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Script Manager Sorting Question

There appears to be some row focus issues when sorting a script position within the script manager. It is exhibiting unexpected behaviors. See this video for a sort illustration. Also, I have triggered an exception within an array that I am guessing is used to hold attributes of the script manager sort / row position. It was an index out of...
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Dj's Wall-E Size

What are the dimensions of dj's Wall-e? trying to build a replica. need to know the size. L-W-H
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6 Axis Arm Help

I recently started to work with the 6 Axis Arm. It seems that whenever i try to control the shoulder servo (the top most servo that would lift the entire arm) as soon as i try to move that servo, it stops and i lose the bluetooth connection. Why does this keep happening? I made my own C# project for this and the following is how i am controlling...
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Ez-B Servo Connection

what type of plug is on the cable that connects the servos to the ez-b?
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I See Others Are Having Trouble With L298 H-Bridge Board

I design a circuit awhile back and sold many pcb;s with my design My design is that you can use 4 wire instead of 5 wire to control the l298 h-bridge board,second you can control PWM seperate for each motor and add a brake if wanted Its a 2 wire design,i dont know if it will work with EZB it should,it has one direction control and one pwm control...
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Split Function Query

Hi Dj Sures... I've been playing around with the split function for the last couple of days writing an automated announcement routine that simply reads from a long list of dates with attached comments so that my bot can remind me of birthdays, etc. While doing so I noticed an interesting behaviour with the SPLIT() function. It seems that when I...
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Wall-E Height

how tall is Dj's wall-e? all of the wall-e toys are 9" tall on ebay(u-command wall-e) Want to know for reference. PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW! stress
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About Using More Then One Wireless Camera With One Receiver

May be DJ might have answer or anyone else Do i need one usb dongle for every camera,and about pairing them,if i paring one will the others work too. DJ said in video if you dont get video output from camera it needs to be paired ,but open up the usb receiver and hit the button and few other things too.
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Blink M Question

Is there a way to control the color over time or change color of the led due to an event thru some kind of scripting?
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Ssd Relay

Hi guys. I've bought a SSD relay for the lights of my robot since I'm using 220V for now. This is the schema the seller has sent me: I've connected the black cable (ez robot gnd to the minus of the realy) and the red cable (the middle one) to the +. With this configuration the lights are not controlled by the ez board. When i plug the batteries on...
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2 H Bridges

Hi All. I know we can use 2 H bridges together-- one with the regular movement panel and the other via scripting. For some reason, though, I could not get a 4 wire H bridge to work (I wasn't tyring using 2 together-- just the one by itself). It might be a hardware problem-- the one I got looks very slightly different than the example in the video...
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Thier Was A Guy Here That I Get Pre Amp Board I Had ?For You Lost Forum

hooking up from mp3 trigger to pre amp board hooking it up cory