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(...) Nice thread - I'll have to pick up a Technic Sub to get a compressor tank (or is there one available cheaper elsewhere?) Anyway... Has anyone here seen the high-quality photo of the soda-can grabber 'bot that Lego has at its Mindstorms site? (...) (26 years ago, 15-Oct-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build)
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(...) Short answer: I don't know. Longer answer: start moving files out of the IM directory tree, and see what happens when you run convert.exe. Have fun :) Steve ======== Posted via the LUGNET discussion group web interface ======== (URL) Search, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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Is the entire IM directory needed, or JUST the convert.exe? I'd like to delete all the rest if all I need is convert.exe, but I don't have the time to remove a file at a time until something breaks. Right now, it works, but that's an awful lot of (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Hrmmm, I can still generate this error simply by giving it the path d:\IM412\ for convert.exe (...) Yeah, I fixed it when I stopped trying to specify a directory (incorrectly even) for the Step images. Dunno, but it works now, so I don't care. (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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(...) As long as you've got the convert.exe program somewhere, you should have ImageMagick as setup as LDAO needs it. (...) I really wish I could duplicate this! I've had plenty of reports of it, but I just can't make it happen on my system. Anyway, (...) (26 years ago, 14-Oct-98, to lugnet.build)
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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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