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Robot Arm On Wheels

Robot Arm On Wheels

Here is a cool little arm on wheels I bought from ServoCity, its called the Stacker. I ordered the Stacker and the stronger lift and grip servo but not the wheel servos, EZ-B servos...
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Exoskeleton Help

Exoskeleton Help

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to make an exoskeleton like the ones in the pictures below. Especially motors, power, etc. I would like it to be battery operated and be able...
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Floor Map Is Fun But Can It Be Used As Repeat Path For Robot ?

Just been playing with Floor Map...the drawings great but can you use to have the robot retrace his steps...sorry if I'm missing the obvious...
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Only 3 Pins On The Distance Sensor????

I saw the tutorial on distance sensor and wanted to attempt it myself however, the ping sensor i have only has three pins: ground, 5v, and SIG https://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12326359 what do i do? / How do i do it p.s. I'm a newbie so please explain in dumbest way possible confused
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Rover Brookstone Doesn't Work

Hi, my rover doesn't turn to blue light, only stay in Orange light Can you help me Thank you
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Brookstone Rover Tank Robot Not Responding

hi guys, Im having trouble connecting to the Brookstone Rover Tank Robot with the Ez-b Controller. I connected with it the other day and messing around with the movement, camera voice recognition and ects. Today, I connected with the EZ-B and tried to connect to the Brookstone Rover Tank Robot and failed aand I got a "Not Responding"on...
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What Is Best Way To Assign Wii Remote Buttons With Servos ?

The Wii remote is fun but I want to assign Bobs arm servos to buttons - and +. I tried servoup(d6,1) and servodown(d7,1) and his arms nearly flew off through the window. Any suggestions where I went wrong anyone ?
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Question About Return In Script.

OK, I pretty well understand how to do the goto/label/Return , etc. inside of the same script. but, what if I want to call another script from inside of a script and have it return back to the same position in the first script with a RETURN. could I call up a script with the controlcommand function and the at the end of the script that I called...
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Dj's Auto Connect With Ez-Script Video Is Fantastic

Saints preserve me..DJ that video on the autoconnect using EZ-Script is FANTASTIC !!!, If you could have step tutorials on script that run like your toy conversions you would win the day for all of us that have made the journey to completed robots. Your showcase would be full of video demos of what your system can do - Robots coming on with speach,...
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Ez-Cloud Needs More Examples

Hi all and DJ. First of all, I really loved the concept of the EZ-Cloud for generating examples within ARC... so what happened ... read on and let me explain... I'm fishing around for commands and ways to get Bob to do things through ARC script commands. Now I am familiar with the examples in ARC and understand that everyone is open to help with...
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Hazbot, Some Help For You... Maybe

Hello,My friend! I found that if I open ARC, Control EZScript and then goto Settings or config or whatever it is you see when you open it. On the right there are EZScript Functions. There is a search bar on the top right hand section. I did a search for GOTO and I got an explanation of the function. Simply search. As hoolagen1 had said previously...
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Wall-E Wheel Question

Howdy fellow bot heads! I have removed the wheels assembly from each side of my Wall-E frame but can not figure out how to get the wheels separated to attach my servos. Hope I'm making myself clear here. I'm talking about the rear drive wheel. I can't get the inside hub off the outside hub. I have tried to pull and pull but I'm afraid I'm going to...