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I did an experiment with my 9 year old Granddaughter on several kinds of tape. NET: "friction tape" is best. This is a tar-black fabric tape that is intended for taping handles of baseball bats, hockey sticks, and other important items. She wrote an (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Dune Sand Roaver
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In lugnet.space, Shawn H. Golley writes: [snip] (...) It's been a REALLY long time, but I got a picture up. the url is: (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Happy New Year!
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Happy 2000 everyone, and may none of your computers go nuts! Our only "glitch" was that the date on our computer showed January 3, 1997 of all dates.. Easily fixed, though. Greg Majewski (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Welcome to the Ohs
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(...) <nitpick mode on> The Year 2000 is the last year of the '90s (not 90's.) There was no year 0000 The first year was 0001. So 0001 to 0010 is the first decade A.D. Logically the last decade of the 20th century is 1991 to 2000. Just out of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Question How do we know if Brad is for real?
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 09:45:23 GMT, "Doyle" <doylenelson@home.com> wrote: [snipped a very witty reply by David Kadansky] (...) And your skepticism was not? (...) I've never encountered David either, on RTL in years past or here on Lugnet. It doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Pneumatic tube sources
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See earlier post at (URL) hobby shop pneumatics and better LSAH prices. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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Bryan, many of us have noticed small to larger differences in the motor characteristics. Unfortunately difficult to compensate for... If you are lucky enough to have 3 or 4 motors you can try to 'match' them. Anyone else have suggestions?? (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Cliches? I believe Fred Martin used this term in his Art of LEGO Design paper. --{I told the kids they could stay up all night, so this is an (...) :) -- Ian (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This sounds very good. I think I was under the impression that all I would get would be the new software. Your reply makes it sound like I get the $25 "upgrade kit" that I saw on legoworldshop. Is this indeed the case? Thanks for your help! (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Har någon RIS?
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(...) Grattis! Robotar med ben är ganska populära. Kolla in (URL) för där finns många länkar till olika projekt. Kolla särskilt in Jin Satos hemsida, vars adress jag inte har tillgänglig just nu. (...) Det verkar vara det som gäller. Jari (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.se)
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Happy New Year to all Adventurers fans TLG has now updated their online catalog with pictures of the 5903 Johnny Thunder & Baby-T. Maybe other will follow soon. The Adventurers Website has now been updated with instruction scans of most the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Johnny Doolittle (was re: Pirate's Lost Island)
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(...) Doolittle & Waite). As to communicating with animals, heck, even I can do that (and boy am I sorry, since my proper pirate's bird is yakking his head off at the moment). Bruce (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: On the subject of gluing
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I got a pint of Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) at Home Depot about 2 years ago... I will try mixing some with extra plastic to increase the viscosity. I have a darkroom exhaust fan and that's my place for such work. How about the typical plastic plumbing (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Help The Homeless In Legoville!
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On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 01:06:58 GMT, Laura Gjovaag uttered the following profundities... (...) Basic, simple houses, would probably not sell very well, unfortunately. SO.....how about concept houses? We have every year in the UK the "Ideal Home (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Fujita LEGO Star Wars Website
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Wow! This Mr. Fujita is a genius. His creations were all made prior to the release of the Star Wars line by TLG. His designs for the Speeder Bikes, Millennium Falcon, and Desert Skiffs, among others, were right on. I especially like his Jabba, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.loc.jp)
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| | Re: Ninja and Castle? What? (was: Re: Future Wild West Possibilities)
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Shiri <shirid@hotmail.com> schreef in berichtnieuws FnL6up.CGL@lugnet.com... (...) One (...) fact, (...) You've got a reasonable point there, but what I think the other guy meant was that Ninja actually should've been a theme of its own. IMHO Ninja (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.western, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: What should be in the next version of RcxCC
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(...) Thanks, Mark, for providing this wonderful environment. I would like to echo a previous request for remembering last-used source-file paths between sessions. Also, how about letting RccxCC "host" alternative line editors? (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Johnny Doolittle (was re: Pirate's Lost Island)
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Tony Priestman wrote (...) Hey hey. I like it. Almost has a Tiberius Flint flavour. Flint the soldier fighting through the ages, Doolittle the Procurer of Obscure Treasures through the ages, currently preying on ships returning to England laden with (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: RIS 1.0 vs 1.5
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By all means, get the upgrade. Even if you never touch the software, the extra pieces (including the coveted, oft-referenced clutch gear--the white thing) are very much worth having. You'll also have two versions of the test mat, and two (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Scout SDK
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We got the Scout too now (with all its additional features lurking under its plastic). Now we just have to think up a crazy contraption using the RCX, Scout and Micro-Scout interactively. So to David Baum (three cheers!) keep up the good work with (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Swearing?
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WARNING: this post should not be read by children or those with weak constitutions, as it contains a word that some people have complained about. Look, this is ridiculous. If everyone is going to whinge whenever someone uses a word that *may* be (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Pirate's Lost Island
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On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Richard Parsons (<Fnn6J4.55G@lugnet.com>) wrote at 05:41:51 (...) What, Johnny Doolittle? Founder of a dynasty of treasure-seeking adventurers, famed for their suave moustaches? (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates)
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| | Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year everybody!! Welcome to the year 22! Let's hope the future will bring us loads more castle sets! -- Arjan Brugman - abrugman@casema.net Arjan.Brugman@philips.com (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Question How do we know if Brad is for real?
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(...) Dan Parker of PNLTC has talked to one of his underlings at LEGO. He is for real, and is a real person. The person Dan talked to knew what was going on with regard to L@D So, if he is a fraud then he is a fraud from the inside of Lego, and is (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Question How do we know if Brad is for real?
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(...) Likewise, how do we know this is really Doyle ? Remember, on the internet no one tell if you are a dog or what. Ray (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Conversation at TRU overheard
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---...--- In article <386C4D25.44310EA7@w....att.net>, Mookie <Mookie1@worldnet.att.net> wrote: (snip) (...) Of course, and when the child passes the upper age range, I take the LEGO away from the screaming young person... ;) Rob (25 years ago, 1-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Happy New Year!
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(...) Happy noo year to you too. Carbon 60 365 days till the Real Millennium :-) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: Roboarm from Dave Baum's super book
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Are there plans to make the part models available? -Rich (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 3D Geometry...
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Look in lugnet.cad (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: how does a bar code reader work?
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On the lego website they have RIS 1.5 programming hints. I just saw that there is a card reader that scans slips of paper with lines on it. I was thinking that the same idea could be used for these trains, since lego already has the basic (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | New update website at LEGO
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Cool Wegpage at www.legomedia.com (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Blue Spears and Samurai swords?
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Those aren't blue...check your eyes. They are black, normal as can be. (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Cool Webpage at Legomedia
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Guys take a look at www.legomedia.com, another update by the LEGO website. Leroy (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Gecko Rebel V8 (MPD) [DAT]
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Here's just a simple Technic model that I made to explore the possibilities of the flexible hoses. It also has a V8 engine, which may very well be the first in LDraw. At least I haven't seen it before. Fredrik 0 FILE REBELV8.DAT 0 Gecko Rebel V8 0 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.models)
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(...) Oh, I am VERY inspired by Pawel's work. It's not just a simple, "I've built a castle, you can see it on this page, and take note of A, B and C." Instead he has really instilled life into the minifigs and transformed those little guys into (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Blue Spears and Samurai swords?
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Not sure if anybody else pointed this out, but: If you look on page 32 of the Year 2000 Catalogue, you'll discover blue spears and blue samurai swords in sets 8511 and 8509 respectively. Just pointing that out... I think they look very strange. But (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Remote RCX control using a second RCX
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I´m probably not the first one to think up this, but I just built a very fun robot using two RCX units. First, I built one robot with motors, a standing one with a swiveling wheel in the back. I used parts to make it look "human", added eyes and (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Classic Castle Figs
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(...) Well, you'd have a hard time buying an original castle maiden... And those classic castle men, although not as "expensive" as maidens, are in relatively few sets. Also, those sets are OLD, around late 70's early 80's! So my conclusion is that (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade - why after x-mas in the US!
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Hehe, for once, Europe gets stuff before the US :-) I got a 1.5 RIS for christmas, and I live in Sweden, we haven´t even got the 2000 catalogue out yet! --Tobias (...) the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: What should be in the next version of RcxCC
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(...) First of all, thanks a lot for making RcxCC. I'm a newbie (owning my RIS since X-mas), but I already love NQC and RcxCC. There's just one little feature that I missed: remembering the last-used path for source files between sessions. Ah yes, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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