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(...) Hi Brian, Thanks for your response. (...) I'm not sure if I get this, because of C code examples I've seen, which I'll discuss again below. (...) I've tried this already, and as you say, it works, but the sensitivity goes waay down. For a (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: facciamo le scale, facciamoci male
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Bellissimo!!! un raro esempio di ingegnerizzazione con i Lego. Mi piace in modo particolare la soluzione che hai adottato per ridurre il numero dei giri e permettere la demoltiplica sulle ruote. Il problema che tu dici è dovuto sicuramente ad una (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Re: Call for Events...
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(...) Hi Joe, probably you already have this information, but just in case: Name of event: LEGO World 2005 Date of event: October 20 - October 25 Location: De IJsselhallen, Zwolle, the Netherlands Club or organization involved: De Bouwsteen (The (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.general, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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(...) Skew Bricks, huh?? Wow. I don't think anybody uses that ridiculous and outdated Auczilla term anymore. Now (as you know I am sure) they are classified as WEDGES (URL) yeah, there were a lot of unmatched wedges in the TRU bonus boxes from last (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Who built Solomon's Temple at Brickfest 2005?
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(...) Yes! Now I see. (...) Ah, thanks for the link to that photo. (...) Orion was able to supply me with a hi-res photo of it, and from that it was clear that the builder is Mike Gibney, who I looked up on LUGNET and got in touch with over e-mail. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.events.brickfest, FTX)
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| | Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto19 Balance of Power Photos Available
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(...) Oh man, I just shot coke all over my screen. Thanks a lot Calum. I couldn't control my laughter, when I read your caption pertaining to Rob's use of old blue train rails. Nicely played. Janey "May I please be excused to go to the bathroom Red (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: "Square Ghost Cafe"
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(...) I can't follow this link... When you say Litir is built different from the other parts of Bregnerod do you mean the vertical plate style? Yet the warehouse is a little bit like that too. On your zoning project, I liked the corner entrance and (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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(...) True... (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: RCX to RCX NQC
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On Mon, September 12, 2005 8:03 pm, Brian Davis wrote: ... (...) ... Somewhere in there, it tells you the RCX will not accept the same command twice in a row. Each command has two op codes that are 8 digits apart. So (I think) for SetWatch you (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | startup questions RIS 2.0
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Recently picked up RIS 2.0 with the USB tower. I'm new to Mindstrorms, so I looked around the web a bit to try to get an idea of what was going on with it. The first thing that struck me was that everywhere it said that Win2K was not supported. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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(...) But that's what made the old 4679 bonus exciting. (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | [rtlToronto] rtlToronto19 Balance of Power Photos Available
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Early on, Chris and I observed the most fun rtlToronto contests involve significant damage to Lego creations. Here's pictures from one of the most enjoyable rtlToronto games to date, rtlToronto19: Balance of Power. (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.events)
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| | Re: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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(...) I thought something like this would come up... (...) Yes- "2915" (...) There were a half-dozen on the shelves. (...) I approve this message. (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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(...) Wow. Compared to the US version of 4679+bonus, that is a much more logical set. More like the 4400 "spumoni ice cream" tub two years ago. The US 4679 bonus was a wild mix typically including unpaired skew bricks. -Erik (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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(...) Ditto. Unless some other bonus boxes show up with amazingly rare pieces that I've just GOT to have, I may buy 1-2, instead of the 50 I bought last year (and last year was limited by what I could find. Sadly, I found most of it while in Six (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | SF LEGO at Philcon 2005: call for participants
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LEGO programming will be returning to the 2005 (URL) Philcon> SF convention! This will be the second year with an official exhibit and events. (And the third year as part of the Children's Program, but don't let that scare you, AFOLs.) Plans include (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.events, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.space, FTX) !
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| | Buzz! Sting 'em!
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Announcing Buzz, the wily mascot from Georgia Tech: (URL) I made this for my wife's 30th birthday last February. I guess I hadn't gotten around to uploading the pictures. Anyway, this creation was made with the help of (URL) Bricksaic>. Many thanks (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.org.us.michlug, lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl, lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX) !
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| | Re: direct manipulation of bits in RCX registers using NQC
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(...) Perhaps - but the standard firmware implements a "virtual machine", and so you don't generally have access to physical registers. But... (...) You can configure the input port that the light sensor is connected to as a "passive" sensor (so (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: self-propagating RCX program
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(...) Agreed. I was hoping for much, much more. Specificly, by this definition, I strongly doubt the claim that this is the "first ever" self-reproduction. Some of the mechanical models from a long time ago were similar in concept, but with a (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RCX to RCX NQC
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In a semi-followup to Steve's earlier "remote battery tester"... While the standard firmware provides almost no way to get bytes into the RCX (other than "Message()", one byte at a time), it can certainly export them ("SendSerial"). And it occured (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | VEX
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I can't seem to find a lugnet.robotics.otherbrand group, so I will ask here; Has anyone taken a VEX set for a test drive? I haven't, mainly 'cos of the cost versus what you seem to get for the money. Any comments would be welcome. FUT to somewhere (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lord of the Rings figures
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(URL) Sorry the link did not work the fist time --Kevin W. (URL) "There is a fell voice in the air" (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| | Re: New white?
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(...) Click hinges seem to exhibit more color variance than other pieces - I noticed it especially with the lime green hinges from (URL). I don't know if it's because they're made of different plastic or what. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: New white?
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(...) Supposedly it is from having traces of another color inside the molding machine. (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Starfighters
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Hello, I have just recently come back to Lugnet, I have posted here a few years ago, but this is my fist post to .starwars since I've come back. I just wanted to know what you thought of my modified lego set, the folder is here: (URL) but till it is (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: Technical help, Please.
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You mention Bell - so that means Sympatico. Are you using their Access Manager software, or the thing built into XP (if you are using XP) for rPPPoE? In either case, a better solution is to but a cheap router like this one here (URL) is available (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: New SW sets, Tie and V-wing, Pics from Eurobricks
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(...) Actually, they *aren't* straight from eurobricks, they were copied from (URL) FBTB> and the LEGO copyright removed without permission. But still nice pics! ROSCO (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Starfighters
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Hello, I have just recently came bake to Lugnet, I have posted here a few years ago, but this is my fist post to .starwars since I've come back. I just wanted to know what you thought of my modified lego set, the folder is here: (URL) but till it is (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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| | Re: New white?
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(...) I've definitely noticed lower quality control on PaB pieces before so it's probably that. I think they come from the parks sometimes where bad pieces aren't an issue. Tim (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | New SW sets, Tie and V-wing, Pics from Eurobricks
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Hey, I was reading Eurobricks.com, my fave site for pictures of new LEGO sets, and I saw two pictures of the new SW sets, and seeing as no one else here in lugnet.starwars has posted them, here they are, straight from eurobricks. (URL) Eurobricks! (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | New white?
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I saw some "white" click hinges in the local pick-a-brick. They seemed to have just a slight pinkish tinge. Is white being replaced? Was this just bad lighting? Bad quality control? White is on the list... (URL) Hafner www.hafhead.com (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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A couple of pertinent questions: 1. Did the side of the box it came in have any imprinted or indented markings that resembled a 4-digit number? 2. Was there a lot of stock of this bucket, or were shelves relatively empty? 3. In the first run of the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Technical help, Please.
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(...) Thanks Dave, I will try new drivers and see if that makes a difference, if not, maybe a new card is just what I need. Thanks for the advice. (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Technical help, Please.
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(...) Okay, I totally buy that, this PC is a piece of garbage and frustrates me on the best of days. For the record, I was just repeating what the tech guy told me, I have no clue, but I'm sure they have standard lines just to end the call. I asked, (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | direct manipulation of bits in RCX registers using NQC
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Hi all, Can anyone tell me if it is possible to use NQC to directly set bits in RCX registers? And if so, how does one do it? I've seen C code examples of this in a few places, but no NQC examples. Specifically, I want to turn on and off the red (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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(...) Neat! Very helpful, thanks for doing that. I love the spring cleaning concept, but I'm probably not going to shell out 50% more than for last year's tub and have to eat all those new color pieces. Marc Nelson Jr. (URL) Marc's Creations>> (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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| | Re: have you got the balls? - Re: Spybotic
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So how does one go about getting a hold of your balls? It seems Chris is either out of balls or doesn’t like others borrowing his balls. I’ll gladly pay any shipping costs, after all those balls are quite heavy despite their tiny size. Ivan “Just (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Train Show October
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(...) Dave last show, when we talked trains, I was going to reduce my grade by half, taking (iirc) 32 (or was it 38, too lazy to check currently) brick high grade, down to 16 (if my numbers are correct). Are we still cool with that??? In all (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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Hey all, I flickr'd a (URL) pic> of the new bonus box that comes with the 4679 tub (which is, to remind everyone, a Toys R Us exclusive). Click "All sizes" to see the full-size image, and mouse over the image to read my notes on the colors. Oh, and (...) (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Walking Excavator KAISER S2
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(...) (URL) ) I see you've used two cylinders together in several functions. How have you kept them straight whist avoiding strain on the nozzles? There's a new piece in the 8421 crane that does the job now. Mark (21 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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