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The sign stated that it was built by LEGO Master Builders. I am sure they got all of the clear bricks the same way the Master Builders get all of their unusual pieces. Mike - mike_walsh@mindspring.com (URL) wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego Space System
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Oops! Well, that's rather embarrassing. Guess what Space theme was in my Lego Dark Age..... well, they don't look very fluoro in the photographs! Jeff Stembel wrote in message ... (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 12 V Trains on 9V Track
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the 12v trains will not run on the 9v trrack using the 12v v motor if you want to do that then buy yourself the 9v motor service pack.and replace the 12v motor with a 9v one. (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RIS version 1.5 coming this fall
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(...) [snip] (...) I truly doubt that LEGO in going to create a new OCX. Their strategy was always focused in creating the maximum sowtware with the less work possible. The OCX compatibility between two very different devices like the RCX and (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RIS version 1.5 coming this fall
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(...) It has to be reversible from the RCX brick's point of view, since there is no hardware on the RCX to forcibly reprogram its ROM. Perhaps on the PC side it is not reversible, but there is always the uninstall new, reinstall old process, which I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Collapsing the lugnet.loc.uk hierarchy
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(...) See: (URL) some of the pre-structure for this is already in place at: (2 URLs) are still some kinks to be worked out...but we're much closer now to being able to do this than in March. --Todd (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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(...) How much did they cost? It's a real pain to get them by any other means... Stuart -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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(...) Yes, I guess friction is the answer. 1) The difference in the surface of the pistons between the two kind of pumps is important. I didn't compute the ratio, but imagine can easily be 1:10 or even more. To get that ratio you need to gear down (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Battery cases + mindstorms?
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(...) Compressors for pneumatic stuff, or (if you're sufficiently mechanically minded to make a good set of switches) you can use the 3 outputs of the RCX purely to switch power around, and have the power supplied from the battery box. Sounds like (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Battery cases + mindstorms?
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I don't have mindstorms (or that large a collection of Technic stuff, hopefully Christmas! ;) ), but I've been looking around, and finding creations that use both a mindstorms and a battery box. What does the battery box run (other than lights that (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | 12 V Trains on 9V Track
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Is It possable to have a 12 Volt train on a 9V track, i know that 12V trains have a power source in the middle of the track, It it possable to convert ? -- Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the UK Technic Club Magazine Web site: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Collapsing the lugnet.loc.uk hierarchy
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And a Space group, while you're at it? Thanks! Mark "wooooosh" de Kock (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Collapsing the lugnet.loc.uk hierarchy
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Hello Todd Would you think it's possable to open a Technic Group, as you have trains? -- Please reply on medwards@ukonline.co.uk Home of the UK Technic Club Magazine Web site: (URL) models and going up Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Collapsing the lugnet.loc.uk hierarchy
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(...) OK, they're wiped. The way I wiped them was by removing them from the all- inclusive hierarchical log listings. The article files are still actually there in the same spots on the disk -- they're just not "pointed to" by anything (except by (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | R: Reading Serial Port
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You can try Java comm API, under linux too. (If you want to use java ... :-) Stefano ---...--- | Da: David Boosalis <dboosalis@mail.arc.nasa.gov> | A: handyboard mailist <handyboard@media.mit.edu> | Oggetto: Reading Serial Port | Data: 29 July 1999 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Reading Serial Port
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This is not really a HB question, but I am hoping someone here has experience in it anyway. My question is in how do you read the Serial port under Linux. The Linux HOWTO's give an example, which I show below. What happens is that it hangs on the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: what are the rules about hoses etc?
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(...) what i meant to say is that the really large technic type flexable hoses cant go into a model yet because they have not been made (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | can someone please mkco-up the trap door piece and 6090 baseplate?
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can someone please mkco-up the trap door piece and 6090 baseplate? i really need them for a model i am working on... i would make them but no-one i know of has them so... (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Interesting Corellian Ship at LucasArts
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Thanks everyone. Now I have another question, has anyone purchased the EP1 Insider's Guide from LucasArts? Does it have any helpful details for building EP1 models? I'm primarily looking for MTT stuff. Live Long and LEGO, Dan (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Collapsing the lugnet.loc.uk hierarchy
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(...) I wrote a lot of probably's there because I knew I hadn't thought it through carefully yet at that point. Here's where things stand now, of late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning, 2:30 a.m. EST: All 76 of the fourth and fifth level UK (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.uk)
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