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(...) Actually, the 7th is (techinally*) ok for me too! its the 14th that is a problem (Birthday, BrickWest, California) * I depart on the 8th to California!!! Jeff VW (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Actually the 14th is ok, it the 21st that is a problem. Derek (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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picky!! picky!!!! clearly this WAS going to be one of the subtle exceptions re: valentines day! BUT I have to go back and teach you SUBTLE all over again. :) I'm up for a feb 7 dinner...... (...) Chris Why do solar calculators have an off button? (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Except for the general rule is the SECOND FRIDAY of every month. 95% of all rtlToronto dinners have been on the second Friday of the month, usually offset by events like shows/competitions. Calum (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I thought we were NOT going to PLAY this GAME!!!!! no one postponed the dinner when i was in a hospital for the birth of my daughter.... Calum I'm real sorry you friend chose to get married on a lego dinner day. (shrug) BUT we can not continue to (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Friday February 7th, 2003 You don't get me. (best friends' wedding) You don't get: JeffVW OR Friday February 14th, 2003 You get John Guerquin You don't get Derek. OR, if people are so inclined, how about the 8th or 15th, on the weekend? Calum (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) for me this is true... I am impressed by most things: small shiney objects all thing electronic cool plumbing fixtures the colour red ... (...) WRONG!!!!! let me explain it again..... what follows is paraphrased for brevity: Bruce: " chris I (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Clearly, Chris and Calum are easily impressed! All I did was to use the RCX with a light sensor and a temp sensor to determine when my hot water heater was in use and for how long. I programmed the RCX to log the sensors once a minute for 24 hours. (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 From: "Chris Magno" <hollynorth@bellnet.ca> To: <lugnet.org.ca.rtlto...ugnet.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:27 AM Subject: Re: birthday (...) 10 snip (...) Hold on. Let me check. .... All players (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Bruce has been doing some really cool real world data logging experiments. He's too shy to talk about them, but they really are interesting. He's even found a real world use of that temperature sensor everyone has no idea what to use for. (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) cool, how old is he? (...) can you remove the fig and do with is as you see fit? or are they attached to a base and the spring is in the base? do they REALLY shoot hoops? (...) lose the cat!! Get a nice loyal dog. cats are evil. Bruce will (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gave my son a lego 3432 nba set. Quite nice. Better han the soccer sets since the "players" have springs in them. Worst part is the cat chasing the ball. : : : "The only person sure of himself is the man (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) the building of the mosaic. Jeff VW (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Not quite sure what you mean... Normally, the step is more like a blade with a thickness just over half the diameter of the part to be step-fed. It will have a stroke of whatever the depth of your bin is, and be on a slight angle so that when (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) oh... neat. now.. over 12 units; would it be ONE big step or would the step be broken into 1 unit long segments? sort of if I took apart 11 penguins and glued all the steps side by each? or would it be more like if i took one penguin and (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Right, you make the step at least 12 units wide, and since the axles are laying on their side in the bin, they'll... this is confusing to try and describe in words. (...) Yeah, thats what I meant too :) humm (...) What normally happens is then (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) OH, I see, your thought is to carry the axle vertically? no that cant work cause you have axle length from 2 - 12 units. my thought was to make a step 12 units wide this would carry all lengths up.. humm this would not solve how to deal with (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I think so, too! The step width has to be slightly over half the diameter of the part being picked up - that's so that any bunching up or clogs fall over the edge leting only one part continue up. (...) Penguins, aww :) I wish MarineLand had (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) you once talked about a rolling feeder when i asked how real world materials handling was done. one day while pondering this in lego I thought about step feeding. I banged to gether a quick proof of concept, then got called to dinner. I think (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) But it was pretty fast! If you made it a little more rigid, maybe refine the pen holding, and slow it down a bit, you'd have a beautiful machine. (...) Cute analogy. :) (...) I did! It just had to be spoon fed. :) (...) A stepfeeder! Great (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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