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| (...) I think that would be great!!! Like I said, if you can dig out that reference to the fellow from MIT (I think his first name is Fred) and his work on idioms, that would make it even better... I am so bumming that I can't find it. It's not on (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.loc.uk)
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| Try to find a copy of: MetaCricket: A Customizable Computational Construction Kit for Professional Designers by Fred Martin (the guy who started this mindstorms stuff at MIT) Brian Silverman and and Bakhtiar Mikhak. I have a PDF file of this article (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Okay. Now I know how FTP works (i.e seamlessly, it wasn't like that in 1994 when I was at University!) As Gael says that is a cool article, just one question. Did the Constructopedia ever go online? I have never seen any reference to it on Lugnet. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Not bad Sean...who would have thought that Lego would put out a My own Train series, that Hogwarts would follow the style of....(actually M.O.T. and Hogwarts can be adapted to 9V...(well if you decided to remove the "decorator" wheels...) I'm (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jul-01, to lugnet.harrypotter)
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| The first batch of modular train tables I made some years back have served us (PNLTC) very well. And over the years, I've gotton feedback and suggestions from a lot of people along with a wealth of direct experience using them over and over again. (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) member no. 1267 here. I really didn't expect so much interest for the Space Factory from the other side of the world. Nice to read all this praise from Classic Space fans over there. The text in my gallery is full of allusions and quotes (...) (23 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.space)
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| Hi, Many thanks to both of you. According to Peeron: Submarine: 8299 --> "Cylinder 4 x 4 x 1 2/3 Propeller Cowling" (2 yellow) X-Wing: 7191 --> "Cylinder 4 x 4 x 1 2/3 Propeller Cowling" (4 gray) The model team set was not inventoried. 3-in-1: 8286 (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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| (...) Yep, most railroads still have them. It's just that they tend to get used on local trains only now (A FRED is cheaper for mainline, when you are not switching the train at all). Because the crew is 3 on most mainline runs (or even 2), you (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| Hello, Here are some corrections and additional info regarding the inventory of set 8462. Documentation info ---...--- 1 Instruction Manual 4115766 1 Sticker Sheet 71827/4114357 Part# correction ---...--- 1 x77 Black String 98cm 4 75 Blue Technic (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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| I just received my RIS 2.0 set. Here's a quick rundown: - Part contents is identical to 1.5 except for - The RCX is labeled 2.0. Otherwise, it is visually identical to the RCX that came with the 1.5 sets. There's no power connector. - A single (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| So does this mean that the RCX acts like a PC in that it does not forget the date/time when it is turned off or the batteries changed? Should I just write a one line program to set the time, and remove the time code from my actual NQC program? Thank (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| (URL) here, speaking more-or-less for the Blank Shields, and all that. Fascinating stuff, this Isle of Mists. I've heard the rumours of course, but I never paid them much interest, to be honest. Moutain dragon, you know, not much for water, I'm (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| Much to my surprise I found the Droid Escape and AT-ST (?), the one with Chewie, on clearance. They also had the desert skiff and the catapult (castle) set on clearance. they still had the droid fighter and flash speeder for full price, go figure. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Oct-01, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| Hi all, I recently read an excellent paper by Fred Martin (of MIT fame) on building toys in a modular fashion. His microcontroller was similar to the RCX but had one key addition - a two wire serial bus so that active peripherals could be attached (...) (23 years ago, 24-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I have created an index of all Lego inventories sources I could find, that is: - This newsgroup - The various "Set Inventories" area of Lugnet - Peeron - Enchanted Forest : (URL) can see the result (URL) The back-end is actually a database so many (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.db.inv)
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