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| (...) Me too! (I'm a big Cataclysm fan.) Will you be doing Beast-infected ship variants as well, or is that up to the individual builder? Incidentally, what colors do you prefer for your team? I'm partial to purple, but there probably aren't enough (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.space)
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| (...) Hi David, Hi David, your doubled posting is very fitting here (at least for people who know Fred): your doubled posting is very fitting here (at least for people who know Fred): In the Lego®-chat unter 1000steine.de Fred has been the guy, who (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.space)
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| Fred & All, (...) That is so cool! We don't have to worry about 70 MPH around here in Indiana, I am lucky if most people follow the 50 / 55 limits around here. (...) All right, will do so. Thanks for the info! : ) Scott S. -- (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | Getting Gear Ratios Right
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| Considering that gear ratio is such a fundamental concept, it's disturbing that several authors of Mindstorms books have got it confused. A good explanation is to be found on page 65 of Ben Erwin's "Creative Projects with LEGO Mindstorms". The best (...) (23 years ago, 20-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| OK, I looked at the source code to try to understand what could be the problem. If anyone wants to download the source themselves, go to (URL) and click on the link at the bottom of the page. The following is true of the open-source (free) version (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi all, some may be interested in my old mini board design. If so, here's a chance to pick one up at a reasonable price. Info is available via FTP at ftp://cher.media.mit...miniboard/ . Fred Begin forwarded message: > From: "Wally Blackburn" (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Well, at this point I'm out of ideas. Would you please copy and paste your jrm1.c file into an email message and send that to the list. (LUGNET strips attachments, so it has to be plain text body of the msg.) thanks, Fred (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| John, a couple things. 1. when you quit and restart IC, it forgets what programs you may have loaded into the HB. so that explains your #4 case below. 2. IC has its own way of storing vectors for user code like your main() program, so you should not (...) (23 years ago, 30-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: unusual places for the classic space logo
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| (...) ~Yes now, a Wolfpack or Blacktron emblem is all well and good… (URL) a -BLACK FALCON- Crest would be simply righteous!!! (URL) Vehemently, --==RïçhårÐ==-- *Images courtesy of Kurtzuba, Holloway, and Filz P.S. That’s one ‘slick ride’ in the (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.space)
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| | announcing the Handy Cricket!
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| (a little late for X-mas, but maybe in time for New Year's...) As many of you know, when I was at MIT one of the last things I worked on (from 1996 to 2000, actually) was a tiny robotics controller called the Cricket. In May, 2001, I obtained rights (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Yes, but it won't last long. The HB's electronics draw around 20 - 40 mA. the lifetime of an alkaline 9v is approx 1 Amp hour. So that give you 25 - 50 hours of run time. In practice, you'd get less, 'cause the 1 AH rating assumes a much slower (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| Hi, I have tried to run a servo motor with an external power supply (4.8v).I have connected the ground lead of the servo to the motor ground port (Motor Power Jack) and the signal lead of the servo to digital 9.(Like descibed in Fred Martin's book: (...) (23 years ago, 28-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) Four would be sufficient, but they'd have to be arranged in a tetrahedral formation, which I don't think can be readily done for geosynchronous satellites. There are more fundamental flaws with the idea, though. (You'd want some sort of (...) (23 years ago, 12-Dec-01, to lugnet.build, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Fred Meyer and ShopKo Clearance Sales
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| Is only Fred Meyer doing this because in the Pheonix area all our Fred Meyers were replaced with Fry's Marketplace and they don't have any clearences. I went to the Fred Meyer web site and the store locator directed me to all the Frys. Does only (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| Hi Fred, I'm not sure how often you check your hotmail account so let me post a quick message here. I was inspired last night and sent you a translation for the first 10 pages. Only took an hour and a half (translation is harder than it looks)! Feel (...) (23 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.space)
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| I have an idea that uses 1x1 bricks, 1x3 plates and 1x8 tiles. Very simple for straight runs, 1x3 elbow plates do corners. 1x1 plates for top caps or and decor you like. I have a picture of the idea at... (URL) Carcanague (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.town)
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| Well that's durn cool! The factory rocks, the pictures and photoshoping is excelent, and the story is wonderfull. :-) Nice work Fred, and thanks for taking the work to translate for us language-impared. :^P (...) (23 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.space)
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| From past experience the clearance sales can be different store by store. I have one store that usually puts their clearance out first and sells it at 50%. They usually sell out in a day. Then the other stores eventually do this but on a much slower (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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