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| | Constructopedia and Lego Patterns
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| Speaking of actually building - I'd like to give a big thanks to Ricardo for his pointer to Fred Martin's "The Art of Lego Design". (& thanks to Fred, too) My background is software and getting the Lego to stay together is definitely the hard part (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| fred (score: 0.139) |
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| | Re: Where to buy in Rocky Mountain area?
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| (...) Well, cool, then. :-, Are you going to be seeing any of the national parks while you're over here? (...) The stores are really all over. Checking my 1997 phone book: Target: unknown at this time; fairly recent Shop-Ko: 7 in SLC metro Fred (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc)
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| | Re: Where to buy in Rocky Mountain area?
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| Sproaticus wrote in message <375EA332.BB52D5F2@g...es.com>... (...) areas? - (...) I'll be touring the area in a RV so I can get just about anywhere that has a large enough car park :) (...) Judging by a couple of other posts I've seen, Target seem (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ut.slc)
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| fred (score: 0.139) |
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| | HC11 E 'series'
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| I was wondering if i can use the HC11E9 series microcontroller instead of the A1 (that is suggested on the data sheets for the handy board). I have the Reference Manual for the HC11, looked at the data sheets and they say the E9 is an upgrade from (...) (25 years ago, 29-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.139) |
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| | New Robotics on my wepsite...
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| Reciently I aquired an web cam and I couldn't resist making an attempt at making a webcam robot. This is the 2nd generation of the webcam robot. 1st generation never nade it into final assembly. Next is adding the RCX after I get extensions for the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| fred (score: 0.139) |
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| | Re: hello all
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| Your English is excellent! Try the following URLs for starters: Fred Martin's "The Art of Lego Design" at ftp://cherupakha.med...oflego.pdf You'll need Adobe's Acrobat reader to view this document, but it's absolutely the best place to start. You (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| fred (score: 0.139) |
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| | doc info
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| I am buliding my own handy board and I having difficulty downloading the "Assembling The Handy Board" file off the web site. Does anybody know any other way to obtain this document? Fred (25 years ago, 26-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: handyboard clock speed
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| (...) yes, this is right. the fastest you can go with the 52-pin 6811s is 12 MHz crystal --> 3 MHz system clock (i'm pretty sure). so this is only 1.5x over the stock HB. so you've got the issue Curt pointed out with not only the downloader, but (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.138) |
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| | Re: Faulty Digitals
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| it might be the processor, but more likely there is a board short connecting the dig ins to ground (input 7) and pwr (input 8). measure resistance between the inputs and the gnd and pwr rails to check. fred (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.138) |
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| | Re: Pneumatic Hand-Pump
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| Give me a reasonable price and I may buy a few of them w/o Ebay. I only have the one that came with the search sub, so the more pneumatics the better. LegoCork -- Everything else is just a toy... (URL) (26 years ago, 30-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| fred (score: 0.138) |
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| | Re: First BayLUG meeting deemed "a success"!
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| A very big thanks to Zonker, Russell, Fred, Mark, and anyone else involved in the organizing of this event! It was much more ambitious than I'd been imagining, and I was quite happy to see how well it went. One conclusion that had been discussed (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| fred (score: 0.138) |
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| | Re: spare parts and sets that would be good
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| The Lego/Datca catalog has accessory parts packs for mini figs and some of the instructional sets. Some Technic parts in bulk ie: differentials, gears(50 - 100 per bag) and pneumatic parts. It's a freebie catalog, get it from their web site. -- (...) (26 years ago, 25-Mar-99, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| fred (score: 0.138) |
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| | Re: Mindstorms: Use of Far Mode on IR Transmitter
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| Far mode allows you to download or control RCX via suplemental software (NCQ). The IR range can be boosted a bit by reflecting off a white surface (ceilings or walls), I think Radio Shack has a remote control range booster. This should be able to (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Fwd: Re: help about part C3
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| replying to my own msg... (...) (that is, (...) in other words, (...) ok, so P6305-ND is the part i originally specified. sure enough, you can't find it online. but i found it in the latest print digikey catalog! (i didn't check that it was the same (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| fred (score: 0.137) |