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Power To Ezb

No Problem with my EZB works perfectly I supply do to d14 with an external power source,by initially cutting print on pcb when I disconnect main power to ezb and bluetooth red led goes out but the green led remains on is this normal don't want to do damage this brilliant card Pat
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Connection Keeps Dropping

Recently got 'Gerrard' my Butler Bot (get it?) up and running after a recent spot of upgrades and noticed that the Bluetooth connection drops regularly after a minute or two. Which it didn't do before he would quite happily sit there for hours watching the TV. I have a Ver 2.1 board fitted saving the my V3 board for another project. Also get...
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Com Ports Dropdown List In ARC And Firmware Updater

Hi All, I apologize if this has been posted with a solution but I could not find it in bugs. I noticed after the IP capable version of ARC came out (awesome btw) my COM Ports showed up in the pull down a little strange. Where I had COM6 before, I now had COM16 showing. The COM port was verified as COM6 with the OS and I was able to key in COM6 it...
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Is There A Schematic Or Block Diagram For The Ez-Board

My subject is my question, I was wondering if there might be some documentation on the EZ-board in the form of a block diagram or a schematic. I am interested in the 3 Regulator and there appears to be a fuse between 2 of them. From the hardware manual I gathered that one of the regulators is one amp and that is probably for the micro and the...
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Ezb Kit Servos , What Is Everyone Using Them.For?

Are the ezb servos good as name brand? Anyone have specs in.them? I was thinking of using one for radar
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Ice Cream Container = Robot Head

Ice Cream Container = Robot Head

Hi, I just wanted to share an idea I had after eatting all the ice cream. to the left you can see the ice container before I painted. The eye are from a...
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Movie And Tv Bots

Movie And Tv Bots

I thought it might be cool to see pics of bots from movies and TV - some we know very well, but some are more obscure. How about BB from 1986's Deadly Friend: Anyone else have any cool...
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Chat Room Maybe ¿¿¿

Hello was just thinking that a live chat room/page on here could be something to look into setting up im sure it would get used alot i know i would
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Addiction

JW what happened? Crack? "No worse! ROBOTS!" Robosapien V1 red Robosapien V1 green Robosapien V2 steampunked Testbot Cat backhoe toy Buster toy Future ?
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Sound Movements...How To....

Greetings everyone, I would like to add two microphones for left and right, allow my robot to respond to the direction of sound. Can you provide a link to what type of microphone to use with the EZ-B? and also provide an example script. thanks
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Add Sound To The Robot

Hey , i found this https://www.ladyada.net/make/waveshield/index.html looks beter than the mp3trigger . . . or not ??? grts helmut
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Text To Speech Software.

Has anyone found a relatively simple to use TTS that would produce an awesome "Robot" voice?? I have Ultra HAL but it is loaded with glitches. I'd like to be able to change the default voice ( I have Microsoft Anna) to a really nice robot sound. Any help appreciated. Lloyd