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Assembly Instructions

Step 1 of the instructions cover connecting the H-Bridge to the digital ports, but make no mention of which pin of the three pins per port (Black, Red, White) to connect to nor do they mention the red/black pair connection. The next lesson describes in detail how to make all these connections. Shouldn't the "Connecting Roli's Motors (H-Bridge)...
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Video Camera Image Quality

I carefully removed the protective plastic yet the image looks unfocused, even at 640*480
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Getpwm Returning 0

I want to return the value from D1 and D0 whilst tracking an object, i'm using the GetPWM command but only ever get a "0" returned. Am i missing something? ControlCommand("Camera", CameraColorTrackingEnable) :TrackingLoop $head0=GetPWM( D0 ) $head1=GetPWM( D1 ) print($head0) print($head1) sleep(1000) Goto(TrackingLoop)
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Can We Buy An Ezb Camera With A White Lens?

Can We Buy An Ezb Camera With A White Lens?

The black plastic around the lens of my EZB motion tracing camera is an eyesore on my white robot. Also, it is only 640x480. I assume...
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Myo Ware Muscle Sensor

could anyone explain to me how i would go about hooking up this sensor in attached link to the ezb and control the movement of servos with it. Thanks in advance myo sensor
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Wall-E.Again

Wall-E.Again

Hello, So, I'm sure you have received this message a thousand times but I'm going to be 1001 haha. My name is Jake and I have a 6 year old. He is SUPER into Wall-E - but also how Wall-E works. He...
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Just Published My First Wheel Tutorial

Hey guys, first one is up! Next, I'm doing one using more advanced tools, mainly a router. This one will probably take me a few days too. Let me know if you think this is useful, or I need to clarify anything. I didn't get to do any action shots because I work by myself while the wife is at school.
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Roboclaw, Packet Serial Mode With Crc/ How To Execute Cyclic Script In Moble App

Hi, 1. did anybody already implement the Packet Serial Mode with CRC into EZB script? before I start to translate...........maybe someone did already the work ;-) roboclaw manual: CRC16 Checksum Calculation Roboclaw uses a CRC(Cyclic Redundancy Check) to validate each packet it receives. This is more complex than a simple checksum but prevents...
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Hc-Sr04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

Hc-Sr04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

does the HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor that came with the v3 developer kit work with the v4 or does it need a voltage regulator
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New Member With Wheel Building Question

Hey folks! Used to try to build bots when I was a kid. I had a few successes, but mostly kludged up messes. Anyway, my wife bought me a few books because I am now disabled and can't work anymore. Hips and back are degenerating. I am building a mix of a bot from a few different books, and some of the parts I want to make myself. I want to build the...
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Controlling I-Robot Create 2 With ARC Roomba Movement Panel?

I disconnected the servo from D0 on my Adventure Bot and connected GND on D0 (Black Pins) to Pin 6 on Create 2 connector (GND)-(Pin 7 also a GND pin on Roomba). I connected D0 Output (White Pins) to pin 3 on Roomba (Receive Pin). The Create 2 communicates at 115K Baud as does the newer Roombas. I tried checking the "use old protocol" and...
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Two Questions Regarding Rss Feed Scripts

Two Questions Regarding Rss Feed Scripts

Hi guys. I need a little help with an RSS feed script and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Question one. Is there a way...