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Hey folks, Just an idea for rtl13: Pipe Races. Build a robot that can ride along a plastic pipe-at any angle. Calum (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: talking RCX....
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(...) No. Chris has vehemently discarded RCX limitations for all future rtlToronto events. If Lego made a high density cluster of RCXes, you could use all of them in rtl12. Calum (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Arena...
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(...) wont this just make a big trampoline? unless you mean something else and will make 16 small trampolines... in either case, I think we need a solid surface. -- Chris (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: talking RCX....
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(...) if you are referring to the old (outdated) rule of modifying one score based on home many RCXen a person has, then the answer is we no longer have that rule. If Calum and I can at all help it, then we will never again limit the number of RCXen (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: My "Legends" building spree
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(...) I've never really liked the My Own Train cars. They're far too American for my tastes (even if the Metroliner seems to have an Amtrak livery, it still has a very European style to it), the sets themselves have a lot of repetitive elements (14 (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: DAVE!! how was the 8880??
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(...) I like to take my time with large (ie, 700+ piece sets) sets. I think I took two or three days to get through the SuperCar. I also like to ask a friend to come and help. (...) It's quite nice, but I think it sits too tall. If I could "lower" (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Arena...
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So how flat is the floor in LHS? I have potential access to greenhouse 'screening' and if I grab a sheet of that, say 8 feet 8 inches square, and get 4 pieces of 1"x8"x8', and have the sheet attach to the outside walls of the 1x8's, then it's a very (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: talking RCX....
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(...) Yeah sure, if my own hand can be counted as a LEGO piece... OTOH if we still have the 1/N rule, then a pure mechanical bot only need to stack two pieces to get infinite points. So do we still have that rule? (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | My "Legends" building spree
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Like Dave and Derek, I got my yellow-labelled box of happiness in the mail recently. Among other things, it contained my first Club Car and my first Metroliner. I built the club car Tuesday night, and the Metroliner last night. On Tuesday, I also (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: DAVE!! how was the 8880??
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(...) I get home last night after work, cleared my 'puter desk, turned on the telly to 'Everyone Loves Raymond' and proceeded to open all the plastic bags into separate holders all over the desk... That was about 6:45 p.m. At around 11:15 p.m., the (...) (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | DAVE!! how was the 8880??
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well? you've kept us in suspense long enough. we all know how BAD enterprise was last night.... Come on, it was almost as bad as the 3 Vulcan's crash landing on earth story from 2 weeks ago... so i guess you have fully built the beast. Chris (22 years ago, 17-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | talking RCX....
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do you remember how we all (ok me and Iain) talked about trying to get the RCX to play music with some ad hock midi-rcx converter thing??? well, ok maybe you don't.... look, I just found this super cool web page, and if you drill down deep enough (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: The portlands below altenburg
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(...) hey, we're already star, were's my limo ;-) Calum is rigth here, the important is not the size but quality of the layout. Anybody with a bunch of peace can do a layout in no time, no effort,... But to do a realy good one is a lot more (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: I love Jake...
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(...) So here I am, hacking up a lung this morning, but I have to go into work anyway 'cause the other I.S. guys are busy elsewhere today... So I get my lazy butt out of bed (late) and get ready for work... Walk down the stairs, and notice thru the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 45 Degree Crossing
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(...) Why is there never a simple solution. :-) Derek (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: mastercard
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You mean I should actually READ the whole message??? Oops. Thanks for clearing that up. Matthias Jetleb (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: 45 Degree Crossing
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(...) What if you backed each pair of switches off by one straight piece, then manufactured some crazy crossing out of say, metal stock glued to a piece of thin plastic? It wouldn't be pretty, but it would mean you wouldn't need to modify four (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | 45 Degree Crossing
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Well I was looking at the 45 degree crossing idea and I've discovered a bit of a problem. Its not just two straight tracks that have to be modified, but the four switchs as well. The problem is the switchs interfer with each other. The turn off (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: The portlands below altenburg
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(...) as i have already quite publicly stated (in front of official people from a certain toy manufacture) Bruce and I will be building a CRACK house and motel.... NOT a biker house... geesh. and besides... i'm way to busy trying to figure out if i (...) (22 years ago, 16-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: The portlands below altenburg
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(...) Well, the way I see it is like this: We spent a lot of time wrangling with the track geometry, and the original "core" layout is as small as we can get, and still have the features we wanted, ie: two track levels, a perpendicular 2-level (...) (22 years ago, 15-Oct-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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