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(...) The signals output by the RC receiver will drive servos or RC motor speed controllers. The signal consists of a pulse of 1-2ms width in an 18ms cycle. For a servo, 1ms corresponds to 45 degrees turn one way, 1.5ms to centre and 2ms to 45 (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Sensor Resistance Readings and Circuit Descriptions
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I've added a graph of RCX/Cybermaster sensor resistance vs raw reading to my brickshelf gallery: (URL) There are 3 lines on the graph, with the resistance values on a log axis. The blue plusses are the actual readings. The pink triangles are a first (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| | Re: To the owner of the Train à Grande Vitesse...
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(...) He is a FreeLUG (French LUG) member. His name is Xavier VIALLEFONT and you can see other picture in his FreeLUG's Gallery : (URL) regards, -- BERGAMO Jean-Louis <jlb@freelug.org> (URL) FREnch Enthusiast LEGO User Group Association de (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | To the owner of the Train à Grande Vitesse...
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Your lights are on. ;) Hello all, I came across this excellent model of the French TGV and wanted to know who the owner is. His/Her? Brickshelf name is Vroum. (URL) for any help. Dave GPLR (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: using PWM output to control Lego motors
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Hi Joe, (...) are you sure this isn't for servos? (...) Yes, the RCX uses PWM for power control, in each 8ms period power is on for 0-8ms and off (disconnected) for the rest. (...) You need 9V and up to 500mA. (...) I have the impression that they (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Helicopter
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Just a few words from a newbie annoucing his first MOC : a (yellow) Technic Helicopter. As I said on (URL) MOCpages>, I had left my Legos from ten years now, and thanks to my kids, who are now asking me to play LEGO back, I have retrieved old Lego (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | Re: Parts editing made easy, anyone?
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(...) Hi Stefan: I'm chiming in late here, but I've crafted at least a few unofficial LDraw parts, and I thought I might offer some thoughts. My original composing tool of choice was the shareware text editor "PC-Write v4," which no longer appears (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Robotics Curator Wanted! (was Re: Robotics Links)
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(...) Cross posted to the robotics group. The list of curators can be found here: (URL) through that list, there is no dedicated curator for the main robotics category: (URL) one of the curators for a sub-category would like to volunteer, or maybe a (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Giant Sale 25% off ChicagoBrickyard (BL)
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(...) Just a reminder, sale ends Thursday...at 9:00 :) Julie (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Western sets in Lego club newsletter ?
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(...) I took a look at the newsletter and it's now dated "Feb 2, 2005" - apparently the date on the masthead is not set but rather is based on Today's date. (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.western, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Parts display strange in LEGO Digital Designer
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Anyone? (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Zombie Survival Guide - Supermarkets
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(...) As I said in my mocpages review... this little dio is smacktacular! Something about the undead - ravishing the wholesome "Food Pope" supermarket establishment makes me want re-evaluate which building I occupy for defensive purposes if the ugly (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Bangobot
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(...) Leonard, I had already replied to this... but it seems to have not gone thru?!? Anyhow, I just wanted to give you a "big up" on this tiny mech. I like how even though it's small, it's pretty articulate. I'm also a big fan of not showing studs (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Vikings?
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(...) I'd say that definition is a bit 'narrow'. As far as we learn from *our* history books, 'Vikings' are the name given to almost all inhabitants in Norway, Denmark and Sweden (and later Iceland and Greenland), maybe excluding the northernmost (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic?
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Is it efficient to replace plates w/bricks in a plates studs up mosaic? I always thought it was and have been trying to think of a way to implement it in Bricksaic for about a year. I was trying to come up with a smart and efficient way of doing it. (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | Re: Zombie Survival Guide - Supermarkets
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(...) Hurray indeed. Once again Keith you prove to be a sick and twisted individual. Don't ever change ya big lug. I got one beef however. With a set up like this, where is Ash??? You use Snake in the Yellowed hazy lands of the Reich, I think Ash (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: Gladius - My First Mech
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(...) Pardon me for beeing so late! Welcome to .mecha. It's only a few days I posted my first mech here, getting a fantastic and warm welcome. So I feel a bit strange writing this right now. Tim please tell me you were building for several years and (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Easter Egg Hunt
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As we mentioned at the meeting (and in the last message) our next meeting will be at Crossroads Shopping Center on March 26. This is the Saturday before Easter Sunday. So our mini-challenge will be to build a robot that will hunt for chocolate (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: using PWM output to control Lego motors
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(...) Thank you, this clarifies things for me quite a lot. I was thinking that PWM was PWM, but now I see the important difference -- one is a means of transmitting data, and the other is a means for controlling current (integrated over many (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | January 2005 Meeting Notes
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Saturday's SMART meeting went really well! For our fourth anniversary we had slightly less people than normal, but almost everyone brought a mini-challenge or other robot. The mini-challenge was to build a robot that could detect a 60-watt (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Stormwalker
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(...) I've chosen this pic as it's the one I like most too. (...) I like this idea, because I don't really want to change the torso (maybe different or more weapons). But up to now I couldn't find a way to bring the hips closer together without (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
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(...) Well, I do have a very large suppily, and despite sending out hundreds of soccer balls, I've just scratched the surface. I have a whole stack of requests, just waiting to be boxed and shipped. I just need to get to the post office during work (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Stormwalker
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(...) Thank you! I apreciate this, especially as it's coming from you. (see reply to Mark Neumann) (...) Hey, I wasn't begging for compassion. I enjoyed this time. Building is what LEGO means to me. I just wanted to give a figure for the time it (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: AFOL Mindstorm competition in Billund
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(...) Well, I must admit, my team is not exactly a "dream team" of builders. In addition to myself, one teammate will celebrate the one year anniversary of leaving his "dark years" (when he got his Mindstorms set) on our way back from Denmark. And, (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
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(...) Before Steve gave me some balls (oh, the straight lines...), I acquired enough to run a few modules of my own from various Bricklink purchases. You could do a GBC by simply mandating that everybody who wants to add to a GBC brings there own (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: The Great Ball Contraption V3
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Steve Hassenplug writes: > ho hum. another day, another Great Ball Contraption. Cool. I'd love to start a GBC activity here in Potsdam, but .... we need a reliable source of bulk balls. It's nice of you to mail them out to people, but we really need (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AFOL Mindstorm competition in Billund
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(...) Excellent! Congradulations to both teams, and please do keep us "stay-at-homes" up to date on how it goes! While my LEGO can't go with you, my best wishes certainly do! (...) To both Dave & Steve - may I ask who is on your teams, or what you (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: using PWM output to control Lego motors
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PWM for servo pulse is on a three wire system (Pos, Neg, and data). The pulse is a series of different length square waves sent to the servo or ESC in a certain length of time. This pulse is then translated by the servo or ESC as a "position" it (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Vikings?
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Are you using the term Viking here where you should prehaps be using the term Norsemen ? I always thought that 'Viking' was a term for the Warriors. Various online encyclopaedias seem to agree with this.. (URL) for example. quote : The name Viking (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Ambassadors Selected!
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(...) I'd prefer not to start that process. If we go down that path this time, then it becomes part of the process. And not only do I have to post scores of names (hopefully hundreds in the future!), I also have to get permission from each of those (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: Volvo FH12 6x2/4 500 Globetrotter XL, Sweet Candy, Scale 1:13
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(...) SHHHHHH! Vineet! It's LEGO! Apparently lego can't be pluralised. Ye log maar dalenge! Legoswami Samarth (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: Outing a talented lurker.
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(...) Let me add my praise, especially of some of the angular structures. The bridge and the blue wedge are bit unconventional and neat, and I really like the tail and engines. The whole ship has a bit of a classic space feel to me. On the other (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Volvo FH12 6x2/4 500 Globetrotter XL, Sweet Candy, Scale 1:13
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SNIPPIFIED! Wow Anders!!! FANTASTIC TRUCK! It's neat that you posted this, my own 10-wide Lamborghini Countach is nearing completion and it rocks! (Yeah, I had to get that out of my system) I've always loved your superior detailing, but this really (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.technic, FTX)
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| | Re: ParLUGment
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(...) Have a great time everyone, stay warm, and take lots of pictures please. Wish I could be there! Janey "Red Brick" (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.org.ca.parlugment, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, FTX)
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| | using PWM output to control Lego motors
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In my ongoing quest to control Lego robots by radio, I've uncovered some receivers made by GWS that work with a standard model airplane transmitter, and have 4 channels of standard PWM (pulse-width modulation) output. For example, see (URL). But now (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: LTSOI (Lego-Träffs-Svar Och Inlägg)
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(...) Jo men kolla annars med frekvenser och så så bör det funka.ö..hade du bott lite närmare kunde du fått låna en uppsättning av mig. (...) Skulle du må va!?....Det gör ju inte heller det hela bättre av att jag har kurser i rcx-programmering för (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: My Girl
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In lugnet.build.mosaic, Corey Sanders wrote: <snip> (...) Hello, Corey- I have enjoyed checking out your BS folder with all of your mosaic creations-- they really look fabulous, as does the real life one of your daughter! (daughters are good (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | Re: Ambassadors Selected!
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Awesome. First thing congrats you lucky 15. Everyone one of you deserves it and can't wait to see what the next six months bring. Jake, any chance of seeing the list of 60? Who all applied? Good job all. Mark Neumann (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| | Re: AFOL Mindstorm competition in Billund
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(...) Ok, I don't know if the deadline has totally passed, but this event IS going to happen. David's team and my team will be competeing against teams from France, Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands. I'll try to make sure either David or I post (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LTSOI (Lego-Träffs-Svar Och Inlägg)
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(...) Jag har alltså varken mottagare eller sändare av fabrikat LEGO. Utan vill använda tredjepart sändare, mottagare och servon. Servona reglerar bara Polarity Swtiches eller Pneumatic Switches och utför inget riktigt arbete. Så att säga. Men det (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.loc.se)
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