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Servo Mosfet Replacement

I have two servos which have blown mosfets in spite of my careful use. Does anybody know the identity of these. I would like to try and repair them rather than let them go in the "for spares" drawer.
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Iotiny And Camera Questions

I am planning a way to put an EZ-Robot camera on a Quad copter and control it will an IoTiny and then stream the video to an iphone app. I have 11 Volts and 5 Volts available on the copter. My question is - what power should I use? or is either one OK? Thanks
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Camera Navigation

Hello DJ, A while back you had talked about an indoor navigation system using the EZ-Robot cameras. Now that the Io Tiny and camera are available, and cost effective, do you think you will again consider the building of the scripting? Ron
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Product Availability

could someone at EZ-HQ tell me when will the EZ-B IoTiny be back in stock and also the price and ETA of the RGB 8x8 Display thanks
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Video Recording From Ezb Camera

Video Recording From Ezb Camera

I have a JD bot. I can't seem to save recordings from the ezb camera. According to the log there is no write access to the AVI file. I've tried different save...
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Camera Dongle Brocken

Just purchased an ez robot kit. Lots of fun and great learning tool for my son. We dropped the laptop and the video USB dongle broke into 2 pieces. Can we use any USB dongle or do we need to purchase one from the EZ robot store. If the later is the case can we purchase the USB dongle seperately? Thanks
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Using Dragon Naturally Speaking With ARC

This has been brought up before is some threads, but has come up again recently. I promised that I would make a post about this so, here it goes... There have been some posts where people have asked to be able to use Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) with ARC. To do this, there would have to be a separate application installed which would handle this...
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Phraseshow / Phrasehide

Do we have any movement on the Phraseshow / Phrasehide 'issue' or has the command been depreciated? It's just that I use it a lot in my projects and was just wondering. - Tameion
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Httpget - Site Not Available Error

Is there a way to trap the error message when you do an HTTPGET and the site is not available. Right now, if it cant get to the site it errors out and halts the script. I would like to just trap the error and keep the script running. is that possible?
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A Lotiny Blitz

Oh yeah! It was like lightning Everybody was fighting And the music was soothing And they all started grooving Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah And the man in the back said everyone attack And it turned into a LoTiny blitz YA! Just ordered two!
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Designing With Stepper Motors

Designing With Stepper Motors

Hi Everyone, I was wondering your thoughts on using an EZB-V4 to drive a stepper motor such as the one attached. Stepper Motor link...
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Ez-B V4/2 Comm Upgrade Boards

Ez-B V4/2 Comm Upgrade Boards

My two V4/2 Comm Upgrade boards have just been delivered, please note they were packed up in a 'LiPo Balance charger' box. At first I thought I got sent the wrong...