favor too being that we're family-oriented to a big degree. We had a few families drop by at the (...) (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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(...) Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm working on an articulation scheme that addresses that very point. So far no true success. But I'm still entertaining some more ideas, so the jury is still out. I'll share all my juicy secrets (assuming that this (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: KTVU Offer for Lego Users Club
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Hi, Oh well, Some more thoughts: I quote from Lorry's original note: "and you can employ it as your main promotional tool or simply as a page that bridges out to another site you've already created." This seems to me pretty clear that its OK to have (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: KTVU Offer for Lego Users Club
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Not a stupid question! It's worth considering even if it is redundant data and there's not really too much of it either. ATM I can't think of anything different to put on those pages other than what's already found on the main and membership pages. (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Fixed: RL-1 Rocket Launcher (dat repost) [DAT]
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I did figure out the problem with the mpd and also the floating antenna. I was messing with the mpd file because ldlite wasn't reading it right. When I realized I had an old version of ldlite, I downloaded the new. The new version doesn't like (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: lego and steppers
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(...) Which counter are you referring to? If believe that if you are using the standard Lego firmware, e.g. by using NQC, and you are using the "pulse/edge" counting modes, you can detect an edge only once every 300 ms or so, which is fairly slow. (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | ldaddon idea
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i dont know if this can be done.. (cause i havent tried yet) but.. steve can you add a (in ldraw/models dir) command? like for models in oh say.. ldraw/models/thalys..? like have a COMMAND TO CHANGE DIRECTORIES WITHIN MODELS, that eway the list of (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New MOC:TGV in Orange
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(...) Just some new comments about the orange TGV. I have had some time to revise the shared bogie coupler between the passenger cars. This newer design has no extra pivot pieces, as the older design did. The only built-in pivot is on the bogie (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | (canceled)
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| | Minifig Longbow [DAT]
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Go finish your castle, now, JW. 0 Minifig Longbow 0 Name: x887.dat 0 Author: John VanZwieten 0 Un-Official Element 0 Inlined:1 16 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.3 0 0 0 1 x887a.dat 1 16 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1.3 0 0 0 4 4-4edge.DAT 1 16 0 1.3 0 4 0 0 0 1.3 0 0 0 4 (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Defeating eBay sniping?
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(...) I'm still trying to get this. I likethe BTD, but the NLD that I state above sucks. I need some function that will discount the shipping as the number of lots increases, but won't have funny humps. I'm thinking S&H = $7.40 * BTD + (lots won * (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Help identifying Trains
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Oh, you wanted to know about the COMPANIES! Why didn't you say so?!? The subject is identifying trains... so that's what I did. Who cares about the companies. :-) OK. Fine. CN is Canadian National. This is one of two canadian transcontinental lines, (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Help identifying Trains
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(...) toronto. (27 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Problems with RCX, ROBOLAB and Macintosh
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Sorry, folks. I think it was just that that was the very first message I got after subscribing to the list, and it just hit me the wrong way. I use Mac and Linux and Win95 under VirtualPC (which is how I communicate with the RCX currently, though (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: multi-RCX dreaming
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(...) I'm a poli-sci major (in my spare time :) and own a copy of the book as a result of that. I can't believe I didn't think of that myself. (...) Those are the kinds of things I was thinking about. A simple demo that I have heard suggested (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: multi-RCX dreaming
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(...) My thoughts exactly. Though I was leaning more towards experimenting with different Evolutionary Stable Strategies (ESS). See if an RCX using tit-for-tat ESS can invade a population of RCXs using a different, more greedy, ESS. See Robert (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: ebay item, is it really...
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Thanks, now I wonder no more. Pretty interesting piece of Lego history. Julie (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Cracking down on unauthorized image links
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(...) Not me personally, no, but this IS the internet, if someone's doing it, someone else almost certainly is as well. Heck... a quick yahoo search using auction and image yielded a few. I have not examined these at all. (URL) Larry Pieniazek (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Multi-RCX Dreaming
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(...) I should have clarified on this one: in LegOS :) Windows is, for better or for worse, not an option. (...) I was thinking of this. I wondered (more for curiousity's sake) whether or not this has actually been done. (...) Hmm... That would be a (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: multi-RCX dreaming
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get them to play iterative prisoners' dilemma. How is up to you. it could be a pure programming task - with IR the only communication, or it could be more physical... -g -----Original Message----- From: Luis Villa [SMTP:liv@duke.edu] Sent: Thursday, (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | lego and steppers
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I need to know the max speed that a touch sensor can advance the counter. I would like to control a stepper motor with the rcx and use a touch sensor input to count the steps. I am not going to actually use the touch sensor itself, just the sensor (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Multi-RCX Dreaming
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(...) -Lots of people (not myself, though I do own 2 RCXs now). (...) -Besides the built-in "message" function, there are several other ways RCXs could communicate. RCX A could shine a light into RCX B's light sensor. RCX A could start a motor that (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | multi-RCX dreaming
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It looks like (starting next week) I'll be in charge of 1/2 dozen RCX units. I have three questions: (the third is most likely to be most interesting for most people) 1) Has anyone actually gotten two RCXs to communicate reliably via IR? (LNP folk (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Digital Photography
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(...) You've got a few options: 1. Get your film processed onto disk, CD-ROM, or the Kodak Net. I'm sure Kodak's web site has more info, or go down to your local Kodak film developing drop off (not the instore developer) and inquire. Pros: cheap. (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RE: Announcement: OnScreen Programming for Legos RCX
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I have a program that modifies itself as it goes- at the moment, it merely changes light values to "keep track" of its environment. However, a (hopefully!) soon to be bot will make random guesses as to what it should do and keep track of them, (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Looking for tall windows
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I'm looking for the tall, 1x4x5 high windows in any color. see set (URL) for a sample of what I'm looking for. I would prefer a strait sale. But if you are interested in some of the odd corner pieces or big, colored clear shells from diver sets, we (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | A bit OT: Behind the Magic CD again
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I know the Behind the Magic CD has come up before on this group and it is a highly recommended product, but does it include reference information for the entire Star Wars Universe, or just the original trilogy? I'm specifically interested in any (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | RE: KTVU Offer for Lego Users Club
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Hi, Not being a "baylug web coder" this may be a stupid question, but couldn't we just mirror the first two pages of the Baylug site to Bay Insider, and not have to maintain 2 sites? Mark (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: KTVU Offer for Lego Users Club
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I called our KTVU contact, and talked about the Bay Insider parenting project... They have a 2-page minimum to be in the listings. More pages will increase the chances of getting the occassional splash on the Bay Insider main page. We could get (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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