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(...) I have been ldrawing a skiff on my lunch hour for several weeks now. It is currently somewhere around 75 pieces. It has a retractable plank and I am currently working on the "cranes" underneath it. I'm sure LEGO could do the offical one with (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | 8001 Technic SW droid found in Leicester Toymaster!
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Did anyone else pick up the message in rtl? Anyone else seen it? Its one of 3 sets shown on the in-set SW catalogue! Sadly the guy doesn't have a scanner :-( Now I am going to have to make a special trip to the nearest Toymaster to me tomorrow... (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | RE: stuff
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I've always assumed the material is polystyrene, probably a modified resin for impact resistance. You could basically eat this stuff, it's used for plastic forks, etc, but I wouldn't smoke it ;>) As to motors, several folks including myself, have (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Best Buy
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(...) All the Best Buys seem to be carrying the complete Mindstorms line. I think it is supposed to match the high tech toys type thing. (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: interfacing the GP2D12
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Thats great Gary, This was the same conclusion that I'd come to myself, however I've now run into another problem with the otherwise brilliant 'D12 sensor. I'm currently using the Digitalker speech system from Jameco, and when the 'D12 is plugged in (...) (25 years ago, 14-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Yellow Castle: Reasonable price?
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(...) Thank you for the reply, but...but...but the question is: what is a reasonable price? :-) Bruce (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Upcoming _Star Wars_ Mindstorms and Technics Releases
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(...) Aww, shut up Steve, that would be cool :) I kinda like them. I though Wicket was cool. He still ranks 4th on my list of favorite characters. Ryan "Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: grey plates service pack?
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(...) Nope. James (URL) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Upcoming _Star Wars_ Mindstorms and Technics Releases
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(...) Mel Brooks: "I love my people... Pull!" Peasant: "Waaauuuuggghhhh!!!!!" Crossbow: [THUNK!!!] Mel: "It's _good_ to be the King!" (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | RE: Help me plan for Mindfest.
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Wait... For those of us staying at the Marriot, ther should be a free shuttle from the airport, right? I'll check up on this and let you know... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- The train stops at the train station, The bus stops at the bus (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.org.us)
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| | Re: Yellow Castle: Reasonable price?
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(...) I've kept a little history of past auctions of this set. These three auctions were for loose but complete and relatively decent condition sets; 205,178,158. Lately, there have been a few incomplete ones on ebay, and I don't think they're worth (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | grey plates service pack?
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Is there such an item available? Pat J (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | lots of MISB sets FA/FT
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Hi everyone! I have the following MISB sets for auction. If you are interested, please mail your bid(s) to a.m. address; highest bid received by next Thursday 21st 1800h GMT wins. If there's enough feedback, I may post a status list in a few days. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Upcoming _Star Wars_ Mindstorms and Technics Releases
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(...) Two words: skeet shooting Steve (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 2000 SW Sets
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James Simpson <jsimpson@rice.edu> wrote in message news:FJnKLK.BEu@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) I haven't seen the pics myself, but that won't stop me from making some wild guesses. I can estimate the number of pieces for the B-Wing at about 190. (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Yellow Castle: Reasonable price?
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The usual search through eBay has the usual wild price shifts with little regard to condition or completeness. What would a reasonable price range for this be (375/6075 Yellow Castle)? Bruce (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: More powerful motors
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I would like to see an RCX control a really fast RC car. It would be cool to see it pilot it flawlessly around a circle track. (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego.com - new look
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(...) much, (...) It loads super fast for me. Of course once it's loaded all that's there is a blank screen that fades from light blue at the bottom to dark blue at the top. Looks like the background screen you get during software installs. No (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Busy-Bee has 6347 Monorail Accessory Track!
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Alan Demlow wrote in message ... (...) (Maersk (...) I asked if they had received anything else and the monorail track was the only thing new. In addition to Blue Hoppers, they appear to be out of Retrostations (2150) and Maersk Cargo Trucks (1831) (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains)
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| | More powerful motors
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I am curious to know why you think you would need to amplify the RCX motor outputs? The Lego motors are very efficient under no load. But the bridge drivers in the RCX seem to cope with the stalled state (about 250mA). Unless you are going to use (...) (25 years ago, 15-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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