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Thermal Printer

Can an EZ b control (directly or indirectly) a small thermal printer? I see they can be hooked up to an arduino. https://learn.adafruit.com/mini-thermal-receipt-printer thanks in advance, Frank
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Camera Not Owrking

Camera was working fine for a couple of weeks. This morning dead. Tried repairing as per video and it seems to connect ok, just getting black screen. Any suggestions?
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Has The Flat Battery Holder Changed

Has The Flat Battery Holder Changed

Before i got 5 AA flat battery holder with my EZB and now with the 10 EZB i got from robotshop is has 6 AA flat battery holder
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Dip Switch Setting Selector Circuit- Toggles Between Two Dip Switches

Hello all. I have been very busy lately but I finally got a few weekends to work on the robot. I have poured over the forum and web trying to find a way to smoothly change from EZ-B control to R/C control and back again. From what I have read, it seemed others were having this issue as well. I have looked at all the tutorials and contacted...
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Sabertooth 2X12 R/C Success

Sabertooth 2X12 R/C Success

Hello all. I have been very busy lately but I finally got a few weekends to work on the robot. I have poured over the forum and web trying to find a way to smoothly...
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Where's Wall-E?

I'm trying to build a wall-e using a brookstone rover and the top half of a u-command wall-e. Has anyone seen an ad for this or know a place that sells wall-e parts? (canada, online will work too)
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R2d2 Build

Dj built an r2d2 and said in another discussion that he would post a video about the build. I have been looking and can't find a video on this. has anyone seen it?
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How Does The Ez-B Connect To Brookstone Rover?

in Dj's video he had the ez-b controller on the rover with sensor. how does the ez-b interact with the rover?
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Found The Reason With Top Of ARC Project Being Cut Off By Menus Bar

Hi all l think I may have found what causes the top of the project in ARC to be cut off and hidden under the top menu bar for some of the users of ARC. I noticed that this problem has continued for me but seemed to happen randomly. The only way to fix the problem once it happened was to do a "Smart Arrange" in the control tab and loosing...
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Which One?

Which robot out of these 3 are a good first project? Wall-e Tomy Omnibot brookstone rover(with arms,etc.[a fun think to do])
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Ez-Script Reference Manual

If like me, you will play around with script ideas when you shouldn't be (i.e. at work). Rather than install ARC to get the EZ-Script commands I decided to "print" the EZ-Script manual to PDF so I can view it at work this way. If it's of any use to you I've uploaded it to some of my webspace so anyone can download it from here (release...
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Astromechs

Astromechs

I've been scanning around YouTube and seen some R2D2s using the "A_____o" boards and/or Yost Eng servo controller. Seems to me that the EZ-B is just what they need. Do the R2D2 enthusiasts...