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Good App For Ar Drone 2 Camera Hacking

The app is called Drone Cam for your AR.Drone by Tommy Kammerer. It's on iOS and it bypasses the error codes that could be effecting your drone, turning it into a camera if your drones broken. The coding would probably be easy to back track. Just in case the Team is reconsidering bringing the ar drone 2 to ez-robot.
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Robot Goes Crazy By Itself! Help! Very Important!

Robot Goes Crazy By Itself! Help! Very Important!

Hello, I need assistance in understanding why my robot is controlling itself. It is supposed to be controlled from a...
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Josh, Why?

Josh, is it really nessessary for you to post on every unresolved thread? It's kinda anoying and is flooding the forum and my email. It's also making it hard to see liget posts and pushing others back. I know your trying to "Clean up the queue" but is that really going to happen? I think most people dont really dont care and and wont...
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Cheap Woden Robot Arm

I found this pretty interesting. It might just work for my secret project that may possible start to come together after Christmas. makezine.com/2007/11/29/the-wooden-menace-robotic/
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Twitter In ARC

Twitter In ARC

Hi, I try to use some twitter functionalities in ARC but I encounter some difficulties. I have configured my account in Option/Twitter in ARC with no problem, but after that nothing works,...
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Speech Recognition Not Working

Hello all is it just me or is anyone out there having issues with the speech recognition in ARC. I have tried it on 3 different pc's and can't get it to work. All my scripts are good and tested working, just the recognition is not. Maybe there was a change in ARC due to the new EZ-B coming? confused
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Using All Iphone Sensors Gps With Ez-B

I'm inches away from creating a method for us to use Iphones GPS, Acclerometer, gyro, data for our robots. This app rapidly streams data to the PC via wireless UDP stream. With Python 2.7 or greater installed, this Python script updates the PC with comma delimited data of telemetry data. I've been trying for about 12 hours to make the Python script...
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Rovio Northstar/Truetrack Navigation

I'm curious to know if anyone here has tinkered with Rovio's nav system. I've seen it mentioned before a while back as a possible hack for bots. Any luck? Here are a couple links on the nav. Rovio TrueTrack room beacon Rovio API Spec This is much cheaper than this version sold at robotshop.com. Hagisonic StarGazer Robot Localization System
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Will I Have Trouble Mixing The V3 And V4 Ezb's?

If I use these two together on one project, will I have trouble with having one wi-fi and the other Bluetooth. What would you suggest? Put the slower items on the bluetooth and the faster items on the wifi. Will it have an amplified or nonamplified audio jack to plug speakers into? Thanks,
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Ez-B V4

Hey DJ, What's differents between EZ-b v4 and the EZ-b V3? Thank you
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Revolution In Personal Robotics

I was on a long break, a kinda pilgrimage. And now I come back and see... Only one thing came into my mind, just like the way Apple brought a revolution in the era of Personal Computers, now its EZ-Robot.. that's bringing a REVOLUTION in Personal Robotics. I'm pretty sure that EZ-Robot can bring about a mutation in the very structural nature of the...
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Ic2 Gps For Robot

I have been thinking about adding on board navigation to my robot. I think a compass is the first step and there is a good tutorial and suggest part for that, but the other part of the equation is a GPS reciever and connecting one to the EZ-B seems to be an area of concern. I have run across some new parts parts that seem to make it possible to...