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(...) Thanks Bruce, That featureless white expanse was a striking image from the movie. Few directors could go there and pull it off. It seemed the perfect thing to take an 8x8 chunk out of to depict as a vignette. The (URL) pic of just the base> (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Motor port status for Robolab
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Greetings All, I wrote a set of vi's that let you programmatically determine the status of a motor port. With these .vi's you can find a port's power level, direction, brake/float status, and on/off status. They can be found at: (URL) .vi's are (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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(...) If the CoG is *not* below the centre of the wheel, the vehicle will move. That's how it works. :) Iain (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Now THERE’S something you don’t see every day...
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(...) I know where you mean...it's a neat display, though I thought the location a little lacking. Is that the same loco? I thought it looked familiar. Hopefully, putting it in the botanical gardens will be at least as good a display, though you (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Removing dots from baseplates
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"Mike Kollross" <kollross@nospamcomp...art.ab.ca> wrote in message news:ID9o14.1ztJ@lugnet.com... (...) Haven't done the soccer filed baseplates, but I've used Nevr-dull ((URL) with success on all other projects of this nature... -Rob (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build, lugnet.parts.mod)
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| | Re: Ball Joint Frame ZRX1 version
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(...) Hits some cool poses. I'd like to see some close up pics of the specific joints. Does it hold much weight? I don't see any doubles or stiffening a la Snead. So are you planning on selling them like the bots? You sort of said you were. Plus (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, FTX)
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| | Re: Now THERE’S something you don’t see every day...
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In lugnet.trains, Tony Alexander wrote: (snip) I recall these units (or at least the DD40AX anyway?) were on some short track between the Airport and downtown that you could see from the road. I stopped one day (it was rather foggy) and got a hwole (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: explain the definition of the firmware to kids...
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(...) A program that runs on the RCX that makes it easier to program. Kevin (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Civil Lego Design
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(...) Hi Rosco. The way he uses flat bricks to make the asphalt is impressive. He must have spent a lot of money on those pieces. The curved bridge (curved according to the plan view) is also impressive. The guardrails look very realistic. How is (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.technic, FTX)
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I tried to explain term firmware to middle school age children. The best that I can do without using the technical terms, like embedded software, ROM is this: "Firmware is a set of instructions which must be loaded into the RCX Brick in order for it (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | AFOL/Mindstorms stagnation...
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(...) At Brickfest last year, Jake made it clear that Mindstorms were not dead, but the future of Mindstorms is not the 2.0. That pretty much only leaves one option. Something new. But when? On Sat, March 12, 2005 8:22 pm, Mr S said: (...) I agree. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: power levels clarification
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Thank you very much for your clarification. Any suggestion on reading material about PMW for high school kids. -- Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Johnson Sent: (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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On my way into work on Friday, I turned down the street near what used to be Omaha’s Union Station (it’s now a cool museum) on the way toward the active rail bridges that I like to drive under. I almost stopped the car doing a double-take, though, (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: AFOL/Mindstorms stagnation (Was Re: FLL not allowing NQC)
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(...) I have worked on this aspect specifically, augmenting tires and working out how to build strong structures so that my current effort is as big or bigger than any other competitor in the club. Imagine a LEGO robot that can carry 52+ AA size (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: power levels clarification
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(...) PWM--Pulse Width Modulation. Basically, during a cycle, power is turned on and off. The lengh of time the power is on is the pulse width. Longer pulse widths corispond to higher power levels. This cycling is supposed to happens fast enought (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: Hailfire attachment points
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(...) Having thought about such and done a fair amount of research on such. I would submit that A) the optimum # of POC (point of contact) is 3 and B) for Stability sake, the COG needs to be below the center of the wheel. These are the features I (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) PWM - pulse width modulation of the electric current going to the motors. CS (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | AFOL/Mindstorms stagnation (Was Re: FLL not allowing NQC)
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(...) I think that it's possible that the market has simply saturated. After all, there is a definite limit to the amount of Lego parts you need to build robots that are as complex as your time/imagination allows. I also have 4 RIS and a handful of (...) (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | power levels clarification
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Hi I am curious how the power levels are being implemented. I am not talking about the icon level navigation. How the motor actually adjusts to the different levels setting? Gear slipping? Thanks in advance... -- Elizabeth (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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| | Re: FLL not allowing NQC
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Nine words: Lego has no interest in satisfying the AFOL market But never fear... One word: Bricklink >> Mark (21 years ago, 13-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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