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(...) Just a suggestion on making your LEGO giving to farther... Check out the green tag sale at TRU. Over the past week, Mark Sandlin and I have found around 100 X-Pods at 2 bucks a pop. (Plus some clickits and Bionicle sets too) These are already (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: Bonktron: BO-1
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(...) I'm not sure we'd notice any difference, but the more the merrier. Allister (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Bonktron: BO-1
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(...) I see the invasion of .Space by foreign dicks continues. Too bad the quality level seems to be dropping with each successive moc. Perhaps whatever is left of the .Space empire should return the favor to JLug, and flood them with low-quality (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | Re: The MATING GAME - rtl 20
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(...) i like it too. we can NAIL down the details at the diner.... BUT, your title/name is WRONG. like that link that Steve posted to rtl. Chris (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: new switch designs...... help needed!
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(...) The double-Y will be difficult to do with both switches at the same position. You'd have to have some way to ensure both aren't set to reverse (curved) at the same time, and a reliable way to direct the train when both are normal (straight). (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | new switch designs...... help needed!
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Hey all, While at the NMRA show this past July I was talking with a few people about the custom switches I make and I was given a challenge. In short the challenge was to make these: (URL) Now that I have some free time I would like to take on this (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: A familiar uniform on a minifig MOC
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Hi Adrian (...) It is an extraordinaryily useful substance, isn't it? :) If you haven't seem my discussion on making custom elements, have a look here for lots more techniques and suchlike: (URL) When painting that small, do you use stencils or (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.town)
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| | Re: 1.0 brick not responding
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(...) Powerbook 5300 with MacNQC: After about 4 seconds "No response or bad response from RCX. Make sure the RCX's receiver is facing the IR device and the RCX is turned on." Palm 130 with PBrick Demo: play sound 1, play sound 2, and play sound 3 (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: The MATING GAME - rtl 20
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(...) I like this, this is cute. It's not that tough technically, but is different. rtlToronto20: Quit Humping My Leg. Calum (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Meeting on Sunday September 18th
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The meeting will be held at 1:00 pmin "The Court" section of the King of Prussia Mall in the seating area across from the Pottery barn located in the end of the building by Borders and The Cheesecake Factory. - Jim F. (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.us.delvalug)
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| | DelVaLUG Meeting on Sunday Sept 18th
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Hey Gang, The meeting will be held at 1:00 pm in "The Court" section of the King of Prussia Mall in the seating area across from the Pottery barn located in the end of the building by Borders and The Cheesecake Factory. - Jim F. (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.us.pa)
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| | Re: What Lego sets use Jigs
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(...) 8062 does the same thing, to align the front and rear wheel sets. (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | New catalogue with September World club magazine
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For those waiting for their magazine to arrive...you can expect the following: 2005 2nd catalogue: 428.9987-AUS 76 pages world club "enrolment" form on back cover Pics of all 4 new harry potter sets pics of E3 star wars sets Pics of viking sets Pics (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: "Square Ghost Cafe"
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No this one is weird: (...) For some reason in Safari, that or (URL) to a file, though if I open the file it is fine. Your server doesn't seem to return a header like "Content-Type: text/html" in response to plain GET (URL) or anything else but it's (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.town)
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| | Bonktron: BO-1
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Following the successful launch of the Bonktron faction, I'm happy to announce the Bootilicious Orgasmatron, a hover car for getting around, planetside. (URL) Enjoy! ROSCO (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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| | Re: Where do we go from here...
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(...) I still think it's a neat idea. And there's nothing wrong with a facade. (...) I'm building it horizontal, so that: a) It won't run the risk of falling (a la my CN Tower) b) I can build more detail into the top and bottom of each stage, (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.loc.ca.on)
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| | Re: Pneumatic "One Leg at a Time" Robot Circuit
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(...) Hi Sigurd, Maybe I can do it with fewer pneumatic parts? Kev (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Pneumatic "One Leg at a Time" Robot Circuit
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(...) I understand that leg 0 is moved up forward then down, leg 1 is moved up/forward/down, leg2 is moved up/forward/down, leg 3 is moved up/forward/down, and finally leg 0, leg 1, leg 2 and leg3 are moved back. I don't quite understand why you (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: The MATING GAME - rtl 20
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(...) Ok here's my idea. Each robot is composed of a front and rear half. The rear half is an open hopper built to a common standard (including height from floor), The front half is completely original. The aim of the game is to drop your blocks (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | The Great Ball Contraption at LEGOWorld
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Hello European AFOL :-) FreeLUG (French LUG) would like to do a big (URL) Ball Contraption> at LEGOworld this year. we have about ten modules at this time. To increase the size of this (URL) GBC>, we would like to invite all AFOL, who planned to (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.events.legoworld, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.loc.pt, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.loc.it, lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.es, lugnet.loc.de, lugnet.loc.ch, lugnet.loc.be, FTX) !!
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| | Re: startup questions RIS 2.0
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(...) Many thanks! Friendly indeed. Looks like its NQC for me - very well documented, widely used, and clearly the recent versions claim support for the USB tower. Also BrickOS was too much like UNIX for me. I am more comfortable with Windows based (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: MLCad e gli ingranaggi
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Grazie. Sono molto interessanti.Le provo subito. Ciao Ale (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug)
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| | Gianpoldo's ebay auctions are back!
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(URL) luck! Gianluca ___...___ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB (URL) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: The MATING GAME - rtl 20
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(...) ... (...) Ok, I've lost interest. By the time you define the standard for passing blocks, there will be nothing left to create. This may be a fun game, but not much challenge. Steve (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: What's Next... Re: Sorry I missed it
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(...) Maybe the bot creator has to specify gender before the match, and there's a "male" winner and a "female" winner???? Do you allow for "hermaphrodite"????? ROSCO (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 1.0 brick not responding
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(...) Generally, that means the IR tower is working. It's possible the tower has become broken, while it sat in a closet, but that's not very likely. So, knowing things worked before, you may be forgetting something. Make sure the memory is cleared. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: startup questions RIS 2.0
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In lugnet.robotics, Gyl Midroni wrote: I'd hate to keep asking stupid questions. (...) There's no such thing as a stupid question. Andrew Meyer (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 1.0 brick not responding
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(...) Yes, it flashes. (...) Yes it did work, but it's been in storage for a couple of years. (...) At this point, just download firmware. Once I get the communication issues resolved, I'll do programming. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Scrapers
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(...) Thanks Steve. Another thought- You know those long oval-shaped arms (one end bigger then the other) that connect the front half to the rear half? I bet there is a chain in there that drives the auger (or blades). Maybe it is the front engine (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Aste di gianpoldo: rieccole!
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Ciao a tutti, rieccomi con le mie aste di Lego: (URL) Ci sono andato leggero (sono "solo" 150 lotti) ma in futuro aggiungerò altro... Ciao, Gianluca PS per Dino: ci sono di nuovo quei turntables che ti piacciono tanto.... :-PPPPPP (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.it.itlug.market, FTX)
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| | Re: Oh Ya...
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(...) yes. (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Pneumatic "One Leg at a Time" Robot Circuit
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(...) (SNIP) (...) This one has moved away from my usual differential logic. Each leg module has a flip-flop for the foot and hip, which does 3 out of 4 movements and waits for the fourth to be done all legs together. I see how single switch AND (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Teknomeka build
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Hey all, In March, I decided I wantd to build Brian Cooper's Teknomeka; well, it was either that or an ISD, and the Teknomeka has a smaller footprint. (URL) I'm about 99.5% done with this model, and I have to say it was really a fun to build. It (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.mecha) !
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| | Re: What's Next... Re: Sorry I missed it
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(...) WAIT.... lets make the score ONLY count if you actually PRESS one of your blocks WITH your mates BLOCKS. this way you have to decide if you WANT to share, OR keep YOUR block..... oh man..... WAIT.... we can comeup with some kind of "ID" AND if (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | The MATING GAME - rtl 20
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ok, we HAVE to do this AND use this name. we will book the library for SAT Feb 11 and we could theme the entire event around valentines day. maybe get a female member of our lug to gussy up the place a bit, with ribbons and flowers. Soft music would (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: What's Next... Re: Sorry I missed it
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(...) Or, just have the score be a combination of how many colors you collected, AND how many other bots have a brick of your color. (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: What's Next... Re: Sorry I missed it
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(...) well we COULD. or we do like we did with king of the hill. and have qualifying rounds. so your robot will be shown to work (not in your basement) on the day of the game to enter. I am starting to LIKE this idea. as with ALL rtl events we keep (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: What's Next... Re: Sorry I missed it
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) We would also have to have some sort of ruling on 'bots that don't transfer blocks properly--I mean, I could build a 'bot that receives blocks rather nicely, but have a built in 50 (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Oh Ya...
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(...) Steve. do you have ANY idea how WRONG that link is? Chris (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: What's Next... Re: Sorry I missed it
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: <snip> (...) So this would be played in an 8x8 arena, or even bigger 'cause of the number of robots... So each 'bot would be assigned a number and a colour the 2x4's (or even for simplicity sake) a 2x4 (...) (21 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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