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(...) Few people with cable internet have "sprung" -- a cable modem costs something like $300, maybe more, and they're not standardized, so you can't buy one and use it anywhere. Almost everybody leases from their provider -- I pay $10/month. Seems (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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I was bidding on a 5540 Model Team formula car, and only one other bidder bid on it. $30 starting bid, and I got it for $32! True, it has no box, and I have to pay shipping from Paris, but I've wanted one for a while and seen some rather obscene (...) (25 years ago, 18-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) This is why it might be nice to get the remote control reverse engineered -- we may discover a way. (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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(...) I have one, but I don't see how that relates to making web-friendly sites, but that's just me; I'm computer illiterate. In case you're wondering, I get a service called Road Runner. It is something offered by Time Warner cable. Greg "Oh no, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) dark, and about 500 ohms (...) into a dark blue coffee cup) to (...) this large dynamic range to (...) I have a CdS based light sensor but do not use it often because of the slow response to changing light conditions. I know CdS cells can vary (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Could you post more details on the event, including directions to get to MIT? Though its a good days' trip for me, I'd consider coming up if the time is convenient for me with school and all. If I could know what's goin on, I could bring some (...) (25 years ago, 17-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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Hello, I just wanted to know who here sprung and bought a cable modem. I am asking Because I am trying to make my webpage friendly for web users. I don't want people waiting 5 years to download, just because they have a 56k. :-) Doyle (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) RCX contains 5 programs. Each program can have up to 10 tasks and 8 subroutines. Only one program may run at any given time, multitasking is between tasks in the same program. There is no known programmatic way of transferring control from one (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Minifig Box #2
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If you want to track it and just send me updates I'd like that much better.. with school right now I'm pretty swamped with homework.. it's a pretty tough semester this time around... I'm betting I put in 25-30 hours a week just in homework :( Though (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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Hi All, I just added the mountain scene from Tom to the PNLTC web site under Galleries, WWF. A must see! What Tom can do with over 400 BURPS! SteveB (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) Do you want to connect the PIC to the IR tower to receive signals from the Lego remote control, or do you want to build your own IR receiver, and attach the PIC to that? The encoding of the IR is pretty simple. The IR tower contains a circuit (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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One the raw note, my CdS cell (which measures about 20K ohms in the near dark, and about 500 ohms pointed at the florescent light) returns raw values between 1000 (pointed into a dark blue coffee cup) to 48 (pointed directly at the light with a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Ben, did you recieve the minifig box I sent out to you? if so can you tell me when it arrived? Thanks (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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When I was a kid, I had these red plastic bricks that I only remembered as American Bricks. I was just looking thru the auctions on eBay and I found that they were made by a company called Elgo. So whats the deal, is one of these names (Lego or (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote: [snip accidental posting] sorry about that -- hit wrong keys. (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Questions Regardsing Lego Scout
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(...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Old Bricks... Any interest??
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I have a large quantity of OLD lego bricks. Mostly white and red, some blue. They are from the early '70's or so, and have the old Lego logo on the studs. Any interest? Any value? Eric (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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I'm picking Ian Bishop up at Stansted Airport and we should be on the road by 8:30 - so expect to arrive around 10am. Chris (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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BTW, using raw value reading gives a lot more accurate result With my scanner, the values on a black and white picture are 685 to 795. The ambient lightning seems (hopefully) to not react that much with the light sensor readings... Mark Ferris a (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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When looking at the raw values on the rcx display, ambient light reads about 528, pointed at the fluorescent 510, pointed at the scouts led 390. The sensor is more sensitive toward the IR end of the spectrum. HTH, Jeff Jeffrey.hazen@northmill.net (...) (25 years ago, 17-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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