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(...) I sincerely hope that you set him straight? Bratty kids usually grow up to be adult jerks. 'Course, in this situation the dad is probably as much if not more to blame than the kid... (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego in the Onion!
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(...) Whahahahaha! I received both the Lego and Lincoln Log ultimatums when I was a kid. (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Chicago Legofest
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(...) As of now, it doesn't seem like there is a whole lot of interest in the event. I know it would *really* help if I knew how many people we were dealing with in GMLUG and especially how many live in Chicago. Chicago maniacs are not notorious for (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wi, lugnet.loc.us.il, lugnet.loc.us.mn, lugnet.loc.us.mi, lugnet.loc.us.in, lugnet.loc.us, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.loc.us.il.chi)
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| | Re: Parts Pack Survey
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(...) Who says you have to have bought the incredibly CRAPPY current service packs to have the right to complain about lack of bulk purchases? What on earth would the mostly stupid, over-priced poor selection packs do for me if I needed 1,000 tiles (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Parts Pack Survey
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(...) 1. Pitchforks 2. Gray macaroni bricks 3. White macaroni bricks 4. Black macaroni bricks 5. Green macaroni bricks 6. White 1x2 tiles 7. Black 1x2 tiles 8. Red 1x2 tiles 9. Green 1x2 tiles 10. Yellow 1x2 tiles 11. Blue 1x2 tiles and so on... (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | FA(eBay): train platforms, tan baseplates and parts, MT windscreens, more...
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4 train/dock platforms (URL) thick green bases 12x24x1 (URL) tan baseplates 16x32 (URL) Model Team 5x10x3 windscreens (URL) TAN parts w. clips or pins (URL) black 3x2 angled bricks (URL) tan 1x4x3 thinwalls (URL) black 1x4x3 thinwalls (URL) Email: (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Group to discuss Teaching Lego Robotics?? lugnet.robotics.teaching ???
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(...) I was moved and motivated too -- and had a great time overall. (And I didn't even get to see half of everything!) (...) Hmm, so there was no panel "by educators, for educators" to discuss meta-topics? How about workshops? I missed the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | I've donated my body to sensors
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I was really inspired by the Mindfest panelists Karen Wilkinsen and Mike Petrich who talked about using Galvanic Skin Response sensors. This is the measurement of skin resistance and how it changes with emotional state. I've started to experiment (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Interests in non-GNU C compiler for RIS?
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Well, what I think (hope!) Richard means is... well... to start from scratch: The subsumption architecture is a way of thinking about programming robots. The idea is that you program lots of very small, simple modules that take simple inputs and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Blue Steep Sloped Corners
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I apologize if this is inappropriately posted to the wrong category. But I was wondering if anyone can identify the set that contains Ble Steep Sloped Corner pieces. These are approximately 2x2 at the base and 3 high, or 2x2x3. I could use about (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Expansion Board and Smooth PWM
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Bill, after unzipping the files, copy all the downloaded drivers into your interactive C Libs directory. These drivers must reside in this directory (drive:\IC\Libs) in order for IC to load them at startup. You will be asked if you want to replace (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Parts Pack Survey
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(...) I don't see how this is relative to the question asked? The fact that I have not ordered any parts packs proves that TLG does not offer anything that I wish to purchase. It does not determine if I have a right to complain about it or not. If (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | RCX 1.0 availablilty
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This is a message I posted on RTL: Here is what I have observed so far: The RCX's in the plain 1.0 boxes all have power jacks. The RCX's in the 1.0 boxes with 1.5 upgrade stickers also have the jacks The RCX's in the 1.5 boxes do not have power (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: motor current trick
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A couple of easy things that you can do to increase the current capabilities of the motor drivers are: (1) replace the L293Ds with SN754410 chips (available from Acroname), and (2) piggyback one H-bridge chip on top of the other to handle almost (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: fast firmware downloader
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(...) Count me in. I'm ditching the Tcl interface - it's just too damn goofy! A standard firmware downloader would be great - especially if it ran on all platforms. As far As I know, Dave Baum is the only guy here who has got a downloader for the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Dutch Auction Experiences
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Scott-A wrote in message ... (...) ended (...) You should get a feedback point from each person who bought a Supercar (whether they will all leave feedback or not is something else). Dutch auctions have their drawbacks, but, all in all, they are (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: High praise for TLG after seeing 4288 bucket for first time
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They actually did that a few years ago. The FreeStyle 'big red bucket' 4128 came with a dark gray brick seperator. This bucket has several macaroni bricks, two yellow baseplates, six of the large fence pieces and some other interesting parts. Oh, it (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: High praise for TLG after seeing 4288 bucket for first time
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(...) This (...) already (...) Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in article (...) Thanks for the very kind offer. I have several already, in both green and silver. :) I was really thinking of the kid who gets this bucket and doesn't yet have (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: fast firmware downloader
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(...) If there's interest in a stand-alone firmware downloader running on the Mac, please let me know. I can certainly add the approriate quad-speed stuff into NQC, and can also make a stand-alone version if Mac users are using pbFORTH or something (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | motor current trick
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I've got a great R/C track vehicle that I want to use as a robot chassis, problem is the 1 Amp motors. I was going to use Kam's suggestion, but then I saw the Sonar schematics. I noticed that the sonar schematics have power coming from the motor (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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