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    Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Chris Magno
   OK, now that you train freaks have THAT out of your system, lets get back to what lego is all about. ROBOTS I guess I have to actually CALL and book the library. I'm taking requests for which sat people might want? I've been playing with these (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Rob Stehlik
     (...) Finally :) (...) Either of the first two Saturdays would be the best. I am going to whistler in Feb, but probably near the end of the month. (...) Yup, I think the small blacks will be cool. Its nice how they are actually cubic. (...) I saw (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Calum Tsang
      (...) Well if you guys don't speak up... (...) Any Saturday in February is fine with me. (...) You entered as well? Calum (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
     
          Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Rob Stehlik
      (...) Its true, the robot guys have been pretty uninspired lately. (...) Yes, I entered. I have been working on a non-lego firefighting robot on and off for the better part of a year. (I showed it to Iain in the spring) I used the oopic (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
     
          Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Calum Tsang
      (...) Serial? I guess the IR port is a serial port of sorts, but by serial I presume you mean by serial port like an SPI interface to link up extra devices, right? Calum (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
     
          Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Iain Hendry
      (...) presume (...) right? Calum, SPI is as far from Serial as... as far as cerial is from a mushy banana. :) SPI uses 2 16-pin connectors (M/F F/M) on the moulding machine/robot, each line has a specific designated signal and everything is (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
     
          Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Calum Tsang
      (...) No, it's a different SPI: (URL) MiniBoard (which the RCX was based on) has this thing called SPI, which allows you to link multiple Miniboards together. It is a serial protocol. What you're talking about sounds like a dry contact general (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
     
          Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Iain Hendry
      (...) (URL) (...) which (...) interface. :: backs slowly into corner, backward, donning pie :: Sorry :( Iain (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
    
         Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Chris Magno
     (...) amen! (...) OK. so far, were down to the first 2 sats..... (...) agreed. at first when I saw the drawing of the blocks on Calums web page, it did not make the blocks look cubed. but once you build one, they work out just fine. (...) I got a (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —David Koudys
     (...) At this time, I see nothign wrong with any Saturday in Feb. Book it, Danno! Dave K (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Wayne Young
     (...) I'm not available Feb 12th, I'd prefer the 26th. Thanks for asking! Wayne. (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
   
        Re: Block STACKING - feb 2005? —Ka-On Lee
   (...) Well Parlugment will have a train show on Feb 5-6, so I would prefer a robot weekend that is far from that. (20 years ago, 26-Nov-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
 

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