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Re: Learning from LOR...
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Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:50:49 GMT
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I so wish I could make it on Friday to see LOR in person! But its my
birthday, and I wil be out for dinner with my family. Hope you guys have
fun. Oh yeah, can you bug Iain and tell him to write me back? He owes me a
few emails :)
Rob
In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys writes:
> So here's a few things I learned whilst building LOR...
>
> My usual 'reinforce until the cows come home' doesn't work when the idea is
> to keep it light
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> Artifacts increase exponentially per every change--to eliminate artifacts,
> you must start rebuilding from the bottom up.
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> Balancing while motionless is the easy part--balancing whilst moving, not so
> easy.
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> "Oh, I have to change that one part to this other part" is a half hour
> endeavour--minimum--when all wiring and air tubing are attached.
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> 3 RIS's--$299 CDN each
> 6 Pnu Kits--$50ish CDN each
> first BrickLink order--$12 CDN
> 8 Large Technic Turntables from Spectrum--whatever CDN
> Seeing your 'bot take its first step--Priceless
> (but then it fell over... so it's not done yet...)
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> It comes down to two problems--
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> 1--the feet--I cannot, for the life of me, get a good foot--I'll try more
> ways tonight
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> 2--mounting the RCX's--nothing seems to allow me to get the RCX's on LOR
> with safety, security, and any semblance of them being able to communicate
> with one another.
>
> Anyway, no new pics but here's what I have so far--
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> http://sparky.i989.net/mmisc3.htm
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> Dave K
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