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| Pick-A-Brick is our friend. I'm an excellent procrastinator. Over the last month or so, I've been surreptitiously working on an actual physical brick MOC, when I should've been doing other things. You can tell me if it was worth it. The design (...) (18 years ago, 26-Feb-07, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX) !!
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brick, wall
(score: 1.817)
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| | tracking an IR beacon
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| Hello all - My goal: I'm trying to determine the feasibility of tracking an IR source with my Handy Board. My initial scheme calls for using two IR detectors (the ones with all the internal filters, etc, to provide a clean 5V output upon detection (...) (27 years ago, 6-Dec-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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measurement
(score: 1.814)
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| | Re: New Monorail System (MOC)
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| (...) it's a cool concept but not very cost effective. i imagine those tank treads are going to go for .20 cents or more on bricklink. i could see this being feasable for something large and possibly space, but i'd concider trying something cheaper. (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.technic)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.813)
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| | PaB selection at Bellevue Square.
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| I went to the LEGO Store in Bel Square today and loaded up. 10 large cups. I got varying quantities of the following items listed in no particular order, with color names where FTX color codes are not available: [LDrawPart 3069b:15]Filled 2 cups (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.market.shopping, FTX)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.812)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament reActs
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| Hey Brendan, More great work as always. BTW, if you are in any of the stories and you click on "Acts of the Apostles" at the top, you go to the (URL) original version>, not your new (URL) ReActs>. I was kind of happy, as I wish you'd include a page (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.812)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament reActs
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| Hi, Bruce. (...) Ah, thanks for pointing that out! I've fixed it now. I do intend to keep the (URL) old version of Acts> online (just as the old version of (URL) The Gospels> is still there). That way links to it on other people's websites will not (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.811)
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| | TachoSpeed.nqc
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| I'm trying to write a simple routine that uses the TachoSpeed value to see if my Cybermaster has run into something. I'm trying this on tiled floor, by making the bot with tank threads run into the wall, but only very occasionally does it actually (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.811)
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brick, dimension
(score: 1.810)
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| | Re: TachoSpeed.nqc
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| (...) You assumed correctly. Without the wait the if statement is always executed immediately. I see what you mean: by taking the wait out of the start of the loop the sensors are checked more frequently. That doesn't solve the riddle though, (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.810)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.809)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.808)
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| | Re: encoder function
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| Hi all I have written some routines to measure frequencies from 30Hz to 30kHz. I'm posting this with an attachement because several people have ask me already for these routines. To Fred: You can add these routines to the ftp server or anywhere on (...) (27 years ago, 6-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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measurement
(score: 1.802)
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| | Variety is the spice of life
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| To All, I would like to state my $0.02 on this color issue and perhaps open up a new dialog on the whole color variation issue. First, I agree that in the past the LEGO Company has done an outstanding job with keeping the color consistent from batch (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.802)
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| | Long reply Beware Re: Variety is the spice of life
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| (...) There are very few things in life that I can consider myself as an expert, but the one thing is color matching and quality control of color in a manufacturing process and at the point of purchase. For 30 years I worked in a small paint (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.801)
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| | Attempt at corner cafe
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| I purchased the corner cafe directions and tried to build it with parts I had. Aside from colors, the problems that I encountered were mainly with windows. The first floor windows are 6 bricks tall unlike the 5 tall windows I have. Similarly the (...) (17 years ago, 22-Apr-07, to lugnet.town) !!
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brick, wall
(score: 1.798)
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| | Re: Great Wall of China
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| (...) When I first saw a picture of this MOC, it looked like a massive diorama. Closer examination revealed the brick saving forced perspective. I would say that your idea worked. Very clever! -Jim (17 years ago, 10-May-07, to lugnet.build)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.796)
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brick, wall
(score: 1.795)
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| | Re: Help reading pulsewidth. Duh!
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| After sutdying the schmatics for an hour, I got up to get something to drink. When I came back I noticed that digital 1 is connected directly to the IC 1 input line and digital 2 goes to IC2 via a pullup resistor. It seems that the answer was right (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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measurement
(score: 1.794)
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| | RE: Low battery detection
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| (...) ===...=== (...) divider (...) about (...) point. (...) input (...) bat (...) ===...=== (...) ===...=== Hi Jaron, I took the PCB off the battery case, and connected a wire to the +ve terminal of the battery pack. Then I connected two resistors (...) (27 years ago, 25-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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measurement
(score: 1.794)
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| | Re: Help reading pulsewidth.
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| (...) <snip> Sure. Use an oscilloscope. It seems to me that if you're looking to hook up the receiver to the HB, couldn't you instead just run the receiver output through a capacitor to smooth it out (and maybe a resistor to scale the voltage) and (...) (27 years ago, 23-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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dimension
(score: 1.791)
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