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(...) Buy one of them new packs. That's got 1 of everything. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) Lego Workshop: (URL) Lego Club: (URL) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Some more thoughts on this... I recently talked to Lego customer service in Germany about single parts ordering and they said they´d do it for special purposes. But you have to pay a premium of about .25 to .5 $ per piece for the manual handling. As (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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But what if I don't want or need pumps and blue tanks this month? And how many months will I wait till my favourite parts are featured? Why not if all people in this group go and think of what they want and make a wish list? For instance, I can make (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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All this is a very good idea! Yesterday I wanted to stock up on all single pumps and pistons that I knew a store in the city had on stock, well, had is the key word... :( (...) Another small bit: They would not have to spend much on package design (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I bought several sets - just for the motors - they also have a strange gearbox part that might come in useful for mounting motors in unusual places. ZNAPS can be found in rather battered boxes in just about every Toy'R'Us outlet in the (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I was just in my local Toys'r'us and they have the Lego Znap #3552 set marked down to $9.97. It has: 1 1:10 mindstorms motor - #5225 (Pitsco $16.25) 1 small battery box - #???? 1 short wire They also have a larger Znap set marked down to $14.97 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Lego bulk (was :I am an Idiot (was Pneumatics Are Back!) )
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Here are some ideas (inspired by a model railroad club I know about but am not a member of). Some of the ones toward the end are more brainstorms than a thought-through plan. Take 'em for what they're worth. Acronyms used: AFOL = Adult Fan(s) of (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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>The problem is that they 'salt' the kits with parts that you'll ever only >need one or two of. Take the Hand Air pump. How many of them are you going >to need? My point exactly! But when I suggested that an organization like lugnet take on the (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The problem wouldn't be so bad if I had to buy $20 worth of Air Tanks. Hell, I'd buy 5 sets tomorrow. The problem is that they 'salt' the kits with parts that you'll ever only need one or two of. Take the Hand Air pump. How many of them are (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I agree there. When Lego discontinued the pneumatics I ran out and bought up as many of the large pistons as I could... Now, of course, I'm short about 20 of the valves with no cheap way to get more. heh. At $45 CDN it's **VERY** costly. But (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Actually, I'm tackling that particular problem right now. I don't claim it's elegant, but I'm using the pneumatic valves interconnected with a robot arm in such a way that each time the arm goes up, valve A changes position. Then when it goes (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Great ideas. Maybe the LUGNET collective is someplace to begin. You can clearly see the marketing behind the pieces in the Star Wars set minifigs. Want Princess Leia or C-3PO? Buy the Millennium Falcon for $100 ... Want Padme? Buy the giant Pod Race (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I suspect that their idea of bulk and ours is very different. They need to grab some mimimum $$$ per purchase to even make it worthwhile answering the phone. I suspect that figure is in the area of $20. So selling individual pieces between $1 - $4 (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I agree on both points--the bulk and the pneumatics set availability--but this is still progress over a year ago. There were frantic messages posted not long ago that pneumatics might be going away for good ... so it's nice to see them making a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) It's very nice that we can now get the air tanks. But it's bittering that we must now pay a fortune for the entire 'kit' if we only want a few bits... LEGO's idea of BULK seems grossly different from others. Dean -- Coin-Op's For Sale!: (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 8-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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I did wonder if this was the case Thanks Jarec (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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The air hoses shipped with the set are long--and can be cut to whatever (and/or quantity) size the user desires. The catalog/image doesn't specify how long they are, though--but the pneumatics I've seen in sets are shipped the same way, and you cut (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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Is it my eyes or does the picture of the robot arm built with the Lego pneumatics set use more air pipes than the set actually includes. The three shown on the components list seems a bit lacking. Jarec (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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As I was putting up the rest of the scans from the new Technic "Power Packs," guess which one I inadvertently deleted--of course--the pneumatics set. The images are now up at (URL) . Doug Wilcox Senior Web Developer iMcKesson Provider Solutions (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: IR Ball (was Soccer-Playing Robots)
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(...) LEGO (...) Hi Ben It seems that the Lego IR sensor is like a sport car: when you think about power you never have enough. Me and Giulio Ferrari made somethin gworking using a lot (28+6) of led to obtain results. When you think you have enough (...) (25 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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