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Hi All, I've just got pictures of my Technic Excavator (MOC) up on the web. Have a peek at (URL) use the nav bar on the left to get to the LEGO stuff. You can also read the HC16 development notes if you're into that kind of thing. Let me know what (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: More raytraces!
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(...) Yeah, I have yet to figure out what the heck I'm supposed to do with ImageMagic. I ftp'ed it down and unzipped it. Couldn't find an "install program" of any kind (setup.* install.*, nothing), mainly just a lot of other .exe files and some (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: More raytraces!
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Steve Bliss wrote in message <3621feff.3360402@lu...et.com>... (...) And if ImageMagick will run, and likes your system (or something). I used PaintShopPro instead, which does batch conversion. Same effect, but this version worked OOB for me. Moz (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: How do you build an elevator?
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(...) Greg, What if you attached a cable to the top of the car, then looped it around a pulley at the top had it continue down the legnth of the shaft to another pulley at the bottom of the shaft then back up to the bottom of the car, making a sort (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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Oh, and worst of all, the air switches are so tight that you need a strong Technic motor to switch them. We really need a compact electromagnetic air switch or at least a friction-free manual switch. Eric Brok (26 years ago, 13-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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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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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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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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| | Re: What's your current project?
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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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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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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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| | Re: What's your current project?
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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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| | Re: What's your current project?
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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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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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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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| | Re: More raytraces!
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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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| | Re: I'm stuck for ideas
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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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| | Re: Weird Catalog from Consumer Affairs
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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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| | Re: pneumatics & mindstorms?
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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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| | Re: What's your current project?
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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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| | Re: What's your current project?
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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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