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(...) Lego games for the new Xbox console I wonder what will they "give" in return to LEGO :/ ...*that's* what worries me the most. Marco C. aka McViper ___...___ Work mailto:mcviper@geocities.com Home mailto:mcviper@clix.pt (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Dream
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MS needs bricks, What else? Michel (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I wonder if it'll be renamed Mindstorms2001. :) Seriously, although a good portion of this does seem like "marketing blather" as Ralph Hempel pointed out, one must remember that MS does NOTHING unless it fully serves thier own interests. MS (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: Need for chat server?
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Is MSN an IRC server ? I don't like proprietary webChat systems (Why do people like to reinvent the wheel ?). If it's IRC compliant, I'll use it. (...) Marco C. aka McViper ___...___ Work mailto:mcviper@geocities.com Home mailto:mcviper@clix.pt (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This is a disaster... If M$ does with LEGO that they do to everyone else we can soon expect LEGO to try to pull the plug on all Free Thinking. Especially anything to do with Linux. V2 may not allow 3rd party programs to work with it now. You (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.robotics)
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Couldn't we just have a common group on MSN chat or one of those services? phil -----Original Message----- From: Marco C. [mailto:marco@soporcel.pt] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 10:23 AM To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com Subject: Re: Need for chat (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) This happned to me to 2 old TDK "golden" CD-R's More recently, 3 BASF CD-RW started to fail. Against a light I can see very small (micro) "holes" that started to appear rendering the CD-RW's useless. Lost many backups on those CD-RW's :( Since (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'd use it. I'm always in some irc-net whenever I'm online, so, this would be just another hangging place for me :) This brings up another question: Are there any Lego Robotics IRC channels already on existing IRCnets ? Which ones ? Marco C. aka (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Gamers Know(tm) that if you put a piece of tape or a sticker on the side with less silkscreening, you can balance the CD. The problems come from people either A> wanting the CD to be partially reflective on the top side or B> not doing a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Interfacing Sharp's GP2D02 Distance Sensor to the RCX
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Hi, Here is a link on how to hook up the GP2D02 to the RCX (URL) It seems to be overly complicated. Not to put down on Peter's creation as I think it was ingenious, but there must be a easier way to do this instead of compromising an input & an (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi Brian, I ordered 2 of these and the order was cancelled. Please add me to your list of unhappy customers. Let me know if you get anywhere. Thanks, Glen Tannenbaum ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Dichter" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> To: (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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YOU ROCK! let me know when something happens and i'll see what i can do about getting a parts kit ready for order from the industrial electronics. a no-power ir tower is exactly what i was looking for for programming from my PSPC bu i think that i (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's it! I can't stand it anymore. I think some of us have been "dissed" by Hammacher. If you have had your order canceled, like I have, without receiving a satisfactory explanation or offer for future satisfaction please email me offlist. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I think that if you were to create a chat server strictly for lugnet that not only would they appreciate it but people would use it. not at first because it would take a while for some to hear about it but eventually it would get used. i personally (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Whoo hoo-- I got my order, and at the $117.99 + tax price too! A friend told me they have since changed the price on the web page back to $249 though. -Roy (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Don't worry too much about this. It seems like typical marketing blather and probably won't affect that actual bricks too much. It's probably going to affect games and software, as well as shared web content. Now, if I was Michael Lachmann, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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I'm glad I finally got my 1.5 version RIS this year. When the MS "enhanced" 2.0 kit arrives, my robots will act like brain-dead zombies, bashing into skirting boards and inexplicably locking up every five minutes. Now they'll have to invent a (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Check here: (URL) Hope this helps... Cheers, Ralph Hempel - P.Eng ---...--- Check out pbFORTH for LEGO Mindstorms at: (URL) Buy "Extreme Mindstorms: an Advanced Guide to Lego Mindstorms" (URL) ---...--- Reply to: rhempel at bmts dot com (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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Ken Warren wrote: >Has anyone actually got a circuit diagram? I'd be most interested to see it >as I've got the Robot Development Kit and it doesn't come with an IR tower >and Lego's promise of 'available Autumn 2000' for the upgrade seems to have (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) That's what I was afraid of... I'm aware of those three tipes of motors, and I'am trying to acopolate an encoder to Mindstorm motor... but if there were any servos it would be easy... If u have any ideas, sugestions, images, exemples (like the (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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