Robot Building Questions

New To Ez-Robot

Hello Everyone! My name is Joseph I have just received the EZ-Robot kit, and I can't wait to get at it. I have also ordered the Rover 5 which I should receive next Monday. Unfortunately I'm at work, and it will have to wait until I get home. Maybe I'll get sick and have to leave early. Ha! Ha! I have been looking at a lot of the projects you all...

New Kinect

Here's a cool video with a demo of the new Kinect sensor which will be shipping later this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi5kMNfgDS4

Horizontal Servo Centering Bug

I only just opened my EZ-Robot Package tonight, but it seems the centering button on the horizontal servo control is not working correctly. I think the center position should be the maximum value minus the minimum divided by two then added to the min. OR, CENTER = (MAX-MIN)/2+MIN It appears to be simply (MAX-MIN)/2. For example if you set the MAX...

Ez-B Heatsink Overheat

Once again, my barely used ez-b is overheating. All the wiring has been checked, the ez-b is sitting on the back of the battery case so no shorts can happen, and all the wiring is tied together held away from the ez-b. I have the following plugged in: 4 standard servos 2 continues rotation servos 1 ping radar 1 camera(hacked) What could be causing...

Camera Lag, How To Dampen The Process?

So im trying to do tracking with wall-e. red ball is sitting right in front of him not moving at all. I start color tracking and his head starts randomly shaking back and forth. I can tell the camera is lagging a fair bit. I was brought the idea of 'dampening' the tracking process. Aka. tell the camera function to make a decision on what to do...

Blown 5A Regulator I/O

Thought I'd post this just to help out. Recently I was working with two Pololu 18/7 simple motor controllers and the EZ-B. After some configuration with the Pololu software I got the controllers working with the EZ-B. I decided to try to calibrate the left controller as it didn't feel like the right while I tested it in the servo panel. After...

Symbol Detection

Is it possible to use this software to detect certain symbols, say a heart on a playing card? If the heart is detected, it will engage a servo. If the heart it is not detected, it will engage another servo.

Camera Not Working

got my kit today and was some kind of excited about it.the camera is where i have a problem everything else is perfect. i charged it or tried but the light won t stay on but 5 min if that. but worse my computer tell me that the device isn t working properly. i troubleshoot it but no success. i thought may be it was the pairing but no success after...

Still Looking For Any Help With My Camera Tracking Question.

Hey guys, just got back from picking up the kiddo from Basic Training at Fort Benning GA! Crazy drive.... I'm about to tackle my issues again with the camera tracking and could use some help. Thanks for any you could give... Here is the link to my original post explaining everything. https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/3622 Thanks again for...