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If you do start one, can you please add me to this list? Thanks, -Phil (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: New to Robotics
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Bob, Welcome to the Robotics Invention System and the RCX. I know you and your son will have an excellent time with it. Sorry that you are missing the holiday with your family, but what a fantastic project you are working on. There is a program with (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: TRU Sale(?)
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(...) Yeah, I was hoping for more too. Nothing at Walmart/Zellers/Sears/the Bay. :( Chris Grey, Kevin Maynes and I went to all the trouble of being at TRU first <expletive deleted> thing this morning. We did get some stuff each, but all of us were (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | IBM Laptop IR port
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I'm new here. I got RIS 1.0 for Christmas completely by surprise. I want to know if I can use my IBM Thinkpad 380D IR port to communicate with the RCX. I am using the serial port with a graphics tablet and would prefer not to lug around an (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mitchel Resnick Interview
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Only tangentially related, I built a minature golf hole a while back... No mindstorms but it did have a motorized windmill and used an insectoids stinger to signal what score you got. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | New to Robotics
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My son is receiving a RCX set for Xmas. I'm stuck in Houston supporting the HTS servicing mission and can't wait to get back to "help" him play with his new toy. I learned a lot from this bulletin board. Its great support for what I'm hoping is a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Merchandising (was: Re: Any one know these email addresses?)
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Agreed with Jasper and Matt on shape Small radius rounded corners, yes. Round, no. The corners are places I go to a lot on my screen. (upper left is window close, upper right is Office Toolbar properties, lower left is start button for less (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: LEGO Direct Questions
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(...) Hmm... per piece price on the 2x4 brick and other similar bricks needs to be somewhat lower than 10 cents a brick. Thanksgiving 1998 got me zillions of 400 piece buckets for 4 dollars USD each (after using a 1 dollar coupon I had hoarded, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: How 'bout a new technic box
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If you've got the parts to start one, be my guest :) I'll put it on the page as long as you track it and send me updates every once in a while. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Holy over-priced, Batman!
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That has to be a marking mistake... the Gungan Patrol is only 9.99 at TRU in the states. that's a big booboo if you ask me :( I'd bring it to their attention and let them know they aren't going to sell at that price, and they should check their (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 2000 Dacta Catalog?
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Yes, try asking at The Construction Site. (URL) I was in the store about a week ago, I saw some new DACTA DUPLO sets. I wasn't really paying attention though, so can't rememer enough to relate here (sorry). -Suz. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.dacta)
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| | Re: General Box #5
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Tamy, I would like to sign up for a general box. The number of the box does not matter. I would also be willing to split a box into two if that still needs to be done. I have hundreds of excellent Lego elements that I do not use that are crying out (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Looking for Red Mailbox door
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I need a red mailbox door like the kind on the helicopter from 6391 Cargo Center. If anyone has an extra, I'd like to buy it. (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | TRU Sale(?)
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I was hoping for more, but... 20% off all Star Wars and Town/Construction/Arctic sets. The sale is on 'til early January. I was hoping for the Slave 1 but nothing. Quite a bit of TPM Lego products, very slim pickings on SW. It seems TPM products are (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| | 2000 Dacta Catalog?
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Has anyone seen whether there will be new Dacta sets for 2000? (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.dacta)
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| | Clutch Gear -- Re: Dave's Excellent Book
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In most constructions using a motor, you'll notice that there is an 8t gear on the motor shaft meshed with a 24t gear, or even a 24t on the motor shaft to another 24t gear. Just replace the 24t (only need to replace one of them) with the 24t clutch (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: new site: Christmas Train, club car, hopper
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Very nice, I especially liked your elves. I never would have thought of using my Forestmen as elves, but now I do not have to. You thought of it for me! Thanks, Chris (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: AAT & MTT
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(...) The book that comes with the sets says that they won't be out till june. Dan (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8 Wide Train Pics
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John, I may be guilty of being vague AGAIN. Yes, you can run it on a Mac if you have Virtual PC. I bought Virtual PC so I could run an IR Spectrophotometry program, but I can use Virtual PC to run MLCAD. Yes, it does use the ldraw parts; infact, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: I bought Dave's book just because he did a really cool thing
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Thanks for buying the book - I hope you enjoy it. Dave Baum (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: January 2000 S@H catalog
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(...) OK...of the queen and the princess, which is which? I don't think either of the female minifigs looks anywhere near old enough to be married to Leo... is he robbing the cradle (as well as having an axe fetish)? J (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Dave's Excellent Book
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(...) I'm glad you are enjoying the book. Things like the clutch gear and 2x2 "L" plates were actually in the first draft for Chapter 4, but I dropped them since those pieces weren't in 1.0. 1.5 was intoduced a little late for us to re-work such an (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mech [DAT]
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Hi everybody, this is light combat mech I built some time ago. The mech comes with a pulse rifle that has a grenade launcher on the front bottom, this rifle attaches to the back two clips for easy carrying. My goal for this mech was to make it easy (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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| | Re: Come li separate??
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A! Ecco che era quell'attrezzo nel RIS. (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Come li separate??
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"Juda" <guido.romi@bridgetec.it> wrote in message news:FnCt7B.I1o@lugnet.com... (...) Yes. (URL) member page: (URL) member of ItLUG: (URL) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Come li separate??
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Brick separator? (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | FS: 1252,1254 & 1255 SHELL sets
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Hi everybody, I have some 1999 Shell sets from the Netherlands that i'd like to sell. They are: All Mint In Box Nr. Desc. Price($) 1252 Shell Tanker 20 1254 Select Shop 30 1255 Car Wash 25 2535 F1 Race Car 7 2536 Divers Jet Ski 7 2537 Extreme Team (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Come li separate??
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"Domenico Franco" <acubens@tiscalinet.it> wrote in message news:FnCLBv.1yM@lugnet.com... (...) Certo..... usa due "brick separator", uno sopra ed uno sotto, nel centro del lato lungo, click........ Ciao. -- Cheers Carlo. LUGNET member page: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: new site: Christmas Train, club car, hopper
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-- Bob Fay rfay@we.mediaone.net The Shop (URL) wooster" <skw@io.com> wrote in message news:3865A219.12FB@io.com... (...) I didn't see the stowaway untill I looked at the hobo picture. Hello, Timmy! (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Bulk Pieces suggestions
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(...) Of course, LEGO has all of us beat building a model of the tallest freestanding structure in the world, the CN Tower in Toronto...since there is a 12 ft tall (or so...I haven't seen it in a while) model of it already :) James P (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Bulk Pieces suggestions
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(...) Well, "fluff" may not be the right word for 500+ metres of cncrete and steel.. but it's certainly not as classy. (...) For now, I'll just continue planning to build - half the fun's in that anyway ;) Maybe Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament? (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Come li separate??
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Salve ragazzi, siamo alle solite: staccare due pezzi piatti 2X4 senza rovinarli e soprattutto senza rimetterci le unghie ;-) Per facilitare la separazione attaco un mattone 2X4 superiormente ed uno inferiormente al gruppo così una base più solida (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Dave's Excellent Book
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Hi, I am currently reading through Dave's book. It is the best. I really like the way he handles contruction. This is far better than the O'Reilly book. Great job! I was wondering if you can add an addendum to the book on how to use the clutch gear (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Ieri
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(...) Another visitor... Stay awhile, stay for ever! :-) (...) Infatti la cosa mi ha lasciato perplesso. (...) Ahem, magari è un po' presto... Non riesco ancora nemmeno a identificare i pezzi necessari per costruire il primo robot della (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: I've got a Destroyer Droid!
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(...) Huw Got mine from Toy Stack, County Mall, Crawley on Christmas Eve! Price was the sam as Tony's and the springto life mechanism doesn't seem to work properly (the fact there is an errata sheet in the instructions is worrying, especially as the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Natale
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Allora ho scoperto cosa serve per farvi stare zitti: un piatto di marubini :) che mette tutti d'accordo e via zitti zitti a mangiare. Ieri giorno di Natale, giorno silenzioso... ma cosa vi ha portato Babbo Natale? A Lugnet aveva portato un look un (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Mitchel Resnick Interview
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There is a short interview with Mitchel Resnick, MIT's LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research here: (URL) Mindstorms is discussed in a couple paragraphs. <ICS> (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: I got a defective part!
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(...) I once (like 15 years ago) got a defective LEGO part. It was a 14 teeth bevel gear which seemed to have an insufficient amount of ABS injected, making it useless. Of course, LEGO consumer service are more than happy to replace defective parts (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | New Part : Technic 4.5V Motor [DAT]
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Here is my representation of the Technic 4.5V Motor. Although I have not been able to dismantle this part, I have coded it at three files - the Casing, the Core and the Shaft. Hidden surfaces are shown in black. Chris 0 FILE 769.dat 0 MPD Author: (...) (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: AAT & MTT
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(...) Heh, knowing TLG, they'll probably package the MTT with 2 droids. And there still aren't any minifig packs for droids/imperial troops. Sigh... ~Mark (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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