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Servo Causes Ezb V4 To Reboot

I purchased the Developer kit in hopes of trying out the Teddy Ruxpin project. I have the EZB v4 powered by the 6 rechargeable batteries like recommended; however, if I attach a servo to it, it will reboot if the servo attempts to move more that a few degrees. Is the rechargeable batteries only powerful enough to turn on the EZB? Do I need...
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RGB LED Connection

Is it possible to connect a RGB LED with a common cathode (or anode for that matter) to three different digital ports and be able to control the intensity of each color via the servo control window? I imagine it would be something along the lines of one negative connection, and each colors positive connection going to 3 different digital ports....
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Controlling Servo Speed With Slider Controls In Mobile

I don't see a way to control servo speed when adding servo sliders to mobile app. Just wondering if there is a way to do this or possible support in future upgrade? Specifically I'm trying to add a little finesse to controlling the six servo arm with the mobile app.
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Using ARC With Homeseer Automation Software?

I was wondering if one could use ARC to control the Homeseer Automation Software. Thanks to PTP and the Techguru I have been able to use HTTPGet successfully to control a foscam camera on my network. I was thinking it might be possible to control the automation sotware as it is also connected to my network at a different IP Address of course. The...
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New Guy Needs Some Direction Please

Hey, can't say how grateful I am to have found this forum! Although I'm not from the robotics community, I am a crafter of sorts and have an idea for a little device I'd like to build, and I need your advice on where to go from here. My task is fairly simple. I work in an industry that uses 6-8" computer tablets, and when a part of the screen...
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Installing ARC

Is it possible to download the ARC on ubuntu? confused
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Connect To My Cloud And Use The Virtual Machine?

Hello, the intelligent and friendly people in the forum! Based on my understanding, Most of processing of ez-robot is going on in PC rather than the ezb v4 itself, such as voice recognition... The ezb is more like a controller which can receive the instructions sent from the PC, providing feedback and then understand and execute those instructions....
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Looking For Some Help With My Robot

I am asking the community for some help. I dont know anything about programming or writing code etc. But, I can get almost anything to move or animate. My back ground is Make up effects for films and television, but I started out as an R/C animatronic mechanic, (back in the day when there was animatronics (now its all CGI). Anyways, I have a full...
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Sensors For Object Grasping By A Robotic Arm

Sensors For Object Grasping By A Robotic Arm

I'm looking for simple sensors to make a robotic arm detect an object and then grasp it. I don't find adequate sensors, capable of...
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What About We Send Him A Gift?

What About We Send Him A Gift?

Hi friends Browsing around the instructables site I found this kid in Indonesia! His version of wal-e made of junk really impressed me....
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Errors Generated In Debugging

Hello! All the smart and friendly people in the forum. I have encountered two errors while debugging the SDK tutorials, and I am looking for help here. First of all, I have read the README - INSTALLATION!.txt. Then I loaded Robot - Remote controll project and (according to my understanding) did whatever the readme file told me to do. There were two...
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Roli Stl File

I'm working on an idea for a robot based on the Roli, but I need to change some of the dimensions to make it lower and wider. I went to the resources page, but there doesn't seem to be a download link for the Roli. Are these files available?