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Welcome aboard, Dave (and David). Sounds like a pretty good idea, but one caveats: if you plan on using the standard light sensor, be aware that it does not (in my experience) give constant readings: i.e., point it at a spot on a wall and let it (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: LEGO trains...The Future of Model Railroading?
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snip Until LEGO can produce a good line of attractive sets, get them in the stores, and advertise them nothing will change. Yep. The easiest way to do this would be to reintroduce the Metroliner, or something very similar, but in a different colour. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Light Saber Duel on sale at Toysrus.com
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I think it is more like they want to clear out 1999 SW sets to make room in the warehouses for 2000 SW sets ;-) (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: LEGO/DK event at Ottakars
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(...) Richard got to post before I did. My Five year old has just been given the two new books for people & animals, made "from bricks that you have at home". I would be interested to find out how many of these models (if any) can be completed, in (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Homebrew rotation sensor idea
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Excellent idea! I'd suspect that the relationship would be sinusoidal rather than linear, but who knows? If it is, it's a sine/cosine generator, too. Sone LEDs (laser diodes, don't know about others) are polarized in some specific plane. It is (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Light Saber Duel on sale at Toysrus.com
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(...) Woo Hoo!, I picked this up for $21.49 including sales tax. Have to love those suicidal 60% off need to make the website traffic numbers look good sale! Will Who could never see spending $39 on this set, much less $49.99! P.S. See Mike, I told (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Help - RCX sensor port failure
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(...) "Stuck" was the magic word. It was (of course) somehow only stuck thinking it was a touch sensor port. I used the Mindstorms RCX code to re-program all sensor ports as light sensors downloaded and then - nothing - still the same error (no (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi All, New guy here (some background below, if you're interested), been lurking for a week or so, and I'm off to buy my 1st Mindstorms set as soon as Toys 'R Us opens this morning...they have both 1.0 and 1.5 on the shelf, I'll be getting 1.0 after (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | COT: Can anyone help me get some Humongous games?
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Completely off topic: I want to get some Humongous Entertaniment CDROM games for my kids at Christmas. Sadly, they are not distributed in the UK. I can order them at www.humongous.com but would have to end up paying $30 DHL shipping AND taxes, duty (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Anyone have a good name for TLC part#30303?
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Jonathan Wilson wrote in message: (...) fighter (...) As long as you have wanted that part, I figured *you* would have made it by now. ---D M Garcia (URL) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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