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Matthew Miller wrote in message ... (...) 1: (...) a (...) Pneumatics are ok if you like them for the sake of it, for the sound of the puffs, the impressive sight of all the tubes, the compressor collecting pressure etc. If you just want to move (...) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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(...) Hmmm. Given all that, maybe I'll just continue to pass on them. (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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(...) Well, actually, they required a $5.00/year registration fee, so I decided to put up a geocities page as a shrine to my cheapness instead. (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) A single pneumatic cylinder will break a 16-beam in half fairly readily. My (big) truck crane boom weighed about 4lbs, mith a center of mass about 18" from the bottom, and 3 cylinders could lift that when perched about 5" from the pivot. So, (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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(...) Hard to say... You can find me registered at members.self-proclai...stards.com in an alphabetical list of links, just above Mike Stanley's ;-) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Out of that list, I like Bricklyn (sp?) best. Greens? Hmm. Took me a second to get it. Granted I'm in California, but contrary to a popular belief, not everyone lives in NY (or CA for that matter :) (...) Put up pix of your radio station's (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Are they strong enough for practical use? (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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Forgot a couple of URLs: To get ImageMagick, try <ftp://ftp.wizards.d...geMagick/> The Win95 and NT binaries are both under the NT subdirectory. For more info on using ImageMagick with LDAO, read through (URL) Steve (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) If you're going use LDAO's HTML generator much, you might edit HTMLGen.src in the LDAO directory. That file contains all the HTML fragments used to spit out the .html files. I figured if I hard-coded *all* the formatting, someone wouldn't like (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) "Generate HTML" will do the bmp-to-gif conversion, if you install ImageMagick and tell LDAO where it is. Steve (26 years ago, 12-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) How about the vehicles from MotoKops 2200? That should keep you busy for a while. If you live. 8P Rob (26 years ago, 4-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) "Yes, spankings. Spankings for everyone." ...or something to that affect. I had friends back in high school that quoted the whole movie at lunch, word for word verbatim. After a few weeks, one of the kids let me borrow the movie to figure out (...) (26 years ago, 11-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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I've just ordered a compressor pump, several pistons, valves, tees, and tubing to explore some of possibilities using pneumatics. The first thing that came to mind is the ability to move arms, etc., without the need for limit switches. - - - Nick - (...) (26 years ago, 11-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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Sean M. Kenney wrote in message <361E575B.3EE764F7@r...rs.edu>... (...) You could go with an alternate time line type thing. What if New York hadn't changed names.... You could have "New Blockendam" (...) Tom has beat me to it. I would have (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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I'm still working on my Accropolis Project contest entry/(ies). Greco-Roman temple, I think perhaps I'm gonna have to limit it to that and maybe, a War barge, since I've had company over for the past week. All construction has stopped. (disclaimer: (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote in message <361F208D.DE89E033@vfaq.com>... (...) That I can do[1], but I had sort of hoped that the "generate HTML" option would be automatic. Moz [1] my web page, for instance (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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You to convert those BMPs to GIFs to make the HTML usable, as LDAO and LDraw do not output GIFs, but you really need GIFs or JPGs to be Web-centric. Just run them through a converter in the directory you dumped them to, then open the (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <361e3433.12763437@l...et.com>... (...) I used it - it ate itself. More accurately, I got a lot of bitmaps and some HTML, but no usable output. I suppose I should run it again and get a better description of the (...) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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Tom McDonald Wrote: > Seanhattan? I thought I could go for all the 5 boroughs, maybe? - Minifighatten - The Blox - Briiklyn - Stack'em Island - .. um.. ? Greens? ..dunno I could build everything green.. (?) > Geekopolis ;-) (saw your sig) I like (...) (26 years ago, 10-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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Mike Stanley wrote in message ... (...) Red--no, blue! Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for answers? Read the rec.toys.lego FAQ! (URL) in Deja News! (URL) (26 years ago, 9-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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