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Has Anyone Ever Used Sintra Product?

Here is the link to some its properties. Im thinking of using it to get my future Omnibot taller.
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Fuel Cell Recharger

Saw this - It's not available yet but thought it would be cool to include in future designs. https://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57428080-76/two-weeks-of-smartphone-charging-in-your-pocket/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title The perfect auxilery charger for your robot. Could'nt find any spec's out there yet but I like the idea of charging your...
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Raspberry Pi

Well, it looks like it is finally available. They say around $35.00, very exciting. Raspberry Pi
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Attn Everyone , Need Little Rubber Wheels That Cone With Ezb Kit

Attn Everyone , Need Little Rubber Wheels That Cone With Ezb Kit

Hey guys , I know lots of.us have the little rubber wheels from the kit that most are not...
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Nimh Battery

OK, some of you may have seen me on another forum asking about my charger earlier about a month ago. Facts: I had an 1800 mAH NiMH battery. It blew UP! Bang! and caught on Fire. Fissle, smoke. I had a 3800 mAH NiMH battery. It is still good. My charger shorted out and now gives a constant 24 volts dc. The batteries are rated 7.2vdc. Looking on...
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My Work Robot Is Reading My Mind!

My Work Robot Is Reading My Mind!

Lol I got stuck working the "machine" today. I'm not sure if I control it or it controls me. It was reading my mind today. Please don't sue me...
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Detect Pulses From Encoders

i want to use a optical encoder or magnetic encoder for measuring speed from a motor can that be done ,looking at quadrature encoders or single encoders
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Camera

Camera

Well, my camera went dead on me. I am sure there is no warenty since I took it out of the case and probably not even if I haden't. Any one out there an electronic genious that might be able to fix it? This is...
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Help! Irobot Movement Panel Wont Work And I Need This Working For A Presentation

Help! Irobot Movement Panel Wont Work And I Need This Working For A Presentation

Irobot Create EZ-B Followed DJ's youtube video on soldering...
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Resize Script Help

Resize Script Help

Hey DJ, I was wondering if you could make the script help resizable, this is how mine looks now on Omni's brain Netbook:
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Wall-E

Wall-E

Mike Senna's completed Wall-E. Mike is like the gifted godfather of the R2 builders group. ;-) I could see so many things that could be automated and scripted with an EZ-B kit.
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H Bridge Question:

I finally had a chance to get back to my robots. I wired up the Motor driver ( per the very through tutorial) and hooked it up to the EZ-B as follows: AIN1 to D15 AIN2 to D16 BIN1 to D17 BIN2 to D18 Left Trigger A assigned to D17 Left Trigger B assigned to D18 Right Trigger B assigned to D16 Right Trigger A assigned to D15 VM connected to seperate...