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Just a quick post to let anyone who's interested in this book and hasn't got it yet that my company has this on offer at 25% off RRP for the next 7 days. Probably not much use to anyone outside Europe due to shipping charges, but I thought I'd let (...) (23 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Building Idea Book 1 (#238)
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(...) <SNIP> (...) Hello Gary, yesterday I found my copy of the idea book #238 and went searching the LUGNET news-database and stumbled upon your message almost 2 years ago. I'm not sure if you have any respone upon your question about other (...) (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.books)
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| | Re: loud paper
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The blocks Frank Lloyd Wright is talking about are Froebel kindergarten blocks and the time period is the 1870s. You can see some modern ones at this site: (URL) check out everything available today at (store) (URL) also have the "Froebel Gift" (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.books)
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(...) Do you mean other building toys? There is a huge compendium of construction toys of the past at (4) and it's not even covering stuff like Meccano which are not "architectural." The theory of building blocks has two broad branches. One is that (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.books)
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| | The Block Book, Hirsch, Elizabeth S. (ed)
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Has anybody read (remembered) "The Block Book" by Elizabeth S. Hirsch? This is a group of essays on kids playing with blocks. The themes emphasize the importance of "free materials" based on a wooden unit block--she apologizes for not including Lego (...) (23 years ago, 18-Mar-02, to lugnet.books)
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| | Building Robots with Lego MindStorms Review
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I have posted a review of "Building Robots with Lego MindStorms" at: (URL) Fay THE SHOP (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.books)
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| | Building Robots with LEGO Mindstorms available in the UK
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This book is available (in stock!) from Computer Manuals at (URL) . £19.95, free UK p&p until 24th December, and if you review any books they're giving away a £5 off voucher for any order over £20, so if you buy something else as well you get it (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-01, to lugnet.books)
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| | Re: learning RoboLab (long)
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(...) I haven't seen this but I imagine that it is similar to the Control Lab version, only taking advantage of the multi-processing capability of the RCX. At least that was my $0.02 during the brainstorming session for this packet. :) (...) If this (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.vll)
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| | Re: learning RoboLab (long)
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1. Click www.lego.com/dacta/I...tabase.asp 2. Click the "Quick" button. 3. Click "Search" button. (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.vll)
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| | Re: learning RoboLab (long)
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I could not get anywhere with this link. How do you get to the docs? 5.e. Invent & Investigate Database www.lego.com/dacta/I...tabase.asp Activities in the form of student challenges. The Teacher Notes sections show programming examples. 27 (...) (23 years ago, 10-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, lugnet.edu, lugnet.dacta, lugnet.books, lugnet.robotics.scout, lugnet.robotics.vll)
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