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(...) The biggest problem is the ease of destroying your Lego motor by supplying too much current because the voltage will be too high. The train motor does appear to have some type of thermal overload protection in it but I couldn't see an easy way (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: I have a solution for freeing motor ports
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Hi, I made a reliable gearingsystem that allows one motor to control a "transfer". this way you can actually control 4 tasks with 3 motoroutputs (and 3 motors) If you have 2 RCXs, you can actually control 8 tasks with 6 motors. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Kaduus?
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(...) two 8x8 radar dishes. *grin* -Cheese I'm not wasting this life; I'm letting it end. (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | Re: Plagiarism again (Was: Can we say, "Plagiarism"?)
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(...) Absolutely, I would send them e-mail, and also a letter. (...) Is there a prize? If so, I would press copyright violation charges (since the winner earned money which by rights should have been yours). follow-ups to: lugnet.publish (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: Ldlite for OpenGL and Linux (and uppercase filenames)
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(...) Pardon me for my ignorance, but is gzipped at all like pkzipped? I'd go for MPD distribution, but that would require a two-step distribution: un-compress the file, then mpdsplit it. And unless there was a 'delete MPD archive' included as a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Young Obi-Wan's Head
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(...) I was looking at Johnny Thunder last night myself and noticed that, for a hero, he's a pretty uptight-looking fellow. I'm kind of a latecomer to the Adventurers scene, but man alive! It's sort of hard to tell the players without a scorecard! (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.adventurers)
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I have nearly completed putting together all the pieces for a development environment that runs natively under Windows. As deployed, it won't be able to rebuild the utility programs such as makelx.exe or the cross-compiler programs. This would (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hi-Res 1-8 Disc
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(...) I'm glad somebody noticed. I'll post the right file this evening. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts.primitives)
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| | Re: Ninja Door Hack
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(...) There isn't another door. To make a pair of these doors, you do just flip the second one over. If you look on the insides of the doors in a set, they're both stamped with part number 30223. These doors could be used to make a really cool (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Young Obi-Wan's Head
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In lugnet.starwars, Charles Spindell writes: <schnip!> (...) I, too was dismayed by this; I only *really* want the 'figs from the Star Wars sets, not so much the big vehicles. I especially didn't want to have to buy the Gungan Sub and the Sith (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Lego in Chevy Venture
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(...) I didn't say it was best, but it was the only power door available when I bought our first van. Also, the Venture door (passenger side only) is automatic, but can also be opened manually. I would like the auto on both sides, but just having a (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: what do we do first?
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(...) Well, I figure what we should do first is try and actually get more than two of us in the same place at the same time... (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.org.us.nclug)
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| | Re: City Tour on www.lego.com
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(...) I'm getting the same results. Maybe they're coding against a live machine again? Or maybe we really have to wait until August, October, etc. before the scenes will work. (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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It's quiet in the house. The children are asleep and I'm surfing the net. Suddenly one of the robots sitting under my desk comes to life and speeds away. Then the second one ignites it's main light and chases the first robot. The two of them have (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NELUG 01/10/2000 is up
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(...) It could be done without changing the site design by adding captions within the pictures (by adding a strip to the bottom of the picture). (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | Re: Train Control
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I still think that LEGO and Marklin or LEGO and Digitrax could come up with a S@H train motor that is DCC ready...just imagine the possibilities...not just trains but anything that could be built to ride on the rails... (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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(...) come (...) Martin - I think he's referring to the outlet stores there. In particular, the Countryside Toy Outlet. Here's a portion of the web page: COUNTRYSIDE TOY OUTLET Exclusively LEGO Products Featuring the full current LEGO Product line (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: another small house (a la David Eaton's Teeny Shack)
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(...) Yeah, I cleaned out the local Wal-Mart. They had #6033 on clearance for $2 each! (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Research Glider
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Has everyone seen this? I just noticed they have a pic of it up over at etoys here: (URL) like a very simple but fun set. Nice reuse of the Ninja wings. (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | dragster : tempi
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Allora amici. ho provato il programma col cronometro e ... pero' corre sto coso.... I tempi pero' non ve li dico se no state alzati fino alle 7 per fregarmi :) Anche per le batterie ... domani poi vi racconto ... Marco (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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(...) through (...) Hi, in wich part of Ontario St-Jacobs is and who much to a track box cost? Who come do they have them since they are s@H exclusif? Martin (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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I haven't noticed anybody mentioning this, so I will. I wandered into Argos yesterday and noticed a half-price toy sale, on many items. There was nothing to say that LEGO was reduced, but I checked using the machines, starting with a Sith (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| | Re: New MOC's on my websites
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(...) It looks like a Belville part. 5890 has two, one yellow, one white. I've also seen it in a few other sets I think (5808 has one I think, 5895 has one, 3117 has two), 3115 has an even bigger table (which is in two halves). (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.build, lugnet.castle)
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| | what do we do first?
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So do we just start swamping mike with pictures, or do we do something more structured? Who is hosting the web site by the way? Jimmy (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.org.us.nclug)
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(...) What about the Chevy Camaro, Corvette, and Pontiac Firebird? C'mon, GM makes the only American sports car--they can't be that bad. Plenty of GM concept cars look pretty cool too. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Technic box #1 update
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(...) <Big Snip> I received it. already browse throw it, there is some good stuff in it. Will take a closer look this week-end. Phil Watt please send me your home adress, if I don't ear your Sunday at noon EST, I'll have to send it to the next one (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.jambalaya)
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| | Can we have a Newsgroup for KIDLUG?
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Hi Todd, my friend and I just started our site (URL) with a little help from Jason of (URL) I was wondering if we could have our own news group? -Alex (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.org)
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| | Re: Part functionality questions
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This gear is also used in 8858 Rebel Wrecker to allow the axle that connects from the light on top of the cab to connect to the steering mechanism up front. The gear is used as part of the driveline from the motor to the rear differential on the (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| | The Challenge (was Re: Train Control)
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You heard it here: Paul Davidson will join the train group as a full fledged trainiac when DCC is perfected with LEGO trains! How many more people will DCC bring into the fold? Only one way to tell... Paul, we will be seeing you here with increasing (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Update: Which Set Should I Buy FAQ
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Hello world... I thought I'd let all know that I've updated the "Which Set Should I Buy" FAQ to reflect recent developments in reverse-engineering of the DDK and RDS. It's located at (URL) me know if there's anything to add. /Brian ===== -- (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Bulk Ordering - Results Revealed
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(...) The stickers are easy to fix. The current idea book has a bunch of those window stickers (well the plain ones at least). (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.town)
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| | Re: More Scans! (Was: Scans of my Minifigs)
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(...) see (...) Yeah, I've been thinking of these for a while now for my new guys... My favorite choice is Scarlet (a.k.a. Scar), a warrior dressed in red + has a scar on right hand + is a heartbreaker (ie leaved scarred hearts behind :-) I also (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: A tutti i Dragstereers
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(...) :-))) Ok. Venduta. Ciao. Marco. (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.it)
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| | Re: Young Obi-Wan's Head
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(...) It struck me that many of the characters (original Luke-head, Young Obi-Wan head, Old Obi-Wan, Padme, etc) are sort of expression-neutral. Their faces would be as appropriate for playing out happy scenarios as playing out bad ones. After all, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | J Box?
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Hi all, Who has the J-Box right now its been quite for a few weeks, and I know I'm not the only one thats waiting for it to come round? Can anyone update me/us? Regards, Jason (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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(...) The fifth blue gem is hidden in the box that inside the tower roof top thingy. (...) Nope, there is only one shade of Trans-pink Jeff (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.belville)
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| | Re: More Scans! (Was: Scans of my Minifigs)
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(...) Yup, eventually. I've got to iron out some of the details first, such as who is allied with who and such. They also need names. :) Unfortunately, I don't know when I'll have time to build any buildings for them. :( Hopefully next weekend... (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Train Control
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the way I see it, is that you need the PC or the DCC throttle for addressing of the decoders in the engines. They also allow you to choose the address which controls the engine itself. I don't think the shell controller could be capable of doing (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Plagiarism again (Was: Can we say, "Plagiarism"?)
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I see 2 pics up and they are both yours Susan, I would definately contact Lego about this, Especially if the kid won some prize. I would hope they would contact him and talk to the parents and get the prize taken away. To bad someone didn't notice (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: train fans, please help me...
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I gave you my four votes before I saw your plea, as I cast #2 your piece moved into first place...anything to get TLG to focus more on real sets instead of aqua/arctic/rock/throwbot nonsense. (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.trains)
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