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(...) the (...) the (...) ;) (...) Or maybe boiling oatmeal, depending on how well Verneer's men are fed. :) Paul Davidson (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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Hi. The "new" Lego Sensors are rather obviously not intended for building mobile Robots. Rather, they are part of the ROBOLAB INVESTIGATOR system which was just released in the Pitsco 2000 catalogue. The idea is to build a miniature computerized (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: How old are you?
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Hi. How old is your son? He can probably deal with Robolab Software (PC & MAC) available from Pitsco. Pitsco also sells a Robolab upgrade kit which gives you the Robolab user manual and a nifty green case. (I got case feaver and went out and bought (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Just a question.
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(...) That's the one I tried! Oh well, maybe after the new year. Thank you anyway. Sean Frantz (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ga.atl)
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| | Re: Double Typo - coincedence? I think not...
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It's called "cut-and-paste". :) -- Paul Davidson Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FnKCsB.GKK@lugnet.com... (...) misteaks. (...) same (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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(...) The reason you don't see slaves in the pirate theme is that slaves really aren't part of the romanticized pirate genre. This is also the reason I doubt we will see a Civil War theme, or any other real war theme. They haven't been romanticized. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | FA: $4000!!! (Tiles)
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I just posted 40 crispy $100 green 1x2 tiles. At $4000 worth of tiles, it might be the single largest amount of LEGO ever offered, unless it isn't;-) One catch-- the auction says it's closed, yet I just posted it. Should work. Good luck! -John (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Hey, thats a nice feature!
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Hey, all! I just discovered a new thing about Leocad. You can save and load Ldraw .dat files! Very, very useful to me, as I used to use Leocad and switched to MLCad after it came out, and I didn't know I could save my Leocad models. Anyway, you all (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Large Technic Turntable
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(...) Look at (URL) for a really neat lego robot platform that uses 4 (!) of them. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Few Comments on 7124 Flash Speeder
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(...) I just put this together, and I'll probably take it apart tonight, as I'm really happy with this set as a parts pack. For $9.99 I got lots of green and brown, lots of inverse slopes (5 grey 2x2, 2 green 2x3), that wide windshield, lots of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: 4811 Defense Archer!
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(...) Hmm, most likely, FBOFW, their server isn't probably requesting that the pages not be cached. Let's see what's returned over HTTP: ---...--- % telnet www.lego.com 80 Trying 171.20.249.10... Connected to lego.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Toysrus.com 100.00 Arrived
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TRU got to my complaint today. They cancelled the order, refunded my CC, and gave me a $50 online gift certificate. Not too bad, but, now I don't have 900 pieces of Lego. (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Can't open serial port in Linux
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Hi. I just got through fixing a similar problem with my linux box (the fix involved a lot of tedious changing IRQ's in the BIOS, with a lot of tedious rebooting in between). Beyond Dave's good advice, you might want to check out the linux serial (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: www.lugnet.com on boxes
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Perhaps can we advertise WWW.LUGNET.COM in our local toy shops? A kind of flyer or mini brochure? Regards and a happy new year to all of us, Regards, Ludo (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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I've never actually seen one of these in person, and I've been looking at the piece in my Dacta catalog and using L3P/Pov-Ray to view it from different angles, but without the actual item in front of me I must confess I'm having a hard time (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Roboarm from Dave Baum's super book
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I wonder if someone can help me on a little problem with Roboarm. I have built it, programmed it and it runs OK except the the arm does not go down far enough to pick up. I have measured the shortfall in distance and it is exactly the height of the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Calling for Box Status and New Rule to vote on
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(...) I've already tried to take care of most of this, that's why you'll find the lists aren't in exact order as they are on the sign up list, though that was agreed to long ago. though I like your idea of just moving the people around.. that's (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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| | Ninja Fortresses (MOC's)
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At the risk of getting flamed.... My yellow castle and all my gray castles are packed away at my parents house, som 2 hours from here. (I haven't had the opportunity to acquire any of the new cstle sets yet either) Since I did not forsee the return (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: GB 1
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(...) John K. contacted me in early October for my address, which I sent and that was the last I heard. I never received GB 1 and John K seems to have dropped out of site, he has never answered any emails since the first address request. (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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| | light sensor
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Can you make the lightsensor do more then act on 'more' or 'less' light (0-50 do this, 51-100 do that. Or can you let it do this to: 0-10 do this 10-20 do something else 20-30 do something else, etc. Is it posible in RCX code or only in NQC. I am (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: train event still going on....
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Hi Ben, Amazing what you and youre friends did. I want to do so too,but there's no one in my neighborhood that i know for starting a kind of club. Go on with the hobby,it's realy nice. Ludo (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| | Re: Destroyer Droid in new S@H catalog
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(...) Not to correct the great Todd, but you're safer if you ask specifically for the one you want, the spring 2000 catalog. This catalog in particular is one that in the past had a small run (the smallest run of the 4 they do a year). Just asking (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Catalogue
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Michael Edwards wrote in message ... (...) Japanses (...) I imagine these sets were made in Demark, but never needed in Japan. I've only opened 3 of my 8480s, all were in English. Scott A (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Re:foam balls
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But are they soft and squishy? By the way, I found an amazing supplier of soft foam balls the right size for FLL competition. But cost is a big issue. --Jack Gregory John Barnes <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Instruction Query (oddity)
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(...) No, Shiri was right. She didn't make a misteak. She has obviously been keeping up with her reverence of the great Larry who never makes misteaks. (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: Arctic commercial seen
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(...) I saw that and a New Castle theme commerical on regular network TV. They use real people as the intro characters(artic /castle) then change to mini figs. Looks like Da Bears are pranksters, hee hee. John (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A great cleaning method for lego
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(...) They (can) look much like a traditional feather duster, only the "feathers" are very fine plastic filaments. For some reason they seem to come in bright colors (mine are bright green). I got a three pack at Target for around $9, I think. I'd (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.storage, lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: New sets, pictures at lego.com
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(...) Yup I'll be buying lots of these I suspect. It also has a blue bucket like the peasant's back pack. I especially like the three 1x6x2 arched railings. I've been wanting these in white, and up until this set, the only place I've seen them in (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: Three arm piece for makeing tri-star
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"Mark Tarrabain" <markt@lynx.bc.ca> wrote in message news:386BAA61.D9FEB6...x.bc.ca... (...) element -- (...) From the early 80s until last year many Technic elements were available with microtoothing. Examples are the half-bushing and toggle joint (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Future Wild West Possibilities
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In lugnet.western, John Rudy and others write: (...) Maybe one night when my insomnia's acting up! 8^) The U.S. is a culture which, idiotic though it be, recently castigated a public figure for using "niggardly" in a speech! Does anyone seriously (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.western)
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| | Re: Three arm piece for makeing tri-star
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(...) Okay... possibly a dumb question - what exactly is meant by "micro-toothing"? (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: How does Lego sort Lego?
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(...) More accurately, several 'small' miracles... Moulding machines drop pieces into storage containers. When the time comes to use a piece in a polybag, the storage container is dumped into a 'feeder' machine on a packing line. On to step 2: (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: How does Lego sort Lego?
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(...) Brian, There have been a few descriptions of how the bags are filled, some sort of machine with multiple circular conveyor belts that deliver the parts up to a mixing point (IIRC). The bags are then weight checked to look for errors. The new (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Instruction Query (oddity)
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 23:45:54 GMT, Shiri uttered the following profundities... (...) Not a criticism! Just created an amusing image, of steaks in the sub, which the occupants nearly became! Mistake. Yet another of English's multiple methods of (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: New Model: The Devil's Gap
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(...) Go to Glen Tannenbaum's page at: (URL) look for the roof bricks pack. It's a good deal. (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Calling for Box Status and New Rule to vote on
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(...) I agree. Your proposed rule doesn't address the problem, though, which I see as this: We did things first come first served. That's usually fair. But in this case, what it resulted in was the following: Person A discovered this thing. Person A (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.jambalaya, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8002 Destroyer Droid Errata
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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 00:37:25 GMT, Tony Priestman uttered the following profundities... (...) Fortune favours the foolish.....or the brave, depending on which episode or film of Star Trek you watch... (...) I would be much obliged if you would! (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.build, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Train Sensors
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Hi. Does anyone still have the text portion (I have the jpegs) of the note on touch sensors for trains? (I accidentally deleted the text.) Barbara Nostrand +---...---+ | Barbara Nostrand, Ph.D. | | Contact via Email: mailto:nostrand@acm.org | | (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: www.lugnet.com on boxes
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(...) Wow, wouldn't that be something! :) But IMO at this point that's a bit much to ask for, especially where official support comes in. A lot more "schmoozing" and probably more partnering on a per-project basis would hafta take place so that (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | How does Lego sort Lego?
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When the bricks are first made, they're dropped into large buckets. Then a miracle occurs. Then pieces are very acuratly sorted into polybags. How are the bricks sorted? It would almost have to be automated. If that's the case, could that process be (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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