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(...) I don't know if it was "official" or not, but I bought a Cybermaster set (8482) last year at Zany Brainy in the USA. John C. (26 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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Hi Just a question: in which year the Cybermaster set has been released and has it ever been sold in the USA? I think it was released in Europe during 1998 and has been never officially sold in USA. If someone has better information, thanks in (...) (26 years ago, 25-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | new german "LEGO® Cybermaster + Mindstorms ROBOTICS-Forum"
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Hi, good news for all german-language legoists: there opened a new cybermaster and mindstorm forum at parsimony. adress is (URL) volker (26 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | Cybermaster on sale in Switzerland
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I just saw Cybermaster on sale in Migros stores in Switzerland for 149 CHF (about 90$ and half the normal price). I have already a RIS. Beside the cybermaster unit itself, is the buy worthwhile for other parts ? Lorenzo Zago (26 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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(...) I would suspect that antenna placement, and possibly considering a different antenna design, would make a huge difference. Look in some radio books for things like Yagi designs. Give you much more range, but also make the antenna very (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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I would second the recommendation for trying different locations for the tower. At one point I had so many problems with "dead spots" with my exploring rover (that needs to communicate with the map making/route finding software running on the PC), (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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(...) Mignon batteries are batteries of size R6 like used in CM. (...) You are right the nominal voltage of this recharable batteries is 1.2V but I tested the voltage of a just refreshed batterie under load and then the real voltage was about 1.25 (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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(...) of the CM. On using the rechargable batteries the control shows a low battery status also on just refreshed batteries... So the action radius was about a maximum of 3...4 meters an d the connection was interrupted seveal times. My measurements (...) (26 years ago, 6-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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| | Re: Increasing the range of the radio signal
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Johannes Keukelaar skrev i meddelandet ... (...) We did some tests when the kit was new (almost a year ago now!), and we had communications working from first to second floor (old house, no cement or iron in the walls, just a brick chimney in the (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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"Falk" == Falk Stricker <falk.stricker@gmx.de> writes: (...) Falk> because a lot of toys are using mignon batteries Mignon batteries? Falk> and so I have about 20 rechargable batteries and a processor Falk> charger for loading these in a short (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.cybermaster)
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