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(...) The little lift truck in the 8062 Universal set has the same steering mechanism. Just use a standard steeing rack with the steering knuckles on opposite sides of the wheel. Sorry for the inept description, my lids are calling for dinner time.. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CyberMaster tracks (was Re: LEGO Lawn-mover)
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The CyberMaster tracks do look cool, but you can build your own tracks out of "standard" LEGO Technic parts (and bigger than "the biggest LEGO has ever built"). See my website: (URL) Haye IBM ADSM Server Development ... Tucson, AZ haye (at) us (dot) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: General Box #3 ("minneapolis box")
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I'd love to see this box when it gets out of Minneapolis! Sign me up! Eric (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Minifig box #1
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I'd like to be queued for the minifigs as well! Eric (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Homing with the IR Tower
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(...) Have you seen the mars rover turn? If you have the parts for it, you could add a steering mechanism in the front wheels and another for the wheels in the back. Humm... that should make an interesting mechanical project :-) Laurentino Martins [ (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Perhaps we should come up with something to discuss.... Any good sales around? I check a number of places quite frequently, but nothing major on sale now. KB does have some aquanauts on sale as well as the witch's windship and some diver sets.... (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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(...) By "quote character" here I mean news-quoting rather than English text quoting. The two paragraphs above this one that I'm writing are "quoted" paragraphs from your message. The word "quoted" is in English quotes. Sorry about the ambiguity. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard that you can make your RCX program respond to three of the buttons on the RCX remote control. You can also (if you need more than three commands) use a second RCX as a remote control. I've run across a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mechanical question
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This isn't an answer, but why not just make a three wheeled bot. You can place the third pivot wheel inside the radius of the two outer wheels, and you'll have a bot that turns in place. Most of my bots are of this design. Here is a crude ASCII (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mechanical question
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(...) [snip] (...) You are close here. Tank steering is often called "skid" steering because tank tracks are optimized for traction parallel to direction travelled and have little traction in a tangent direction. A look at the tread pattern will (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: General Box #3 ("minneapolis box")
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Sign me up to please. My address is, 211 Pleasant Meadows Dr. Gaffney SC, 29341 God bless you Rob (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Homing with the IR Tower
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(...) Maybe I did not phrase my problem clearly. It's better described in Jon Shemitz's recent post (URL). In my experience, wheels are more efficient than treads. Under the same load, my wheel-based design outrun my tread-based design. However, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Best (disposable) battery for the RCX?
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In lugnet.robotics, Jon Shemitz writes: [snip] (...) I use Rayovac Renewal rechargable alcalines myself. I get lots of time on each charge and can use the same cells over and over again for over a year. I get a four pack of AAs for about $6 and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have 30 days to try out att.net, from the looks of it already I might be switching permantly. My new e-mail address is Mookie1@worldnet.att.net yeah.. someone already had Mookie :( and that is a 1 (one) after the name not l. Exec will be active (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: GMLTC at the NMRA National Convention
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(...) A number of times people were three deep around the layout. The best views were from inside the center of the layout though (thanks to John Neal). (...) No kidding, all the rolling stock was amazing. The stuff sitting in the yard was way cool. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Mechanical question
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I've been puzzling over this one, and I still don't really understand it: Why can a bot with tank treads do a turn in place, while a bot with four wheels geared together so that the front and back wheels on each side always move together can not? My (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: General Box #3 ("minneapolis box")
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I'd like to get on the list for this box, please. Thanks, Greg Kramer Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <379A4161.8631C5C2@v...er.net>... (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | 20 year old space auction - update 3
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Items will progress to Going 1 on Friday, Going 2 on Monday, sold next Friday, life permitting. *** Any item or items tradable for 12V train of any description, other offers also considered *** 885 jet buggy 1979 $20 Seth Cain 886 lunar rover 1979 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: ldraw.org Not Found
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I just did some more research. www.nordu.net has two networks in Denmark, Darenet at www.darnet.dk and Sektornet at (URL) was able to reach nordu.net's main site and Sektornet (for a short time). I recieved the same timeout error with darnet that I (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Perl-based bulk set IDer...
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(...) I noticed it was wrong and I considered fixing it, but it wasn't a trivial change by any means (in this case). The tool I'm using to spit out pages at that base-URL is hell-bent on spitting out HTML, so I'd have to make a separate parallel (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
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