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(URL) Philcon 2006>, the 70th edition of the annual Philadelphia Area Conference of Science Fiction and Fantasy, will run this coming November; and for the third year, I'll be conducting a set of LEGO-themed events. Here are some pics of the (URL) (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-06, to lugnet.events, lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.build.microscale, lugnet.castle, lugnet.space, lugnet.org.us.delvalug, lugnet.loc.us.de, lugnet.loc.us.md, lugnet.loc.us.nj, lugnet.loc.us.ny, lugnet.loc.us.pa, FTX)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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My son Sean has built 4(!) robots for the drawing challenge. I'm not sure how many of them we'll end up bringing to the meeting. The last one he built using his new NXT set. Total build time was under 30 minutes, and that was his first NXT robot! I (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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Last reminder about next Saturday's meeting at Digipen. Mini-challenge: bring a robot that can write or draw something. Also, If you're looking for an NXT, but didn't order one online, they are available at Toys R Us, and the LEGO store in Bellevue (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Visiting the East Coast
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Thanks Magnus and Derek for your responses. I'll be thrilled to join you for your dinner. However, as things currently stand, I will be in the Baltimore area on Wednesday, and arriving (ironically) to GMU on Friday morning for a while. Are there any (...) (20 years ago, 18-Jul-06, to lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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| | BayLUG Castle Display
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The latest BayLUG LEGO Store display is now set up in Valley Fair Mall. The theme for this display is "Castle". The only non-MOC is the Vikings dragon. (URL) BayLUG (20 years ago, 17-Jul-06, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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| | Re: July 29, 2006 SMART meeting
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(...) Two weeks until our next SMART meeting. As usual, we'll be meeting at DigiPen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that can write or draw something insteresting. You are perfectly welcome (but by no means under any obligation) to use an NXT (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | NMRA after action report
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Wow was the Lego Layout huge! I have been wanting to do one of these big shows for years and Augie made it possible. Thursday we spent the day setting up. The convention center aloud you to drive in with your trailer to setup your tables and layout. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug)
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| | NMRA after action report
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Wow was the Lego Layout huge! I have been wanting to do one of these big shows for years and Augie made it possible. Thursday we spent the day setting up. The convention center aloud you to drive in with your trailer to setup your tables and layout. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug)
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| | GardenSLUG meeting 30 Jul 2006
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Let's have a meeting before brickfest work on amusement park for brickfest work on gymeroid for brickfest work on display window for Bridgewater store 5-9 pm my house- because we need to build! Patty (20 years ago, 14-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.gardenslug)
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| | Re: Visiting the East Coast
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(...) The who and where are usually up in the air until a day or so beforehand (we have to vary our routine to stay one step ahead of the local MegaBlok faction) but the when is fairly standard--this month it will be July 26th, a Wednesday, and (...) (20 years ago, 12-Jul-06, to lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) I don't know how accurate the big wired article on NXT was, but it says pretty clearly it is 50/50 adults and kids. "Such loyalty isn't unusual among the fanboys who've swooned over Mindstorms since its 1998 debut. Four years after its (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Yeah, well,*I* am. There's already a Logical block that starts getting at this, but bit-wise opertations would be very nice to have sometimes. I agree, if we have arrays they should be arrays of anything (number, boolean, or string), but (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Visiting the East Coast
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Hello Shiri, Nice to hear from you, and congrats on graduating! The Wamalug dinner will be somewhere very close to a Metro stop, probably in Clarendon, very close to where BrickFest has been in the past. Hope to see you then! cheers Magnus (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) A copy of the MyBlock is not stored with the file that uses it. I've had several programs in NXT-G wind up broken because of changes to the MyBlock VIs they used. You definitely need to be very careful with MyBlocks. John Hansen (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Program to Manually Run Motors using NXT-Brick's Buttons
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ScreenShot: (2 URLs) pretty self explanatory. It even shows three lines of help when you run it. I'm tempted to alter it to have two speeds. Sometimes the current speed is too fast. -S (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Well, they already have a boolean data type. If we have arrays, arrays of booleans doesn't seem like much of a stretch. I'm not asking for bit-wise Ands and Ors, Shirts or Rolls here ;). (but isn't something like 50% of their mindstorms (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Lego pneumatic systems overview?
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(...) Don't know about 'beauty', but my dancing Easter chickens were popular at work: (URL) ran them off the compressed air coming out of the wall (in a hospital), and I had to turn the pressure way down to keep them from boucing apart... (20 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.lugola, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) Yep, I agree. It why one of the first things I did was write a MyBlock that would use file memory to hold and manage a 1-d array. Worked quite well, but it was slow, and I'm not sure what the ultimate read-write limits are on the flash memory (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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| | Re: Visiting the East Coast
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(...) Yay Wamalug! I hope I can make it. Like I told you by email, Fradel, I would love to come and will try to arrange the schedule so as to fit this in. (In Virginia I'm dependent on my family members who I'm traveling with.) More details about (...) (20 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.wamalug, FTX)
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| | Re: Got my NXT on Wednesday
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(...) All I'm asking for is fixed-size, global, 1-d arrays of numbers. I'd prefer floats or ints, but just ints (32 bit preferrably) would be fine. Arrays of Bits would be handy, too. There are many times when I'd like to make a 2D scan of an areas (...) (20 years ago, 8-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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