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(...) <beaucoup de snipage (lots of snipage)> :) Actually, I have seen parts of the US with either solely Metric or Hybrid Imperial/Metric. (One such occasion was around Louisville, KY - Hwy I-71 - just south of Cincinnati, OH) Ben (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hmmm...sounds to me like you need a self-extracting version of Stuffit Expander. If you can't locate one via their website, contact me and I'll see what I can do. Keep in mind that this is MUCH easier if you have the Performa hooked up to the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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in my haste I forgot to paste the link. I'm so excited members.rogers.com/m...nished.mpg -- Chris Pretend this says something funny (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Well, this has nothing to do with lego. BUT this is just a taste of what can be done with the SUPER COMPUTER!!!! the following 2.7 meg video is my first attempt to out do George Lucas. A little history. I was asked to build a prototype RC "robot (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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All M$ operating systems after DOS 6.22 "suxor" (as dave put it). DOS didnt do much, but what it did, it did well. It rarely crashed on me. It was easy to write C apps for. Go ahead and call me a Micro$oft-bashing Linux freak. I stand by my claims. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gv3LqA.2op@lugnet.com... (...) Uh, so what? Canada's been Metric since the mid 60's...? (...) Yeah, exactly. If you want to get right down to it, why don't we measure things in studs? (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Thanks to Chris and Calum, I've got a beautiful Macintosh Performa 580 CD siting on my desk (next to my IKEA KIMSTA and IVIKEN). (URL) my delight when the Digital Camera I bought (off Calum) came with a DB9 to Apple Serial connector. Joy! Perhaps (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) call me American...but I still prefer to go by the imperial system. (even though metric is much easier system to use...) lego-wise, 32 bricks studs is approx. equal to 10 inches, which is roughly means that each inch is approx. 3.2 brick studs (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Rob Stehlik" <Robbby31@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gv3AG9.KxJ@lugnet.com... (...) (200 mm robot. 600 mm gap.) (...) it I got the impression Phil had taken over running it...? Iain (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Rob Stehlik" <Robbby31@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gv39HD.HLw@lugnet.com... (...) Oh, I understand absolutely nothing about the mathematics. My mom tried to get me to at least look at what she'd done for my taxes last night, and I got mad (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Make it 300 mm, and you've got an even sweeter deal. ;) Iain (I'm serious) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Sexy would be SAL 9000. "Good afternoon, Dr Chandra. Do you have anything for me?" (...) Hey! What's wrong with XP? Iain (who likes XP, but desires OS X and a beautiful TiPowerBook...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I have. after 2 hours of messin' around, the easiest soloution for me, (and to keep it in ONE RCX) was to creat a A/C robot, and have it push a premade bridge to the gap. even then it was still intersting, and I had not even gotten to the part (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I haven't built a prototype for this, but from trying to build a soccer robot, an 8 inch cube robot is probably too small. In an 8 inch cube the RCX takes up a large portion of the space. I think we should stick with our usual 12 inch cube. I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Since we're all putting in our 2 cents about the dimensions, here goes: 12 inch robot, 20 or 24 inch gap Has anybody actually tried to build a robot yet??? This theoretical debate is interesting and all, but until someone actually tries to build (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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8 inch robot. 24 inch gap. Maybe thats exaggerating, but it would certainly be more interesting to watch. I don't want to see prefab 12 inch bridges as Chris suggested. That would be dead boring. At least make the gap bigger than the robot so some (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Stunning. The report wasn't completely over my head, but mostly. I liked the explanation and background information. It makes sense that parallel mechanisms offer higher speed and flexibility in machining, but their downside is the funky work (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) <beaucoup de snippage> (...) mmmm.... that sounds great. One further stipulation about the size/gap... the 'bot must fit inside the gap. No overhang or nothing....just to make the contest interesting. Ben (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hi Chris, If I may ask, how much did you pay for the basic unit? & Where did you get it? -Richard, who’s tired of workin’ on a 286… (Yah, you may have a ‘Super Computar’ but is your system -5.5 inch floppy disk- compatible. Ha, well mine (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) 12 inch gap with a 12 inch cubed robot *and* multiple RCX's and you've got a deal That is all ;) Dave (22 years ago, 24-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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