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(...) later ~ craig~ (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'd actually kicked around offering a buffing service. Dremel (and various other mini-tool companies) do make a small buffing wheel for crafts, so it's not out of the question by any means. I'm generally in your corner on this, but when it (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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John Neal wrote in message <3861A7FE.587FEB44@u...st.net>... (...) Well, I guess I can give my wish list. I am going to hope the Marketing folks at Lego will archive these posts and perhaps do some analysis on them that leads to some type of bulk (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) what about brad justus' suggestion, "KABOB' ~ Kid w/ A Bunch Of Bricks"...? i thought it was great. later ~ craig~ (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) What set number is that? S@H has never heard of that one! :-) All kidding aside, the idea has been previously raised of themed buckets to distribute theme-based pieces a la Freestyle, and I think it's a great idea! I'd love a Res-Q bucket, or (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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This will be my first review. Set 6474 Wheeled Front Shovel Piece count 47 pcs. cost $6.00 The set came with two bags containg seperate instructios.when I put this together I noticed that they used a flat plate for the platform instesd of the one (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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(...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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Hmmm.... Aren't teenagers and adolescents one and the same? Anyway, the reason the term AFOL exists is because if one were (at least among the general population) to say that someone is a fan of Lego, it would be assumed that the fan is not an (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi. If you are seriously considering using other processors, then this unit is far from being the only possibility. (...) 1) The Stamp microprocessors directly support programming in BASIC. Stamps are widely used in the Sumo Robot community. 2) The (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's the canonical cannon joke, so don't anyone else tell it here please. As to liking disliking South Park, I'm too old or too smart to like it, not sure which. I just think calling the parka guy Kenny is funny. I don't see that as (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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Is this something that one could mechanise? Ala a buffing wheel or the like. Purely hypotehtical question for me, the thought of actually removing printing (even happy meal printing) makes me blanch, Blanche! (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Well, despite having just posted that I think we should wait to see what they're looking for, I have to point out that no list is complete without the canonical trainhead wishlist... 1x2x3 windows and their glass... with the train style divider (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Another great missive. Here's my comment. So far we've been all over the map on feedback. No topic is off bounds because, finally, someone actually popped up and said "yes, we want to listen". But too much of a muchness is too much(1)! So to help (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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Mr L F Braun wrote in message <385F388B.AA3ED961@p...su.edu>... (...) piratical (...) "proper" (...) thing I (...) Hm, it's sounding like Virginia would be a reasonably central location that most of us could get to. I really need to start building (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.boats)
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(...) I agree. Although 6085 comes close. Dan (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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The travellers have just changed posts again and are now in another part of England sharing accommidations with David where they will stay until the New year and then they will make their appearance in the USA, so all the USAer on the list be sure (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Mindstorms spirit.ocx programming = RCX ASM coding? (fwd)
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(...) control-structure. (...) like this: (...) Preprocesors can make things a little less verbose and also assign readable names to constants. However, its quite another thing to convert infix notation to function calls or allocate temporary (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Brad- From your latest post I take it that you are soliciting advice as to which bricks should be offered in bulk. Although this topic has been discussed at great length many times and in different NGs, I thought that perhaps it would be good to go (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) My biggest gripe about spirit is that it is only available for Win32. If it had also been available on Mac and Linux I would've layered NQC on top of it and never had to create a non "LEGO sanctioned" interface to the RCX. Actually, TLG now (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I think that was the point... (...) James (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Those points aside, the MIT software actually generates code for the RCX. (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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----- Forwarded message from Matthew Miller ----- From: mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) Subject: Re: First Lego League Software Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:33:31 GMT On a related note: it's really unfortunate that the MIT Logo stuff isn't publicly (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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No way. Fan Of Lego could mean any age. How about TFOL (13-19) for Teenage Fan Of Lego and ADFOL (12 and under) for ADolescent Fan Of Lego. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Hi Jeremy, Better yet, Southcenter Zany Brainy has some of the new sets now, here's a list: 7124 Flash Speeder $9.99 7115 Gungan Patrol $12.99 7104 Desert Skiff $5.99 7134 A-wing Fighter $12.99 7180 B-wing at Rebel Control Center $34.99 8000 Pit (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.wa)
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(...) Well, not to get into "well, when I was a boy" :) but I was in third grade when I started BASIC programming. I didn't have a computer at home; just access to the one Apple ][+ in my classroom at school. I'm not bragging or anything -- while I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) sbiraji (...) posmivali (...) rokoch (...) Potom (...) To je fakt smula. Za to co bys dostal kdybys to bejval prodal na internetu by jsi si mohl koupit nejakou horsi chalupu nekde na venkove :-) A nebo novy auto :-) Ty ceny za ktery se lego (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.cz)
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After posting my negative thoughts, I ran out to TRU (among others) and hit the JACKPOT!! Sort of. I saw all of the new (not July or May) sets. The only ones missing were the B-Wing and Slave 1. I plan on buying TONS of the Flash Speeder for the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.loc.us.tx, lugnet.loc.us.tx.ama, lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Ja mam rad hlavne historicke modely. Hlavne hrady a piraty. Tez mam rad kosmonauty ale taky technic superauta (8880 a 8448). Cim vetsi tim lepsi ;-) Nikdy jsem nevlastnil model team ale chtel bych dostat ten velky nakladak 5571 vyrobeny v roce (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.sk)
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn862e08.vrj.....bu.edu... (...) Well, I worked with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders, after school, and with limited computer resources, and believe me, we barely could get time to deal with RCX (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Hmm...I think these two have the most possibility. Maybe one big castle, being beseiged by an enemy army, that is guarding the approach to the town. In the town, life goes on as usual...for now... (...) With the idea above we could use King (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ma.bos, lugnet.org.us)
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...that Y2K should've been in the Vancouver group sorry. Ob Lego: Received my S@H order I place on Friday. Incredibly fast and they had everything in stock including the Black Roof Bricks. Oddly, they also included the "Classic Favourites!" catalog. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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Just came back, saw a bunch of the new castle sets including the big castle ($120) and the Technic Battle Droid ($45) looks tres nice, but I'll wait for a sale. They also had quite a bit of the Artic sets and a few town/construction(?) sets (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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Kevin Loch wrote in message ... (...) Err, Ummm, Yes, Kevin is right (whipping myself for such an almost destructive post). :>S Rose (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Not at all. I doubt that LEGO would depart too far from their opcode protocols when writing their SDK, especially as it's designed for advanced users, and the syntax of the language seems to mirror assembly. From what I've seen, the Spirit OCX (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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John: (...) This information can be gotten via javascript, I did this on a now defunct version of my own site about 2 years ago. If your interested I'll try to dig it up. jim hughesj@one.net (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Mindstorms spirit.ocx programming = RCX ASM coding? (fwd)
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----- Forwarded message from Dave Baum ----- From: dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com (Dave Baum) Subject: Re: Mindstorms spirit.ocx programming = RCX ASM coding? Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:44:41 GMT Correct. IMHO, calling this "programming the RCX in VB" (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Larry: This is what I have used for a five second delay on my Technica splash screen: <head> ..... <meta http-equiv=refresh content="5; url=(URL) .... </head> Just put this in your <head> section and indicate the URL. Not technically (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) The timers run at 1/10 sec, but granularity for "waiting" a task is 1/100 sec. The PWM used for motor output has granularity of 1/1000 sec. Dave Baum p.s. I hope it wasn't my book that stated 1/10 and 1/1000 - if so could you e-mail me the (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Correct. IMHO, calling this "programming the RCX in VB" is very misleading. None of the familiar VB features (variables, control structures, etc) will run on the RCX. For example, in order to construct an "if" statment, you don't use the VB (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Minitalia Lego sets (from Italy)
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Personally, I like the 1x4x3 window with 12 panes even better! And TLC could produce that SO easily - just cast the pane insert for current windows. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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