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Okay, here's another cool thing about the Droid Development Kit -- it includes a bunch of the new three-way bevel gears. I call them "three-way" bevel gears because they're like two bevel gears back-to-back with a normal gear in the middle. The (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've sorted though my collection and found a bunch of sets I'd like to sell or trade for Castle, Pirate, or Technic sets. Please email jkornhaus@xperts.com with any sale or trade offers. I'm working on a list of spare parts available for trade and (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Animation of Debris Removel Truck- Duane Hess
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Whoops!! (URL) The link below will download a 626KB MPEG animation. I had to crunch the (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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Whoops!! (URL) The link below will download a 626KB MPEG animation. I had to crunch the (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Krankenwagen I guess technically DOES mean ambulance (literally: "sick/sickness wagon") but it sure looked like a bus to me. (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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I used to have a pic on my site that was me posing with Ariel the mermaid but I took it down... if there's really interest (in Ariel) let me know. (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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MadMax wrote in message ... (...) If (...) Check PITSCO. Last I saw, they sold 2 for $10. Eric (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
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(...) Here is the article from CNN dated 1999 January 13th: (URL) the time Furby was very popular, and people always like to bring small toys to work to put in their cubicle just for fun. There was also a common misunderstanding of the Furby's (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Regrets...
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Y'know, the more I read through all of the messages I missed (during our recent move) about the in/ability to order in bulk, how excited everybody is about a chance meeting with a Lego rep, and the proposed letters to the various people in power, (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi all, I have been very impressed with the talent of everyone using LDraw, and it inspired me to do a bit of animation with the models you all have uploaded. I am a mechanical engineer who moved on into computer animation in 1989. I currently use (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi all, I have been very impressed with the talent of everyone here, and it inspired me to do a bit of animation with the models you all have uploaded. I am a mechanical engineer who moved on into computer animation in 1989. I currently use MAX 2.5, (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library
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Here's the librarian piping up again: what exactly are you looking for? A keyword search through Digital Dissertations gives 34 theses/dissertations that use the word Lego. If we move it to Lego or Legos, we get 39. Most of these seem to be (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: An evening with Larry Pieniazek.
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(...) Older than I am :) But I can only say that cause he mentioned when he was going to college. (...) A picture of Larry's back (right side of picture) (URL) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Can I add to that that this is really all very surface - saying how pleasant and friendly the guy is. What we'd really like you to share are the deep things that characterize what you've found out about what Larry is truly like down inside. (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: My own R2D2
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Great work! You have every right to be proud of this accomplishment. Bob Fay Eric Harshbarger <eric@ericharshbarger.org> wrote in message news:37CC6E3F.6A2808...ger.org... (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: 1958-60 LEGO Model Display Buildings Catalog
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Simon Robinson wrote in message ... (...) For some reason, I always thought it was an ambulance. -- Have fun! John AUCTION Page (More soon!) (URL) Page (URL) & IG88888888 on AOL (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Need Help Beta Testing a News Site
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(...) Ditto that, although at least it is yellow and not red. I like it. I like it a LOT, and not just because I read /. all day long either. I especially like the link under posted to each article, etc. Wow, I remember hearing about the /. software (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | What A Deal!!, The Nugator Company - www.nugator.com
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(...) How do you keep your prices soooo low? This is by far the cheapest site I've seen, Good Work! Plug: A Darth Vader for $6.05, I couldn't pass it up!!! (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Eeeeeek! I remember that bus. Until 2 minutes ago I also actually believed that it had been built by whoever it said on the UK catalogue and Lego had adopted it. I feel soooo disillusioned... :) Simon (URL) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | My own R2D2
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Well, finally... it is done. After emerging from my LEGO 'Dark Ages,' I took on the following months-long endeavour: (URL) to start the ALICE IN WONDERLAND sculptures... eric ---...--- Eric Harshbarger / eric@ericharshbarger.org / (...) (27 years ago, 1-Sep-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| | Re: fs: 9V train sets
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(...) thanx larry, i've noticed too that i've posted to the wrong group. thanx to mike p. too for pointing me to my sin ;-) i swear it will not happen again. now: do i post it again in l.m.auction or let it where it is now? your opinion, guardians? (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Libro "LEGO® MINDSTORMS(TM) Robots"
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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:42:48 GMT, "Mario Ferrari" (...) Per la cronaca ho mandato l'indirizzo a 2000 persone chiedendo chi di loro puo` vantare una citazione sul sito della O'Reilly... Siamo famosi!!! Secondo me ci chiamano al Maurizio Costanzo (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Toronto Robot Challenge -- a great success
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HI: On Sunday Aug. 22 Calum, Jeff and Myself organized a robot comptition. It was a great time and we all learned a lot. Ralph Hempel showed up and gave a talk on pbForth. Jin Sato arrived with his MIBO dog and a 2 legged walker. (as well as a ton (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: WTB BURP'S !!!!!!!!
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(...) You could also check eBay # 155437624. Maggie C. (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: New Space Elements
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(...) The landspeeder engine in on the old lugnet.cad.dat group somewhere. It is not official yet but it is almost complete. -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
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Let's hope the FBI personnel have better things to do with their time while at work than to play with Furbys and RCX bricks. -Phil (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | The Nugator Company Update - www.nugator.com
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The Nugator Company Update: We have added Star Wars, Ninja, and some Town & Train mini-figures and accessories to the site. We will be adding Castle, Pirate, and Space, plus some additional Town & Train tomorrow. Questions or comments email (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Part #2856 large technic turntable
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Hello- I'm interested in buying or trading for 2-8 technic turntables part#2856. If anyone is interested in helping out here, drop a line. Thanks! mark (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
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(...) Sounds like they should just mandate that all sensitive information never be transmitted via IR, and leave IR for data doesn't need to be secure. Or maybe just ban data. That should fix the problem! Jeff Jackowski (URL) you check the web site (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | You call it risk, I call it threat, Let's call the whole thing off Dept. (was: Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms)
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(...) Actually, folks, the reason is deeper than that. Audio recording devices have been forbidden here at Los Alamos since forever (no doubt at those other places as well), but with the recent HUGE emphasis on security they've been looking at (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New Space Elements
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Has anyone successfully made the 2x2 tile w/jet engine (& 2 studs) used for Star Wars' Landspeeder (#7110)? I need this part to complete a LDraw version of the Decepticon Transformer, Scourge. The entire model is nearly complete except for a this (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: [Rumour] FBI and Mindstorms
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<< Either the Furby in the USA is different from mine or the FBI/NSA must be very silly to consider Furby as a threat... >> I do believe they set the standard a while back for recording devices of any kind. The furby does have the ablity to listen, (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Status report
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Hi Lego-lovers! I have some very good news. In less then a week, I have won two very important "battles" in the fight for custody. I now see no possibility for my ex-wife to level up the score. The only trouble is I've made her lawyer really pissed (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: House with porch
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Now you're getting very close to my vision! I have a short "action-packed" story with a couple of slapstick jokes. With my very old but good animation program - I can even add sound! - I'd love the idea of a POV generated animation. But my ToDo-list (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey
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I was thinking the same thing Tom, Maybe if we can get some place to donate the shipping and possibly packaging materials, we could buy the stuff outright in the states and not have to worry about shipping charges. I'm pretty sure we could buy a lot (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | sets4sale
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Hi folks Once again I have some sets to sell off, and once again I'm going to sit back and let people make offers. The difference is that I'm listing a want list also and a value on the pieces I'm looking for. So you can buy a set with money, (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Construction toy imports.
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Cool stuff, thanks for the post. (...) MegaBlocks, right? Isn't Ritvik HQed in Quebec? (...) People don't like MegaBlocks as much as they used to? (...) Now THAT is a question that begs a more general answer than just from the Toy perspective... :-) (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: fs: 9V train sets
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TWO posts to bst within an hour that really are auctions. How ironic that the second one appeared *after* my post to admin.general asking about dropping the blurry line... Rufus is a very solid, reliable trader, long time RTLer, and generally nice (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: sets4sale
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Based on the rules, this is an auction, believe it or not ("best offer" and "bid" seem like dead give aways to me)... So it probably belongs in .auction not .bst I'm posting to .admin.general to ask a radical question (and one which has been asked, (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: wishing upon a star
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As was said before, don't go down the keys have meaning route, and especially don't go down the different digits of the key have different meanings route. Might be paved with good intentions but it's still a road to coding hell. (...) (27 years ago, 31-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.inv)
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