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(...) In my, personal, opinion I own a set if I have the pieces for it, without the same pieces being used for other sets. If I have bought, say set number 1 and set number 2, and with ttheir combined pieces, then either I own set 1 and set 2 OR I (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Not to discourage you or anything, but you might want to know that this is already being done by Dwayne Towell, and I believe he purchased something like 10 sets. See his auctions here: (URL) if you scroll down in this newsgroup, you'll find a (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | RUSH TO SOLOMON POND MALL, MA
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Hey!!!!!! 20-25% off on all Lego. Learning Smith at Solomon Pond Mall is going out of busineess. Sad!! BUT!!! They are selling Lego.. (everything) at atleast 20% off. I saw RIS, Scout and other Mindstorms in a high volume pile up in the store. If (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: External Power Port Problem..?
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Try a PTC (positive temperature coefficient) fuse for current limiting. They are available world wide through Digi-key, and I suspect Radio Shack will have a limited selection. They are available in SMT or through hole, so they'd be easy to fit in (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Money saving news...hurry
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Friends, I am very happy to tell you that you can get all the Lego MindStorms at a amzing discount of 20%. Hurry. This is at Learning Smith. In Solomon Pond Mall. Massachusets. It is located on Route 290 in Berlin. The store telephone number is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Gelukt!
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Mijn member ID nummer is 101 Met veel dank aan Dave voor het verzenden van het geld naar de VS Sybrand Bonsma (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.nl)
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(...) In Norway, we always open the presents after the Christmas dinner on the 24th of December, typically around 18-20. (That's 6-8pm.) We normally have to wait until the dishes are done, too, but I have a feeling that this is done to have the kids (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general, lugnet.technic)
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| | Implementing Finite State Machines
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Hi all! I have been struggling with a fairly large FSM implementation in NQC and came to realize that maybe most of the more advanced NQC applications might be actually FSMs (or could become)... Because I think it is a little awkward to handle a FSM (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | RE: Exploration Mars Availalble?
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Hmmm... there are two entirely different pictures in the catalog. One shows a vehicle with large linked threads. The other shows a base station and a rover with 6 wheels. That picture has all kinds of extra parts - the yellow worm gear boxes on the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Exploration Mars Availalble?
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Looks like there will be two sets. From the list of 2000 sets (available at lugnet.accounce, or go to (URL) then Announcements): 3801 ULTIMATE ACCESSORIES 9731 5702012002922 LEGO CAM 9735 5702012004582 ROBOTICS DISCOVERY SET (New for this part of (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Space Shuttle Set for Sale at ZanyBrainy!
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For all of you who are looking for spare parts, the generally thought of BEST lego set for additional technic parts (as well as a REALLY cool set) is 8480 (the Technic Space Shuttle) ZanyBrainy has that on sale from Dec 5 to the 11th for 50% off!!! (...) (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Wow! that looks like a really cool set. Lander, Rover and tank treads! KL (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Rack and Pinion Steering and idea for precise angle of rotation detection
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I finally threw together my own Lego MindStorms site. www.wordsmithdigital...indstorms/ On it ((URL) is a scan and detailed description of my (at last) finally-successful implementation of a rack-and-pinion type of steering mechanism that will allow (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Exploration Mars Available?
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I've done some editing (zooming and brightening) on the Lego-supplied photo. Results/speculation are at (URL) Wilcox WordSmith Digital Document Services 403 VFW Drive Rockland, MA 02370 781-871-6162 fax 781-871-6264 (URL) 24868783 - Web design (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: You are not authorized to view this page
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big system failure has occurred. following is msg from our sys admins. fred as i'm sure you all have noticed, our most critial file server hub.media.mit.edu is having major problems. we are looking into it but do not currently have an estimate of (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | NQC 2.1 in beta test (Scout support, fast firmware)
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NQC 2.1 b1 is available at (URL) two "big" features are fast firmware downloading (4x speed) and preliminary support for the Scout. Emphasis on "preliminary". It is enough to do some basic NQC stuff on the Scout, but most of the nifty Scout features (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.scout)
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I've done some editing (zooming and brightening) on the Lego-supplied photo. Results/speculation are at (URL) Wilcox WordSmith Digital Document Services 403 VFW Drive Rockland, MA 02370 781-871-6162 fax 781-871-6264 (URL) 24868783 - Web design (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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