| | Re: WTB: 6469 Space Port Value Packs MISB
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Yeah they're still around here in Ottawa, Canada. I saw a couple just yesterday. $15 Canadian (~$10 US). I hope they go on sale soon. Tim Strutt 8^) (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Robotics help laserscanning of 3D environment.
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All the professional ones use essentially the same concept. Laser interferiometry to determine distance, and some kind of computer controlled most to increment the laser head. A series of points are the raw data. Filtering is necessary (there are (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 2 Motors -> 1 axle
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Dave Johnson <djohnson@sirius.com> wrote in message news:0FNZ00JD94JH7Y@...pbi.net... (...) I think you are drawing entirely the wrong conclusions. As others have said, your mechanical connection is at fault, not the differences between motors. Two (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: B-Wing Review
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(...) [Snipped review, if you haven't read, go do so!] Very well-done review. I agree with everything you said. This is a great set. It's the first SW set to feature a 'building'. Well, at least sort of. The ship is sizeable, the parts are good, the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.reviews)
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| | Re: origins of "Fibblesnork"
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(...) According to OED, "snork" is either a snort or grunting noise or a young pig. (It's also apparently Australian and N.Z. slang for a baby.) Or as a verb, it means to snore or to snort or grunt (especially for the noises made by horses and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Bulk Sale Prices
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(...) That actually isn't too bad compared to some auctions. Although I think 5 cents would be plenty for 1x1 plates. (...) I wouldn't expect them to have special parts available to begin with, so that is a perfect incentive to get sets. I would (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder
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(...) Do you have a source on this? I've sort of made a minor hobby of researching ILM's techniques (especially the early ones, from Star Wars and Empire- back when they were still fairly low-tech :D ) and I've never heard of this. I'm not (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Lego a hit with Fresno Model Railroaders!
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I went to the Fresno Model Railroad club meeting last night and brought some LEGO train stuff. I figured one or two people might want to see one, but that most would not be interested. Ha ha ha, how wrong I was. There were about 25-30 people there (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Construction Site
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(...) That's not a regular feature- it was the fruit of their 1999 Builder's Exposition. As far as I know, they aren't currently displaying any models by their customers in the store. On the other hand, if there were any of the models you were (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: RCX-IR Tower Communication
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Did you download the spirit.ocx documentation? You can control almost everything with spirit commands. You can pol variable, send messages, ... I think that spirot.poll(source,number) will give the content of a variable, for instance. Or you could (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Review 7124 - Flash Speeder
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(...) This reminds me of the mirror trick used in "Star Wars". In a couple of shots, to make the landspeeder appear appear to hover a mirrored skirt was placed around the supporting structure below the chassis, hiding the wheels and reflecting the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | 8446 carro gru
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Oggi visto che ero in vacanza ho montato la scatola che stantiva nella soffitta da lungo tempo... e mi sono divertito un casino sia nel montarlo che nel giocarci. Sinceramente dei tre set di quest'anno (8445, 8446 ed 8448) questo e' quello che mi e' (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Suggestion for MLCad Plug-Ins
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Michael Lachmann <m.lachmann@xpoint.at> wrote in message news:FnyBpI.5HD@lugnet.com... (...) In my other life, I write what is essentially a plug-in for mechanical CAD systems. I also use plug-ins in other applications, like PageMaker. The common (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | Re: Slim Pickings at Target
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Just got back from Wal-Mart, the same mother load of Advent calendars (1298) are now $3.00 each!!! WOW!!! I only got 20 I didn't want to make a seen but I am going back for more... See Ya... Robin GFLTC (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.us.fl)
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| | Target clearance
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Apparently the sale at Target happened already? At least in Modesto/Tracy. My mom saw the sale on Tuesday but forget to tell me. Below is an email I got from a friend 40% off: ---...--- 6093 Ninja Fortress (Big castle) ~$54 RoboSports $29.90 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: History of LEGO series........
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(...) Ah..OK, I'll add a link to it from the lugnet.general homepage[1]... --Todd [1] (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: dragster race
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(...) Scusa ma perche' vuoi limitare la lungezza a 30 cm? Non e' che se e' piu' lungo va piu' forte, anzi... e poi i dragster non sono mica tozzi come gli acrobot :) Come nelle gare vere tanto conta quando il primo pezzo di dragster attraversa la (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Construction Site
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The construction site is a great store. I visited it when I was in the Boston area in August. They are VERY knowledgeable about Lego. They also have a great Lego display of customer's custom models. They will email you a complete list of all Lego (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: History of LEGO series........
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(...) Hey Todd, I was browsing this site the other day (from a Bookmark on my PC). Is it accessible from some other page, or do you just have to maintain a bookmark? I was browsing around LUGNET, and couldn't find another way to access it. Just (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Walmart LEGO Suprise and Adventure!
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They had those awful Cyber slammers or (...) If they were the spider slammers, we got them for $30 CDN each, and at that price, they were a good buy...a new motor, short power cord, and battery box in them... James P (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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