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(...) I am using a Garmin GPS-35PC. This thing looks like a computer mouse without the buttons. It is a 12-channel parallel unit, but has no display or keyboard. The only connections are 12VDC from a cigarette lighter plug and a DE-9 connector for (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) Whoa, Fred! I pull up that picture, your face appears, and my machine immediately reboots. What power! I don't understand it, I didn't think you looked that bad. :-) * Michael L. Ross/C33 | Lockheed Martin Eng & Sci Svcs Co. **** * Robotics (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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(...) they are stock lego parts. you snap them together to make any length. call 800 527 8339 and ask for the lego technic catalog. -fred (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Fred, I saw your LEGO robot picture that you put up. I am interrested on track threads on the robot. Could you tell how to get a hand on ones ? I do no think they are LEGO parts, are they ? They seem to be quite long as well. Thank you, -Pandit (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Photos: Is that you, Fred?
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(...) OK, find me at (URL) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Fred, Please could you tell me which one of the people in the photos is yourself? It's nice to have a face to think of when reading mails from people! Maybe some of you other "regular" supporters could tell us who you are? Richard (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Greetings, I recently acquired a Vector 2x Compass from Jameco, a mail-order electronics supplier, for US$ 49.9x ((URL) A.A. de Oliveira assfalk@eece.unm.edu ---...--- Research Asst. et PhD student UNM EECE ACE Center (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Trinty Firefighting
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(...) I used IR phototransistors. I picked them up at a local electronics surplus. They may have been mediocre in sensitivity as they could only respond to flame a couple of feet away. Putting a magnifying lens in front made a drastic difference, (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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if anyone is interested, the robot entered by my team (steve ocko, brian silverman, and myself) is pictured at (URL) did the lego design, we all came up with the overall strategy, and i did the programming this year. it's really a two-year design; (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | how to see the flame
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some people use fancy sensor devices, but i have found that a simple CdS photocell or a phototransistor, with some kind of shielding tube to block ambient light, works quite well for seeing the candle flame. check out the pix -- lots of robots have (...) (27 years ago, 13-May-97, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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