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| (...) You're asking why I laughed out loud? I laughed because I'd never heard it called that before, and I thought it was very funny. (...) Well, excuse my ignorance. I thought it was funny. --Todd (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Fred Meyer "1999 Star Wars Sets" sale
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| (...) Not meaning to bust on you, I was just shocked you'd not heard it before. I know how fast a reader you are and how you've tried to keep up with everything here (which is getting to be impossible no matter HOW fast you read)... ++Lar (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Fred Meyers 20% off
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| (...) Has anyone seen any 4535 Slytherin at Freddies? I found all the other sets (sadly only one copy of Escape from Privet Drive - that was one I was hoping to score a pile of). Frank (22 years ago, 3-Oct-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Fred Meyer sale ends Wednesday
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| (...) Has anyone seen any of the Creator tubs for this coupon? Both stores I checked had no sign whatsoever of the tubs. I picked up a few of the HP items on sale. Curiously, Slytherin house doesn't ring up on sale, but is pictured in the flyer with (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | Re: Fred Herrmann's Space City
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| (...) Indeed. This was flagged up a week or two ago, but it's certainly worth another look. It's also worth running it through Babelfish. Despite the mangled translation, which is in itself fairly humourous, there's a fair amount of humour of the (...) (22 years ago, 19-Feb-03, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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| (...) I like this idea - it adds a nice bit of realism to modern train consists! Too bad Lego lighting wasn't smaller, but for what you had to work with, vool job for sure! And I just saw a History Channel show on trains and they said that trainmen (...) (17 years ago, 17-May-07, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: FRED- flashing rear end device
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| (...) Solution: don't put the light on the end. Put the light interior to the container, and pipe it to the end using a fiber-optic piece. The size of the flasher (about the size of a stud) would then be more correct, and it could be hidden about as (...) (17 years ago, 19-May-07, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Intial Download Problems
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| Fred and others, I wrote before saying that my HB is not able to execute IC. Fred wrote back with the idea of it being related to the 68HC11, the memory or the 74HCs. Since I am not the richest of all college students, I am not able to just buy a (...) (27 years ago, 4-Nov-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | help with sonar
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| I emailed fred martin directly and he told me to respond to this address. Fred: does the sonar click indicating transmit? pls. follow up to the HB mail list. My response: yes, the sonar does click. I have also connectd it to a scope and both the (...) (26 years ago, 6-Apr-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Weird LCD problems
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| Fred, (et al) Actually I did test to make sure that the LCD was receiving the signal. And indeed it was. I did this before I posted and thought I made it clear. So I guess my problem should have been directed elsewehere since it is not entirely HB (...) (29 years ago, 22-Feb-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred, I have FTP'ed pcode-2.81.dist.tar.Z from cher (thanks for getting it back!) within it were the files foo.s19, pcode_rw.s19, lobo.asm, pcode.asm, and some makefiles.. Cool, but the files required for compiling IC 2.81 that I can't find are (...) (28 years ago, 1-Jun-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred Cass, Seems like I remember reading in NUTS and VOLTS, or somewhere, about Randy Sargent and his partners involved in a competiton, using a Radio Shack AM transmitter on their robot. It gave details on how they interfaced it. Sounded pretty (...) (27 years ago, 8-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Fred, could you please reconfigure your mailer? I'm getting some very strange headers, and it upsets Eudora Pro's filtering. Here's what you're sending it to: To: "'Handyboard'" <IMCEAX400-c=US+3Ba=...MTP=handyb oard+40media+2Emit+2...vetel.com> (...) (27 years ago, 22-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi Fred, I do not know exactly of your situation with the IR detector/emitter arrangement. I found that it sometimes picks up noise occassionally. I also found that with small resister in the range that you are using (330ohms), the range is too much (...) (27 years ago, 23-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | analog input test
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| Fred; I am at the testanalogs portion of the assembly process. All has gone well up until this point. The knob varies between 0 and 255 as expected and the seven numbers all come up either 254 or 255 when I press the START button. However I am (...) (27 years ago, 5-Feb-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | downloader for SGI
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| Hi Fred, I like to connect my handy board to an O2 platform. Could you please tell me where I can find downloader for unix system? many thanks, nari (27 years ago, 12-Mar-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Questions for Fred
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| I guess I should have learned by now, to investigate more before jumping out and asking. I examined the two versions of the lib_hb.c the difference in the analog is the absence of the following code in the smooth pwm code: int _raw_analog(int port) (...) (26 years ago, 10-Sep-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Question for Fred
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| hello, i use the handyboard for closed loop position control. the handyboard is good for such a task provided that you choose a motor well suited for the task, and an accurate feedback element, such as a (very) linear pot or optical encoder. as for (...) (26 years ago, 9-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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