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(...) What a progressive church -- everyone attending seems to be driving a Toyota Prius! My kind of place. You created a lot of pleasing detail just by choosing different 1 x 1 brick elements -- a beam here, a headlight brick there. Nice job. (...) (21 years ago, 7-Dec-04, to lugnet.build.microscale, FTX)
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| | US S@H Phone Specials, Dec 8 to Dec 14
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(URL) (hit 1 when the recording starts, then hit 1 again when the S@H Specials recording starts, to skip the listings and get to a representative) US S@H Phone Specials, Dec 8 to Dec 14 Duplo 3278 Wallpaper Wendy 4.99 2.49 Clickits 7510 Trendy Tote (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.announce.lsahs)
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| | Re: N-Fedge primitives
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(...) The consistency is in the basic four fractions: 1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4. The other measures are (more or less) deliberate inconsistencies to name files that don't fit the basic standard. (...) Yes, that would be an incorrect consideration. Part (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, FTX)
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| | Re: Who Lied? (was: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004)
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I think this is a new initiative to further cut costs. Its funny one part of Lego decides it needs to control the pallette and amount of "usuable parts" in the system, while another part keeps on coming out with new colors and new parts (molds) for (...) (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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(...) the color tiles can be read? Steve (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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Wow!!! That is crazy. I can see an "amateur start-up" making that kind of rookie mistake but that shouldn't happen at a seasoned place like our dear Lego Shop@Home. I had one order this fall that was pretty messed up as well. I ordered a bunch of (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Wire communication
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(...) I think all you really need to do is switch the motor port between "float" and "brake". That's the same as opening and closing a touch sensor. I've used that for simple signals, and it seems to work fine, but I haven't tried more complex (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Amen! It seems like LEGO is trying to walk a tightrope, cutting costs, but still maintaining their image as the leader in quality. I don't think they're doing a very good job of it. IMO, LEGO is *currently* not being clobbered on price, but on (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption (was Re: Rolling ball clock revisited)
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(...) There will be a minimum throuhgput to solve that. Right now, we're testing with 1 ball/second. So, the very first module will be regulated to run somewhere just below that speed. As long as everyone else can meet the minimum, there will be no (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: anyone know where I can find this part in australia?
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A word about the part reference provided by bricklink to peeron - this is incorrect, as bricklink and peeron do not use the same part numbers. The peeron part number for this part is (URL) - they are found both in 6180 and 6199, however, finding (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption (was Re: Rolling ball clock revisited)
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(...) Looks fun ;o) One of my goals when building Bob's clock was to get my feet wet in ball moving... One foreseeable issue: if an upstream unit has more throughput than a downstream one, we shall get ball overflows! Philo (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: TR: North America's First/Only DeLaval VMS
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(...) <snip> <big city boy comment> so like; are the cow's husbands OK with this? <end bad joke> Iain, auto-milking robots. Cool. thanks for the pics. Chris "It is a very clever strategy IMHO, and I applaud Chris for thinking of it." K.C. (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Shop@Home Nightmare! (from a now ex-AFOL)
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(...) Wait a minute. That's Daniel Siskind, as in "creator of LEGO set ´3739 Blacksmith shop´"? And I thought TLG would send flowers at your birthdays and lots of free stuff at christmas! :( Well, know-nothing company ogres can be that way. But I (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.dear-lego)
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My father worked for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, and with that I was introduced to virtually every aspect of farming as a child growing up. My dad would often take me to farms, and early on I became fascinated with the technology in use at (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: MPD Builder ?
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(...) Thanks Ahui, I was not aware of this LPub feature... now if only I could find how to use it ??? Philo (21 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Wire communication
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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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