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Freedom Of Speech For My Robot? ;)

Hey guys, I have been trying to figure out how to build my robot and still haven't made up my mind completely...which might also be an ongoing thing, it seems like the more options I discover the more ideas I get on what I would like to build! My latest investigation goes to the idea of whether or not giving my robot the ability to speak...there...
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Give A Report On Battery Level?

I received my JD Humanoid a few days ago, and I have to say that so far I am very impressed! My idea was to be able to ask something along the lines of "whats your battery level" and have JD give me a response. The response either in the form of percentage or number or whatever. I know that anything is possible in programming, but I know...
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Dual / Triple Power Supply Sources

Hi All; Wondering if it's possible to power the EZB4 with my LiPo battery (7.2v) and run servos that say require a higher or lower operating voltage. Of the 3 pins for the digital servo connection on the EZB, white for signal, red, black for power. Can I use the signal pin to the servo, and use a larger voltage battery's pos and neg to power the...
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Make Tutorials For Ez-Credit

Make Tutorials For Ez-Credit

Hello! You may have seen the new tutorial section, and it looks like we already have a bunch of new tutorials. What we need is more tutorials, so I have created a...
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Jd Iphone 6

I am having problems with JD losing wifi connection after several minutes of connection time. I am not in an over saturated wifi area and it happens every time after a few commands are executed successfully on the iPhone 6. Everything is updated. The only way to get connection is to power JD down and reconnect. When I operate JD from my laptop...
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Wifi Keeps Disconnecting For Six

In my robotics class, a pair of students have a basic Six robot that they are trying to program to do a 5-minute dance routine. They are using the standard, canned, Six movements for their routine and have added a 5-minute mp3 to choreograph to. It's basic stuff, but their Six consistently loses WiFi communication, thus interrupting the dance...
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I Need Help With A Camera

I Need Help With A Camera

I got an ACER W3 tablet. I bought it when I heard it ran windows so I could use it with the Sally robot. It runs windows 8. Now, I bought a wide screen, self focusing...
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Robot Builders In Eugene Oregon

I'm just curious if anybody around Eugene Oregon area who are robot builders, Who are on this forum.
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Irobot Scooba 450

It has been discovered that the latest iRobot Scooba (model 450) contains an Open Interface that accepts commands similar to the Roomba. The OI commands may be very similar to those published in the iRobot Create 2 Open Interface (OI) document. Further testing and playing has begun.
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Does Ez-Robot Sell Only A Few Kind Of Sensors?

Hi guys, today I've a new and important question. I recently checked the "Products" section and I saw that there are just a few type of sensors, but I'll need more than one type. So I need to know if EZ-Robot produces only the sensors available in its "Products" section or if there are more types. If not, I know brands like...
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Another Consumer Robot: Robit

Another Consumer Robot: Robit

They are coming ... robots everywhere. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/robit-the-world-s-most-affordable-home-robot#/ The brain is a Raspberry PI 2. affordable...
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Pandora Bots Question

so this Pandora bots thing says stuff that are kind of for adults like weird stuff can you help me so it does not say weird stuff