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| | | From: Clay Aucoin <caucoin@cruiseshoppes.com> (...) blow up (...) If you are willing to use non-lego pieces then just use a couple of 20oz soda bottles filled with air and sealed. They are essentially free. alex -- Did you check the web site first?: (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Anyone have any luck making a successful floating boat? —Michael Aaron Finch
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| | | | | Actually, if this is your idea, i used to play w/water rockets when i was a kid, but i don't know if any1 still sells them. It is a light plastic rocket about 4-12" long, filled halfway w/water, & pumped w/air from the bottom, & then launched by (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Anyone have any luck making a successful floating boat? —Clay Aucoin
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| | | | | | I was kind of looking at a twin hull "speed" boat design powered with the LEGO props. Now I know that it might not go very fast, but it's just something that I enjoy, remote control boats! I've never actually owned one, but a friend use to build the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Anyone have any luck making a successful floating boat? —Michael Aaron Finch
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| | | | (...) Some complications i would see w/this is that #1, u would have to use it immediately after pumping because there is no way to stop the air-flow (unless u could cork it w/a needle or something). #2, it will probably not propell the boat evenly. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Mindstorms at JavaOne —David Kadansky
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| | | | Ok, I don't think this is too far off-topic. At the JavaOne keynote presentation this morning in S.F., James Gosling and Kay Neuenhofen of Sun Microsystems demonstrated Mindstorm tanks controlled from Palm V's running KJava aka MicroJava. They also (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Mindstorms at JavaOne —Jan Newmarch
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| | | | | For those who want to see how this kind of thing is done, independently I wrote a Jini/MindStorms driver as part of my Jini (...) Jan Newmarch, Information Science and Engineering, University of Canberra, PO Box 1, Belconnen, Act 2616 Australia. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Mindstorms at JavaOne —David Kadansky
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| | | | Since I wrote this, I've seen the setup in person. The Palm V's are connected serially to a Sun PC which broadcasts IR from a standard Lego IR tower to the tanks' combat arena. The messages sent to the tanks use 3 bits for the tank id and 5 bits for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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