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Hi all. Last spring I was accepted into MIT's Media Lab as a Grad student. I started on June 1st. At this time, I think it's important for everyone in this community to understand some consequences of my new position. I no longer work for anyone but (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Mindspring Issue 990722-5791744 (Was: Re: ldraw.org Not Found)
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(...) I am hearing the same things from Mindspring and am working with them and Jacob Sparre Andersen to see that the problem gets solved. The attached Mindspring trouble ticket number is 990722-5791744. From now on I'll try to cc all correspondence (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: GMLTC at the NMRA National Convention
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Good because I won't have ours ready until sometime later this week. -john (...) front (...) detail (...) perfectly, (...) St. (...) shows (...) going (...) much (...) goals (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: CyberMaster tracks (was Re: LEGO Lawn-mover)
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(...) Technic beams in any other colors? ;-) Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus station, So why am I sitting at a work station? ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com ---...--- (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mechanical question
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I was wondering the same thing until a little while ago, I saw a large (i.e. industrial-sized) remote control vehicle in use by the UK fire service to fight fires in hazardous areas. The vehicle uses solid low- grip rubber tyres and four wheels that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: General Box #2 Thread
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Please add me to the list, Thanks (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: GMLTC at the NMRA National Convention
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Steve has a Web page set up with pics from his digital camera. I've (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 6399 Question
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Hello, I had a quick question about 6399, the Airport Shuttle. In the instruction booklet on page 28, there is a picture of a support (Black and Gray) to the left of the platform, however there are no building instructions for it... Does this (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: UK / Great Britain
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(...) To avoid being immediately replaced by a president, yeah. Royal houses do exercise great influence, still, but behind-the-screens for the most part. Jasper (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Mechanical question
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(...) I don't know the other LEGO tracks, but the CyberMaster tracks confirm everything you said. They look like this (fixed font): | ----| |---- | |---- | | ----| | ----| |---- | |---- | | ----| | ----| |---- | Also, they are deeper in the center (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Homing with the IR Tower
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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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| | Wow, there really are people here!
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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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| | Re: Colon character ":" getting changed to ">"
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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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| | Re: Interactive human-controlled bots
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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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