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(...) ha (...) Io suggerirei di organizzare il prossimo LEGOfest direttamente DENTRO il plastico di Wilmer ;-) Wilmer fatti vedere!!! -- LEg GOdt :-) Domenico (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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(...) This would be my suggestion as well, if you want to use a touch sensor. If I recall correctly, they should be robust enough that the weight of the track won't set them off, but the weight of a passing train will. The only thing I'd worry about (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I need LDlite.
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(...) You can get it here: ftp://marsbase.verin..._1_6_b.zip Hope that helps! 8) Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) few, the proud,...the plastic. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New castle minifigs--in which sets?
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(...) Doh! Thanks all the same, though I'm afraid it wasn't the answer I was hoping for... Dave! (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Six Shooter
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If I remember, correctly this Japanese site has some projectile launchers : (URL) look at Mario Ferrari's site: (URL) like your idea of the axle-firing system. The axles would allow for (theoretically) some really fun automation and rapid-fire. Just (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Design wanted: Touch sensor for passing trains
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I have used a magnetic reed switch to detect trains. Glue a small magnet to a lego piece, and mount on the train. Cut a Lego wire in half, and solder a reed switch to the cut end. This detects the train with precision, and is not affected by (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Pattern #'s
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(...) The are no fixed rules, as the pattern numbers are specific to LDraw - they're not TLG reference numbers. So generally, first-come-first-served, but where the same pattern appears on several parts (like some of the P68s - M:Tron) an attempt is (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: General Box #5
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Please sign me up. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) Yes, it's been my experience that 4 is the number. There is actually another indication of a possible great deal. If you scan it and it comes up "clearance" or something like that, no price indicated, then it's usually real cheap. I have had (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: New castle minifigs--in which sets?
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(...) Queen Leonora and Princess Storm are only available in 6091/6098 King Leo's Castle, unfortunately. Jeff (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 4811 Defense Archer!
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(...) I sure hope it is polybagged. Less waste that way, for when I buy tons. :) Anyway, here is my predicted Inventory (matches the 14 piece count exactly): 2 Green 4x4 Plates; 1 Black 4x4 Turntable; 1 Gray 2x2 25 degree Slope Brick; 2 Black 1x1 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Six Shooter
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Hello! I wonder if there is anyone else that has built a Mindstorms robot that "shoots" stuff around? I wanted to build something that I haven't seen made before with RIS. (Like if that would ever happen) :) It started with a idea to bulid a Lego (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 4811 Defense Archer!
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(...) S@H offers it as 6091. (...) Is there any special packaging? Anything strange? I wonder why we have a different number... Jeff (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | My ReVUE: 5956
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Background: It was my son's birthday so I we headed over to TRU to pick out gifts. My son got a some LEGOs and Nintendo games, but I knew I could not leave empty handed. Knowing it was one of those "big plastic piece" sets and that it would be (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Technic box #2 - list update
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There are currently 5 names on the list for Technic box #2. 20 spaces are still available. I have considered a deadline for entry so sign up while you still can! -Rob (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | New castle minifigs--in which sets?
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Speaking as one of those sorry individuals who hasn't yet seen 2000 Castle and who hasn't yet received his S@H catalog, I was wondering... Which sets have the new female minifigs? Are they available in (somewhat) smallish sets, or only in the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: shipping time from DYA ?
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Ben Gatrelle wrote in message ... (...) items (...) I have placed a couple orders from DYA. Like you, I am also waiting for my Club Cars, etc. I have received the 4539 Level Crossing sets I ordered the week before. They arrived last Monday (12/20) (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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| | Re: 4811 Defense Archer!
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, David Eaton (<FnIFqF.JAz@lugnet.com>) wrote at 16:13:27 (...) It's *definitely* 6098 on the box *and* instructions here in the UK. (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | My ReVUE: 5902
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Background: Buying some of the new 2000 sets, I noticed this one. I do collect Adventurers and have not bought this one yet. Knowing it was discontiued, I picked one up. ---...--- Set Number: 5902 Set Name: River Raft Piece Count: 18 Theme/Subtheme: (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.reviews)
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| | Three arm piece for makeing tri-star
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having visited the site mentioned in the O'Reilly book and also gone through all ( that I can find ) of the tecnica registry and Dacta pieces, I cannot find the obvious lego piece that is the base for making the tri-star wheel arrangement. If (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | shipping time from DYA ?
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I ordered some stuff from DYA a few weeks ago when the Clubcar and other items were briefly available (I missed the Club Car, but got a few of the other train items). I'm wondering how long it normally takes to receive packages from DYA, 3 weeks, 4 (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
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(...) I honestly don't understand why people have complaints about the Queen Leonora minifig, *especially* her hat. Black is a great color for the hat because it can have so many uses -- good or evil, young or old. And since it's a neutral color, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) Of course the counter is that occaisionally they screw up. This same Target (which Mike has said the stock people have said they "never" put any LEGO on clearance), clearanced 5978 earlier this year. They then continued to re-stock all fall at (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Problem downloading firmware (RIS 1.5)
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Michael, I was stuck in that loop until I realized you have to push the BUTTON for Download Firmware!! Not intuitive. I thought 'Continue' would do it !!!! (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) Yeah, in some cases the store management seems to figure into it. I think the biggest percentage drop I ever saw was ... lemme get the set number ... 6938 Scorpion Detector. $25 retail. About 30-40 of them on the shelf. Dropped to $20, $15, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: First Y2K LegoFest
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(...) Da parte di Giulio, che è in montagna e non può scrivere su Lugnet: Per me, tutti i suddetti giorni vanno bene (15, 16, 22, 23, escludendo la fine del mese), e candido ufficialmente casa mia come luogo di ritrovo. (potrebbe andare bene anche (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) I guess you just have to decide what's worth more to you and also decide if you're willing to gamble. I've waited and scored BIG and I've waited and scored nothing. I've also waited and seen them dwindle ever so slowly with NO price drop. > (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
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(...) Maybe it's appropriate for the queen to be wearing black. King Leo's got an awful lot of axes hanging around in precarious positions, and accidents do happen... --Mike (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Minimum system requirements for Inventor 1.5
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I have the RIS Software on several 486's at school. As mentioned, the Tutorial stuff is real slow. The Drag&Drop programming is OK; the 'flip over' a block is noticeably slower than on a fast machine. NQC and RcxCC work fine. If your kids are about (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New sensors from Pitsco-Dacta
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(...) I think the question is how much the sensor does for the money. I have just finished a design for a line tracker sensor, that cost a lot to develop (half a dozen prototypes, and a couple of tiny PCB's), but the cost to build would only be a (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) I don't know the answer to that, but there is a GMLTCer that might. Her hubby is a Dayton-Hudson exec. I do want to add that there is a certain digit (digging around here will tell you which, I think it's 4) which means that Target isn't going (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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(...) I don't know the answer to that, but there is a GMLTCer that might. Her hubby is a Dayton-Hudson exec. I do want to add that there is a certain digit (digging around here will tell you which, I think it's 4) which means that Target isn't going (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | Installation of pbForth 1.11 Problems
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Last night I tried to install pbForth 1.11 with nqc (2.02). It beeped like it was installed and "4th" was displayed on the screen, but I could not turn it off. I had to take out the batteries to get it to turn off, but by then, the pbForth was gone. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| | Re: touch sensors - two at a time ?
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(...) The problem you are having, is that the processor is much faster than a human being... The code will allways tend to see one sensor befor the other, because of the processors speed, unless you can hit them together to within a very few mSec. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Advent Calendar Fun is back
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(...) <snip> (...) main@appstate.edu (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Heelo World
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Thanks for the welcome everyone, and for the nice webs site links too. The Mars Robot site and Mario Ferrari's site are both outstanding! Mario's S6 looks like it's solved a lot of the "walking robot" problems I'm about to encounter. Look's like I'm (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Universal Joints
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"RE" == Richard Earley <richard.earley@worl...t.att.net> writes: RE> While building the 8448, I was dissapointed to see universal RE> joints used in the drive for the suspension system. My experiance RE> with these in the past was not the best. The (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Star Wars Episode 1 Video Tape
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(...) epsiodes (...) all (...) want (...) probably (...) See this message. (URL)Eric K. (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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Ray Sanders wrote in message <386A232E.8C1F287E@gate.net>... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) How long did this process take? This also begs the question - how frequently does Target typically drop their prices? I have been to three Target stores in the (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.theory)
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| | 4811 Defense Archer!
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Well, it's officially on (URL) as 4811! Looks like it comes with the black-moustached soldier, plate armor, kettle helm, quiver... with 2 crossbows mounted on a little thingy that spins on a 4x4 black turntable, and has a Leo's Crest shield mounted (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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