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I'd like it to be officially fun looking, or, if you'd rather, offical looking in a fun way. Hope that helps. MN only: (ignore if not MN) So is the meeting next week Wed or Thu? Heck I may just come over both nites, who knows. (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.oh, lugnet.loc.us.ia, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in)
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| | Re: Yet another Datsville update
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(...) Actually I use color 43 (Trans. Cyan or Trans.-Lt. Teal) for my town windows and visors in LDraw/LEdit. It tends to look more realistic (when compared to the Legos in question). I use 41 for the burnt-out Trans. Chartreuse from M:Tron, (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Update on the PNLTC display at the Western Washington Fair
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(...) Work in progress with an announcement when it is "done"... (like any website is ever "done") Cool space needle, BTW. Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com (URL) - - Web Application Integration! (URL) Lugnet(tm): (URL) Member ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: motorized switching rails
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(...) No, you could use numbers, if you had number bricks or number tiles (the tile supply is limited so I think you're restricted to base 4 (0,1,2, and 3) numbering. The 1x1 number bricks are rare nowadays. -- Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: 3438 McDonald's set - want it, but not in the US? I can get it for you
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Haven't checked with Tom on this but another way to pay, assuming he approves, is using my factor service. However, for 11 dollars plus postage, my fees may not be the most economical say to get Tom paid. Note that I am specifically NOT offering to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Meeting over the y2k holidays?
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(...) I'll be in the area from Dec. 27 through Jan. 7. I'll be able to drive over to Austin for any day (or two) in this time frame. Is it worth the drive to Houston to see NASA? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Re: Wanted: Pots, Pans, Cauldrons, Mugs, and Glasses
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(...) That was the first thing that came to my mind too. Red isn't inherently a bad color; in some parts of Europe, at least, it is the predominant roof color (which presumably explains why it's so widely used by TLG in their sets). Or maybe red ABS (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: 6444 (and 8414 on sale)
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Frank Filz found them at 9.99 - the local KB store (in the Bayfair mall, for SF-area folks) had 4 @ 12.99, so I bought all 4. This particular store had the 8414 set on sale for $19.99 - I bought one last night, there were 3 left. Paul Sinasohn who (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: Meeting over the y2k holidays?
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(...) I'm going home to Ohio for about 7 days around Christmas (Dec 22nd thru Dec 29th) , but that sounds cool if I'm here in Austin at the time. What time period are you going to be in Texas? (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Re: Toy Aid for children affected from Earthquake in Turkey
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(...) Yes, returning what I can is not a problem...just gives me another excuse to go to the stores and see what's on the shelves :-) I think I will snap together the Duplo that I opened , in order to get more into one box. Too bad there's no (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Dual Differential Adder/Subtractor (again!)
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Last night I built my own variant of the "Dual Differential Adder/Subtractor" cliche, basing it on the Cyberia (URL) "adjacent" design (thanks a million, whoever you are -- there was no mailto: link on the web page), modifying the cage length to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How do I contribute to Datsville?
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What you do is open your .dat file in either notepad or LDAO's Editor and copy everything that you see and paste it into the message. Pretty easy actually. Ryan ***...*** REPLY SEPARATOR ***...*** (...) to (...) do? (...) with (...) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Idea: How starting to work for a unique Lego piece naming convention?
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I was busy getting married the first week of July, and I missed this whole discussion. (Darn, this stuff interests me a lot!) anyway... (...) suggested (...) This is a great resource! If people are comfortable with "non-English" [1] names for (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: proximity sensors
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(...) Well, just on the subject of proximity detectors, I have a couple of projects on my web page that use IR LEDs to do proximity detection. I have the code for the PIC based solution posted and a couple of different circuits, including one for (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: 3438 McDonald's set - want it, but not in the US? I can get it for you
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About the same offer as Tom - if you have a trade or purchase going with me, I will be happy to include 3438 if you are in another country for $11 extra. What is this about new Shell sets? Would someone please enlighten me on the numbers and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: How do I contribute to Datsville?
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How do I post dat-files to a dat-ng? I tried sending them as attachments to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas, but I got an error message saying "posts to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas must have dat-data included in them" How should I do? --Tobias (...) I (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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hello, I am a fourth year EE student at the University of British Columbia. For my team project, we have to construct a robot which is able to learn a maze and then find the quickest way to navigate through it. I was thinking of only use infrared (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Meeting over the y2k holidays?
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Hey all, I'm going to be visiting my brother-in-law in Ft. Worth over the y2k holidays. I'd be real keen to meet up with anyone (any Legofests would be way cool! :-), and am willing to drive at least as far as Austin. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.tx.dfw, lugnet.loc.us.tx.aus)
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| | Re: motorized switching rails
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(...) And in all these years of discussion about switch powering and modifications nobody ever noticed this before? I'm amazed... (I don't own any 9V trains myself, just 4.5V. Those switches are easy to control, apart from the difficulty of making a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | 3438 McDonald's set - want it, but not in the US? I can get it for you
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I'm sure there are non-US people that may want the new 3438 US S@H Exclusive McDonald's set. I'll throw out my standard offer on this one - I'll be happy to get it for you at cost plus whatever shipping you choose, and get as many of them (or other (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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