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Re: links to pictures of Star Wars Mindstorms sets
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Date: 
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:45:32 GMT
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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:38:33 GMT, "Dwayne Jacques Fontenot" <emddjf@chron.com>
wrote:

> 
> since the other site got /.ed I thought people might want to see these
> images. I have not heard about the "Battle Droid Mindstorms" set. It might
> be an error. Anyway, the links are:
> 
> http://www.dailysci-fi.com/media/phantomenace/battledroid.jpg
> 
> http://www.dailysci-fi.com/media/phantomenace/r2d2.jpg
> 
> r2d2 looks like a *lot* of specialized parts...
> 
> Dwayne

Why do the really cool and hard to find pieces (like the white 2x2 medium slope
corners) only show up in expensive sets (like the r2d2 Mindstorms set)?

Rob



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  Re: links to pictures of Star Wars Mindstorms sets
 
Observations: It looks like it's the barcode pilot all over again: lots of brains isolated from the outside world (scarce in/outputs). Appearantly there is one motor and a speaker built in, and NO 9V in- or output! It wouldn't surprise me if it was (...) (28 years ago, 22-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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  links to pictures of Star Wars Mindstorms sets
 
since the other site got /.ed I thought people might want to see these images. I have not heard about the "Battle Droid Mindstorms" set. It might be an error. Anyway, the links are: (URL) looks like a *lot* of specialized parts... Dwayne (28 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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