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(...) Olá :) You can always try all eShops referenced at (URL) C. aka McViper ___...___ Work mailto:mcviper@geocities.com Home mailto:mcviper@clix.pt (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Is it a goof? According to their site, they are knowingly setting a $150 discount on the regular $297.99 price. This seems too good to be true. I'm going to order a couple to see if it works...does anybody want in on this from the States? It works (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Baha, How would I get the $30.00 rebate? Thanks in advance, - Jeff ___...___ Jeff Shiner - Electronic Commerce Development - IBM Toronto Lab Email: jshiner@ca.ibm.com - Notes: Jeff Shiner/Toronto/IBM Phone: (416) 448-3943 Pager: (416) 683-1325 (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I don't know if there has been a retraction printed as of yet, but FutureShop stores in Ont, NB, NS, PEI, and NLFD should have the RIS for $147.99 CDN with an additional $30 rebate. I just checked the website and the price is good there too. (URL) (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Michael Gasperi" wrote: >> This is a modestly easy task, if you use a telephone cord untangler. > >How much current do you think you can put through one of these? Also, do >you get any contact bouncing while the thing rotates that might be read as a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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"John Barnes" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:4.2.0.58.200101...lserver... (...) How much current do you think you can put through one of these? Also, do you get any contact bouncing while the thing rotates that might be read as a (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Thanks to y'all. As we could have expected Kekoa DID indeed have it documented. As he points out in his reply it's just in a different location, and I missed the connection. (see below included) Great works Kekoa! Great. Another mistery solved. Now (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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This is a modestly easy task, if you use a telephone cord untangler. I have "modified" a number of these to make 4 wire rotating connections, typically for feeding through the large turntable. By carefully cutting the metal part, you can turn 2x4 (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't know, where to buy it in Holland but i know, that in Germany, you can't open the box. There is no flipcover like some other modells. Regards carsten (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Usually, I feed the wire through the center of the large turntable. This will tolerate several rotations. Of course, you have to unwind it from time to time. An example is on my five axis machine at (URL) solutions would be to drive through the hole (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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i am researching the use of lego mindstorms in the college classroom for an independent research project for honors..... if any of u go2 college and know of a class or something that ur college uses mindstorms for.... please give me the name of the (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Don't forget that the turntable has a very large hole in the center. You can run all kinds of things through this hole. That gives you a couple of alternatives: - You can run the wire for the motor through the large center hole of the turntable. (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Has anyone ever tried to make a set of electrical contacts that allow rotation? What I want to do is have an electric motor on my crane using the large turntable from 8480 but I don't want a flopy wire in the way of rotation. Any ideas or thoughts (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, Does anybody know where I could buy the Star Wars ATAT-walker in Holland? I haven't seen it in any shop, except for the online one :) I would really like to see the box and take a look at the contents before I actually buy it. That's why I (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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While observing this thread slowly unwinding here, I would like to point out that the PC/RCX communications is bi-directional making such things as remote control extenders not really applicable. I would like to hear about other people's experiences (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Radio shack used to sell some which looked like little pyramids with a telescoping antenna; They were about 4" tall and 3" square at the base. The power supply was something like 9V, I don't know how many mA. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi :) [Note1: CM = CyberMaster; pBrick = { CM | RCX | Scout | RCX2 } ] [Note2: I think this could be usefull to others = CC:lego-robotics] [Note3: I'm showing source code done by Mark Overmars = CC:markov+lego] Well, all my PC apps were done with (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Even i have 3 motors that hardley move by hand I'm in india and i brought this kit and extra motors 1 1/2 years back ,, but i thought that as i just kept it like that and did not use it it got stuck . I never knew lego supplies bad motors ,, does (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Folks, Thanks for all the responses. It is too bad though. -Matt (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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