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| (...) Well . . . they could've handled Zane's character a bit better, but I was talking about the other "bad" guys that weren't as obvious, namely the entie upper deck, her mother, all her friends. As far as DV being mostly mechanical by the time (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jun-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Servo controlers for mindstorms?
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| (...) Do you mean a piece of hardware or a piece of software? I do not know of any hardware to convert from the Mindstorms output ports to the servo inputs, so if you desire to do this sort of thing you will presumably have to get cozy with a (...) (26 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Upon Furthur Review... and something to look for
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| (...) I agree completely with your 2nd viewing assessment, though I also knew going in the first time, that Jar Jar was going to be a nuissence, so I was able to look past him, but you do have to admit that he's well done technically, if overly (...) (26 years ago, 24-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Re: Minifig Cryo Chamber
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| (...) Hehe. Ahh... blinking lights... Enya... zzz.. I was thinking the same thing. Also the 4x6x2? older style space canopies work well, if you're not using them. But any full-sized canopy should do it. And IIRC you won't need to fold their legs. (...) (26 years ago, 21-May-99, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: Og Needs More Inputs (fwd)
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| On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jim Choate wrote: ----- Forwarded message from Michael Gasperi ----- From: "Michael Gasperi" <gasperi@alynk.com> Subject: Re: Og Needs More Inputs (fwd) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:52:54 GMT >----- Forwarded message from Michael (...) (26 years ago, 30-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: ldraw.org
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| (...) It is a work in progress, but a couple things need to happen first. I still need to iron out kinks in the Lego Maniac's Webring site and make it public before starting work on the new ldraw.org site. Also, I want to take my time on this and (...) (26 years ago, 23-Mar-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Parts availability
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| To all: I am constructing the Handy Board from 'scratch', since many places want upwards of $200 for a built (and tested) board. I have located most of the required parts, but have not located the following: the 1 uH iron core inductor the 5W 47ohm (...) (26 years ago, 24-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: navigation with compass
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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: Speech Synthesis?
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| A few years ago, "back in the day..." (that is, high school), I did a project that involved creating various vowel sounds as output for some bumper sensors -- different resistances gave different vowels, that kind of thing. The parts came from a (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Synchro drive in Lego
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| (...) Well I'd like to control the state of the motors independently so I'm thinking more of a demux (I just aquired 8 more motor kits that were being cleared from Target bringing my total to 10 geared motors and 2 of the older style 9V motors. But (...) (26 years ago, 19-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Help with cables
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| milind, To check your phone cord, hold the ends together so that the wires are away from each other. Look through the clear connector. The wire colors should line up in this orientation. There is a little more to the DB-25 issue. "Null modem" vs. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | RE: interface problem
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| This can take a long time. Start by making sure that the cable is correct. You can do this by changing the Rx and Tx lines. If this does not help de Maxim serial driver can be faulty. Last check the solder joints.I once looked at them and could not (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
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| (...) I'll agree that many people don't have ready access to a soldering iron, but the concepts are pretty simple and the plans for such "extensions" to the RCX are available on the web. I'm a software-type. Odds are 50/50 that I'll burn myself with (...) (26 years ago, 2-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX 2.0 -- ideas.
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| (...) You forget that there are many of us (if not the majority) that neither have the means to build hardware, nor have the knowledge or know-how to build it. I personally know how good I am at destroying hardware. Is not uncommon to try to fix (...) (26 years ago, 1-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: BTII Jetpacks are back
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| (...) You know, Nellie the Elephant! To Bombay, a travelling circus came They brought an intelligent elephant, and Nellie was her name One dark night, she slipped her iron chain And off she ran to Indistan and was never seen again... Nellie the (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-98, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Discussion Post: Auczilla
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| (...) I don't know that anything is "broken" with AucZILLA, I just think that the size of the auction is just far too huge for two people to run with any hope of speed if they actually want to have real lives. I know it took me a matter of weeks to (...) (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.market.auction)
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