 | | Open NELUG Meeting Saturday 10/23 @ 7:00 PM.
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The New England Lego Users' Group (NELUG) will be hosting an open meeting on Saturday, October 23rd at 7:00 PM, during the upcoming MindFest event. The MindFest organizers at the MIT Media Lab have graciously offered us a large room for the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Somebody with a feedback of -2 is high bidder on my auction!
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(...) Which is another problem with the feedback system--truly bad risks will never show up, because as soon as someone gets a bad feedback value, they'll just quit and make a new account. Steve (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Close-ups on rebelscum.com
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Hello all, I decided to check out www.rebelscum.com this morning, just to see if they had posted any more pics from the new catalog. Unfortunately, they haven't posted any new ones, but they do have three higher-res scans from sections of the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Track parts naming scheme survey
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(...) My 12V trains don't move when I put them on the 4.5V-only track :) Now seriously, maybe we could drop the "4.5" from the name and replace it with "old" but I don't think it's going to be a good idea. Of course we'd have to keep the current (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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(...) Wasn't this what the SUN Jini demo did? Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT
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(...) I don't need the WINDING UNKNOWN, since it's redundant with CLIPPING OFF. When clipping is OFF you don't care the state of the winding. I am curious, what is CLIPPING -1 ? an UNKNOWN, CLIPPING when not found is assumed as OFF (the safe side), (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT
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(...) touche'! (...) Not exactly! If the color has any transparency, force CLIPPING OFF, irrespective of what the file TAGS inform. (SIDE NOTE) when using the tag 0 CLIPPING ON you are not informing the program that it MUST do clipping, but instead (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Tower Building
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(...) "Something amazing took place in an enormous aircraft hanger in Bedfordshire over the weekend of 5th-6th June 1999: A team made up of 12 expert K'NEX model builders and pupils of Lower Campton School set a new world record by constructing the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: why eBay proxy bidding is broken
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(...) That is how eBay does it, I believe. However, Larry (among others, myself included) feels that you should be required to exceed the proxy by the minimum bid, not just the current bid. I'll let Larry explain the reasoning behind this, he's (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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(...) My initial thought was "Why?", but of course the next couple of posts displayed the creative energy of this group and contained several good answers to my question. For range finding using the laser wouldn't monitoring the intensity of the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Comprehensive meta-command list
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(...) I think that the ideia here is: - Assume any file you reference as CCW WINDING (assuming CCW as default) - Assume any file as it's polygonal faces facing outward (if applicable) - Every time you want a diferent orientation, just use the INVERT (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT
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On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 18:15:40 GMT, Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote: Follow-up note: the more I look at this, the more I like using WINDING / CLIPPING instead of FACE. For reasons listed by Rui, for more flexibility, for the ability to enable (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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i assume that i will be able to make a small lego robot that hunts for annoying dogs in the neiborhood and vaproizes them. i demand no less. b ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | [MN] - Animals (Horses, Dragons, Alligaotrs, Etc.) Posted to eBay/BRICKS
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My Animal lots have been posted to the auction sites. The following are on the BRICKS site: (URL) 9 Brown Horses [PIC] 04 days 23 hours + 0 $8.75 [MN] 5 Black Octopus (Octopi?) [PIC] 04 days 23 hours + 0 $3.50 [MN] 5 Black Octopus (Octopi?) [PIC] 04 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Clipping / CCW / CW / INVERT
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(...) No, thank you! (...) I don't know if I knew you knew that, but I was almost positive you knew that. And I knew most everyone else knew that, but I wasn't sure absolutely everyone knew that. ;) (...) Right. New programs may handle transparency (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Lego Mania back issues
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Hey fellow Adventurers fans I am looking to get scans from some back issues of Lego Mania magazines. I am specifically looking to get scans of the Adventurers' comics from the following issues: Jan-Feb 1998 Nov-Dec 1998 Jan-Feb 1999 Jul-Aug 1999 If (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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Andy Gombos <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:37FE04DD.CA5505...nfi.net... (...) Maybe you could use it to blind people or pets. (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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I think a laser would be very useful for vaporizing pesky obstacles, I'd like mine to be a CO2 @ 50 Watts please....Blue bricks would be just fine :>)) Seriously, a laser might be an interesting source of light for a homing beacon. I don't know if I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: why eBay proxy bidding is broken
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(...) Now I am no fan of Ebay but here is one possible scenario as to how this could have happened... 1. Opening bid on box of 20 widgets = $30 2. On 9/30 pmfoster bids $50 but because of proxy bidding price is set at $30. 3. On 10/5 ebart3 comes in (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: new Millennium Falcon
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I don't think so. It looks like it has too much detail to be made out of bricks. What we need is a better scan. KL (...) (25 years ago, 8-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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