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(...) I'm curious. What does she think of the programming environment? It she strugging to figure out how to use it and get it to do the things she wants? Or is she struggling because the programming environment is limited? I'm wondering because I (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GTG in Denver
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(...) Sure, fine, let's do dinner first. I just typically can't get away from work till well past 7 or 8 PM, and need to go to bed by 11ish typically given that I have 7 AM meetings a lot of the time. What's nice about my apt is that it doesn't HAVE (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.co.den)
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(...) While not in an official teaching capacity, I'm using Mindstorms to introduce programming concepts to the 13 year old girl in my home. She worked through the Mindstorm tutorials on the CD and then immediately wanted to stop following the CD (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: GTG in Denver
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Our house is o.k. in the sense that we've got an entire downstairs area dedicated to LEGO building. It's not huge, but it works. Our only problem (a little embarrassing to admit) but we've only been back into LEGO for the past couple of years and as (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.loc.us.co.den)
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| | Re: Ldraw cannon
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(...) I have a shooting cannon in my to-render-bucket, but unfortunately, it has low priority. Also, at the Tracked Parts List at (URL) it says: 3 Cannon Zach Coakley Planning to Work On 1/7/98 I'll never learn if that means January 7th or July (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: > Can anyone recommend a mailing list for all lego robot enthusiasts?
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(...) I'm working on a mobile robot that has knobby tires but can still turn about it's center (for easier navigation). The idea is that the axle for each wheel can rotate, so I can put them at a 45 degree angle and 'spin' the robot around it's (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Suggestion for "Space Port" acronym (Was: Scans Ready: Star Wars, Rock Raiders, and other 1999 sets.)
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Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) LCJr? Not that I'm convinced yet that it is a Jr. type set. Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for answers? Read the rec.toys.lego FAQ! (URL) in Deja News! (URL) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Non FOTW
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(...) Where have you seen it stuck on the box, and what does the sticker look like? -Tom McD. tfn, radiotitan@yahoo.com (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Suggestion for "Space Port" acronym (Was: Scans Ready: Star Wars, Rock Raiders, and other 1999 sets.)
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(...) To carry it further, how about "TJSP" = "Town Junior Space Port"? -Tom McD. tfn, radiotitan@yahoo.com (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 8880 Supercar
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(...) I got three of them whicch he found. But they are all for other people. This is terrible; 3 Supercars, but I can't play with them. ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Building gcc
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(...) Ah, I missed that part. So crossgcc is a _patch_ that maybe affects how the compiler does things, maybe or maybe not making it compile without the header file mess. And it probably makes gcc run correctly under (only?) Cygwin. Got it. [Don't (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, Has anyone made a Ldraw part for a cannon? ____ |oooo| Cheers, |oooo| Wouter van Wageningen ¯¯¯¯ (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Backgrounds in POVray
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(...) If I use the land.pov example from Gforge and add all the stuff that L3P produced, I can see the surface from land.pov is I leave the light & camera from land.pov and comment the ones from L3P out. I see the Lego if I do it the other way (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Scans Ready: Star Wars, Rock Raiders, and other 1999 sets.
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(...) LC2 Steve (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Thousands of Elements auction - still good prices
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Greetings: This is an update for an auction of thousands of bricks and other elements. The auction is thus titled "Thousands of Elements Auction." This announcement and auction updates will go to rec.toys.lego and lugnet.market.auction in addition (...) (27 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: Halloween Bucket Pieces are now available
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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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| | Re: Mindstorms (more than just robotics?)
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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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| | Re: WOW Quit here
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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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| | RE: Building gcc
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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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