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(...) Hi Michael, i also tried the new sensor code and it seems to work for me. I noticed the rotation sensor to stop working properly with nearly exhausted batteries, but i think that's a minor issue, maybe it's not legOS specific. (...) well, most (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Recension: 3040: Husask
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Tobias Möller skrev... (...) Det är väl lite av idén med Basic, att man ska hitta på själv och inte vara styrd av instruktioner. Jag köpte själv ett par av de beryktade Blue Bulk Tubs med 1200 bitar i varje. Ett rejält tillskott i min bitsamling, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.se)
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| | Re: Pastel = Profit (Was Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?)
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(...) By the same token, I could ask you to prove that they aren't secret. But with the limited information that we have that would be fruitless. We are in .debate, so I see nothing wrong with trying to discuss this intelligently. My view is that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Paging Mathew Miller
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Hi, Sorry to spam the list like this, but I am looking for Mathew Miller, because I would like to get permission to use his pictures of my lego car taken at Mindfest in my website. Thanks in advance! In the meantime, to make it list-worthy, you can (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Star Wars Lego 40% off at K-mart
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(...) Just to be way too pedantic, the ad on Lego does say 50% off the _regular price_ on the second set. This would still be 35% off, average, and our computer system probably can't handle that fine of a distinction. (Or the people who enter the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Human Mood Dection (Through Voice)
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That sounds interesting, but I don't think it would be practical to make. I think there is a lot of processing power required to interpret the stress in ones voice. The software/hardware lie detectors that I have seen nust have a way to know what is (...) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Human Mood Dection (Through Voice)
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About 10-15 years ago or so, Popular Electronics (I think) had an article about a human voice micro-tremor analyzer. The distribution/transform of any utterance was alleged to be indicative of a person's mood and/or honesty. It was said to work even (...) (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | FIRST and FLL
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I am involved with FIRST and FLL (FIRST Lego League) here in southern MI. We use our FIRST team as mentors for our FLL teams (currently we have 9 teams througthout the ISD). I am going to talk to the kids about using CAD to model their Lego robots (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: tuttitubi????
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(...) affascinante, (...) Tuttavia, (...) sta (...) Io, al contrario di Carlo, costruisco in gran parte senza seguire le istruzioni. Molti dei kit che possiedo non sono neanche mai stati montati :-) Per questa ragione sono più vicino alla posizione (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?
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Richard Franks <spontificus@__nospa...yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FMG645.9Ct@lugnet.com... (...) in (...) Oh, Please...No more stretches OK? It's not that sort of evidence, even there is not just a bit of similarity. If your brother would have (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What is a set, philosophically
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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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| | Re: Considering parting out 2 4561s
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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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| | Re: This dropped out of the papers this weekend...
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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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| | Re: Exploration Mars Availalble?
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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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| | Re: Exploration Mars Availalble?
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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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| | rotation sensors in legOS 0.2.2
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Has anyone out there successfully had a rotation sensor running in legOS 0.2.2 I have had a quick look through the last few posts I could find on lugnet and we have recompiled legOS to include the updated dsensor.c and dsensor.h code found on the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegAuz
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(...) Quick!! Let's build a big LEGO wall around Australia to keep him out!! Stop him from posting to our group. Nasty, eavesdropping, opinionated meanie!!! ;-) Welcome to "Australia", Todd (...) Todd does raise an interesting point. We should chose (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.au.nsw.syd)
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| | Re: 4561 sale at kbkids
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Well, after just ordering one from KB last night, I ordered one from Toysmart after seeing this post. Mine totalled to $72.79 - there was no shipping, no tax, and 30% off the $103.98 sale price. CRUD, I KNEW this was going to happen - I promised (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Has anyone even SEEN bucket 4285? Tub 4291? In the US?
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The Lego website has shown a smaller BASIC bucket, 4285, for months and months. They put it on the site at the same time that they put info about the 4288 up. 4288 is available everywhere I look, but I have YET to find 4285. Has anyone seen one yet? (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Technic Space Shuttle on sale at Zany Brainy
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Hi all. I was just going through my Sunday L.A. Times, and found a flyer from Zany Brainy. They're selling the Space Shuttle kit for $74.99. (And all you guys better stay away from the store down the street from me until I get mine! :-) d. (25 years ago, 5-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pastel = Profit (Was Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?)
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Well, the other side of the coin is that YOU, and ONLY you, knew the full details of what they did/did not say was OK. All we have to go on is the Fair Use Policy posted on lego.com. We (the unwashed <g>) won't know any better unless the Policy is (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Received my RIS 1.5 Upgrade Kit
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(...) Is this a free upgrade only if you bought your RIS set recently? Or is it this price to everyone in Canada? <ICS> (25 years ago, 7-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | just checking... did the server die?
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haven't received anything from the lego listserv group in a few days and I just am checking... did the server crash? cc to Dave Baum : 'cause he is Mr. Legos Robotics :) (25 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Exploration Mars Availalble?
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(...) Well, from the press release below, it seems like they're talking about a digital (mid-res?) *photo* cam, not a video cam. (...) ___...___ Marco C. aka McViper (25 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pastel = Profit (Was Re: 2000 Dealer catalogue Removal Request Backfire?)
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(...) Whoops, darn it, I did it again. I meant this message, (URL) #2743. Sorry. --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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