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(...) Im not afraid of the saucers at all, especially if it has bottom versions of them... I would love to find ways to use them in my ships, but so far the saucers from UFO were terribly colored and hideously decaled. The Falcon's saucers would at (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Cannon info
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(...) They actually replaced the spring with a little cylinder. I was able to make a non firing cannon fire but due to the type of spring I put in it the cannon is hard to fire. When it does fire ,watch out, as the 1x1 goes ZZZIIIIPPP across the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: NZ spares stock buyout? (was Some disturbing news
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(...) It's too late. My Lego source said that it was too expensive to ship them over, so they were sold off in NZ, or as she put it "liquidated" (Arg! I had nightmares of a technicoloured Lego soup!!). I trust Lego NZ did not "liquidate" the way (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: GP2D05
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I am using the GP2D02 which is also identical to the GP2D05 except that on the GP2D05 you can manually set the threshole using the built-in trimpot. I am using Barry Brouillet driver for interfacing to the Handyboard/w expansion board and it works (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Firmware behaviour
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(...) The on/off button is always operational. It makes a great NO! STOP THAT! button when your robot is tearing itself apart accidentally. :) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Group to discuss Teaching Lego Robotics?? lugnet.robotics.teaching ???
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(...) In your mind, which issues brought up by/at MindFest are the most important ones to carry on (that aren't covered already yet by online groups), or which would you most like to see covered? (...) Interesting. I wonder if that answer assumes (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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| | Re: Holiday Catalog-2000 Adventurers
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(...) I have a copy but no scanner :( The logo says Arctic, and it's got a mountain in the background - it's all very stylised so that really is about all there is too it! I think the minifigs mentioned (orange and holding Crystals) are actually (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Not necessarily the handyboard....
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I have an old 486 laptop and a few motors and sensors lying around...Does anyone know of a DSP board or some other device I could use to interface the motors and sensors to the laptop for real- time data aquistion? (I already have my handyboard (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: !!! Laser attachments for Mindstorms !!!
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(...) I'd love to see something based on this. (It's something I'm working on too, actually.) My sense is that small imprecisions will quickly add up to large errors, making this method difficult. (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bulk Sales Proposal - Please Read
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(...) The SW sets would be great as they have the better colours (greys, browns, etc). Although what will you do with 500 Darth Maul's or Luke's?!?!? I'm personally after lt. and dk. grey plates and bricks and slopes, so the red bucket doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Double echo
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(...) Standalone loader would be nice. (...) Well, the most important, of course, is the stack bug. BTW, what about multitasker? How many cells would you recommend to allocate? Should be it checked by HAT word or not? (...) Sure, I would like to (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: RCX with AC power - Still Available
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(...) These things are commercially avaible already, my uncle has one. If I remember correctly, it was made by Husqvarna. The major drawback is that the solar power driven one is +/- Hfl 8000 ($4000). One with batteries is half as expensive. Really (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 4559 Cargo Railway
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(...) Correction the link above leads to a nice design for an AMT 2000 locomotive. The Genesis is taller and would probably look better with the tall club car design. - Jim ___ (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)
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| | Firmware behaviour
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Hi all, does the ON/OFF Button work while a program is running with the standard firmware? Or do you need to press RUN to stop it first? Markus. (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: 4x2ReVu: 4559 Cargo Railway
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In lugnet.reviews, Joseph Gonzalez writes: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> I agree! That is why I bought two of them. The kits can be used to make a reasonable "superliner like" passenger train. For the cars 4547 (club car) is a good (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.reviews, lugnet.trains, lugnet.space)
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| | Re: legOS limitation
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Hi Colin, (...) The one task per priority level requirement is gone at least since March. There is a priority chain mechanism now, with round-robin scheduling within a priority level. (...) Yes, a task won't die while higher-priority tasks are (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Mindfest thanks
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(...) Bram, it was great honor to meet you finally -- I've been a great admirer of your LDraw work for as long as you've been doing it. Seeing those two trucks in person was also quite a mind-filler! :) --Todd (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.robotics.events, lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos)
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| | Re: LEGO Club memebership (was: Bluewater offers)
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Sorry, I didn't explain too well - Keychains are _not_ available from TLG UK, unless you're a club member. In other words, you can call LEGO in Wrexham to order current service packs, replacements for broken or missing parts (even from non current (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Personal Pirates Trivia
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Is this possible using hull sections from the 'Flying Time Vessel' ? They seem to be abundantly available now and then at attractive prices. Ray (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Group to discuss Teaching Lego Robotics?? lugnet.robotics.teaching ???
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(...) OK, getting closer. I went more closely through a bunch of recent messages here, scanned a few more papers, and thought more about what Seymour Papert said in his talk, then culled what seemed like the core issues and wrote down a couple (...) (25 years ago, 27-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.admin.general)
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