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In regards to the two motors included in the standard Mindstorms set, is it possible for one to turn faster than the other? I think I may be experiencing that... Any answers would be helpful. Thanks in advance. Bryan (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | My ReVUE: 6471
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Background: Well, I headed towards the local TRU to check out the 2000 sets and decided to buy this one to try out those new wheels. ---...--- Set Number: 6471 Set Name: 4WD Police Patrol Piece Count: 29 Theme/Subtheme: Town/City Centre Price Paid (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | My ReVUE: 5571
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Background: My nephew's fourteeth birthday was coming up (not only do we share a first and last name, but we also share initials and a birthday, very wierd) so I started flipping through the most recent S@H catalouge. He is a big LEGO fan, and I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Can't open serial port in Linux
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I'm having some troubles downloading to the RCX in Linux, I have RXC_PORT set to /dev/ttyS1, which is the correct serial port, and then I run nqc and get: [brian@magic bin]$ ./nqc -d ../test.nqc Downloading Program:error Could not open serial port (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | KC Lego Fest - tentative date
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Please pencil the following date and time in your calendar for our Kansas City Lego Fest: Sunday the 23rd of January from 2:00pm - ? Location will probably either be at Jon Kozan's house in Kansas or my place in Missouri depending on what everyone (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo.kan)
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| | Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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(...) I was speaking about the old world, Not asian exactly but Mediterranean area near asia, as crusaders might call it. Point is you don't find many European Castle in the medieval period that used tan, yellow etc carvings on their castles. Mainly (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | FS: 1,220 New Red Bricks (eBay leftover)
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Would anybody be interested in buying 1,220 brand new red bricks? These bricks were used in 2 constructions but are still in brand new condition. The size and piece count are as follows: 2x6 .... 20 2x4 ... 120 2x3 .... 60 2x2 ... 200 1x8 .... 20 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | My ReVUE: 5553 Red Fury
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Background: Well, it was the day after XMas and what better to do than to head to Target for the sales? That is just what I did. While my wife was checking out the sales at Niemen Marcus and Macy's I headed over to Target. Big disapointment. They (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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(...) My suggestion: Touch: Have the track elevated, and free to move up and down (1 'hinged' joint). Then have your touch sensor below the track. Light: Hard to get accurate, repeatable measurements. If light level changes, requires recalibration. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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I've never actually done it myself, but if you're interested in building your own sensor you might want to look into using a reed switch. They detect magnetic fields, so if you put a small magnet at the head of the passing train in a place such that (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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(...) Greece is in Asia? I always thought there was something wacky about my "Western Philosophy" class (aka Dead White Guys 101) but I never imagined that was it! J (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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FWIW I haven't tried this yet myself, but its very typical to use light sensors for this sort of thing in HO scale model railroading. There are a lot of advantages to "contactless" detection. On the down side, you need to minimize interference from (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: S@H Rotation sensor (9756) or Dacta 9v Rot. Sensor?
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No significant difference. The Dacta sensors (light and rotation) originally had longer, thinner wires and a blue connector on the end (instead of the black connector). In all other aspects they were identical. I wouldn't be surprised if at some (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
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(...) I got me an emulator and downloaded it. Big mistake. (...) I've seen the stuff exactly once, in Britain a long long time ago. (...) Something like 270. That Togepi thingy is in there as well. Apparently once it gets some levels it's actually (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Sorting
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Mike, you can find a good selection of tackle boxes and hardware boxes at any large general store, like KMart, Target, Wal-Mart, etc. In my area Wal-Mart had the best selection. Some of these boxes are multi-level, with sliding trays, etc. SOme are (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | unofficial trains model dep. launched
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soon to have zip files as well , but with internet access scarse.. ya know.. (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
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(...) G/S has been out in japanese for a few weeks, and has been widely played by all sorts of pokemon geeks who don't know a word of japanese.. (...) In the Japanese, there's red and green which came out first and were released in English as red (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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(...) I don't have a design, but I do have a comment, to wit: With a touch sensor you are committing to a fixed dimension SOMEWHERE unless you get quite clever. It may be in the width of the vehicle, it may be in the height, it may be the depth of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Lego Land, East Coast?
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(...) The orginal plan has always been two LEGOLand parks in the US, it is just that California won over Florida and Virginia the first time around. It is unconfirmed, but very possible, that LEGOLand will be building a park in Florida, south of (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Hey, all you prog rockers!
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(...) Well, you could try a newsreader instead of email - it's much more suited to what you're doing, following a discussion group. If you like Eudora, you'll probably like Agent or Gravity. Jasper (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.people)
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