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Ezb Rebooting With Tight Timed Loops

I am having problems with my ezb rebooting occasionally. I suspected a brownout, so I replaced my lipo with an industrial 60A power supply running at 7v. It still happens. I did some troubleshooting and there are a few ways I can trigger a reboot rather quickly, by overwhelming the ezb with instructions. For instance: repeatwhile( true )...
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Stop Servo Movement After Camera Tracking

Stop Servo Movement After Camera Tracking

Hello everybody! I would like to know if someone can help me on a project! I doing a simple project to make an EZ-B Brain and two pairs of...
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Mp3 Player Help

Mp3 Player Help

Hi all Im trying to connect up a mp3 trigger to my ez b , I know it has the built in system as well but i need to use two types of sound fx for johnny 5 one that is a ext mp3 player is also...
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Ez Robot Mini Meccanoid

here is the mini version of the meccanoid robot.all in HDD servo's. the gripper is from meccanoid max robot.little heavy. soon he will get hands.
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Pull Wi-Fi Data From Ezb

Has anyone been able to pull Wi-Fi data from controller. In other words I would like to be able to get a list of all Wi-Fi stations, get the DB from the station. If possible it would be used for indoor navigation. If not then I guess use a ESP8266, pull the data serial, then do the work to determine location. It would be easier to pull from EZ...
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Comparing Times In Ezscipt

Comparing Times In Ezscipt

Im struggling with using time in ezscript. I want to check how long it has been since a given face was recognized. But all the time functions seem to give strings and I...
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Jd, Basic Movements In C# And Visual Studio 2013

Hello, sorry for this stupid question. I wanted to program my Robot with Visual Studio 2013. I know that there are 65 examples, but are there also dlls for moving JD? I heard of the "Auto Position GAIT module" can someone explain it to me? And can/how I use it in C#? confused And how can I move a Servo? Only a piece of code how to move a...
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Replacing Damaged 32F205rect6 Chip

Hi , With regards the main processor chip in the ezb 4 does it need to be reflashed after replacment. Ive got a new lower board coming but thought as this one is dead i might as well have a go at repairing it. ive changed the ic out for new but still dont seem to be having much luck with it. Any advise please.
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Servo Position Saving

I don't think this has been discussed before and I hope I can explain it correctly. I have a Robot with two arms with 6 servo's each. I use auto position all the time to accomplish actions when called upon. Auto-Position works like magic. What I want to do is physically take my robot arm and hold it in the position I want and save that position as...
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Ez-Bv4 And Camera With Surface Pro

Ez-Bv4 And Camera With Surface Pro

I'd like to use the 160x120 resolution in my project running ARC (the latest version) for Windows on a Windows 10 Surface Pro 2 but I get the following...
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Cognitive Face And Face Tracking

Cognitive Face And Face Tracking

Im struggling a little with the face recognition controls. First of all, the cognitive face control works pretty well, but I would need some way to reset or...
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Man Down. Wait Robot Down

Man Down. Wait Robot Down

Can someone help the guy !