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Hello, I am currently trying to implement a communication protocol between two bricks using just one of the copper wire given with the brick. The protocol is based on manchester encoding, using a well-timed alternation of up and low signals. My (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LEGO town stop-motion animation music video
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I just saw a video by DJ Timo ((URL) called "The Robots", and the entire video was stop-motion animation of a LEGO town. The song was Kraftwerk's "Die Roboter", with a more modern sound. I was impressed by the video - the creations are well done, (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's November Model and Scene of the Month Winners
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(...) Am I mistaken in thinking that this month's submissions look remarkably like last month's? Allister (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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At the last weekend's GMLTC showing, I found out from another club member that LEGO still had some of the light gray brick packs available. Still in need of several thousand pre-2004 light gray bricks to finish the stand for battleship project, I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego) !!
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| | Re: Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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(...) Wait-- how are these in contrast? Do you know that these came out of the same initiative? Do you know that something hasn't changed in the meantime? It's been over a year since the color change actually HAPPENED, and as far as I can tell, this (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Unless you've been building in gray. My collection of 30 years was made obsolete overnight when they decided to discontinue making new parts in the pre 2004 shades of gray. Therefore, my continued support of their products ended when they (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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(...) Reading the LEGO Life article, I thought back to Jake McKee's (URL) original explanation> for the color change back in May. I noticed some discrepancies. Contrast this passage from the (URL): Reducing the number of used colours is part of the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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Reducing the number of colours in the palette seems like a win-win. It means Lego can be cheaper, and it also means that AFOLs will find it easier to build a decent selection of parts in each colour. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Indeed. I have a bag of 41752's here. I keep looking at the tread surfaces on both sides and the Technic pin holes and thinking... 'now if they could put pin holes in a rubber-band holder, why couldn't they do the same for the big hailfire (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: It can never end can it
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Hi, Jamie. My name’s Mike. I’m the guy who made the first post in LUGNET/People/Support. I know what it feels like to have life come crashing down on top of you. I know what it’s like to have things suddenly turn dark, for all the fun and joy to get (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.people.support, FTX)
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| | December meeting
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The December IndyLUG meeting will be on Sunday, December 19 at 2:00 at Jeramy Spurgeon's house in Fishers. Plans for the meeting include: • Planning the January GATS • Playing BrickQuest (click (URL) here> to see the BrickQuest site) - If you've (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.us.indylug, FTX)
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| | Re: Berlinetta
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(...) Well, as Paul said, this MOC was the Subject of Discussion (hehe, SoD) at the last Melbourne get together, it's a really excellent hovercar. it's compact, it's racy, it's swooshable and most importantly it's red. I really like the control (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: input used as output
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well I've decided to go with 2 RCX's anyway. Later I may switch to a non-lego controller ala handyboard, brainstem, etc. Anyway, for the record, the current is also pulsed in order to get the reading from the photoreceptor. I still suspect I could (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego in subdomains, legal or not?
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(...) I just wanted to add while I am fairly net savy, and I first thought www.lego.bugge.com was related to TLG somehow - like Pitsco, or something. Mainly because 'lego' came before 'bugge' and because I dont know what 'bugge' refers to. For all i (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| | Re: Idea Crunching
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*pops out of the blue that is my laziness* One thing I've always had trouble with is getting a large enough nozzle for the engine. I use "fusion engines" with my stuff, but I can never seem to get that "tunnel into the darkness" and "there's a big (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) I think this is _critical_, that we as AFOL make it be known that we'd rather pay more for a quality product than less for crap. If I wanted to buy crap, I could buy Megablocks instead. That being said, there are times and places where the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) The rubber band holders come to mind. Those are curiously over-designed. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: MPD Builder ?
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(...) Might I suggest you try LPub (URL). It can create MPDs for you. -AHui LDraw Help Desk (URL) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad, FTX)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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In lugnet.color, William Howard wrote: (snipped) Thanks for sharing these and thanks especially for checking to see if it was OK first! Both are much appreciated. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: VIP treatment
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(...) Keeping with the common theme for this competition I like to see city/town buildings, like you did. I like to see stuff that's detailed and has interesting and varied building techniques. I look for things that not only look good but also (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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