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Dear Hans, I'm not aware of any replacement motor sources but let me see if I have an extra 4.5v motor unit in used/good condition. Also, since the newer, 9v wheels (on both wheelsets and on the motor) are narrower than their 4.5v counterparts, they (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Scans Ready: Star Wars, Rock Raiders, and other 1999 sets.
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(...) Enough puns, por favor :) Chad (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: nicad battery
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It might take a bit longer to charge but I don't see a problem I actually use a 12V 3AH gell cell to power my robot and Handy Board -----Original Message----- From: Pat Benoy <benoy@SLU.EDU> To: handyboard@media.mit.edu <handyboard@media.mit.edu> (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: To step or not to step
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I encountered the same problem with the DC motors I use on my robot. I used a reflective type encoder that read a black and white stripe of the driving wheels, but did not work reliably due to lack of resoulution and interference from ambient light. (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Bucket surgery
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Yes, which was why I had asked on RTL about removing the bars...... I wanted to buy a few silver buckets on a visit to the US, and keep the buckets, rather than throwing them out, thinking that they are great storage containers! I managed to squeeze (...) (27 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: Non FOTW
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(...) Actually, I think there's a sticker on the ones that have the minifig, saying so. (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Scans of Ninja sets from Japan
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AAA...AAAUUU...UUUGG.....HHH!!!!! (URL) has BROWN 1x3 slopes. Oh, GREAT, that means I've now got ANOTHER color car to build, in a near-impossible-colo...-in-brown. Damn, this will probably be worse than waiting for the 1x3 orange slopes to match my (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Suggestion for "Space Port" acronym (Was: Scans Ready: Star Wars, Rock Raiders, and other 1999 sets.)
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(...) "TSP" = "Town Space Port"? Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: Jacob.Sparre.Andersen@risoe.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- LEGO: MOC+++c TO+++(6543) TC+++(8880) AQ+++ BV-- #++ S LS++ A-/+ YB72m (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Scans Ready: Star Wars, Rock Raiders, and other 1999 sets.
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Larry Pieniazek wrote: Nit fixes: US 285. not I 285. All prices in USD (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Scans Ready: Star Wars, Rock Raiders, and other 1999 sets.
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(...) I think most people agree these are clearly precursors to LC, so I would go with yes. Another question along the same line... do you have to buy Lego LOCO to be 9V complete? It comes with a small (non powered) handcar set. This set is clearly (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Mindstorms (more than just robotics?)
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(...) Q: what are the ages of your students? Q: how big of a group did you have, (just Derek, Benny, Andrew, Alex, and Adam, or was it more ) Q: did you do this as an individual learning project, or was the whole class involved? Q: if the whole (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GTG in Denver
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Roby Sherman wrote: A dinner is fine, and I'm flexible, kids don't bother me, but I was hoping for a chance to get together and BUILD... I have a fair amount of parts here in CO (not all sorted yet) and would love to do something like have everyone (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.co.den)
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| | Re: Halloween Bucket Pieces are now available
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(...) new-in- (...) Jimmy (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Comment file?
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(...) If you don't want to duplicate effort, do not wade through the firmware. It has been done already, but there is no comment file. Instead, I documented the firmware with pseudocode. See: (URL) are not complete on the pages, so feel free to ask (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Direct-IR
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Interrupt driven IR receiving at up to 4800 baud see (URL) next week. (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Part 2441 needed BADLY!
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See my Wants page at (URL) need the car chassis, part 2441, and I need them in WHITE, GREEN, and BLUE desperately! I have too many black, yellow and red ones, and I REALLY need the other colors to finish out my garage of race cars, so I can start (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Scans of Ninja sets from Japan
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I received the four smaill boxed Ninja sets today. Scans the four boxes as well as the back of the box are here: (URL) back of the box has pictures of things you can build with different combinations of sets. -- Michael Ulring University of (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: nicad battery
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(...) I'm sure that would be fine. The important things seem to be the 9.6 volts and the relatively high current capacity that nicads provide. The larger the amp-hour rating, the longer you can go before recharging. -- Will , , __@_/ \_@__ |/ | /__, (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Mindstorms (more than just robotics?)
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(...) I'm about to teach my son (9 years old) using Mindstorms as a starting point. I may move on to NQCC quite rapidly (as programming with variables strikes me as rather limiting). So far I have no ideas! We'll see how it goes... Cheers, Ben. (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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