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| Rich: this looked real nice. I thought I was the only person melding the cyber cannon and the mindstorms. my first "trick' was to place all 4 in a line, then run a "camshaft" over the firing mech.. it was fun to watch them fire in sequence. then I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) But brief synopses would. For example, I cruised a site that wanted me to order from scanned images of a catalog. Links to each scanned page were provided. But no mention of the page contents were provided on the links page. So, to find what I (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| Hello everyone, I finally got a copy of the new LEGO S&H catalog. After paging through this I've noticed several new sets. Star Wars, Life On Mars, Trains.....did I say Trains? Silly me, I've noticed that 4565 ain't featured this time. What I did (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.trains)
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| I am very pleased to announce the very first ever posting of pictures of my very own original MOCs....very.(?!) The first set of pics is of a battering ram I made for my wolfpack figs. My wife says it looks like a "really bad chipmunk".(!!) I've (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle) !!
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| Actually, I think the Hogwarts Express is a VERY likely candidate for inclusion in the HP Lego series, but probably NOT as a 9v train line item. Think Time Twisters Twisted Time Train (6497) rather than true Lego 9v Train. Lego is thinking for sets (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.trains, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) What compiler are you using? I was unable to duplicate this behavior with egcs-1.1 -- for static integer arrays it outputs .word pseudo-ops and for automatic arrays that small it generates inline code to initialize each element. In any case, (...) (26 years ago, 3-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I remeber seeing a link to a LEGO turing machine based on the Mindstorms unit. It used a band with bricks on them, each of could have two states, making it a small "computer". Now, I cannot find this site, even though I have searches the newsgroup (...) (26 years ago, 12-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I've added a new area off of the "miscellaneous" area on my lego web site. I have two pages that discuss photographic techniques I use and image post-processing. Go to: (URL) click on the Miscellaneous link. From there, you can click on (...) (26 years ago, 5-Feb-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Actually, I was just thinking about that a couple days ago. The two fighters from the Deep Freeze Defender are very compact. Why not mount a squadron of them on the underside of a large carrier, and modify the rear of each one so the pilots (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.space, lugnet.build)
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| (...) No, it appears that the helmets are separate, and there are regular-shaped minifigs heads lurking behind the masks. In the 1999 in-box catalog, there is a picture (on page 9) where a snow trooper's helmet is slightly askew, and a band of (...) (26 years ago, 4-Feb-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| As the interests of using Mindstorms for teaching purposes grow, I have created a web site titled Mindstorms In Education(MIE), a very first site specially provides resources for those interested to use Mindstorms in education. A current link to the (...) (26 years ago, 11-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:00:03 GMT, John Neal uttered the following profundities... (...) I had seen part of a TV documentary on the subject. I shall check out that link, thanks. I am generally afraid of heights and steep climbs. I had climbed atop El (...) (26 years ago, 8-Feb-99, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| James - - Here's a link to the QRB1114 data sheet: (URL) limited playing has shown two things: one - the sensor is very sensitive to visible light and therefore needs to be used with an auto-calibrate routine. two - you have to be very selective in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| James - - Here's a link to the QRB1114 data sheet: (URL) limited playing has shown two things: one - the sensor is very sensitive to visible light and therefore needs to be used with an auto-calibrate routine. two - you have to be very selective in (...) (26 years ago, 19-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: New Deep-Space Explorer finally revealed!
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| (...) Why??? (...) Nice! I like the internal detail, and the nacelles. But the fueling station seems out of place. Why not a gunner station, or perhaps a secondary bridge? The arms, hoses, and cockpit make it look less stream-lined. On the other (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.space)
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| Look at these: (URL) and (URL) also added a 100uF cap across the supply as shown in this link: (URL) suggest ana even larger cap. (470uF), but I haven't had any problems with power sag until the batteries are almost discharged. - - - Nick - - - (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) I once used a CD repair kit to successfully restore an audio CD that had a rather deep groove (CD half inside player, spindle became lathe). I had to grind it down with very fine sandpaper, then very very fine sandpaper, then very very very (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| [Crossposted to lugnet.cad & lugnet.admin.general, with followups set to lugnet.admin.general.] In a message posted to the L-CAD mailing list, Tim Courtney raised the question of whether there should be a lugnet.cad.ldraw-parts group. The following (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) That ship rocks! Very creative design. It looks very functional. It also looks like it has a lot of playability. I also like the way you showed the progression of your own space theme. Very cool. Felix (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.space)
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