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(...) Excellent suggestion! I'll have to tell my wife about this. Hopefully she'll have time tomorrow to check out the local TRU. If she finds any, I'll suggest she get a dozen or so. Jeff (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.people, FTX)
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| | Re: Teknomeka build
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(...) "awww man now what?" "Wait, Do you have On-star on that thing" :D "Oh yeah!" sound of cell phone being dialed in "Teknomeka ON-Star" (husky male computerized voice) "Yeah I locked myself out, and the key fob is in the seat" "Very well, your (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus)
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(...) Definitely studs, as even french people use, not mainly but only, this term. (...) AZMEP plates :) (...) Erling bricks :) (...) If you talk about System plates, I've read "one third brick" from a LEGO book. If you talk about Duplo plates you (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Selected Dino Attack sets now at Target
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(...) I saw the add for these today on the Cartoon Network, I think it only featured 3 sets and a USian spruiker voice. So we get non-agressive US sets, not the Euro sets ? (...) Kath and Kim might like one of these... (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Re: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus
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I grabbed one of each 4679 tub with bonus box numbers 2915 and 3115. About the same parts inside. (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RCX to RCX NQC
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(...) And that explains why I was having so much trouble with my custom Tcl based uploader in high speed mode. I fixed it a while ago by adding a slight bit of extra time between messages, but never got to the root of the problem. Thanks Dick! (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Bonktron: BO-1
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(...) Wow, never mind the MOCs, look at all the wonderfully crafted replies so worthy of highlighting! It's a joy to read such inspiring material. Long may it continue. Jason R (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | The Brick Testament: Samson -- the early years
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(URL) The Brick Testament> website has been updated today with five new stories from the Biblical book of (URL) Judges>, chronicling the early career of Israel's eleventh and most famous judge, Samson. (And just for completeness' sake, the somewhat (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build.ancient, FTX) !!
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| | Re: New Ship: Harlequin
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--SNIP-- (...) You must be reading a different Lugnet to the one I am reading. I see a great deal of humour (albeit somewhat puerile) and some fairly creative MOC building going on. The closest you get to attacks and slights seem to come mostly from (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX) !
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| | Escher preview (Re: Gold (Re: My collection of colours))
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(...) Yeah, it's a pain in the neck to photograph--especially the leftmost pillar. But here's another shot, I think it's the best I'll get: (URL) here's a larger size image: (URL) background on this project, I'm building a series of Escher models (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Selected Dino Attack sets now at Target
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[LEGOSet 7475] $29.99 [LEGOSet 7476] $59.99 [LEGOSet 7477] $99.99 The two smaller sets didn't seem to be there. Also at TRU I noiced that [LEGOSet 10151] is now $41.99. Cheers, Paul (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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| | Brick Junction Expand...
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The citizens of my tiny little Sierra Nevada town needed to tend to their spiritual needs. So a preacher moved in and soon a nice little church, complete with cemetary, was seen on the street: (URL) The whole spiritual gallery: (URL) Steve (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.western, lugnet.town, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: What I need
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(...) i have a few. you can have them. remind me and i will bring them to the dinner IF you remind me Chris (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Brick Link for Relief Effort: September 21
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Hi all, In less than a week, there will be a one day event on BrickLink: The Brick Link for Relief Effort. Participating brickshops will be sending their proceeds to the Red Cross on that day, which is September 21. Those shops will have a special (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.people, lugnet.announce) !!
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| | Re: New Ship: Harlequin
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(...) Snip (...) It'd be so corny if we started singing that. Bahahahaaaahahaa e (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: New Ship: Harlequin
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(...) Don't cry for him, Argentina, the truth is he never left you. He kept his promise...don't keep your distance. -Keith (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: New Ship: Harlequin
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(...) Right... well, I'd say bye Kevoh, but I have the feeling this isn't the end. Like a case of Type-2 Herpes, I think you'll be back. (...) I see you left yourself an out. Well done, you wouldn't want to be one of those knobs who makes a grand (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX) !
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| | Re: New catalogue with September World club magazine
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(...) I found application forms at K-mart. A bit pot luck though, I think. There's a 1-off $15 fee when you apply. ROSCO (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Jabba's Royal Box
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Awnings give shade to some bettors on the front box where they can conveniently seek refreshments inside the (URL) cantina> directly under (URL) royal box>. Gardulla the Hutt lounges just inside the royal box attended by a slave Twi'lek while the (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !!
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| | RCX to RCX NQC
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One last email on this topic. There's new opcodes in the Swan firmware to support many data bytes in a single "mailbox" message. The standard firmware supports "mailbox" messages with a single byte parm. I found this very restrictive in building RCX (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: New catalogue with September World club magazine
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(...) G'Day ,How can I sign up to recieve Lego's mag. Is there a link on Lego.com, or an application form on the back of a catalogue ? cheers (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: New Ship: Harlequin
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(...) Wait! Please stay, we need good builders like you. Your creations help make it fun. I hope all these constant attacks and slights on each other all go away. Make it about the MOCs and the Brick itself, as it always was and should be. That is (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: new switch designs...... help needed!
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(...) Just thinking out loud here.. maybe consider a 16-stud offset (1 track length), primarily because it would be easier to join your track with, and not need a cut track to mate up with a 4 or 8 stud offset. it would make your double Y 48 studs (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: New Ship: Harlequin
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(...) Right... well, bye Lugnet. That's it for me. I'll come back once you figure out how to deal with idiots like Pete and the people who spotlighted his post. ~Kevoh, over and out. (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | RE: RCX to RCX NQC
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There's another little problem that you may need to program around. There's a bug in the ROM firmware that could end up requiring a 30-millisecond delay between when a RCX sends out a message and when you should start sending the first character of (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | RE: RCX to RCX NQC
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The message "toggle" bit was a good concept that has very limited value in practical use. I guess the intent was to prevent unexpected behavior when a PC program attempts retransmission after a message failure. Suppose the failure condition was that (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Vogon Constructor Ship
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(...) In case you missed it, Nathan also did a Heart of Gold, announced (URL) A> (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Bonktron: BO-1
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(...) Awesome! Let's do that! It'd be funny. e (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus)
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(...) In the Brickopedia I got away from those two terms, since I agree with you... they can be confusing at times. :) For example, I called this: (URL) an 'Outer Corner' as in the way it's sometimes used to create the outer corner or edge of a (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Pneumatic "One Leg at a Time" Robot Circuit
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(...) I've come up with three AND gate technologies so far. Also I've come up with three OR gate designs too (those are differential output, plus I have a single pressure OR too). I've only come up with one differential XOR and a single pressure (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus)
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(...) I always had a problem with "convex" and "concave" (and, of course, their "doubled" bretheren). I've always associated those words with curved parts. But I can't really think of a better way to describe them.. Darrell (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | What's in a part name? (WAS: 4679 Fall Spring Cleaning Bonus)
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(...) Part names. One of my favorite topics. :) While I was working on the (URL) for my book I spent a lot of time thinking about part naming and categorization. (...) I don't know that I'd label that name as "ridiculous". It may be outdated(1), but (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Teknomeka build
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"I think I know how to get up to the cockpit!" "Great! How?" "On the remote lock key fob there's a green button that makes it automatically kneel down, lower a hand and lift the pilot up." "Cool. So let's try it!" "Aww man! I think I left the remote (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | LDD Loading Problem
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LDD is not working for me...it won't load! After starting the program, the start-up page comes on-screen and indicates that it is loading parts. It gets to 182 parts and freezes. Checking on system performance shows LDD to be non-responsive and (...) (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New Ship: Harlequin
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(...) I imagined a Black-Bonktron ship would be somewhat larger. Nice tickler though ! pete.w (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.space, FTX) !!
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| | I wonder if they'll work with Lego pneumatics
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(URL) double acting soleniod valve looks "very" interesting! Anyone know any more about this? JB (21 years ago, 15-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | The Train Show *Upcoming LEGO episode!
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I have not watched "Prototypical Trains & Operations - Operations Road Show NMRA Cincinnati, OH” yet but it is from the NMRA show. My Tivo recorded it today, it will be on Direct TV (379 RFD Rural Free Delivery) 9/15 12:30 am, 9/15 6:30 am, 9/19 (...) (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: The MATING GAME - rtl 20
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(...) And then we can all make space ships that look like dinkys! Tee hee hee! -Greg (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Bonktron: BO-1
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(...) Some might argue that they collectively equal a sense of humour. Tim (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Bonktron: BO-1
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(...) All things to be proud of I'm sure. e (21 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.space)
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