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Something Wrong When I Connect ARC To My Jd Robot

Hi all, Since I've configured my EZ-B v4 to my wifi (D-link router), when I launch EZ-buider application and connect it, it freez, I've to kill the application to defreez it. Here's the log: 2015-02-22 16:20 - Welcome to EZ-B v4 Beta! here I click on connect and it freez 2015-02-22 16:20 - *Warning: There is 1 bytes of unexpected data available on...
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Screen Casting Software That Jd Uses?

JD, what software you using to do your screen casting in? I have Screenflow for the Mac, but looking at something for the PC. Leaning towards CamStudio. Your very good at the screen casting by the way.
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Auto Position

Auto Position

Hi, In 'Auto Position' can the Servo position number in a Frame be displayed with the value in the 'hundreds' units. example: Displaying 100 rather than just 10. I know you can click on the...
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Roli And Roboscout Interacting, Well Sort Of

Roli And Roboscout Interacting, Well Sort Of

This is a video of my Roli interacting with my Roboscout. Any part of the conversation that makes sense is purely accidental
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Triggering 12V Relays From Digital Ports

Triggering 12V Relays From Digital Ports

Hey guys, what's the best and safest way to trigger 12V Relays from the Digital pins? Thanks. I tried a Tip120 Circuit with a 1K resistor,...
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Beyond Jd

I ran across a 3D Printable robot on Thingiverse that may be the next step beyond JD. Poppy The Robot https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:689134 It looks really interesting. The main website for Poppy is https://www.poppy-project.org/ Unfortunately it uses Dynamixel Servos (which is not uncommon for academic projects) and they are really expensive....
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How Do I Creat A Script

How do I do this, do i insert actions somewhere or what. Please help! stress
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ARC Software Question

ARC Software Question

I dont know if its on my new laptop but I just got a new Yoga 2 Pro and downloaded the latest version of ARC. But as I opened it, the scaling of the content was really off. I...
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Power Range

What is the minimum amount of power that I could put into the EzRobot processor? Would 4xAA battery be substantial enough to power the EzRobot without any servos and peripherals? Also, does the EzRobot regulate high voltages for the servos? Thanks
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My First Computer Controlled Dalek

My First Computer Controlled Dalek

I am not sure if it will be of interest here, but I found some pictures of my first computer controlled Dalek build in 1982. OMG, did I once look that...
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Ez-Face And V4 Camera

Ez-Face And V4 Camera

Does EZ-Face work with the V4 camera? For some reason I cant get it to be recognised in the EZ-Face software. I am running version 3.7.14. I can get it to work with the camera...
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Cool Script Idea. ( Maybe Someone Has Already Done It. But I Cant Find It)

My background is in drug development for cancer ( this robot stuff is quickly becoming my favorite hobby and i am slowly picking up on this stuff) ... So dont burn me if this is totally stupid or already done by someone Anyhow... So I am great with logic flow ..just no so much with all the scripting jargon out there... How cool would it be if...