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4271 - Freestyle Box Box Count: 179 Distinct elements: 70 (minifig head counted as 1) Total Count: 80 (minifig head counted as 1) Count Color Name, Description (part number) ----- ----- ---...--- 1 white antenna, 1x1x4 (3957) 1 bt green baseplate, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| | Re: Is Sacramento in the Bay Area? ;-)
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(...) There's actually a Japanese User Group for MindStorms -- you can find a link to it from the /loc/jp/ page. --Todd (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sac, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: hub caps
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(...) thing. (...) color. (...) Yeah, but there's not much of it out there. I had to buy a whole bunch seperately to get the bits I need, and I *still* don't have enough. Argh! So: Dear Lego: More tan, please. And in future, don't make your new (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | RE: RCX accessories
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I find it handy to use as a "manual override" switch. I have one setup where for whatever reason the touch sensor isn't 100% responsive and when it fails to register the structure begins to tear itself apart. Being able to press the button on the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | group links (was: New LEGO groups?)
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(...) How about something like a /org/ page off the main www.lugnet.com homepage with a list like that? It could start out as regular web page and graduate on later to a newsgroup if/when needed. (...) Links like the one to www.baylug.org from the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Favorite theme again
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I hope not!! I like SW sets and all, but I would like to see more Space themed sets. It sounds a little too impractical and uncalled for. Half of Lego was Space for a time! Would Space Port be considered this, or is it Town? (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | More NELUG feedback.
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I feel like I am bombarding you all with information but I promise to keep this one relatively short. I have exchanged E-mail with the folks at www.baylug.org and they had some interesting information. They emphisized the fact that a professional (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ct, lugnet.loc.us.ri)
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| | More NELUG feedback.
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I feel like I am bombarding you all with information but I promise to keep this one relatively short. I have exchanged E-mail with the folks at www.baylug.org and they had some interesting information. They emphisized the fact that a professional (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.loc.us.me, lugnet.loc.us.nh, lugnet.loc.us.vt)
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| | Re: A challenge for seasoned Lego Trainers...
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(...) Think out of the box. Upward motion is the wrong direction. GMLTC staffer John Gerlach prototyped a working all LEGO device that pushes two cars apart almost 2 months ago. The first working version is about the size of two RCX bricks stacked (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Old set in Canada
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(...) Merci Martin (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | Re: RIS version 1.5 coming this fall
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(...) I would be surprised, too. If I were doing RIS 1.5, I'd fix a few holes in the firmware (arrays and pointers, a subroutine return addr stack instead of one subroutine call per task, &c) and add some power to RCX Code without compromising its (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New LEGO groups?
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What great timing!! I was just going to send you a note with some questions about how you handle the linking. So far, we only have members from the couties that touch the SF Bay. But, I don't have a problem with being a Northern California club, if (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: A challenge for seasoned Lego Trainers...
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We (the PNLTC guys) have been thinking about this for a while. How to remotely uncouple cars. great challange. The magnets are so strong that it seems that any upward motion would merely derail the cars (leaving them coupled but laying on their (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: RCX accessories
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Thumbs up for the remote! While it's true that you can only send 1/2/3 messages, I've written some code to combine these into 5-digit (trigit?) sequences. Because of the possibilty of mis-keying or mis-receiving a sequence, sequences that end with (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX Accessories
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(...) view (...) run (...) in (...) often -You can't run more than one motor at once using that technique. -JW Jonathan Woodward woodward@guesswork.com (URL) find your elitist-through-anti-elitism attitude annoying, ad hominem, and altruisticly (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX Accessories
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From: Jonathan Woodward <woodward@guesswork.com> (...) You can do this via the front panel of the RCX itself. You press the view button until you get the motor, then press the program or run button to run the motor forwards or in reverse. I'm sure (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX accessories
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(...) I have been soundly disputed. I had not realized that the remote could be used as a remote for the _entire_ front panel on the RCX. I thought it would just have the three motors and three GP buttons. I stand so corrected. DLC (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New LEGO groups?
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(...) Say, how far from around California do folks travel to attend BayLUG meetings? One of the reasons for the complete hierarchical revamp of the www.lugnet.com website last month was to begin organizing links and resources topically -- and as (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | MindFest
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===...=== MINDFEST A Gathering of Playful Inventors of All Ages October 23-24, 1999 Opening reception and setup: October 22, 4-6pm MIT Media Laboratory (URL) join us for MindFest: a festival of designing, inventing, and learning. A new generation of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.announce, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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| | New LEGO groups?
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I posted in the Sacramento newsgroup, since it looked like one guy was doing all the posting, about once a week. :-( I hoped other folks browsing there might be interested in our group as well. There is a group in Boston, MA trying to get together, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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