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Control brushless motor controllers (hoverboard-style) via EZ-B: configure direction, speed and optional brake ports for DIY robot movement.
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R2‑Q5 3D‑printed droid using EZ‑B4: camera in dome, RGB LED magic panel, servos with buck converters, scripts for panels, holoprojectors and blaster.
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Heavy Duty Motors.
I am interested in building an Omnibot 2000 or Omnibot 3000 from the scrap... Using fiberglass... But I would like to know which motors shall I use to bear the weight (about 12-15 Kgs)...
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pranav |
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Wireless Camera Driver
Hi Everyone, Right now I have a very old lappy which runs on Windows XP... So it can't install drivers on its own.. I need the driver of the wireless camera that comes with the EZ-kit.. Can any one guide me please...
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pranav |
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Using ARC Behind A Proxy And Firewall
Our school uses a Proxy Server that requires authentication to access.... I would guess that most schools do the same. DJ I have started this thread so I can get our schools technical support involved in this one. They should join this thread sometime soon.
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Tameion |
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What Capacitor Is It?
Yesterday when I was looking at my EZ-B, I observed a new kind of Capacitor in the place C1 of EZ-B... I have known about electrolytic capacitors and ceramic capacitors.. What...
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oliver82 |
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Ultrasonic Distance Sensor
How do you connect the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor without losing servos. and How do you set up the robot to run on its own using the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor to keep...
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jfew |
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Can I Do This With Ez Robot?
What I want to do is the following - Encapsulated programs that will control motors and select voice files to be played. The programs will be randomly selected to...
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Dave Schulpius |
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Omnibot On Ebay - Might Be A Bargain
Here is an Omnibot auction on ebay - includes a Chatbot: 121174248933
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MikeDC |
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Using Multiple Ez-B
I see a number of people here using multiple EZ-B on their robots, if the reason is just running out of port lines and number of servos etc, then there is a really good alternative. Many moons ago, long before the dawning of the EZ-B, the first AIMEC:3 used the SD20 (I2C 20 channel servo driver) chip www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/sd20tech.htm...
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Dave Schulpius |
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I2c Query
Hi folks, I have another I2C query. I've learned now that I2C devices have addresses meaning multiple devices can be attached. This is awesome of course. My question is now, if I had, say 2 accelerometer's of the same type attached, can these be accessed separately? Am I correct in thinking that they would have the same address code? For scripting...
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Rich |
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Expanding Digitalports
I was wondering if anyone had a simple solution for adding more digital connections to the controller. One idea I had was to link an arduino to it via i2c, although I don't know where to start to do that. I need to increase the connections by about 6 ( making 26 ) minimum.
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Rich |
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Useful Reference
I stumbled on this electronics reference website. A handy quick ref. Lessons In Electric Circuits
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Bravia |
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Header Pin Questions.
Hey everybody. I have a some bread boards and an arduino uno and they all have female socket headers as to where the EZ has male headers. I have some jumper wires that I use with the other stuff and I would like to do the stuff with the EZB. Is there a connector or socket cover or something. Can I just pull the pins out of one of these then...
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Antron007 |