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(...) Why spend money on a laser, that should have a focused beam, when all you're going to do basically, is turn it into a flashlight? (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: AFOL's in Wilkes-Barre, PA
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(...) have (...) Boulder (...) thanks! I'll check some of those places out. i hate to offend any natives here, but the whole town reminds me of a suburb that doesn't have a city to belong to. I did find both TRUs, and I bought the big Space Shuttle (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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Hi all, I'm working on a dead reckoning 'bot. I'm not really interested in what the wheels are doing unless they're stalled. Anyone know any good tricks for monitoring the motor current, or should I go with shaft encoders anyway? Thanks! Paul (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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You can also take the "lens" out of the front of a good laser pointer and it does the same thing. KL (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Castle site
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I am insanly jealous of anyone who can accomplish such a feat. I lack the vision and being in the service the space to set about such a project...BRAVO. I have many sets and many figures, but my castles are right out of the box. One day, my boys (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: AFOL's in Wilkes-Barre, PA
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I have lots of relatives in WB. I remember when I was a kid visiting those relatives, one of my favorite things to do was to go down to the "Corner Toy Store" (?) on Market Street to look at Lego. It's long gone however. At least there is a TRU up (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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| | Re: AFOL's in Wilkes-Barre, PA
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(...) Chris: I'm sorry that I'm going to miss you . . . but I'm not in WB right now. I have family in WB, so I often go on vacation there, and I thought that I'd try to make some contacts and future friends in that area. When I was there last summer (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.us.pa.phi.swb)
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| | Dutch Shell Promo Sets
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I've just got back from Germany, where I was indulging another of my hobbies (boardgames). Anyway, our route took us through Holland, and of course the car needed topping up with petrol, and of course one thing lead to another ... I came back with (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Some interesting Stats on Mindfest photo pages
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(...) I'll say -- wow! -- 500+ MB/day of outgoing HTTP traffic just from these images alone -- that's popular! (...) What does the number there to the left of the client/hostname mean? Is that the number of page views for that client, or the number (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | 4x2ReVu: 6042 Dungeon Hunters
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The Vorgem Marshes have swallowed yet another group of victims! This time a small wagon carrying farm workers was found run off the county roadway, axle deep in the smelly swampland with nary a sole in sight. Clearly the Gobragee Beast still lives (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: IntelliMouse Ripe for Hacking
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Through the PS/2 adapter it doesn't require any special driver. The native USB plug requires a driver in Windows 98. Cheers, Jim Andy Gombos <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:3816307E.540F5E...nfi.net... (...) to the (...) it cannot (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: McDonalds Info
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(...) It could certainly be the new blue-purple color -- the one that shows up in the new DUPLO Dinosaurs sets. It's not purple, and it's not blue, but it's in-between. It's a *gorgeous* color and it does look great with yellow or orange. What's got (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Microfig-scale heavy melee mech (Was: Microfig-scale heavy worker mech)
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(...) Thanks, man! :-, (...) Yah, well, um, you know, *coughs shrugs* I'll get to it...eventually? ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: One more time: The 2000 A-Wing is not too small
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(...) No, the X-Wing is 12.5 meters long. This is straight from www.starwars.com. You can double check for yourself if you like. Jeff "I've had enough. I will not allow this! I will pay you back; because forgiveness, for one like you, could never be (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Microfig-scale BattleMech [DAT]
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Hey folks, Well, I caved in and built the ubiquitous BattleMech -- I think it's patterned after a Madcat, but I'm not sure... If anyone wants to come up with the BattleTech rules (1) for this scale (2), I'll build some more models. Maybe some Lego (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Entertainer Offers
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I havent checked this out personally yet, but my wife came back from Camberley saying that the Entertainer had a window display of discounted lego. She even noted down a few numbers and prices (wasnt that nice of her) 6097 - night lords castle £30 (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: 2000 A-Wing comments
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(...) about (...) because (...) Here is Ben Fleskes' original message about the relative sizes of the X-Wing and the Y-Wing: < (URL) > In brief, the average ratio comes to 2.854 studs/meters. TLG's A-Wing is 21 studs long, making the Ratio for it (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Personal Projects
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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 19:37:25 GMT, Mark Lindsey uttered the following profundities... (...) pyramids and parthenon (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Greatest Adventurer Movies
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(...) If anyone knows please post it. Lucasfilm has a site up advertising these along with a 12 volume Young Indiana Jones movie set and they don't even bother to list the price or how to order them. Commercials for these aired last night, but again (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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(...) Hmm, I don't think that's quite true. You can equip the robots with rotation sensors, and have them programmed such that they will send the values of their respective rotation sensors every so often. They can either send them to one another (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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