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Autotracking With Ip Camera

Hi all, new here.. I got my ip camera, tenvis JPT3815W working with the software, I used manycam to get it working. All is working fine in that department, I was wondering if it's possible to control the servos inside this camera to autotrack an object.. this particular camera has a pan and tilt so it would be nice to be able to use it in...
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How To Reduce Rad Base Noise?

So looking around I saw a couple of ideas like That sound-proof foam or tinfoil. What I'm wondering is how I can make my rad base's gearboxes quieter for cheap so I can use it to do recon. Any ideas are welcome.
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Keyboard Input

Had an idea.... With the keyboard being replaced by voice commands and the increasing likelihood of us being able to put a PC on board our bots I was thinking about ways to improve the sensor grid and make it a bit more advanced than the few micro switches and wires we use at present. Are we able to take input in from the keyboard into our ARC...
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Camera Question.

Does anybody know if I can use a different camera instead of the easy cam that comes with the kit? Like a security camera with infrared lighting?
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The New Ez-B V4

Hello all, Just wondering about the new EZ-B. I take it the bluetooth is now out and wifi is in. How many EZ-B's can connect withe the EZ- Builder software? confused
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Rad Base Speed Change?

Does the rads base speed differ going forward vs backward? Or does it stay the same either way?
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Ez-B V 3 And V 4 Compatibility?

Would the V3 board work in tandem with the V4 board in ARC? Is the V3 board still gonna be supported or does everyone need to upgrade to V4?
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Will My Heavyduty Metal Servos Run Better On 6 Or 7.2 Volts

I have them set now to 7.2 volts with a regulator. They are hooked up to the servoPC board.
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I Get S Sadface Error When Clicking A Link To The Ez Robot Sight

I Get S Sadface Error When Clicking A Link To The Ez Robot Sight

Ok so I get this the last couple days if I click the link in a forum notification. When I...
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Learning To Program With Ez-Bot?

Hi, I'm not really a programmer and I'm not in university for it. But I would like to learn programming with these robots using C (I have programmed in high school and on my own. I just sort of lost interest) - I was wondering how open source can these robots get? Can I create my own colour recognition system from scratch if I really want to? I...
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Parts Like Servo City

Parts Like Servo City

I was wondering if anyone knew of a European / UK seller of servo mechanical attachments similar to ServoCity's stock. https://www.servocity.com/html/channel___brackets.html...
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Print The Character To A File

Hi all... Can anyone tell me how to write the " double quotation mark to a file...? I can do this ... FileWriteLine($filename, "'" ) But I can't do this... FileWriteLine($filename, """ ) Here's what I'm doing... I have one EZB project called "Lawrence" that runs on three different computers in two...