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(...) it? ¡hola Horacio! Months ago I built a robot that used just two legs to walk, moving its own center of gravity from one leg to the other. It was actually unable to turn, but someone sugested that I could provide it with turnable legs for (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Top Ten Toys on A&E
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(...) I agree, how Ameri-centric of them. I saw the show, and thought for sure that LEGO would be #1. Play-doo beat out LEGO, get real. Lincoln Logs beat out LEGO? Yeah, when was the last time Lincoln Logs could build any thing except a Log Cabin? (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Our Trip to the LEGO Store...
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(...) My memory is bad. She said it would be near DC....the Potomic Mills sounds familiar....but i could be completely wrong. The opening date was Novermber 19th though. Patricia Schempp (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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Steve, I'm working on some material; will be developing more as I teach some Middle School kids starting soon. Let's try to collaborate here. I am researching other Education links and lists for current Mindstorms users in Education. I will try to (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Cat by the tail!: Rcx / MindStorms Classroom
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Fred, I'm confused by the Pitsco site. Which package are you referring to as the "Mindstroms Bulk" set? Have you seen one of these?? I'm wondering if there is any advantage over 4 retail Mindstorms sets at $199 each or so.... Software: I was (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) Yeah, I agree with you on the more fantastic stuff being less desirable. Still, I'd like some more bullet helmets. (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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(...) What, noting that a woman is busty is prejudical against small-busted women? Or thinking that one particular busty woman looks like a whore is prejudicial against small-busted women? :) (...) Didn't say she didn't like it. Just reported her (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: McDonalds Info
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(...) 'Piece Out of Other Pieces', ie, a single part which should have been several pieces. Anything from a 5-high brick to a BURP (Big Ugly Rock Piece) to a Town Jr helicopter landing skid. A related term is SPUD-Single Purpose, Useless, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: stupid question
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(...) I looked at my Netscape bar and wondered why it ddn't look like what Larry said... and realised it's because I have it set to text instead of icons. Mine says intuitive things like "New Msg" and "Reply" instead of showing baffling icons :) (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.promo)
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(...) Was anyone offended? I don't know about anyone else, but Rachael was chuckling when she made her comment about the minifig. (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Castle returns for 2000!
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(...) Would also have to agree on the helmet. I really like it. For an AFOL looking for an alternate theme this looks very promising as long as the sets look as good as the figs. Please please please bring back the generic fig and lots of peasants (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | RE: Categorizing uploaded robot images on legomindstorms.com
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(...) Here's another idea - shamelessly stolen from a great bit of software called SuperJPG. (URL) This is (in my opinion) the best JPG indexing tool available. Anyways, the package lets you add "keys" to your images. It works like this: Suppose you (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) more (...) I have to agree on thew new helmet. I like it muchly. Very cool. I'm not really sure what period it's from or what armies used things like that, but I know I've seen things like that before. I've never seen the silly huge Dragon (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | The Greatest Adventure Movies List
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Here it is fellow Adventurers: Top Adventure Movies -criteria- Classic adventure movies set roughly in the 1900 to 1945 era, but not absolutely so. We are thinking LEGO set compatibility here. 1. The Man Who Would Be King 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 50x50 grey baseplate? From what?
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(...) The 50x50 was available from the late 1960's until probably the middle 1970's (not sure about the exact dates). I think that the reason they switched to the 48x48 was due to the fact that 4 of the 48x48 are the same size as 9 of the 32x32 (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Categorizing uploaded robot images on legomindstorms.com
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Russell Stoll <admin@legomindstorms.com> wrote in message news:FKJB41.A1C@lugnet.com... (...) Russ; I would try to put the categories in a tree structure. The for example first branch might be Mobil or Stationary. Then for Mobil the branch might be (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Entertainer Offers - Makro offers
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(...) Reported by my sister-in-law, Costco in Watford have 6087 for just £11.95 (Inc VAT) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Bulkhead Flat
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(...) I tried it from the browser and it worked fine. Then I just saved it from ML-CAD. Pretty nice, as for the first time, I didn't have to actually select MLCAD from my program list. Usually I have to find it for LDraw files. (...) The initial (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Busy Bee Castle News
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(...) I bought one couple months back at the toy shop in the Great Western Outlet mall in Swindon for £39. They had several, but last weekend when I went again they had all gone. Busy Bee's price seems OK, but not great. ps the same shop had a dozen (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: SW9 model
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:381E2229.DFFFD0...ger.net... (...) It doesn't work for me either, until I split the .mpd file. LDLite has a problem handling longer .mpd files, though your file isn't as long as most I've seen (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad)
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