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What's A Good Price For Wall-E

Hi all! My wife is buying me an EZ-B kit for my birthday this week (I have her well trained ) and I really want my first bot to be a Wall-E. The one's I tend to find on eBay range from $15 for the 5" figurine (likely not the one you use) to $400 for the remote control one. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance!
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Use Magnets To To Draw Less Amps From Dc Motors

Hello i just sitting here looking at a vid on youtub about using magnets on motors to incress there speed and reduse there amps draw the resalts there getting in the vid are truely amazing and was thinking that this could realy help with drive motors the vid is called "Stargate Motor full demo" here is the link...
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Set Timing On Digital Ports

Hi Guys, Having a good time working on my LED Array project. Thanks for all the help so far. I was wondering if its possible to set the time a digital port stays 'true' before returning to 'false'. E.g. ' true' for 0.5 of a second before reverting to 'false'. I noticed that in ARC there is control you can add to set the read time of a digital port....
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Video Camera

I am having problems seeing a picture using the wireless camera. Loaded drivers ok. Can connect to camera but no picture. Am I missing something?
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Batteries And Chargers

G'Day People, Thought I would just get the ball rolling as the "Separate Power For Hd Servos" thread is starting to go right off topic. Jump in and get this post going. I will put a heap of info here later as it's time to get Phoebe up for school and don't have time right now. Rich
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Separate Power For Hd Servos

Separate Power For Hd Servos

I have several HD servos to operate so I need external power supply. As I am inpatient to wait for ez bits, how do I go about supplying external power for these...
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Ez-B With Wifi Module Instead Of Bluetooth Soon ¿

Hello just wondering if there are plans to have an ez-b that will be shipped with a Wifi Module allready installed .
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Animated Diorama

Has anyone considered using the EZ-B controller as a means of animating a diorama? Consider all the elaborate animation in those model railroad displays such as the one at the Carnegie Science Center's Miniature Railroad. I believe that the EZ-B controller could bring that level of animation to the amateur railroad enthusiast. If only I had the...
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Songify This: I Can't Hug Every Robot By Thegoodrobot.Com

Songify This: I Can't Hug Every Robot By Thegoodrobot.Com

Here is a video that i made (the 2nd one), i gave a shout out to DJ Sures and ez-robot.com in the video,...
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Hi I'm Phoebe

Hi I'm Phoebe

Hi everyone, As you probably already know I'm Rich's daughter Phoebe that is building a Wall-e with my dad. I reckon wall-e is awesome because he's cute, funny and is the best robot ever! Here's...
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Ez-B Compatability

Hello Does anyone know if EZ-b is Compatable with RoboRealm vision software. I am reserching building an autonomous robot with some personality, facial recognition, ect... thanks Alain
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Mecanno Spykee

Hi, has anyone looked at modding the spykee robot , got one of these , the biggest let down was the camera being static , thinking of adding the ez unit to it to control the camera for a start. regards jamesd8