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(...) Check out: (URL) to Thomas P. Rafert for the excellent set inventory, very easy to read. _ _ Scott Smallbeck materiel@halcyon.com (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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In a message dated 11/6/98 12:59:33 PM Central Standard Time, lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com writes: << Q: what are the ages of your students? These were gifted students ages 7 - 10. I think that MindStorms would work easily with ages 9 - adult. (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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The problem I have is that I don't quite live in Mesa but about 65 miles east, so it may be not until next week I get a change to go down... I'm kinda curious if MS is worth the 200 dollar asking price??? And I woul like to see the set.... Dave (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.az.phx)
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(...) The instructions I wrote up were for the GNU gcc distribution 2.8.1, not for the cygnus distribution. I haven't tried building the cygnus distribution, so I don't know what the differences are. gcc 2.8.1 built cleanly for me under Linux (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GTG in Denver
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I was suggesting dinner just for an "introductory" phase. I though we could figure things out from there. I would love to have a building session. Does anyone have the space so that we could spread out? Our place is too disorganized at the moment. (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.co.den)
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| | Re: WOW Quit here
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(...) I will be heading by there again today, and will double-check. I probably did not notice them because of relative disinterest in those sets. But hey, at $5, that is a pretty good deal. The Mindstorms are on the opposite side of the store, in (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.az.phx)
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| | Re: Clear plastic "tackle boxes"
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(...) Wouldn't that be LC^M (1) complete? (1) - where the ^M means complete multiple times (2) (2) - How many shuttles again in your fleet? (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.storage)
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| | Re: A better boxcar? (was: Re: Thanks to Terry Cruse and Ali V.
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Ben Fleskes writes: For the longest time I wanted to be 9v complete. Then I finally asked (...) I must agree with Ben -- and this might be a little more blunt. As much of a LEGO trainhead that I am, I find it difficult to justify building a shrine (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) I wonder if this is the step I was missing. After following Allen's instructions, I ran into troubles with an include directory missing files, so I just created empty files and the compilation complete fine. Maybe using crossgcc fills in those (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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After some agony, I've discovered that the instructions for building a gcc cross-compiler miss out a vital step (probably because its one of those things that's so obvious to people who regularly build cross-compilers that they forget they've done (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: 4,5 V replacement/9v compatibility
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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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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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