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Mark Tarrabain wrote (...) my (...) <snip... a number of good reasons with which I agree (except for the Popsicle sticks and rubber-bands... good-god Man! have you gone _mad_? :) (1) (...) the (...) actually (...) lack (...) with in (...) Ahhh! (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Just a question, Where an inmature lego follower can find the Lego Purity Commandments? I am a kind of new in this _religion_, but I hardly try not to be a sinner. Thanks for the Light in the Darkness, David (...) -- Did you check the web site (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Dear David my sinful son, The first step on the path to redemption to for you to tithe ten percent of your LEGOs to *me* every month! - - - Nick - - - (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Reverent Legoists, For a mere five percent of your legos I will send you special cans of Lego(tm) air. I bring this down once a week from the top of Mount Lego(tm). This air can be used in all of your pneumatic devices. Also, for those holiest of (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I've just got one thing to say to you - MEGA BLOX! Yes, it was meant to be funny, don't flame me I've had more than a thousand million of them already... Yes, that was another one - laugh, damn it, or I'll tell another! (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Let me propose a set of commandments for "Lego Good Style Construction" (blames and riots are allowed): 1.- "You should love your Lego's in the same way you Love your life" 2.- "Any damage to a Lego part is completely forbidden. The home-brew (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hi, Has anyone put any thought into getting the RCX to output to an Ethernet interface? Of course, what I'm really interested in is an entire TCP/IP stack- Ethernet hardware, RCX Ethernet driver, IP stack, TCP stack, and a BSD sockets API, but I (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) When I saw mention of Lisp, I began to suspect I was in the comany of lunatics. This definitely confirms it. :-) Cheers, Ben. -- (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Let me guess... you want to run Apache on the RCX and serve digital camera images, so that people can drive your bot around from the web? :) Here's a piece of Zen for you: Q: How do you fit a mountain in a teacup? A: Dig for the diamond, then (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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David Colomer wrote in message <000f01be3a59$0bdebe...oup.cl>... (...) This is a good set of "good Style" ideas, but a Lego Purists would only agree with one of your statements... (...) The rest, well.... (...) We like the idea of damaging (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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This is almost Ok with me! If you allow to mutillate Lego parts, this will be against the 1st statement. I think that a MB brick, multillated in order to build (or help to build) a Lego part will be released from the original sin of MB and converted (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Geeze... all this because I mentioned popsicle sticks and rubber bands??? Actually, I've never had occasion to use a popsicle stick in any model, I was just trying to make a point. I have used rubber bands, though... and I have used pens or pencils (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I don't know how you would get to it without hacking hardware and putting an Ethernet controller in external address space, and then writing the code for it. One problem: Ethernet needs a far amount of buffer space to keep up with packets and (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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"Excusatio non petita, acusatio manifesta" (A not requested 'sorry' is like a true 'my fault'). We are not speaking about use pecils (in a Lego structure) or cartridge (in another Lego structure). This is much more religious stuff than that. Join (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Oh no! i have commited a sin! I created a lego light! -Chris (...) religion (...) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Have a look at this site and I think you are on your way! It's an embedded 10BaseT Ethernet controller using a PIC16C74. (URL) Ljungstrand; PLAY Research Group, Viktoria Institute (URL) Mobile: +46-(0)708-302251 Fax: +46-(0)31-7735530 ICQ: (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I really don't think you'll do this in 32k and still have space for application layer code (mind you, if I'm wrong, I'll be the first to cheer...) (...) This looks a more promising start. Use a *very* simplified protocol over the IR link, have (...) (26 years ago, 17-Jan-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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