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Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 2 Sep 2002 20:32:57 GMT
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Unfortunately, we're on dangerous ground here - TLC hold a patent on the 4
stud connector design :(
Otherwise, I might be tempted ....
JB
In lugnet.robotics, Matthew Gerber writes:
> Non-robotic type speaking here:
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> It seems to me that some enterprising individual with, say, access to a CNC
> machine, a pantograph, an injection molding machine and some spare wire
> could really fill a niche here. Might make some money at it as well, but
> that's just the capitalist pig in me.
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 | | Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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| (...) Utility patent filed Feb 9, 1984. Filed in Switzerland Feb. 14, 1983. You do the math. US4552541: Toy building block with electrical contacting portions. Of course, that's just the patent. I'm sure there are a couple other ones too. (22 years ago, 3-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Service pack 5111 - Wires - no longer available
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| (...) Non-robotic type speaking here: It seems to me that some enterprising individual with, say, access to a CNC machine, a pantograph, an injection molding machine and some spare wire could really fill a niche here. Might make some money at it as (...) (22 years ago, 2-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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