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"Steve Hassenplug" <steve@teamhassenplug.org> wrote in message news:IuFDA3.2uH@lugnet.com... (...) I'm sure a "yay! I made it!" would be OK. So does Jake. We'll just have to see what the NDA states... -Rob www.brickmodder.net (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) What I am curious to know is how they are doing the selection process. The survey seemed to allow them to determine the demographic of each user that submitted, but it did not provide a way for us to provide details or "references" of sorts. (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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I hate waiting. I don't have much info about the status of the Mindstorms Developer Program, however I will say they are still in the final phases of selecting the "Lucky 100". Unfortunately, I doubt TLG will post a list of the people that were (...) (19 years ago, 9-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hey all, I just caught the very end of an interview with what I believe was the author of the Wired article on Mindstorms NXT on the NPR program The World. It looks like you can (URL) listen to their programs on-line>, but today's program (February (...) (19 years ago, 8-Feb-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) I fear all I can do is gawk in astonishment. Getting a HV sensor to work off the RCX is truly an amazing acomplishment. But you've gone well beyond that, with the solar panel (I'd seen the earlier one on eBay), the powercan... and the (...) (19 years ago, 8-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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