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(...) -Rob A> (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Jim, I posted this to the NELUG list. The general consensus so far is that this is a long distance for us. Our nearest member is over 4 hours from Rochester, and most of us are more than 6 hours away. This means that a temporary display (setup (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.trains, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(URL) done. Twice now. Though to be said, not nearly as great as the plan we have, but if this guy can assemble 5 'pieces', then we have got to come up with somethign bigger... Dave K (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This is the idea I had: (URL) I'm not sure how well it works, but it certainly does position the three bottom most pieces. Calum (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Yupyup, here ya go! (URL) Here are all the parts you need to make one shuttle base. (URL) One assembled base, less RCX. (URL) Tomorrow night I'll finish up the proximity detection (using a light on the back/light sensor on the front). When (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Iain- Got a picture without the RCX on top? -Rob A> (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Continuing along with that thought, how cool would this be? If I remember right, you showed me that the new train wheels have a technic axle hole in them. If we could get enough of those wheels (Bricklink, maybe?), then we wouldn't have to use (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) (snip) (...) Of course the new version of the motor that comes with the battery train would solve that problem. (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This of course begs the question, what's your idea? (...) Ah, but if the idea is good enough, maybe somebody who's not using theirs* might loan you one, or even sell it cheap. -- Brian Davis *say, because of the current unavalibility of a (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) For someone who is interested in making 4x4 RC rock crawling buggies, maybe. For someone who wants to build robots, however... :p As a complete aside from the banter with my fav. american 'bot builder, I am really seriously considering picking (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I was thinking something like this: (URL) open V could be on top of the carrier, and the wedge could be incorporated on everyone's press down mechanism, leading the motion and spring loaded. This would perform the final alignment of the (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) What, you don't think the NXT is worth that? Steve (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Why would I want an NXT? I hear you want one from Chris, though. Dave K (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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[And those dang Yankees just won't got back south of the border where they belong...] I like the idea of using the touch sensor, however it raise another question (that, not being at a meeting, I don't have an answer to). How are you proposing the (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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[pardon the uninvited Yank, but I love the idea and have been lurking. And I'm hard to actually shut up, just ask Steve] (...) One thing you guys could consider is having different folks come up with different building sequences on their own, and (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Waitwaitwait, did they build you at the Honda factory? :) I don't think we should worry about the minifig (but that's moot). (...) Not a dumb question at all - to be honest I hadn't thought about it. Once the "press down" starts happening I (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) There's a lot of prework for organizing: The carrier and the assembly pallet at minimum. Then deciding the building sequence. Thankfully the building sequence is pretty top to bottom. One item (the minifigure) needs to assembled before his (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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(...) Well, if you look at pricing retail, yes. I personally think the NXT is worth much more than the RCX functionally too. We're just not used to it yet. Calum (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Bingo. :) I have a ton of old 4.5 V track I can loan out if people want to do it that way, but the new 9V track looks a lot nicer (there are twice as many cross ties on the 9V track than the old 4.5V). For mocking things up at home you could (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Do you really want more to just collect dust? (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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