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Maybe this has been posted before, (couldn't find it here) but this is a pretty cool little video anyway. Staged for TV, no doubt, but a great little mechanism here... (URL) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) For the ball used in the video: Go to www.peeron.com Type "golden egg" (from the description) into the search box, click [Search] Find nothing, so reduce that to "egg", click [Search] Skim the results for matching parts that mention metal. (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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"steve" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:45B05D2F.705@ai...ail.net... (...) One thing I have noticed is that if I post to this newsgroup I will get some weird mail delivery failure notice from some blog or RSS feed. Even though I (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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I've noticed that whenever I email this list, I get a bunch of strange messages back from the Amazon.com support line or something. It sounds like someone managed to subscribe amazon.com's autoresponder to the mailing list! Could someone who (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Er, yeah, um, hehe, I meant to say What set has a steel ball? I'm not dumb, I swear! (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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(...) I think it's a magnetic "ball-separator" - not a "magnetic-ball" separator. :-) I have a bunch of steel ball-bearings in my Lego storage system - so they must be used in one set or another - I have no idea which ones though. There are also (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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What set has a magnetic ball? (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Excellent! That looks like a really great addition to any GBC: for one thing, I've often wondered how long it takes to complete "one lap", and you really need a long average (as some modules recycle balls, etc.) I hope it's OK with you if I (...) (18 years ago, 19-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) When you do that, I recommend you not only test the 9 "on-brick" programming options on the page, but also the 18 "off-brick" programming tools, even if they're not allowed in FLL. :) Woops, guess I shouldn't have told you how many there are. (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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We seem to be avoiding the real issue here. This free exchange of hard gained knowledge has got to stop. Haven't you guys ever heard of the computer preisthood? What is the rationale for spending hours searching for alternative programming tools, (...) (18 years ago, 18-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics)
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