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I have reciently aquired several of the Akro-Mils bin type boxes. These are ideal if you are using a bench or some other permanant work surface. They may be viewed at (URL) and (URL) The 2nd pic shows one of the dividers. In all I have 175 of the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | My View of 6479
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This will be an informal (maybe not?) review, since I already wrote a long one, but it got erased. Arrgh! And on my first review, too! Background: I bought this Emergency Response Center in LEGOLAND, so the price probably could've been better. It (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: Hey, all you prog rockers!
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(...) Jot and Jab (dlovelace@whatever.com)? Not much different than my own set-up. I'll wind up changing my sig to have my first name it at soon as I dust off my old lego code, but I'm not planning on changing my posting name. As far as I (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.people)
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| | Re: Heelo World
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David, Great work! Please keep us posted on your progress. - Nick - (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego vs. Pokemon
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(...) It was indeed an episode of the Pokemon cartoon that caused a an epidemic of epilepsy attacks among japanese children. What's hilarious / really sad is that one of the the evening news shows in Japan showed a clip from the same cartoon while (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| | Re: Ideal Expansion or Companion to RIS
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Which set is that? My catalog only shows the green bar code truck #8479 at $164. - Nick - (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Question regarding motors
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The short answer is yes. The motors are not equal. You'll see designs using just one motor for the drive train for this reason. I'm in the process of toying with two rotation/angle sensors, one on each motor to see if I can programmatically synch (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I have updated www.marsrobot.com with information on my wireless video robot. The direct link is (URL) I have also changed the format of MarsRobot in the past few weeks to include a daily news weblog of robotics and Lego links. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Divers set 6560 Plus others For Sale !!!
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Greetings fellow Lego enthusiasts. I have a few sets I would like to sell so that I can buy some of the new Star Wars sets for myself. I am not trying to get rich here but I hope that I can make some people happier. I would rather sell to people (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Has anyone seriously looked into setting up the Palm's IR for communicating with the RCX? I was thinking of working on this and I wanted to make sure that I won't be duplicating anyone's efforts. I was thinking it would be really cool if the Palm (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.palm)
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| | Question regarding motors
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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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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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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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| | Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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(...) to (...) Diana Rambo E-mailed me this to post for her since she couldn't post. " Come on people, It's yellow because a Lion is Yellow. It's that simple." Thank you. Diana Rambo (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | eudora thread bug (was: Re: Hey, all you prog rockers!)
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(...) I recommend either ditching Eudora or asking its author if there is a bugfix. (...) Eudora is sending improper 'References:' headers. Working backwards from what it appears to be doing (consistently), it seems to be dropping (or, more (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?
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(...) You have _greatly_ missed the point of lugnet. Grow up will you. Jasper (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Lego je OK! ;)
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(...) Hehe. No dik. ;)) Ja som samozrejme tiez rad, ze je tu niekto kto nehovori len anglicky a je z Ceskoslovenska. ;)))) Tiez nikoho ineho takeho nepoznam. ;) Je to fajn, ze sme na Lugnete ozivili kanaly loc.cz a loc.sk. ;))) A myslim, ze celkom (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.sk)
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| | Lego Land, East Coast?
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I think Lego should make a Lego Land on the East Coast. The West Coast can't have all the fun. For all the Lego Maniac's on the East Coast we have to travel all the way to Califoria costs big air fairs. This isn't areason but Lego is located in (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.legoland)
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| | Re: Dobrodruznici
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(...) No dnes ano. DNES ked sa pozries na produkty LEGO a mas ich ohodnotit podla krasy a detailov, tak jedine Model Team a Technic. Mesto - SHIT !!! Vsetko juniorizovane ! Vesmir - prakticky neexistuje ! Vlaky - juniorizovane. Pirati, hrady - (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.sk)
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| | Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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I'm using Mindstorms to control Lego trains. Does anyone have a design for using a touch sensor to detect a train passing? My intuition is that the touch sensor could be more reliable than the light sensor (plus I have two touch sensors and only one (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Sme tu dvaja. (Re: Nejsi tu sam! (Bylo: Re: To som tu sam ?))
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(...) No presne. To som si hovoril aj ja, ked som predaval moje policajne LEGA. mal som vsetko od 1983. Uplne vsetko, az do roku 1995. Potom som uz nestihal kupovat. Lebo som kupoval aj vesmir. Tak som to predal spolu s ostatnymi. Ako som Ti uz (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.sk)
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| | Re: Jsou tu 2 lidi! (Bylo: Re: Je tu nekdo?)
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(...) Ferrari milion dolarov ??? To vychadza na 42 milionov korun... Tu v Europe dostanes Ferrari za 20 milionov, aj menej. V Bratislave mal Ferrari boss jednej mafie. Ale koncom leta ho zastrelili... tak neviem komu zostalo to Ferrari. ;) (...) No. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.cz)
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| | Re: Carved Lion Head Block?
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(...) be (...) castle (...) Your talking about asian architecture I am building in 13th century european architecture. Looking at the castle not many have tan carved images. :) Since its castle theme is gray in the 2000 sets they should have made it (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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