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(...) Speaking of expansion packs, whatever happened to the Mar's Rover pack that was supposed to come out with the first two? Has anybody heard anything about it? Is it just delayed or is it not coming out at all? John C. (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Question about reasonable prices...
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I was wondering how much was too much to pay for these sets. I've had a chance to buy them, and wondered what they were worth. I'd appreciate any help you all can provide. 1029 Tine Daries Milk Truck 1831 Maersk Truck 2150 Red Train Station 6394 (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RE: Distance Sensor
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(...) Or in any of the expasion packs either. DUH! 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, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Digital camera with mindstorm : Paul Nipkow, 1884
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Hello ! I don't know how and if anybody already made a digital camera with the mindstorm, but there is a guy who made something like this without lego mindstorm. He was called Paul Nipkow, and got the idea in 1884... It seems that what has been (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Noise on the handy board
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Fred and handyboard experts, I have assembled two handyboards and I am now helping 15 other people build theirs at San Jose State University. I found a problem on the first two I build that I belive causes the Sharp GP2D02 not to work. The school (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Rock Raiders are here
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I found some Rock Raiders sets at Beatties in Southampton today (Saturday 31/7) - they had small sets only. I bought 4910 Hover Scout (£2.25) and 4920 Rapid Rider (£3.99). They also had the Rock Raiders people pack (4930) for £4.99 and 4940 Granite (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Why 5 to 6?
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Brick sizes vary in the US and probably moreso across the globe. The "common" brick size is 8" x 4" x 2-2/3" nominal. Actual size subtracts 3/8" from each dimension for mortar joints. The size of the common brick is determined by human scale. The (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Distance Sensor
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(...) By far the easiest solution is to buy one or more rotation ("angle"?) sensors from Lego. I overpaid for mine, but I've heard that you can get these for about $17 US from Lego Shop at Home. (Sorry, I don't have the URL handy...) These sensors (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Distance Sensor
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This is a good plan. Linc Smith suggested a similar system to me only it was linear. I used the touch sensor to count the studs on a technic beam. I was traveling a short distance with a slider. Your plan sounds worth trying. Of course, a rotation (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Reverse (buyer's) auction for train windows and other parts
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Mike P and Mike U have offered various prices for train parts, as did I, in a thread started in market.b-s-t Since we have several buyers competing for scarce sellers, seems to me we have a reverse auction going here, even though we don't currently (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Revised Arched Latticed WIndow Pane [DAT]
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I renamed the primitive to box6nl.dat (since it has 6 faces). I revised the part so that now the rotational axis is aligned with the x-axis. This means that if you want to rotate the window once it has been placed in a model you will have to move it (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Distance Sensor
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Hello, Very sorry if this topic has already been brought up; I don't read this group, and don't even have a Mindstorms kit. I was thinking about how to make a distance sensor the other day, and I came up with a very simple idea, though I can not (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Favorite theme again
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Jonathan Wilson <wilsonj@xoommail.com> wrote in article <37A2FF3A.68486A98@x...il.com>... (...) any (...) hurt (...) sw (...) is (...) to (...) I understand. Not sure if the SW line would actually suffer, though. I think people like the SW sets too (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: WTB Train Parts
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(...) I find that statement racist and highly offensive. Just thought you might want to know. Certainly you're not constrained from using it, but it is important to realise that other people share my view as well, so you may want to consider that. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Permanent outdoor train
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(...) Um, what are you talking about when you say by volume? Are you saying that the number of OO modelers is larger than the number of HO modelers, or what? I don't think so. HO is used everywhere except in the UK and has thousands of different (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: A challenge for seasoned Lego Trainers...
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(...) This question does not parse. It does stick up between ties and it does lever the two cars apart, was that what you were asking? if sessior == scissor, then the answer is no, it's not exactly a scissor action. (...) No. (...) That is a (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 12 V Trains on 9V Track
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(...) No. Well, yes. yes because it can be done. no because the 9V motor is a 2 axle "diesel or electric" motor. If you have a 12 steamer with 3 axles and siderods the best you can do is get to something sort of close in appearance, but siderod free (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | escape pods
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A couple of weeks back there was a bit of discussion on making escape pods. I was trying to figure out a good way to make mini-fig pods for my Millennium Falcon. Got a lot of ideas from people and here is what I've come up with. Three corner castle (...) (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Favorite theme again
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(...) that if TLG is designing new spacecraft as well as the sw ones then the sw line will suffer. tlg usually has ony one space theme per year. lucasfilm is making sure that starwars counts as the space theme and is not seperate to it. (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: minifig crossbow
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(...) adam howard offered to redo the "arms" or the part as he said that they were the wrong size... (25 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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