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(...) Thanks for looking. A quick note for people, I imported the .dat files into Excel to 'clean them up' (put the bricks in some sort of building order) and Excel saved larger spaces (it tabbed the spaces). MLCad worked fine with the tabbed spaces (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: multiplexed touch sensors [was: Re ideas for a RIS 2.0]
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(...) I gather the lever arms of the feelers gave you enough control over the touch sensor to stay mostly in the 100 to 110 range? It would seem to be difficult to keep the touch sensor in that position for long periods of time, since the sensor is (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | core problem of robotics
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it seems to me the core problem of robotics is this: trying to have as many independent output actuators as possible while minimizing the number of motorized parts. the actuators should be fast, small, inexpensive, and powerful. it seems to me this (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: General Box #3
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Please add me to this box if I am not too late. (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Martin Erdelen wrote in message ... (...) I've just got mine this week from Jeff Christner regult@aol.com He found a store in his town that has them (he said there were only two left!) I'm having a blast putting mine together. Does anyone know who (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Minifig box #1 shipping status
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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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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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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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(...) 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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