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| (...) And another favorite line that I quoted in my Spybotics book is from Harry Miller of racing car design fame: "Simplify, then add lightness" Cheers, Ralph ---...--- Buy "LEGO Spybotics Secret Agent Training Manual" (URL) ---...--- Reply to: (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Crazy, OK Heretical Idea ...
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| (...) There are also a few in Star Wars, Spybotics, and Racers, but I can't recall ever seeing any that didn't come in Technic sets. (...) Pretty much the same all the way through. Sorta. The metallic colors are produced by using a different type of (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-03, to lugnet.cad)
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| | Future Mindstorms Release
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| Does anybody have any knowledge of the next Lego Mindstorms release? More importantly -- will there be one? Has Lego abandoned the RCX for the inferior, yet more marketable Spybotics product line? (21 years ago, 27-May-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Future Mindstorms Release
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| (...) At the Brickish Association AGM TLC's Tormod Askildsen was asked this, here is my recollection of the response: [Phil Case What is the future of Mindstorms?] Tormod We want to keep the open-ended robotics side going we know how popular (...) (21 years ago, 28-May-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Mindstorms robotic modules
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| I currently have one purple Spybotics drive unit/controller and two DDK MicroScouts that I don't need, if you're interested. Purple Dave ***...*** PURPLEDAVE@MASKOFDESTINY.COM WWW.MASKOFDESTINY.COM ***...*** Please don't feed the sane people Hitomi (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Accessory set 10076
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| Yesterday I visited Legoland Billund. A great trip, which of course also included some shopping. Apart from the new world city sets I didn't see anything that struck me as new, but I did pick up a Technic accessory set, because it included some gear (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.admin.database)
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| spybotics (score: 1.363) |
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| | Re: LEGO robotics on a budget?
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| (...) Buy the RIS (probably 2.0) and play around with it for a while. Get used to what you can do with the parts provided before you assume you'll need a gigantic pile of parts available just to get started. If you're working on a budget, the best (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: LEGO robotics on a budget?
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| I recently set out to buy the Ultimate Builders Expansion kit (I was after additional motors), but haven't been able to find it in the city yet (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). So, I decided to find a separate kit that would provide useful pieces to my (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Hailfire + Spybotics
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| A little exercise in studless beams construction: grafting of Hailfire Droid wheels on a Spybotics. Brickshelf folder (post mod): (URL) links: (URL) to .../hsb13.jpg Wheel angle can be easily changed, modifying stability. Pilot and rear thrusters (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Hailfire + Spybotics
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| Really clear photos. Can you tell me what camera you used? --Jack Gregory "Philippe Hurbain" <philohome@free.fr> wrote in message news:HIonn8.CHt@lugnet.com... (...) Droid (...) .../hsb13.jpg (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Hailfire + Spybotics
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| (...) I used my trusty old Nikon Coolpix 990 camera. Natural lighting, program shift to use a high f-stop and get high depth of field. Plus light level optimisation with Photoshop... Philo (21 years ago, 30-Jul-03, to lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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| | Re: Spybot Zones
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| (...) (URL) think that link will give you a good idea of how to get spybot distance and direction. It also shows how to setup byte code commands in NQC. (URL) link has more samples showing how to talk to the spybot firmware using NQC's asm (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.spybotics)
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