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Hi I have found the IR in RCX limiting, especially because of its line of sight problem. I'm interested in developing an RF interface to RCX. Anybody has any experience, knowledge, suggestions, tips in this area? Any pointers would be greatly (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Thoughts on 8448 (compared to 8880)
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(...) Ah. My "problem", then, is that I only buy interesting sets. :^) I truly admire Lego's design ingenuity, and I really like building sets like 8880, 8480, 8868, etc., just to admire their techniques. I guess I should start buying up some bulk (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | SV: Sensor Project Book Scans
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(...) Copying for private use, or for some friends is not illegal, although some people want to make it illegal. Like publishers who have a stake in such matters. Writers usually have less interest because they are not the ones living on their (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Automatic decoupler designs?
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(...) have (...) Jeff - That's a very good reference page - please leave it intact a little while longer. Great photography to catch those details. A few questions, if I may... 1. I used the same Kadee couplers you did, and glued them on center to (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Design Problem
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Take the bent beams and attach them to a motor. When the car is at the top, the motor turns the beams, and the beams push the car off the magnets. To stop the car, you can have 2 sets of repulsing magnets - one on the car, and another on the bottom. (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Mindstorms RIS 1.5 find
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(...) I just got home from visiting three targets near me. Scored two RIS systems for 130$ apeace, a droid developer kit for 57$, and two extreme creatures add-ons for 12$ apeace.... not as good as your find, but pretty good none-the-less. (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | dllx for liblnp+lnpd uploaded to arthurdent
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Hello, i finally managed to get my old 486 back to live and build a little home network to test lnpd & liblnp in a networked environment. As expected ;-), it works perfectly -- with 2400 baud 8-(. Running with 4800 baud, i encountered some (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Partsref Updated
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Partsref, (URL), has been updated with the changes from the 99-06 L-CAD parts update. (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.announce)
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| | Parts Updates News
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Dear L-CAD'ers: I'm posting this quick FYI so that everyone knows what my plans are for the next parts update. I've currently got 70 files for the 2000-01 update. All the new parts, primitives, and file fixes submitted since the 99-06 voting was (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Posting problems with Microsoft Outlook Express
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(...) It was probably trying to post an HTML version of the message as a binary, or something silly like that. (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: random post
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(...) Actually, I just looked at the lugnet server, and it seems to be spitting out headers for me. Odd. (Well, not that it is odd now -- it's what it's sensible for it to be doing. Odd that it wasn't for you.) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: subassemblies
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(...) This ties in with an idea I've been bouncing around in my head: LEGO Design Patterns (similar to software patterns). A design pattern in the software world is essentially an abstraction of the behaviour you want an object to have. For example, (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Servos, power, and the expansion board
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Here is an update: I added an external power supply for the servos. Same problem. Everything works fine if I hook up to the charger in ZAP mode. Anyhow, I added an 0.22 microfarad across +5V and ground simply by sticking it into the headers on the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: It is a commercial nonsense to have closed legoworldshop.com
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(...) Christophe, I can tell you that we will be adding some mindstorms to the Nugator Company ((URL) a few weeks or so at prices signifigantly lower than shop at home. mostly just stuff from the basic sets but there will be sensors and any other (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Re: Storing bricks at low temperatures
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I know that Tony has paid big bucks for a lot of the Lego he has now. But in all seriousness, Tony, if you need additional storage space, my home in New York is always available. Just ship all of your Castle and Pirate sets to me across the small (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Mindstorms RIS 1.5 find
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I just hit three targets looking primarily for sith infiltrators but found none. At the 2nd target I went to I found an open and damaged RIS 1.5 marked at $120. I glanced in and saw that it seemed to be missing some pieces too. I headed over to (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Construction Site
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(...) Note: TCS is not breaking any rules (not that you said they were, but a casual reader might inappropriately infer this); they actually have permission from LEGO DACTA to sell LEGO DACTA sets on the web. --Todd (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Poor packaging by TLC (was: Has any one else noticed...)
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(...) As far as i have seen TLC has been slow to respont to many of thier "problems" as of late. (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | Bill's Monorail Auction Update
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Bill's Monorail auction status report: Advances started today, sets without further bids will advance to sold tuesday. Here are the current bids on my items: rk0010 n 6347 monorail accessory tracks a . Bill P $40.00 rk0040 n 6347 monorail accessory (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Construction Site
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(...) Officialy lego requires a retailer to have 30 stores in 3 differnt sales regions, with a gross sales of atleast 1.5 something or other before they can sell Legos on the web. Some small retail stores take the risk and do it anyway. now how (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.castle)
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