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Ok Guys, Let Me Have This One.....Please

i just bid on it, ends it 2 days....come on! LINK!!!
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Seperate Power Source For Ezb , Servoes And Motors And One Charging Source

Seperate Power Source For Ezb , Servoes And Motors And One Charging Source

Ok the term paralleled means all positives are connected together and...
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Newbie With Questions.

Newbie With Questions.

Hello. I am new here. I am new to robotics as well. I am building a large, heavy robot ("Lost In Space" replica). It will be driven by wheel chair motors. The rest of...
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How To Ambient Light Sensor For Ezb To Trigger Ir Lights

How To Ambient Light Sensor For Ezb To Trigger Ir Lights

Ok so I need to make ir buy a light sensor that I can place ontop of my bot through a drilled hole on...
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Roomba Interface

are you able to add the 3 buttons and more to the roomba interface ,like clean and other commands,main reason is that once you remove the 3 vacuum motors you have 3 high current switches to switch on a camera or anything else one thing great about the ROOMBA is that you can get one very cheap on ebay plus once you remove all vacuum motors have more...
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Re: I2c Help

Hi DJ, In your i2c help, you mentioned that the address is 7 bits correct me if i'm wrong but if you've got bit 0-7 then isn't it 8 bits? Let me explain: bit 0 - 1 bit bit 1 - 1 bit bit 2 - 1 bit bit 3 - 1 bit bit 4 - 1 bit bit 5 - 1 bit bit 6 - 1 bit bit 7 - 1 bit You see? in total, you've got 8 bits now. Edit: wait i'm confused blush please...
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Waist Turning Actuation With Servos , Lazy Susan?

Waist Turning Actuation With Servos , Lazy Susan?

Hey.Bret brought out the lazy Susan furniture bearing idea. It's two flat plates with a bearing in the center. Any other...
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Easy Conversion For Omnibot Or 2000 To Track Drive

Easy Conversion For Omnibot Or 2000 To Track Drive

Lots of us have Omnibots or 2000 models where rubber has fallen off , you can mod the wheels and add treads. Most of us...
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How To Remove Hot Glue From Your Project

Hi all, I came across this problem as I de-constructed my Metal BoxBot to build my Wall-E. The answer: Rubbing Alcohol ! Apparently removing hot glue is as simple as touching it with just a small amount of Rubbing Alcohol. Works like a charm! Check out the video for proof Happy building! Click To Watch Video
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First Flight

First Flight

I completed new support in the EZ-SDK and ARC yesterday. We'll be releasing it this week. Here's a sneak peek
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Idea For Interface For Ez-Robot Board

my girlfriend bought me a robot called TRAKR by spygear,it about the same as BROOKSTONE ROVER except for it uses RF and video on the remote ,body and shape close to the ROVER and inside there is room for ez board,AND THERE IS A FEW HACKS and can access the programming pins and outputs,also SD card low cost under $70 at amazon TRAKR SPY CAR FROM...
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$25 Mini PC For Embedded Computing

I wanted to share this with everyone. $25 mini PC These guys have developed a fully functional PC about the size of a USB drive. It is still in the alpha stage but they plan to have it available by November or December. It's able to run Linux. I have found a program that will compile .NET programs to run in Linux called Mono. So with some messing...