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 | | LDraw.org 2010-03 Parts Update Now Available
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| The 2010-03 LDraw parts update has been now been released. This update includes 794 files in the core library, including 456 new parts, and many more files updated with improvements for Back Face Culling support. A further 3 parts have been (...) (16 years ago, 31-Dec-10, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad) !
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 | | June LEGO Dinner - Friday the 13th!! (today)
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| In the 'Dave's life is soooo busy he forgot to post' department.... I'll blame this being Friday the 13th... But there is a dinner! And we will be there!! Dinner @ Swiss Chalet - Friday, June 13th, 2025 @6:30 pm (address below) Swiss Chalet 5487 (...) (1 year ago, 13-Jun-25, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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 | | Re: Random thought of the day
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| (...) Or perhaps because it's summer time for many of the posters, terms have ended, and so on. As far as I remember, there has always been a 'summer slump' in the posting frequency. (...) I didn't read her post in exactly that way, but maybe you (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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 | | R2D2 Sounds - A Warning my RCX has laryngitis.
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| I recently read a post from someone wanting to generate friendy sounds similar to R2D2 using an RCX. I thought this was a good challenge so set out to try. I was getting to the point where I could generate a number of similar friendly sounds and (...) (21 years ago, 21-Jun-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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 | | Lego USB Tower and the Linux Driver
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| An earlier thread [ (URL) ] touched on changing the baud rate of the USB IR tower. Based on what information I have been able to find, it appears that at one time the Lego USB driver for Linux did include the ability to change the baud rate and (...) (16 years ago, 10-Sep-10, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | Kevin Loch Memorial
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| Nevermind the timelapse from my last post; Im slowly coming back to documenting our clubs activities here on LUGNET. Well, we lost a seminal AFOL this past June: Brickshelf creator, Kevin Loch. I remember back to the days when Brickshelf was THE (...) (2 years ago, 14-Sep-24, to lugnet.trains.org.tcltc, lugnet.trains, lugnet.people, FTX)
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 | | Re: Holy Mackerel! LEGO survey...
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| (...) No. (...) I only know one 0--11-year-old, and he already gets as much Lego as he should from his father. If, hypothetically, I did need to buy a toy for a kid (any age) it would be Lego. (...) A mini catalog in every small Lego set. A medium (...) (21 years ago, 20-Apr-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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 | | Re: Another resignation: I'm stepping down.
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| (...) Um, it was kind of varied. I started off checking out the high peaks, and investigating them so I could denote what "major event" was going on to cause high posting frequency. It worked great with my first attempt (Brad announcing Lego (...) (21 years ago, 19-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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 | | Kevin Loch Passed Away
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| Posted a few days ago on Facebook by BrickJournal. We have just been informed that Kevin Loch passed away earlier this week. For those who don't know, Kevin was responsible for starting Brickshelf, the first photo repository dedicated to the LEGO (...) (2 years ago, 22-Jun-24, to lugnet.people) !!
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 | | Bibo Rollup Release
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| I've been asked if I could make the patch collection updates available as a full-distribution release. Actually, I can't say that I blame that request. Most of the changes have already been covered in prior lugnet postings under the "BrickOS Patches (...) (17 years ago, 15-Sep-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | Re: BrickOS Patches and Development
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| The Bibo Patch Rollup Collection posted to SourceForge at (URL) been updated. New for this update are patches 36 through 39. 36: RCX tty config file - Extends patch 32 so that /etc/rcx/device.conf will also be checked for a default tty. The (...) (17 years ago, 26-Jul-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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 | | Re: New poll: sexuality and Lugnet
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| (...) And you would object less to this type of post-- (URL) mean, it really doesn't have to do with LEGO (except lessening the frequency of Tom's posts for a while)(1)... Considering what's going on in the world this very day, what with natural (...) (22 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general)
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 | | Licensing Update
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| For those following along, here's a link to previous discussion: (URL) carefully considering everyone's inputs and concerns we have decided to pursue an approach that uses only a user license as the licensing mechanism. However we still feel the (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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 | | Re: NXT sound sensor characteristics
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| (...) Since I was doing this all manually, it was by far the easiest. I realized that a better way would be to vary the signal generator level at each frequency, but often when trying that I simple "maxed out" the reported level from the sound (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.boats)
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 | | Re: NXT sound sensor characteristics
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| (...) anything interesting at 3 kHz... perhaps because I didn't go that high (oops). To figure out the frequency response I did it manually: I borrowed a signal generator and speaker from the university, as well as a sound meter, and then simple (...) (17 years ago, 28-Feb-09, to lugnet.robotics)
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