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| Sorry for this late follow-up to this old thread. Real Life has kept me away from Lego for the whole week, and finally I am back. Searching for "compass" in the LUGNET news archive turns up 28 entries, so this topic has been discussed long ago, and (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: British Trains Re: Hogwarts Express train
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| (...) Until the mid-to-late 50s the headlamps formed a code to denote the type of train. There were four positions, centre, left and right along the footplate and top of the smokebox door. See (URL) this site> for more info (scroll down a bit for (...) (19 years ago, 24-Feb-06, to lugnet.trains, FTX)
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| | Re: Vikings?
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| (...) I'd say that definition is a bit 'narrow'. As far as we learn from *our* history books, 'Vikings' are the name given to almost all inhabitants in Norway, Denmark and Sweden (and later Iceland and Greenland), maybe excluding the northernmost (...) (20 years ago, 2-Feb-05, to lugnet.castle)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament begins the book of Judges
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| Hey Brendan, Great to see the new installment: Bezek: In 1:1, I like how you are making the different tribes by changing the arm colors. Simple but effective. In 1:4, I'm not really a fan of the helmet idea (though I completely understand the (...) (20 years ago, 24-Feb-05, to lugnet.build.ancient, FTX)
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| | Re: YYZ: New Terminal 1 Preview
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| (...) Definitely an exciting vantage point to view the entire air port. The Tampa Airport is like this too, or at least was. As a kid returning from florida after spring break I'd always make my dad take me up there so we could watch the planes for (...) (21 years ago, 10-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | BrikWars Superheroes
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| On January 18th, NELUG had its first BrikWars game featuring superheroes. While I'm still in the process of doing the write-up, I have created a Web site in support of this game. It has the basic storyline along with pics and bios of all the heroes (...) (22 years ago, 26-Jan-03, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.org.us.nelug) !
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| | Re: refurbishing dead NXT's
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| (...) Yes, that is easy, the display & keys unit can be unplugged. You'd only have to resolder the two speaker wires. (...) Yes. It doesn't make much sense to swap the motherboard, because without the LCD/keyboard and the motherboard the rest is (...) (15 years ago, 25-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)
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| | Re: Elian Gonzales
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| (...) Let me connect the dots for you. Arguably, Elian's mother would have been better served if she could have flown from Cuba to FL in a commercial airliner. Or even taken a large passenger liner, or in extremis, a 50 foot fishing trawler. But (...) (24 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: LUGNET T-Shirts are in!
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| (...) Hmm -- tough (and great) questions! Well, hmm, the XL size says Adult XL (46/48)/XG/TG on the label if that helps... Alternatively, measuring an XL flat gives a width of 25 in. (~63.5 cm.) and a height (measuring from the tippy top of the neck (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: RCX Serial Hardware Hack
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| Dear Matthew (...) A: Now it works with 4800 baud via bluetoothconnection . There was a couple of Problems. 1) At first i tried with the USB Tower but i coult only swith to 4800 bauds but there is no possibilty to change parity. 2) With the serial (...) (16 years ago, 29-May-08, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: rtl8 'bot pics
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| (...) Well, the problem with that is the insanely high cost of doing screen setups. Most of the production cost of the shirt (which I've been putting off for ages) is really the cost of getting films made of the camera ready art, then getting those (...) (23 years ago, 11-Jun-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Disparaging remaks ??
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| (...) No, don't worry about it Steve. You put forth an effort you thought was fair and you judged on your opinion and input. It's fair. I'm still waiting on our final judge's returns, he's been out of town (London I think) so we'll forgive the (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.build.mecha)
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| | Re: Future of Humanity (was: lotsa stuff)
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| (...) Me either! Wow, cool--LUGNET is the apex of evolution! :D (...) *HAHAHA* "Chimpity?" I love it! Oh, yeah, forgot the little ™ (Alt+0665 to make the spiffy extended-char trademark symbol) But, as a matter of point, evolution didn't turn chimps (...) (23 years ago, 22-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Business Meeting? Public Display (Zeum) coming up!
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| Hi All, It looks like an opportunity for a public display missed being talked about in club forum last weekend, but there's been a fair discussion in email over the past few days. Here's a summary; + Zeum ((URL) is looking for a few good builders. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jul-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: A brief reflexion on power sources
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| (...) (URL) at the DN123 which is due out soon (moved back again, me thinks...). Even the DN121 which is what I am using is a retail for $20 USD/ 38 or so CDN. heck, I'm selling converted motors for $60/each (DN121, 1 output with resistor to 9V). (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jul-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: custom sails
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| (...) Hi Steve, What I've found that works best for punching holes is a leather punch tool! It looks like a set of pliers only it has a wheel on the end. It allows you to select different sizes for the holes by dialing the wheel to the correct size. (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)
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| | Re: Frivolous lawsuits--a new winner?
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| (...) I think in that second case, the plaintiff is in the right-- if the implication was that the prize was a car, then using trickery to get the motivational results pursuant to offering a car as a performance incentive is completely dishonest. (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: legos biggest mistake is...
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| (...) our (...) you and I (...) other person (...) Does everyone else and their children deserve to be forced to abide by your particular notion of what is "decent" on a minifig? (...) circle? As differently as there are people and cultures on this (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: mouse model manipulation
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| (...) Well, I looked at the pdn and pan values, but they never seemed to get crazy or anything (although I'm not familiar with the inner workings of OpenGL so I'm not entirely sure what constitutes fishy). Their values stay relatively close (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | BrikWars at BricksWest
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| For anyone who's looking forward to those "BrikWars session (tentative)" slots on Saturday and Sunday nights, here's the plan as it currently stands: I'll be hosting games both nights for anyone who wants to get involved. I'll take care of keeping (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.events.brickswest)
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