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In case you missed it on RTL, Steve's website for the train show pics is at (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: My Starcruiser
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Alex: (...) Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Thanks, its one of my favorites so far! (...) in (...) Jeff, No I don't have LDAO yet but I will download it as soon as I get a chance and take a look. I just visited ldraw.org and read up on it. It sounds like just the tool I have been (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Ray Traced B-Wing available.
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(...) Eric, do you have LDAO? If so, Inlining is quite simple. Just go to the "Tools" menu and select "Inline Model". A small window will pop up that shows all the lines in your model, and each line has a checkbox next to it, so just check the lines (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: What's the weather like?
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(...) Thanks - much the same as here then. Can you tell what weather you'll get from what we've had with accuracy, then? Huw (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.dk)
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| | Glen's 2nd Assorted Lego Auction - 7/27 Update
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Welcome to Glen's second assorted Lego set auction. Listed below are the sets I am selling. This e-mail is separated into three sections. First is the listing of the sets for sale and the current price. Second is a detailed list of the set (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Pulse timing
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Hi all, After reading this Tilt Sensor message I had a look at www.analog.com and found they did samples of the chip. I got two samples the other day and so made a quick test pcb. The board seems to work ok looking at it with a scope but now I want (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | What to do with a partially finished part? (2994.DAT)
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I have made a draft for the part 2994.DAT "Wheel 30.4 x 14 VR". One can scale down the already existing 6594.DAT "Tyre 49.6 x 28 VR" to get a fairly realistic looking wheel and hub. Here is the DAT source for the part: (URL) a couple of images of (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: URL characters
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Todd Lehman: (...) It works like I described (at least the ~n case) even in Word97/Win95(DK), so I am not sure it is correct to call it a "backward" compatibility problem[1]. People have to learn to type <tilde> <space> to get a tilde on most (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: What's the weather like?
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Huw Millington: (...) A fresh update: Warm (~25°C) and sunny at least until sunday. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.dk)
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| | Missing Pieces Set 4031
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Info Todd and intending purchasers: The pieces missing from the Fire Boat set number 4031 that came in the white cardboard box are the three 2 x 6 x 2H weight bricks in black. Grahame Reid (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 6399 Question
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There is a 4-step building instruction for the black and grey platform of the last page of the manual once you fold out this page. Unfortunately these three 'pages' have not been shown at: (URL) I can rectify that in the next day or so. Grahame Reid (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | RE: CyberMaster tracks (was Re: LEGO Lawn-mover)
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(...) Nice, but where are you supposed to find 500+ each of chain links and conveyor links?! You'd need dozens of service packs... Stuart -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Interfacing handyboard with Basic Stamp2
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Hi, You can use the SPI interface and have the BS2 as a master. The BS2 then defines the clockspeed, because the slowest speed you can select on the 6811 is probably to high for the BS2. It is very simple to use this interface. See the "pink book" (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Announcement: New jambalya...who wants it?
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(...) I'd just like to be part of this madness! Can someone let me know. (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Join the Jambalaya Boxes!
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hmmmm.... (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Join the Jambalaya Boxes!
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I have posted an rtl compliant version to rtl. basically it has additional instruction on how to find and join LUGNET (tm). thanks to all who helped! Looking at this thing, it seems to have the makings of a FAQ for the group...I'll have it if anyone (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Wow, there really are people here!
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(...) I'd forgotten how much I'd paid for them, I thought it was more, but I checked the boxes and sure enough, it was well under 15%. Amazon Crossing was $9.99 down from $15.99, while Outback Airstrip was $12.99, down from 19.99. I guess that puts (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: I've posted my first Lego movie!
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Hehe..i had my brightness turned all the way down and couldn't understand what the yellow rectangle was doing. Its cool once I made it so I could see it.! (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | I've posted my first Lego movie!
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It's pretty lame, just a first shot at some new software. Thanks Leo and Eric for your help with my questions. I'll have a very cool 5 minute movie of a couple of big microfig ships in a coupe of months. The hard part is building the CAD models. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: delay! And other stuff...
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Which box do you want to move him in and how much is a bit? They are farther up on the list for the General box #2 and there are more Canadians. For General Box #1, those two are pretty far down. It would seem more logical to do it for General box (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: models
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message ... (...) I thank you for the comments, Bram! I am looking into posting all images as GIF's instead of JPG's to decrease the size. I didn't even think about the anti-aliasing though. Thanks for the tips! (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: delay! And other stuff...
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That's ok Larry, I don't mind in the least.. from the looks of it if you'd have sent out the junk box right away I'd have 3 boxes on the way to my house.. and I'd be feeling pretty darn greedy... though I'll have them in and out of here within a day (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: "Dog" built with 2 RCXs and lots of turntables
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Yes, that's it! Thank you very much. I see the reason I couldn't find the site -- I was searching in English. The words I was searching for were the words that had appeared in my head as I was describing the pictures to myself. Silly me! For those (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: General Box #2 Log
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I will throw a 1999 Swedish Catalog in GB #1. I picked up a couple of them a few weeks back. Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) Lehman wrote in message <379d3013.126761218@...et.com>... (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Box Logs
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I will create a new thread for GB #1 once I receive GB #1! It did not arrive today before I left the office (where I usually have LEGO sent to ensure it doesn't get caught out in the rain as one package did) but I expect it will show up tomorrow. I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: General Box #2 Log
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(...) Oooh! Tasty! --Todd (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Wow!!! Did you guys see what Phil did? That may actually be a better idea than putting something in the box itself. Suggest that the box recepients after Phil chain on Phil's append... and that Mike and the others start similar ones for their boxes. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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I just bought my first cylinder and pump. Now I have to buy another one. That motor is so cool. Got to build it. Thanks for the page of instructions. Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) s soh <cssoh@singnet.com.sg> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Wow, there really are people here!
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The KB outlet at Aurora Farms outlet had a fair amount of Lego with good prices when I was there about a month ago. I got the Fright Nights castle for around $45. Eugene (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | RE: "Dog" built with 2 RCXs and lots of turntables
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I beleive you are looking for Jin Sato's site. It is at: (URL) site is an excellent example of what can be done with Lego and imagination. Rich (URL) Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...net.com]On Behalf Of Robert (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | "Dog" built with 2 RCXs and lots of turntables
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I'm looking for the web site that shows the "dog" that someone built with two RCXs and a whole bunch of large turntables. It had one RCX for the head and front legs and another for the back legs, and the RCXs talked to each other via IR messages. It (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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(...) Hello, Don't give up on pneumatics just yet. See what you can do with them: (URL) s soh (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Wow, there really are people here!
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(...) The sets I saw were much more reduced then 15% The Aqua Dozer (2161) was marked down to $15 from $25 The Witch's Windship was marked down to $5 from $10 I do not know about the diver sets because they didn't interest me, but it was atleast $10 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Anyone need a deal on Hydronauts set 6110?
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I found a deal on Hydronauts set 6110 and I am passing on the savings! $1.50 for this 1998 22 pc set--the cost of a minifig alone. I have lots of other sets available on my for sale page. Send me an email if interested or for more info. Quantities (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | General Box #2 Log
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Name: Phil Watt Place: Los Gatos, Ca. (near San Jose) Occupation: Quality Assurance Manager-Semiconductors Date: Saturday 7/24/99 received; Tuesday 7/27 sent Local color added to box: 1/2 newspaper page of local real estate prices Pieces taken: (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Green Wizard/Witch Hat - what set?
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(...) Alex I have one that I would be happy to trade. Give me an email and we can work something out. And Eric is right...they come with the Freestyle sets. I got mine in the backpack combo thing from about a year ago. Maybe this should go in the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Ray Traced B-Wing available.
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I have finally finished the LDraw and Ray Tracing of my B-Wing model. You can see the picture here: (URL) will be working on adding a background and Ray tracing's in cruise position and Ray tracing's from other angles. Looking at my B-Wing page it (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Interactive human-controlled bots
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I have an interactive Human-Controlled program that works with the RCX, my Real Time Control Program. It can control your robot via your keyboard or Joystick. (URL) AgEnT #4 OUT -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: OMR Submission and Storage
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(...) I'm not disagreeing here. But could it be optional to editors to change a pivot point if they feel they have the time or if they feel that it would severely enhance the model? I'll also add the pivot point thing to the creation/submission (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Ldraw.org-- Sets Tracker
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(...) That's an excellent idea, and I *probably* thought of it for a split second but forgot :) I don't personally have the capability of making one of those, but if someone would like to or if Jacob could make a quick program for it, I can make a (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voice Recognition Hardware
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I actually bought one of these units (used) but have been unable to find out anything at all about them beyond the canned software. Any hints as to any sources? Ken McKinnon klmckin@magmacom.com (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | *** AUCTION UPDATE #1 ***
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Heya all ! Here is my auction. All sets are completely with boxes and instructions. Sets signed with "*" have only front and back parts of boxes but are completely with instructions and all parts. The rules are simply: You can bid minimal $3 on (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Wow, there really are people here!
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(...) I purchased two Amazon Crossings and two Outback Airstrips at the KB at Parmatown Mall. They were discounted only about 15% from the KB price, which put them a bit under regular retail, and since they were older sets I picked them up. I'm (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.oh.cle)
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| | Re: Lego Space Craft Movies
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Charles Seyferth wrote: <parte cortada> (...) I know that, the ldraw pieces are "ideal" pieces and have no gap. (...) It's me 8^) (...) HMM.. I could shrink all pieces a little bit, to get this effect, it is possible, and is not difficult. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Canadian Jambalaya
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Michel Magnan wrote in message ... (...) box (...) James, I'm interested in any box except the Technic and junk boxes. (...) I agree, especially for the first box that finds its way here. John -- Remove the obvious to reply. (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: FS ?: Large Technic Wheels from #853
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(...) I'm also interested...My offer would be no more than $1.25 per wheel/tire set, though. Haven't checked market for these.... Paul Sinasohn (25 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Wanted: Any Instructions - ephemera
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Thanks for asking for clarification, Mike. I am interested in instructions to any sets. That includes multiples, not just one instruction sheet/book per set. I am interested in just about any instructions from the 60s through 90s. I am not that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | delay!
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except for the boxes already announced as mailed (GB 1 and 2) there will be a delay on mailing the rest out that originate from me. PLEASE, if you're first, make sure I have your snail. Send it again if you're paranoid. My flight from MSP to home (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: 4563 Load N' Haul Railroad (Train)
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(...) I buy a lot of trains. Ask anyone. But I won't buy a pig in a poke. The parts could be crucial to the value of the set, or not. Besides, offers for sale of items should at least be CROSS posted to market.buy-sell-trade if not CONFINED to that (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Green Wizard/Witch Hat - what set?
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(...) i want one too! im making link from the legend of zelda (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: memaker part question
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thanks. now all i have to do is pester someone to make it as a ldraw part. (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mechanical question
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(...) Add on: Also important in all this is the distance the tracks are apart. The further apart the less friction they have, since the radius is larger. Same happens with wheels. Laurentino Martins [ mailto:lau@mail.telepac.pt ] [ (URL) ] -- Did (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GMLTC at the NMRA National Convention
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Yes, as J1 said, we awed them. We literally are a crowd stopper. And when I say *we*, I mean it in the larger sense, as in all of us who build cool things out of Lego. What was so impressive was not anything we did specifically, but that we did it (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org)
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| | RE: CyberMaster tracks (was Re: LEGO Lawn-mover)
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Cybermaster has a wider variety of parts than Mindstorms. Except for the unique tracks, with the wheels and one-piece frames for mounting them, these parts can also be found in various other Technic sets. Examples are: - a rubber tipped (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Interactive human-controlled bots
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(...) you (...) Check out the description and pictures of the recent "Robogladiator" event: (URL) wasn't there, but it looks like it was fun. The site shows pictures of 6- button controllers made up of two RCXes (not counting at least one to control (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Interactive human-controlled bots
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Check out the reports on the RoboGladiator event which was held in May 1999 at: (URL) It's everything you want, all done with LEGO! (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Interactive human-controlled bots
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(...) That's the remote control I was talking about. There is only one RCX remote control. Only three of the buttons on the remote control are useable as commands to a running RCX program. All the other buttons either cause the program to stop or (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Interactive human-controlled bots
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The three buttons on the remote control simply send messages 1, 2, and 3. These are the only buttons that send IR codes that can be processed by your RCX program. All the other buttons send codes that get processed directly by the firmware, and will (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Uk Technic Box
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I second that thought, but perhaps though, the UK user base isn't big enough for a specific Technic box, just one general box with a good mix? Regards, Dave. In article <FFHEGv.2JK@lugnet.com>, Michael Edwards <medwards@ukonline.co.uk> scribbled: (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: recurring sets index
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If you want me to I could put links to the instructions so people can see how to build them. Write back, Z. Unger PS: I changed servers so it is (URL) instead of bricks.virtualave.net... Z. Unger dzz@mindspring.com ICQ: 14375008 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | RE: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms
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Next thing you know, RCS bricks will be banned on airplanes, too. Singapore Airlines for example already mentiones Furby's in their pre-recorded onboard safety announcements. You are supposed to remove the batteries from your Furby while on board. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Model Team Chopper
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Say WHAAAAAAT? The 5542 is new for 98, why would they discontinue it already? Geez, if they ARE discontinued, I'd better order 3 or 4 of them to split up for parts. (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Interactive human-controlled bots
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(...) [snip] Or, you could get the RCX remote control available at S@H and see what kind of stuff that will transmit to your RCX - its got a lot more buttons on it! Or, since you are supposed to be running a robot, you could just program the darn (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: URL characters
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(...) Wow. OK, that certainly makes sense. So, the hypothesis is that "~" may have been disallowed so that commonly available software (which used "~" for special formatting tricks) for certain languages didn't have to be altered to parse-recognize (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Now at MIT
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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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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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| | Inspiration: Heavy Gear
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Hey all, I'm sure some of you have already been introduced to heavy Gear -- at least one of Ben Vaughan's awesome Lego models are based upon this game -- but I've just found it. Here's some close-up photos of some models: (URL) page is linked from (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | idea for jambalaya
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This is not really necessary, but I'd be curious to see how people would feel about this one. How about, in order to add another level to the cooperative, fun, and friendly nature of the traveling boxes, we were to either: a. send a thank you (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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John Gerlach wrote: [snip] (...) Congratulations!!! Please post pics. - Nick - (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | ldraw.org Not Found
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This has been a problem for me ever since I first started trying to reach (URL) have already been several messages out about it in different threads, and I would like to start this one to try and solve the problem. The problem appears to be a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Technic Box #1
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Please add me to the list. -- Mark Haye IBM ADSM Server Development ... Tucson, AZ haye (at) us (dot) ibm (dot) com See my "Large Tracked Vehicle" on the Expert Builder Megaproject Showcase: (URL) Pieniazek wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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