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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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| 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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| (...) 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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| "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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| (...) 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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| "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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| (...) 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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| (...) <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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| "Benjamin Medinets" <bmedinets@excite.com> wrote in message news:Gv3wBA.19G@lugnet.com... (...) I-71 - (...) That's because, to the best of my knowledge, the United States has also offically adopted SI. It's just not been enforced at all. Iain (22 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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