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The S@H people are great! I just placed my largest order (I realize it is nothing compared to some of your orders) for $253.75 to get my first big batch of train equipment (I just bought #4561 @ Target yesterday). Anyways, I had ordered the #K4531 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Lego man
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Heh-heh (Larry, you are sooooooo wicked). When I was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcast Corp. reporters back in 1987 (for a TV news show on 25 years of LEGO in Canada), I used the term "coming out of the LEGO closet". After all isn't LEGO an (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Paul's claim to fame!)
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(...) Vipers. (...) Thanks! I love your ships too...you can see definite influences from the SHIVA-I in my Interstellar Battleship [1], which is about 3 years old. Since I've never seen Battlestar Galactica, I now have to go see whata Cylon Raider (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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I just received my search sub today. It was a great deal from shop@home. Half price, just $25. In addition to standard extra parts, it contains an air tank, a large pump and a large piston. Joel Shafer joel@connect.net -- Did you check the web site (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Check out my minifig-scale Droideka
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This Droideka looks great ! I am always amased by models that look like the real thing and use just a few bricks. Very nice avi as well. Can you make one where the Droideka rolls in and unfolds to shot ? ;o) Greetings, Ralph (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Silly train voltage question...
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(...) Hi, welcome to train the 9-12V regulator? are you talking the black and yellow think that come with 9V trains? feeding light with this regulator is "feasable", you'll have to make a wire to connect to old 12V connector with the new 9V one (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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I am a Technic addict, whose son recently became WILD with exitement over the trains. We recently found some 12V accessories such as lights. I was wondering if they work with the "9-12V" Speed Regulator (it actually says 9 to 12V)? If not, how does (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: [Apache] Redirecting external image links to web pages
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(...) You might wanna take a look at mod_rewrite also: (URL) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Lego dagli USA
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Marco Beri <marcob@equalis.it> wrote in message news:37c53d92.155688...net.com... (...) E' una versione "scaled down" dell'RCX. (Quantomeno dal punto di vista hardware, per il momento si sa poco o nulla del software) (...) **** Quinta legge di (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Technic 8735 Motor $17.04 at Target
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Scott Smallbeck <scotts@contactics.com> wrote in message news:FH27Do.7Jq@lugnet.com... (...) The most appropriate group would be lugnet.marketplace.shopping. It's great to hear about deals like this, and if you don't follow .shopping, I strongly (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) Quick answer: yes. Long answer: Almost certainly. There are some tradeoffs that you've made. A big one is around the human readability of the key. Ask yourself, how often do humans inspect these, and how fast can you convert back to 40bit (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | [Apache] Redirecting external image links to web pages
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Does any of you have some advice as to redirecting external image links (REFERER=(URL) to web pages, so people can see who designed the model - and have a look at some of my other models? I suspect the tool is "mod_redirect", but the documentation (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: [LDAO] New beta version available
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(...) i agree.. if i see it happen again, i'll try to detail the processes that led me up to seeing the error occur J (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Hallo.... ist da jemand??
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Hallo Bine, Hallo Kai, das kleine Piraten Set vom Flomarkt ist: Number: 6258 Name: Smuggler's Shanty Theme: Pirate System / Pirates Year: 1992 Pieces: 69 Figures: 3 werde mal die Bauanleitung runtersaugen und gucken ob alles komplett ist. Wer von (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.de.by.mue)
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| | Re: Technic 8735 Motor $17.04 at Target
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I saw them on the shelf last week at Target and got all excited because I know back in January they were marked down to $17.04 ($2.94 at one Target). I scanned it and it came out the full price of $35 or $37 - whatever. It sounds like maybe the (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Climbing robot?
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Where can I find more info on the Fudd stair climber? I couldn't find anything in the LUGNET newsgroups. (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Use a RCX as a Sensor port AND a Motor Output!
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Great work! Extra motor output, speed sensing, stall detection and sensor/motor multiplexing. Thanks for the research! (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Hallo.... ist da jemand??
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(...) Hallo Kai, Du hast es ja doch gefunden. Willkommen bei den Locals. Hm das kleine Set vom Flomarkt. Muß erstmal die Nummer rausfinden, dann könnt Ihr Euch ja übersteigern ;o) Gruss aus Kirdorf, dö (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.de.by.mue)
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| | Re: Lego dagli USA
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(...) Carlo, scusa, cos'e` uno "Scout" Blu? Ciao. Marco. P.S. Anch'io avro` una valigia vuota... (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Check out my minifig-scale Droideka
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Jeremy! That Droideka looks fantastic! I'm really impressed - I hope to see that going up in Pat's contest soon! Keep up the great work, Shaun (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) For anyone that might not know this, Mold numbers are not unique. A mold is setup for all the parts and it makes more than 1 piece at a time. If you take the 2x4 brick mold, it could possibly do 8 bricks at a time which means each brick in the (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Hallo.... ist da jemand??
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<snip> (...) kann (...) Wenn ich so foermlich gebeten werde. Wollte eigentlich Eure traute Zweisamkeit nicht stoeren. Hallo Bine, Schoen zu sehen, dass es andere Maniacs in Muc gibt, die mit aehnlichen Problemen (insbesondere was die Kinder angeht) (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.de.by.mue)
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| | Re: Robot related books...?
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(...) Having cracked mine, I'd have to say "great book". Lots of helpful stuff for the home hobbyist in that one. jack j-perdue@tamu.edu (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: An aside on the "Plagiarism" thread...
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Actually, it does make sense to "copyright" your designs. Let me explain: By placing a copyright notice on your webpage, you indicate that the original content (i.e. your creative ideas) is your intellectual property. Anyone who does not ask (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New web page (Was Re: Paul's claim to fame!)
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Bram Lambrecht wrote in message ... (...) a (...) that (...) it: (...) Someone pointed this out on .build the other day - very cool, especially the use of the 1x2 rounded-top pieces to give more aesthetically pleasing contours[1], and retracting (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | new release???
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Hi, I've been wondering why there hasn't been put out a newer release than 990330, especially since the rotation sensors doesn't work in it. But the error was identified way back in April by Mario Ferrari ((URL) STATE_0_VALUE (ds_unscale(1023U)) ... (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Use a RCX as a Sensor port AND a Motor Output!
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Ooops, subject should have been: Use RCX Sensor Port as a Sensor Port AND a Motor Output! Dave (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Use a RCX as a Sensor port AND a Motor Output!
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So, I was messing around w/ the RCX and hooked up a Micromotor to one of my output ports and lo and behold....I could control the motor by toggling the Sensor Type for that port between a Passive (None, Switch, Temp) mode = OFF and an Active Mode (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego dagli USA
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Mario Ferrari <mario.ferrari@edis.it> wrote in message news:FH2A46.9vv@lugnet.com... (...) quella (...) Sei convinto, quindi, che queste siano una "bufala"? Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote.... (...) Troy Cefaratti <mnementh@sbase1.com> (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: robotic rovers
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(...) Have you tried combining the inputs of the two output motors into a differential? If the inputs are counter-rotating, the net differential body rotation will tell you which side is moving faster, ie: Motor A ------> Differential <--(Reversed (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Hallo.... ist da jemand??
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(...) Ich schätze mal 4 Monate. Aber mit immer wieder wegräumen. Ich muß mir mal Schaufel und Besen kaufen. Dauernd vom Pakett das LEGO zusammenkratzen ist echt anstrengend. Andererseits kann man von dem Geld auch wieder ein kleines LEGO-Set... (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.de.by.mue)
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| | RE: Touch Sensor as a Switch
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In response to my own post on the Cybermaster touch sensors: The three different Cybermaster touch sensors have a resistance of 15k, 12k, and 10k when not pressed. The rest of my ramblings were pure fiction. The three Cybermaster inputs are (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego dagli USA
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(...) Sì, in autunno 8448 dovrebbe essere fuori anche in Italia. Però se ho posto te ne porto una volentieri, dato che immagino in Italia costerà decisamente di più. Lo "Scout" blu, invece, temo non sarà disponibile neanche negli USA per quella (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Hallo.... ist da jemand??
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Hallo Ralf, (...) Hab ich mir angeschaut. Die Fotos sind sehr gut geworden. Wie lange hast Du an Deinem Falcon gebaut? (...) Keine Ahnung. Bei mir hat er funktioniert. (...) Ich bin haarscharf vor der 40, habe einen 4 1/2 jährigen Sohn und ja - es (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.de.by.mue)
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| | Re: Lego dagli USA
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(...) Il Mindstorm RIS sembra fatto apposta per essere trasportato come bagaglio a mano: due scatole affiancate stanno perfettamente nelle dimensioni massime standard degli aerei. Lo dico per esperienza: 6 viaggi in aereo in giro per gli USA con due (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star)
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(...) Lar, I've been experimenting with a method for OID construction which takes a pseudorandom 32-bit integer, converts it to a 40-bit integer by adding 8 bits of CRC, then converts that an to 8-byte base-32 ASCII representation using the 32 (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Technic 8735 Motor $17.04 at Target
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I was at Target today. Purchasing my first train!!!! Anyway the Technic Motors 8735 were priced at $17.04, this was the first I had seen them below the regular $35.00ish level. Funny thing is that it was like it was marked down, it was on the shelf (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mc Donald's Lego
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(...) I'd be willing to help you out on this. Steve (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) It's known to be not unique, there's a many-to-many relationship between TLG numbers and unique mold-forms. That is, the same number has been used for different parts (at least, different versions of parts), and different numbers have been (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: [LDAO] New beta version available
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(...) Hmm. That sounds like it's situational, not data-dependent. IOW, something you did earlier caused a condition where the inliner messed up. Yuck. (...) Yes, the Inliner (the one separate from the editors) does a standard LDraw-search for a (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego man
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Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <37C495EC.EF33C349@v...er.net>... (...) Don't be ridiculous! I was looking for Lego, not for a man! You'd be surprised, though, of the 25 or so Lego hits at Classifieds2000, 5 or more were of a "personal" nature. I (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Mc Donald's Lego
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If McDonald's have a Lego promotion, after Halloween, I may well be out of the country at that time (from Nov. 1 to Nov. 10). I was hoping to get two sets of each for my lad's Christmas stockings - if they aren't too lame. Any chance someone is (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Theed Palace Blueprints
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(...) that (...) I've found this at the Star Wars Technical Commentary: (URL) not much for images, but it does give a decent analysis of the area. Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Theed Palace Blueprints
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Hello, Sorry for the non-Legoness of this post, but does anyone know of a source that contains the blueprints to Theed Palace? I am attempting to build a microfig scale Theed City, and I want to have the palace as accurate as I can get it. The (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) Whoops. Talking in shorthand tripped me up. In system-architect-speak "business" logic is the actual desired work effort of the program (contrasted with non business logic which is the infrastructure or other code that you have to do in order (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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In lugnet.db.brictionary, Dave Lovelace writes: [SNIP] (...) Well, not so fast. All ideas are welcome here. Maybe a larger perspective might help. I understand the frustration of an ignoramus coming to LEGO parts naming and numbering. I've been (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Lego man
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(...) Well, it's bad if you drop it on a carpet and Murphey takes notice... Which reminds me -- if a cat always lands on its paws, and buttered bread always lands butter-side down, what happens if you drop a buttered cat? Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: [LDAO] New beta version available
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(...) wouldn't you know it.. now i can't recreate the error.. not sure what circumstances cause it.. but it *has* happened... here's something odd that's going on with the inliner though.. i open a file (298.dat) from the models directory (i copied (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Lego man
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I just have to ask, why were you cruising the Personals, eh John? And as for cruising the male personals, were you "sizing up" the competition or does your bread butter on a different side than I thought? (not that there's anything wrong with that (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Auction Store?
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Hey Naji! Can we come 'buy' and shop after the auction is over? Adam :) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tn.knx)
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| | Re: multiplexed touch sensors [was: Re ideas for a RIS 2.0] [DAT]
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(...) Okay, I felt like I had some time, so I looked into this a bit. I skipped the first part and jumped right into measuring a waveform. I measured a faster waveforms for now, but might give it another go with a longer waveforms and higher (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego man
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(...) Hmmm. Interesting site. I just tried getting a couple of statistics from it. Northern England. F seeking M: 5 matches (and the closest is 50 miles away) M seeking F: 33 matches. *sigh* I'm obviously in the wrong occupation, doing anything with (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | RE: Lego Birthday party supplies
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Every time I call Consumer Affairs (800-453-4677), which is maybe a few times a year, they always send me, shortly thereafter, a LEGO not-quite-a-catalog. It has set pictures, part numbers, and estimated street price. You cannot order directly from (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Part List ?
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(...) Try mine. It'll be at (URL) for a couple more weeks. But beware: I've noticed that some of the numbers don't always line up after you've unzipped it. (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Lego man
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(...) It could be called "Studs-n-Sockets, looking for that perfect match" ;-) Discussion group name candidates could include, lugnet.lounge lugnet.market.couples lugnet.market.meat [f-ups set to .admin.general] -Tom McD. (who's trying to get better (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | A new post [DAT]
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Once again I come out of lurking and actually say something. I just got into 'virtual LEGO' a few weeks ago, after stumbling across it when serfing about the RCX. So robotics got put on hold for a week and my virtual truck got built. Have a boo, (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: multiplexed touch sensors [was: Re ideas for a RIS 2.0]
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(...) I don't doubt that there are reasonable creations that e.g. press a touch sensor button halfway for extended periods of time, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Can anybody help me out here? My point was that in what I would (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mos Espa Problem :-0
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This is just too cool. Let us know if TLG does something to "make it up" to them. as evah, John C. (...) [SNIP] (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) Pardon my inexperience. I am neither a program designer, nor a person with any business logic whatsoever...perhaps I should have footnoted these factss before sticking my idea out here. I think that 90% of the users of a would-be (...) (27 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Lego man
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Has anyone heard the phrase, "hung like a Lego man" before? Makes ya wonder... (URL) Have fun! John AUCTION Page (More soon!) (URL) Page (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Q:Best approach to line tracking
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(...) No. I read about it on web page that describes someone's line follower. They said they had gotten it to work. Sorry, but I don't know the URL -- I've seen so many line followers I can't keep track. (...) Sensor height, speed and line width all (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Zany Brainy sales next month
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While poking around the other day, I saw a merchandising planning sheet in the Concord, CA Zany Brainy which listed the Aquanaut's Base and the Alien Avenger as being 50% off between 9/24 and 10/3. I did not ask about it.... Nor did I see the (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Touch Sensor as a Switch
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(...) It consists of one touch sensor and three connection wires. The plates overlap each other by two studs, but because of the orientation of the metal part in the stud, only one stud is actually conducting. The drawing in JPEG is available (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Q:Best approach to line tracking
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have you tested this approach? it seems like it would work, but the light sensor would have to be fairly far off the surface to get a wide viewing area. it seems it would also get a little hairy with the inconsistency of lighting to determine (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Check out my minifig-scale Droideka
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(...) Oops! It's really: ftp://lugnet:brick@2...ddroid.avi Heh heh heh cool! Thanks, man! Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: gone to LEGOLAND
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(...) Trip was excellent. Saw the lifesize Darth Vader and R2-D2, got to finally ride the rides, and saw a new ride being built. I hope to upload my pictures by this weekend. Russell (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: RCX Battery Source
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my rcx works fine with a universal ac to dc wall outlet. it has a switch to change the voltage. i've got it set at 9v and it operates at 800mA max. i figured 6 batteries x 1.5v =9v. i think it was originally for a keyboard (musical instrument, not (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Check out my minifig-scale Droideka
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Doh!!! that should be ftp://lugnet:brick@2...ddroid.avi (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Check out my minifig-scale Droideka
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It's up, check it out here: ftp://lugnet:brick@2...droid.html Or ftp using login=lugnet pass=brick. Pat J (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Q:Best approach to line tracking
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This is mainly for people who still want to stick to just one light sensor -- You can still figure out which way to turn even with just one sensor, by following the edge of the line rather than trying to follow the center. This works only if your (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | HOWTO news :(
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I just got back from vacation 2-3 hrs ago, and have just found out that the school cleared our one-year name leases while I was gone. As a result, the HOWTO at arthurdent.dorm.duke.edu has been unavailable for several days (not quite sure how long (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Touch Sensor as a Switch
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(...) Can you describe that? Are you connectiong the Lego wires with only one stud overlapping? I don't have software to display your LDRAW file. (...) Very, very interesting. I wonder why that is? Maybe Cybermaster has really only one analog input (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) Precisely. It's not guaranteed to be unique and it has business meaning. Now, clearly, the underlying DB implementation should index on that column because we are likely to be doing a lot of lookups, but that is an optimization/implementation (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | UK Jumble Box - Progress Report
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UK Jumble Box - Progress Report 25/08/99 Liam Parnell I got the box today, and was pleasantly suprised as it contained some tasty pieces. I have tried to put in more than was taken out, and have replaced the box with a bigger one. Much of the fun of (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Touch Sensor as a Switch
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From: "Hao-yang Wang" <hywang@pobox.com> (...) Could you put a JPEG or GIF rendering of the image on the internet somewhere for those of us without LDraw? thanks, alex -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Odd buckets I found today
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I was poking around in a TRU today. I noticed various odd Lego buckets way up on a high shelf. I bought all of them. 4055 FreeStyle bucket (red), shorter than the Lego Classic bucket 4288, 320 pieces 2494 Lego System bucket (purple), same size as (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: multiplexed touch sensors [was: Re ideas for a RIS 2.0]
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(...) It sounds like you're saying that the intermediate resistance values happen only for some period of time (short by human standards) while the touch sensor "switches" from "on" to "off" or vice versa. Other people writing in this thread have (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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=>From: Soon Ju Kang <sjkang@ee.kyungpook.ac.kr> =>... =>==> Will you make me free from this angry job by sending the your ready-made =>version.==> I use the RedHat6.0 and I need the cross compile environment for =>legOS =>==> Thank again for your (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | software debouncing (was Re: touch sensors aren't just switches (was Re: ideas for a RIS 2.0
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(...) The way I debounce is by using a simulated RC network ("RC" stands for resistor-capacitor). RC networks exhibit a "decaying exponential" response to an input waveform. Here is an example of how to simulate an RC network: averagereading = 0; (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I played around with sensors and wires, and came up with a way to use the touch sensor as a switch. See my post at lugnet.cad.dat.ideas (URL). Unfortunately, even when the touch sensor is pressed, it still has a significant amount of resistance, so (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: touch sensors aren't just switches (was Re: ideas for a RIS 2.0
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(...) That obviously depends on what type of physical design is used for the switch. Some switches are not capable of bouncing the way you describe because there is no impact or acceleration during contact (example: slide switches that move leaf (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Here a touch sensor is used as a switch. See my post at lugnet.robotics for more details. Electric plates of the same color belong to the same wire. The green plate is the input. The blue plate is the output, in reversed polarity. Cheers, Hao-yang (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to ask what people wanted I was just curious about how many people were talking with Christer, and if anyone who posts to this group knew Christer since I had not seen him around before. Christopher (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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No more posts on this topic please. I don't want to go into too much detail but I have strong reason to believe the following to be true (am I certain? No. but I have strong reason) - This is a legitimate thing. Someone within TLG has received (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Brief summary - 8/21 meeting
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(...) Very cool! Anyone take pictures? (...) I'll be there! (I know, I said that last time... :-) Any ideas as to a location? I can volunteer my house in northwest Austin (near intersection of 183 Spicewoods Springs/McNeil). (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Re: De Bouwsteen club
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(...) Hoi iedereen, volgens Ruud gaat 12 September niet door, en is de eerst volgende clubdag 13 November in Heemskerk. Details volgen in de volgende Bouwsteen. Groet, Henk Giezeman. (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nl)
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| | Climbing robot?
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I've seen a ROBOLAB video where someone had made a bot which could climb glass doors with suction cups and pneumatics, and Fudd has got his stair climber... but has anyone made a robot that can climb a pole of some sort? i.e. straight up? I have (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mos Espa Problem :-0
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(...) Beautiful! -Tom McD. when replying, gouge out the spamcake. (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Robot related books...?
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I really liked Ramblin' Robots by Ingrid Wickelgren. I learned some general things about robots - even though the book was written for teenagers. A book aimed at younger kids is Robotics by T. Potter, lots of pictures and stuff. Beyond kids stuff, I (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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(...) Taking that to the ultimate suggests even the TLG part number should not be the key (which of course is already a known issue if you want to account for color and/or printing). (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Minifig-scale standing Droideka (SW:TPM Destroyer Droid) [DAT]
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(...) Update! I never liked the design of the head; it was too dang wide. Plus, the three "eye probe thingers" didn't look right, and its pose sometimes made it difficult to distinguish it from a piece of Star Trek furniture. This new one has a (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) So how was your trip? Anything interesting going on at LEGOLAND right now? And welcome back! --Raymond Flournoy ===...=== flournoy@cs.stanford.edu "Because, of course, a man with an Computer Science Dept. obsession is a man who has very little (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Check out my minifig-scale Droideka
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(...) Oh, wow! Thanks, man! :-, (Perhaps more than an) FYI, I have modified the Droideka head slightly, making it one stud wide so that it tapers at the front. IMO, the new face has a look more consistent with the baddie in the movie. I'll publish (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: [LDAO] New beta version available
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(...) will do, i'll mail you something tonight.. i never would have figured this one out, but i saw it when i was doing all the technic wheels a couple of months ago, and on a small update i just sent terry.. i thought it was me, trashing things (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Ben's Falcon update (was: Re: Minifig-Scale AT-AT update
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Shaun, Sound really cool. That you actually got the head to articulate and the laser cannons to recoil is awesome! New developments on the Falcon. Since the last pictures I've added: One bungee powered escape pod that locks in position. Pull and pin (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Check out my minifig-scale Droideka
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I made a rotating model of your Droideka, its a 2mg avi file. I'll try to make it available on the web soon (or my private home server). It's a very cool model. Pat J (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build)
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I'm interested in buying some of these parts also. Is it asking to much to include 2972 (grey) to the list? (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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Yes, indeed, John is (as evah) right. Let me weigh in here as well... Putting meaning in keys is a sign of not very well seasoned designers, IMHO. A pretty strong principle of database design is NOT to let your key have business meaning. Get keys (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| | Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep
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(...) Gary, haven't you noticed Governor Engler's re-election signs all over the state? They say things like "Detour" and "Road Under Construction". I figure by the time the election is over, every mile of highway will have been repaved. Steve (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | KAPAs Auction - Update
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All right, we have a going 1 on most "active" sets (except those I got bids on today, they will go to going 1 tomorrow if no additional bids come in). Again for information: A 2kg (somewhat around 4 pounds) pack to the US is supposed to be 5.00 - (...) (27 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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