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| | Re: Sneak preview Estuary Stronghold
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| (...) Yeah, the "prob" is that I don't have a scanner or digital camera! How prehistoric!!! I feel like Fred Flintstone! Thanks for the offer, if I can get some good photos maybe I'll take you up on that, toda giveret. (...) So, what's up, you do (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: Two users - one PC
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| (...) ---<snip>--- (...) I'd be happy just to be able to use Outlook again to do my posts. I never had any problems till the crash of Summer'99, since then I've done the setup via thw www interface at least 4 times and recieved conformations that it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Enlightenment
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| Hey you all. I must be out of the loop too much here. When I saw people talking about 7124 I went and looked it up. There's a picture there. (on Pause) So what I want to know is how do you guys find out about this stuff so early? I'm only on Baylug (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Re: Stupid: Bought an Open Box
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| (...) *grin* I just got a 6456 Mission Control that I found on a Fred Meyer clearance table for US$80 clearanced at 50% off. It had been opened, and about 33% of the pieces were missing... but it had some pink 2x10 plates, and some (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Re: Walmart/Target sales
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| the fred meyers at 217 and canyon road has the tie fighters, and the target by washington square had a lot of different sets, all at full price, including a dozen RIS. (...) and (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Re: HandyBoard Charging
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| no, to do the battery run-down test, you must not have it plugged in! otherwise you'd just be powering it from the adapter, and you'd never run out of juice. so, the steps are: 1. bootload your HB with pcode_hb.s19. you should see the Interactive C (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Re: HandyBoard Charging
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| ok, you have the stock adapter. like i said, sometimes the batt does get fully charged and then not enough current flows in trickle-charge to light the LED. but that's normal, so it doesn't sound like there is actually a problem. a simple way to (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Re: Walmart/Target sales
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| Yeah, I have hit the Fred Meyer stores. One near me had 50+ tie fighters, and 30+ Sphynx surprises, all at full price. you would hope that a time would come that they would bit the bullet and clear them out. the last time i was there, the empty (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Re: HandyBoard Charging
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| do you have the recommended 12v, 500 ma DC adapter? if not, that explains it. if so, sometimes when the batt is fully charged, you don't get much in trickle charge mode and the light is off. but usually you should see the light being lit dimly. are (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: PID Control
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| This sounds like the sort of software that would be benifitial to everyone working with the Handyboard, perhaps it could be posted on the HB site? Fred? Reagrds, Matt (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Saturday Meet
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| Well, I deleted my directions (if there were any) to the Fremont Library for this Saturday's meeting cuz I thought I couldn't go. Now I can go. Yippee! Maybe I can get enough bricks to finish the sign. So, can someone tell me the location of the get (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | That Wacky Cost of Living
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| Well, as some of you may remember from previous and various posts, I'm been considering moving back to Utah. The only problem is, I don't have a particularly realistic idea how much it would cost to live there. I figured the SLC Lugnet subgroup (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc)
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| | Re: sonar
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| (...) I would imagine that this is the case since Fred states on his page that it won't work without it on most versions of the driver board. The easiest way to do it is just desolder the two pads that align with the c7 position on the HB. Stick a (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Re: Walmart/Target sales
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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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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | A Small Sale
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| I stopped at TRU this morning and noticed the 5988 (Pharoahs Forbidden Ruins) was marked down to $49.99 (from $79.99). If anybody is interested. Fred (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| fred (score: 0.161) |
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| | Re: Cat by the tail!
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| (URL) has several "kits" that are designed for classrooms. The RIS can be purchased in bulk (4 Mindstorms bricks) plus 1600 other pieces. (...) (25 years ago, 2-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.edu)
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| fred (score: 0.160) |
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| | Re: subassemblies
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| What you are talking about has previously been called 'LEGO Design Cliches' by Fred Martin. Fred has written a paper called The Art of LEGO Design which features some of these cliches and is well worth the read. You can find it linked in .pdf form (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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