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| (...) First off, how much are you looking to pay? It can be built fairly cheaply if you are interested. Second, there is a mailing list for the miniboard. Check out Fred Martin's FTP site relating to the miniboard for the details. It's all in there. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| in article 38E4B7A2.BD913F0B@cyberix.com, Rick Tripp at lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote on 3/31/00 7:35 AM: (...) One (hyphenated) word: cross-bracing. Check out Fred Martin's "Art of Lego Design", in pdf format on his web page. (URL) Doug Weathers, (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Willy, unfortunately, the Irish Flag was removed from the sticker sheet and put onto a flag in a rather poor manner (this was how Fred got the set). Figures it had to be that sticker sheet! I will see if I can at least get you a sticker sheet (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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| Dear Victor, I'll give you a few hints about what you are trying to do. 1. the "0x" in front of 0x0e is the same as "$" in regular C. It just designates that the number following is in hex format. 2. Fred runs his motor driver chips using addresses (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi, I noticed that U8 was neglected from the parts list. If anyone was wondering you can get it from Mouser. The part number is 570-CD74HC373E. Attn: Fred you might want to update the parts list. Thank You, Peter Eacmen (28 years ago, 25-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| The current still goes through the chip. 1 amp max. But now it will get more hot cuz you disipate more power accross the integrated transistors with the higher voltage. I think Fred mentioned that there was a thermal shutdown. (Is this true?) But I (...) (27 years ago, 28-Apr-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| is it posible to use an NVRAM lets say dallas a 32K in place of the regukar RAM to load the program and run it from there with out having to continually loading it?? thanks in advance FRED (26 years ago, 29-Sep-98, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi, can anyone suggest me where to by a Handy Board and the Expansion Board in Miami or Boston, or maybe its better to by it by mail from somewhere else? Fred, just in case, Im using Outlook Express and Im sending this mail with "TEXT without (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| prizes: - three LEGO Droid Developer Kits - three LEGO Vision Comand - three Ultimate Accessory Sets Check it out under (URL) are: - Fred Martin MIT media lab - Scott Savage Marshal Space Flight Center, NASA - Dennis Clark Colorado State University (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Hi, I've recently come out of my dark ages, actually, I like to think of them as my dim ages, I always oohed and aahed the Lego aisle in stores... Thanks to the internet Fred Martin (who spoke about Mindstorms and other fun technology ideas at a (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-99, to lugnet.loc.us.nc.cha, lugnet.loc.us.nc.dur, lugnet.loc.us.nc.fay, lugnet.loc.us.nc.gre, lugnet.loc.us.nc.ral, lugnet.loc.us.nc.win)
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| | Expert Builder website announces special update
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| I am pleased to announce the most recent update to the Expert Builder website. This addition is not a model, but rather the complete text and pictures of Fred G. Martin's article, 'The Art of LEGO(R) Design'. Some long-time Internet users will (...) (25 years ago, 3-Sep-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Ah HA! It's not just me that's looking for clearance sets and not finding them in the Portland-Metro area! There just aren't any cool sales on at Target, TRU, WalMart, Fred Meyer or anything! David, on occasion (I think at the end of the (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) By "here" do you mean the .robotics.handyboard group/list or do you mean _here_ (the .market.buy-sell-trade group)? Questions about the Handy Board list are probably best addressed to Fred Martin -- (URL) fredm@media.mit.edu --Todd (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) Hmm, I just came up with a few ideas since we regularly see these types of things. The first would be lugnet.people.contact-me where people can post "hey, where is Fred, we were in the middle of a deal and I haven't got an e-mail in over a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Feb-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| I've got both sets of Toa. With and Without CD. Look for the black Mini CD icon just to the left of the upper "window" on the can. Up here in the NW, Fred Meyer stores got the Bionicle earlier than TRU stores. The FM versions don't have the mini (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle)
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| I think the question on how to run higher current motors has got to be the most asked question here. Maybe we should add more info to the FAQ or something. Anyway, here is Chuck McManis' solution from a while back. I hate to send out something that (...) (29 years ago, 5-Apr-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| To the wise HB builders, First can I us a poly-styrene cap of the same value instead of the polypro?? Can I use a 3.92 1% in place of the 3.83 1%, what will happen?? Can I use a -8 instead of a -12 or -10 32k memory chip?? Has anyone created (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi All, I have recently completed construction of a Handyboard which passed all it's initial tests with the downloader, pcode and hbtest.c program, thanks to some help from Fred Martin, and I am now enjoying writting some programs for it. However I (...) (28 years ago, 5-Mar-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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