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dkrenz wrote in message <37C37E29.C7A6A4DC@mc.net>... (...) It arrived today much to my surprise! It was kind of neat to see some of the early minifigs (headless, limbless). I never have seen one until now. My daughter saw me dump it out on the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Anyone out there?
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(...) Welcome to NJ, Chris. :) I'm in central NJ myself-- just outside New Brunswick. I usually do the Wal- Mart/Target circuits and make some good finds. Right now the Edison Wal-Mart on Centennial Av (off Stelton Road and 287) has three or four (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nj.new, lugnet.loc.us.nj.tre)
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| | Wal-Mart Happiness
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Hey all, Well, pursuant to Sun Yun's heads-up about Service Merchandise, I'm posting my find of the day at a NJ Wal-Mart--it turns out they've got a ton of Insectoid ships (6919 and 6969) and 6582s on clearance. 6919 (Planetary Prowler) is $10.50, (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Micro Scout
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(...) Sapevo già che il Micro Scout è molto limitato, e anche che Dennis è particolarmente infastidito (giustamente) dall'R2D2 "lobotomizzato". Però c'é chi è riuscito ad "interfacciare" il Micro Scout con l'RCX via sensore di luce, e c'è sempre la (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | crane with multitasking motor
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hi everyone. just thought I would announce my lego crane, also submitted to the mindstorms web site. I've taken lots of pictures & written a long description at (URL) is a very complex and sophisticated crane with four independent functions and two (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | IR Interface for RCX and Sony Commander RM-AV2000
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Does anybody know what kind of signal comes out of the RCX unit? What I want to try is to control the RCX unit via my Sony Commander. To read more about the Sony Commander go here. (URL) guess I'm trying to figure out if this is even possible. Can I (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Service Merchandise Sale
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Hello all, I was at a Service Merchandise in New Jersey the other day and noticed that their entire Lego section was on sale. Generally the prices were about 10% off what you would normally see at TRU. This included a lot of the newer sets like Star (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | RE: robotic rovers
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Ian Warfield wrote: > Incidentally, has anyone tried to combine a rotation sensor and a touch sensor > on the same input? I've tried programming a sensor task routine to separate > the input signals based on RAW voltage but it's not fast enough to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Robots Design LEGO Structures All By Themselves
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Evolution, until now the unchallenged domain of living organisms, may soon become possible for robots as well. So say computer scientists at Brandeis University, where a simple computer-based form of evolution -- nature's own design strategy -- has (...) (25 years ago, 26-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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Any motion between two hard surfaces, including sliding metal on metal (often called contact wiping), creates intermittent contact that has to be "debounced". The only switches that don't bounce are mercury-wetted contacts, such as one used to find (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Space Shuttles in 6339 and 6544
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37C6E2DC.6576E9...ger.net... (...) I put the stickers on mine, and if you want to have a complete fleet (I like how that rhymes), pick the current Idea book. It has stickers for number 1. Dave (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Climbing robot?
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(...) Well, my initial thought is that a simple climber is one that has an inchworm-style motion - open upper gripper, extend the upper half, close upper gripper, release lower gripper, contract body to raise lower gripper, close lower gripper, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | trying to find the sets for these pieces
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Hey all, I've got a rather obscure mission for you. In an effort to determine which sets I used to own but no longer have all the pieces for, I'm attempting to figure out which sets some of my pieces came from. I expect most of these are from the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Software builds LEGO structures..
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(URL) don't know if this has been posted to the list, but I thought it might be of intrest.. Looks like all us bot builders could be out of a job soon.. :-P "Evolution, until now the unchallenged domain of living organisms, may soon become possible (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Collins Family back on air
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From RTL, a post by me following up to a Collins Family post. per the Collins family request I have forwarded them every email that involved both me and them that I could lay my hands on since 31 July. There were a lot, so that might just have (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Question about bad eBay buyers
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Is there a place to post info/warnings about people to avoid when auctioning/selling items? I was just wondering because I just had someone refuse to pay for an auction they won on eBay because i would not take a personal check. It says CLEARLY in (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Bricks per pound
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(...) Augh! Now I have to weigh my bricks to approximate how many I have... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Do people contact the sellers for better descriptions?
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(...) If something strikes me as sloppily done or incomplete I ignore it. My time is worth too much to me to spend it verifying that something that appears to be junk actually is. That probably means I miss out on lucky deals like yours, but I don't (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Do people contact the sellers for better descriptions?
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Scott Smallbeck (scotts@contactics.com) wrote: : I recently won a very nice lot of LEGO on Ebay for what turned out to be a : very low bid. The item description was obviously incomplete as it started : out stating there were 13 sets and then only (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | RE: My Multiple Posts
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To All I dont know why it sent my mail multiple times, I appear to be experiencing server error. In any event, I apologize, I only meant to send it once. -Andy RIT -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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