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(...) Thank you :) I don't have a schematic (more like a few pages of illegible notes :) and the gieger counter sensor isn't something that's easy to make a useful schematic for anyway because of unusual parts that vary in key properties, and the (...) (19 years ago, 8-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hope this is the right place for this, but wanted to share that LEGO SaH has capacitors on sale real cheap. Get em before their gone. Aaron (19 years ago, 8-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Thanks :) As to the power results, I'm not sure how familiar you are with solar cells, so if the following isn't useful, ah well :). The difference in energy you get from sunlight compared to artificial light is massive. Running solar from (...) (19 years ago, 8-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Brian, exactly. That's why I asked when is the day LEGO is sending out the MDP letters...ah well...I will be easy on the delete button... With that said, with the thousands of entries they received, it wouldn't surprise me if it takes a week (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have the same problem. But I would *NOT* count on the email standing out dramaticly. I hope it will, but I know it doesn't have to... and this is not an email you want to miss, correct? (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Oh I hope the Subject title has the word LEGO in it. I think I receive many emails a day with "unique opportunities"... :-) -aps (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I wondered about that. But, that's not the case. I know for a fact that the "fifth MUP" has moved on to another hobby. However, if you get an e-mail sometime soon with the subject "A Unique Opportunity", make sure to read it... :) Steve (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Very, very impressive !!! As Philo, I also would like to see more details of your designs. There is one question that is tacking me: When we were working over our "Mars"-project, we tried to use the LEGO solar panels, but we could not extract (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Whooaaa!!! very neat stuff here, very good documentation of your projects. I especially like the solar powered RCX with auto-shutdown/resume... Any chance to get the schematics of you Geiger counter interface? Congratulations, Philo (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hiyall. I just got my Lugnet posting access working again, so I thought I'd post a here's-my-Lego-webpage link. Ignore as you see fit :-) One of my areas of interest is building solar-powered robots (and the necessary custom mindstorms parts to make (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics) !
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(...) I guess it might be time to start manually checking those spam filtered emails Just To Be Sure :-). According to that Wired article, one of the people contacted to be a MUP never replied. Someone out there might have a heart attack if they (...) (19 years ago, 7-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Robot Confidence course competition. (URL) (19 years ago, 6-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics.events)
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(...) Hi Steve, yeah, sorry, I wasn't inferring that lugnet.robotics has insiders or anything like that. It just seemed obvious to me that SOMEBODY should make the list (I hope!). Anyway, as you said, we'll find out soon enough! -aps (19 years ago, 6-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So far, we (the MUPs) don't know any more than anyone else. Hopefully, we'll all find out more sometime soon... Steve (19 years ago, 6-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I don't know who the 100 will be but I will bet that there will be some that are part of the regular lugnet.robotics crowd. Anyway, good luck! :-)! -aps (19 years ago, 6-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Nice idea, but two questions: How many GBC modules used an RCX? And how many of those RCXs had a free sensor port? Of course for next year's NXT-based GBC, with proper programming, a single BlueTooth cell-phone could turn off the 10% of the (...) (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) You could have XTJ for java and XTF for forth (although fortran also starts with f but somehow I doubt anyone is going to write a fortran compiler for the NXT :P ) (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I have seen the compass module work on the RCX. Very cool!! Having the conversion wires announced (which I hadn't noticed before) relieves me. When I was out at the HT website looking at the NXT compass announcement, I went ahead and bought (...) (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, I think as a name XT sounds cool. That gives XTOS for an operating systems and my favourite XTC for a C like programming language (you have to say it out loud a few times). Seems to work OK with Java and Fourth. Thomas (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) Hi, First I am not a lawyer. However I believe Steve Jobs of Apple computers still own the name and trademark of 'NeXT'. They (Apple) are even have gone after websites with domain names using 'ipod' and 'NeXT'. Just give you an idea for (...) (19 years ago, 5-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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