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The Ann Arbor Toys R US had about 8 black dragons each for 2.97. The price is pretty good, but I also just started thinking, hey, I haven't seen these around much, lots of Ninja is crowding it out. I know they are not *rare* but they might be soon. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mi.grr)
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| | Fly-in cargo port [DAT]
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Here's a study (no walls/few details) of a fly-in cargo port for a spaceship/station. Please LMKWYT and feel free to expand on this design. --Bram 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 80671.DAT 1 0 320 8 -240 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 2445.DAT 1 0 320 8 0 0 0 1 0 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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| | Docking port for spaceship/station [DAT]
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Here's an idea I threw together for a simple docking port (no pocket door). It doesn't work very well in real life, but maybe it'll inspire someone to come up with something better. --Bram 0 1 16 -10 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3021.DAT 1 16 20 -8 -20 1 0 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.ideas)
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| | Re: Light grey and Dark grey colors in POV Ray?
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For light gray I use this: #declare Color7 = #if (version >= 3.1) material { #end texture { pigment { rgb <0.65,0.65,0.65> } finish { ambient AMB diffuse DIF } #if (QUAL > 1) finish { phong 0.5 phong_size 40 reflection 0.08 } #if (BUMPS) normal { (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Datsville sports car
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(...) Whoops! I gotta fix that one. :-, The new link to Barbara's car is: (URL) - jsproat (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Town 2000?
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Jonathan Wilson wrote in message <37E8E7A7.89911D78@x...il.com>... (...) ...snip... (...) the immovable minifigs (...) Try putting those old cowboy hats on a new minifig. They end up looking like some sort of novelty hat a clown wears to a rodeo. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: New Ideas for Jambalaya - anyone interested?
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(...) The uber-rule is something like "trade with the box trying to improve the value of the assortment." In addition to this (according to how I was thinking of it), you would have to follow the variable rules as well. If the rules are: Trade only (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Palm remote control made easy
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I have been asked how I use my PalmIIIx as a remote control for the RCX and Scout. At the link below, you will see the web page I through together that has all the information and files needed to get up and running quickly. Hope this helps. (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Space stations?
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(...) What about this for a name? What if in honor of the first non-generically named base, we name the spacebase "Alpha-1"? The name could apply to the whole base, and we could add at least one 483 Alpha-1 Rocket Base to it just for fun. I'm still (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: TAKE A LOOK AT THIS
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(...) Becasue we'd all lose our jobs because we'd be chattiing instead of working all day :') (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: the Datsville PD
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(...) The side with the windows and the double doors is accually supposted to face the fromt. the large doors are the front entrance and the other smaller door in the side is the back entrance. the parking lot goes next to the back entrance, which (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Interesting set variation noted over in RTL for 493 Space Command Center
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(...) Yes, the instructions show how to make them. And those curved corner pieces can be found in the Landspeeder set, 2 in each box. -Tom McD. when replying, traces of spamcake has been found in ancient head-shrinking rituals. (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Space stations?
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(...) That's cool Mark. Pick a homepage, any page. I wanna see, I wanna see! I've got no problem with .space including official models (especially the older ones :-) -Tom McD. when replying, some asteroids have been known to include spamcake content (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Space stations?
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(...) Excellent idea. You da man! That would make expansions much easier, and the usable interior space of any module bigger as well. If I were to employ such a design in the M3 modules (which I will, so thanks! :-) I'd keep the end flip doors in (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: truck wheels: 5563 vs 5571
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(...) John, How is it that the 5563 is dumb but not the 5571? The 5563 is based on a two axle cabover design. We have one sitting outside my office. The only problem is that the rear wheels should have 2 on each side. This same problem is present on (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.modelteam)
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| | Re: Space stations?
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(...) That's quite true. But I was thinking of situations where gravity would have some small influence on the station itself, perhaps with cumulative effects over time, such as being in a planet's orbit with a nearby moon pulling at it, however (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Listening to IR via NQC
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(...) If I understand you correctly, then this is more difficult than it sounds, because the IR tower shuts down after a few seconds after the PC stops transmitting. Things work fine if the PC initiates a conversation (e.g. by asking the RCX to send (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: MIT Mindfest was(Re: GMLUG.ORG is up!!)
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(...) Well, I do really want to come to this event, *but* ...I'm afraid I don't have the money to make a trip out to MA in addition to my planned trips places in January and over spring break. I was under the original misconception that MIT was in (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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| | More WWF pics on PNLTC site
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Hi All, Come see the two new sub pages from the latest PNLTC show (WWF) in the Seattle area. The new sub pages are Wild West and City Europa. These are shot with a Kodak 260 dig-cam. The pics are stunning (even at half their native resolution). (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | OptoIsolators
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Regarding the serial port isolator (opto-isolators are good for this) you might see if www.blackbox.com has something along those lines. You could also look up parts similar to the 4N33 to see if you could use something like that in a design. Not (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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