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(...) That sounds interesting. I tend to model inanimate objects like most people. (...) Yes, I am always amazed at those models which use 1000's of the same bricks, and seeing folks say they bought dozens of buckets just to get the right number of (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: controlling RCX from PC?!
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nik heger wrote in message ... (...) Remember the NASA Pathfinder? Signal round-trip was about 30 minutes! Still, they did some interesting research. Try to put more decision-making capabilities in the RCX itself and let the PC handle its behaviour (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Bulk Sales Proposal - Please Read
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There has been much discussion lately about the ordering of bulk parts. One of the suggestions was to set up a mechanism to purchase currently available sets in large quantities and then part them out. While this solution does not solve all the (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | What should be in the next version of RcxCC
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Dear RcxCC users, I am running out of ideas of what to add to Rcx Command Center. So I like to ask you what you like to see next. Please be as specific as you can. In particular, I have heard a number of people making remarks about tools for (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Why basic bricks are cheap in US (was Re: More Mindfest Tidbits
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Ray Sanders wrote in message <3815C171.E7E205BE@gate.net>... (...) I think you may be right for at least some of the 'special' pieces. For example, the technic pieces are produced in Swiss mainly. BUT, there's also another reason why basic brick (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Some news, thoughts and questions
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(...) Sorry, I probably spelled out the sentence wrongly. I meant to say that someone had bought the set in the UK, and I really don't know anything more about the availablilty of the set. (...) I've already seen some scans of the new parts, so that (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Some news, thoughts and questions
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(...) Yup that´s the one. (...) Was ? not any longer ? I don´t know about here. It´s a special preview/presale for Vedes toy stores. I asked to see their catalogue, to see the other new sets, but TLG hasn´t released a "sales"-catalogue for the shops (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Some news, thoughts and questions
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(...) This is the 8001, right? (URL) I learned that this was available (some places) in the UK for approx £20 as well. I find this price a tad expensive. I mean, the 8001 doesn't really seem to have that many parts. Perhaps twice as many parts as a (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Mumble, mumble, Lego reps and shopping experiences
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Hi all, It would be useful to me at least for some Sydneysider to indicate where the better Lego shopping is. I mean, Toys'r'Us by Moore Park is the best I've seen, and that was not very good compared to Wellington (NZ) where I lived last year. Is (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| | Re: Desperation sets in!!
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Hi Paul, I have two of the spocked wheels you are looking for. just Email me an address and there yours. Jeffrey Baldwin Heatwaaave@aol.com (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Some news, thoughts and questions
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After a week offline, I found over 300 posts from LUGNET/StarWars in my email. So please excuse if I repeat old "news". The Battledroid is available in Germany for 59.99 DM at all Vedes stores. The release for the other 2 droids is Feb.2000. I just (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Servo 16 pgm +SPI on HC11
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I have to admit that I have not actually finished the project, work commitments meant that it was shelved for a while. The easiest way to communicate to the HC11 is to use the software from the HB website that allows you to use one of the pins on (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Lego Creator soft ware
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No Train wheels yep! that could be a problem thanks for the info. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.games)
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| | Re: Some disturbing news
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It's 8 1/2 x 11 , one sheet, folds up and could be put into (...) discovered (...) They only seem to come in some of the larger sets now days.... (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Some interesting Stats on Mindfest photo pages
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As some of you may know, I recently resized Mathew Miller's Mindfest photos and hosted them on my site. I just went over the log statistics and found them rather interesting. Daily Totals for troy.simplenet.com: Kilobytes Date Clients Hits Page Hits (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Double echo
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(...) I also think that standardisation is not a primary goal in our case ;) I still can't see a real necessity to have it as switchable feature, but having these ECHO_ON / ECHO_OFF available it's better then nothing. Would be nice to have them in a (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: Datsville is filling up!
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Lars C. Hassing wrote in message ... (...) You can grab a new beta v1.2 Win32 L3P32 at (URL) has room for 2000 different parts (DAT files). Be sure to try out the new STUDS flag in the POV-file to reduce rendering time during the test renderings. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Debugging
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I am developing a course at SJSU using the handyboard as the microcontroller for a competition being held at the end of the semester. This new course have us build the handyboard from scratch and go through the debugging process. I have help some (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | EXPLANATION FROM DYA
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Hi Legofans, I give you explanation concerning the prices on DYA website. I suppose you live in different countries. In France and European Community, on account of customs laws, we pay the price with the french tax: it's the price T.T.C. (all (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | EXPLANATION FROM DYA
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Hi Legofans, I give you explanation concerning the prices on DYA website. I suppose you live in different countries. In France and European Community, on account of customs laws, we pay the price with the french tax: it's the price T.T.C. (all (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | EXPLANATION FROM DYA
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Hi Legofans, I give you explanation concerning the prices on DYA website. I suppose you live in different countries. In France and European Community, on account of customs laws, we pay the price with the french tax: it's the price T.T.C. (all (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Mythical creatures was:Re: Pricing and stuff
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(...) I've seen them too...Even talked to them down here in Vic.Unfortunately, you can't always believe what they say :-(, as I was told that this year we would probably be getting an Aus only range [Although there is still time] by a Lego rep at (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| | 8001 Battledroid in UK
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In case anyone is interested, I have just purchased an 8001 Battledroid in Toys 'R Us in Aberdeen for GBP 19.99. I guess that means that they are now generally available in the UK. Having just assembled the model I just have to ask "when are TLC (...) (27 years ago, 26-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: BT2 *mostly* bites (Was: Picture of Falcon?)
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(...) I actually used to have a grey ball cap with the Space logo on it that I bought at a skate shop for $25. It was really cool, I have NO idea what happened to it though =/ Kya (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Blue Steep Sloped Corners
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Richard Marchetti wrote in message ... (...) or (...) as (...) I'm not a space fan, but it could be this one: (URL) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 5918 Scorpion Tracker
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(...) I enjoyed the model so much I bought two of them!!! (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: NELUG - Some things we learned while presenting at Mindfest
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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... (27 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. (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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... (27 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: (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 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 (...) (27 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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