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Has anyone come up with an electronic solution to the problem of only having 3 out ports? It seems it would be possible to control many more motors if some sort of a multiplexor was constructed, maybe the motors could use their own power supplies (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bulk Sale Prices
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(...) majority of us would get the wall pieces. I think it'd be cheaper, and for me, that makes a big difference. Jeff (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | 60 white tiles added to ebay
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I just added 60 new white tiles to ebay, 15 1x2;25 1x4 & 20 1x8. Other tile lots include green, yellow & blue ending soon. (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | History of LEGO Windows...revisited
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When I get some time, I want to generate an entirely new HISTORY OF LEGO WINDOWS document. But in the mean time, here are some brief updates...... Gary Istok ---...--- LEGEND CA= Cellulose Acetate - plastic used for windows from 1957-63. ABS = (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: What all has TLC done?
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(...) #6457 (...) I don't care if a minifig is a man or a woman, as long as it looks cool. Z (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Space stations?
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(...) I can imagine the Blacktron ships bustin' out some warfare [what else would Blacktron think of at the sight of a Futuron spaceport?] What a cool scenario. Maybe I should build it... Z (...) I'm more of a spaceship builder. Battlecarriers are (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: 2 Motors -> 1 axle
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(...) One way to make the axle stiff is to use mutiple axles. For example, get one long axle and four equal length shorter axles. Use the four shorter axles to join two of the largest gears together, using the axle shaped holes that are off-center (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bulk Sale Prices
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(...) Not this castle fan. If I have the option of ordering wall pieces or ordering bricks and arches, the bricks and arches will win every time. James (URL) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: RF Connection To RCX
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(...) If you take an COTS rf module, such as those from Siemens or Montorolo, or for example the bluetooth sample module, (though I used one from a cheap radio shack wireless phone) you'll find that the di and do have very similar voltages and (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: What all has TLC done?
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(...) I just wish the female astronaut was in one of the small S@H sets! Either #6457 Astronaut or #6458 Astronaut with Sattelite. Either one. I love the way they took the old space-face and feminized it. Very cool. But not cool enough to buy that (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | 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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(...) 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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