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The Lego Control Lab (peeron #9751) connects to a PC through a serial cable. Since most laptops don't have a serial port I was wondering if anyone knew how I might connect a Control Lab to a laptop. Would a USB converter work (will RoboLab recognise (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LDD PRR T1 #6110
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(...) Very nice work. I had not seen that. Thanks for linking the pics. It definitely helps show the details of the PRR T1, and gives me more ideas for improvements to my Lego® version once I go to build it. (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Increasing a collection
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(...) First off: Welcome! As to the collection issue, building has always been my driving force.I look for the pieces I use most often (castle needs based). The only advice I can offer is if you're starting from a medium collection (=20k) make sure (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Galactica Rag Tag Fleet: 3 new transport ships!
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Hello Phillip, thanks for your comment! I will publish more SW models soon, but I thought it would be good to be present in some other SciFi themes I like as well. So I concentrated in bringing up my new site (URL) and quickly get some more content (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Galactica Rag Tag Fleet: 3 new transport ships!
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Hello Dave, thank you for the feedback which is highly appreciated. So, those 3x3 discs come from the SantaFe trainset? I already wondered where they were from. Thanks, – Christopher (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.space, FTX)
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| | Re: Difficulty with WRITE COMMAND over BT
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(...) Thank you very much for the reply. It is still consistently puzzling. If I write some other file - for example a text file named file.txt, I can write and close, and see it in the list (through findfirst/findnext) successfully. This works both (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Very hard to find ldconfig.ldr
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(...) Thanks and done. Tim (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: If you could wish for any single Lego element, what would it be?
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(...) snip I have thought of this off-and-on over the time since I've read this: Make all the arches as half-arches, like the 1x5x4 arch. That would eliminate the stress point problem. Larger arches, too, like 12-stud+ spans. Also in round (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.parts, FTX)
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| | Re: Classroom experiments gone awry
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(...) I'm using terms of my own making. These are terms that seem to work with 10 - 12 year olds. By "dominant" I mean the wheel which measures the duration specified in a turn. Sometimes I use the term "outside wheel". For example, a duration of (...) (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: LDD PRR T1 #6110
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(...) How about Ed Wooding's version? Although not in Lego, it is a absolute work of art... (URL) Powell (19 years ago, 28-Apr-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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