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Lcd With Ez-B

dj sures could you demonstrate how to use lcd with ez-b.
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The Image Of My Camera Freeze When The Wheels Of My Robot Work ! !

Hi, The image of my camera freeze when the wheels of my robot (Wall E) work. Why? Help! Thanks! Excuse I, my English is very bad.
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Motor (Drvmotr1270 & 1271) Hub Help

Hi Folks, I have wheelchair motors (dvrmotr1270 & 1271) to use for my bot. Here is a pair on Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/271032127539?hlp=false Anyone know where I can buy hubs that will fit on these shafts? I found a couple different ones here: www.robotmarketplace.com/products/NPC-PH817.html www.robotmarketplace.com/products/NPC-PH804.html They...
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Robot Manuals

Here is a great site I came across that has a multitude of robot manuals from all manufacturers. Robot Manuals
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C# If And Boolean Operators Are Broke Me Thinks.

Hi I'm trying to move the ping sensor to 3 locations and capture the variables of $left, $Center and $right and compare which has the largest distance among these three locations to make the robot move in that direction. I've moved from EZ-Script to the C# scripting for better conditional control. The goforward() command for the h-bridge in your c#...
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Executing A Remote Script

A little puzzled here lads and lasses Just working on a local and remote copy of ARC for my workshop project. While I can execute remote changes in a data line from my copy of ARC on the PC in the study how do I execute a remote script on the robot? I can't seem to get it do it.... Hmmmm. Ideas anyone?
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Hi! I Need Help Please!

Hi... Here is the problem.. I am writing an application in C# but I have a problem... I want to stop the task for 3 seconds and continue the task... but the problem is.. I do not know how to do that! Visual C# has a function called system.treating.tread.sleep() but this function freeze my graphical interface!.... Help! Thanks!
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I Am New To Ez Robot Cant Get Project To Save

running windows xp .. when i try to save to computer or cloud or load exisitng program from community i get same exception error: an attempt was made to load program with an incorrect format.. please help.. i cant load any existing programs from the community either same error and times out what to do if i cant save or load this is useless
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Hacked A Spykee

The Spykee was kinda lousy as a robot, limited, never updated and i was starting to think i wasted my money on it years ago. . . so. . . since I liked the spykee tracks. . ., it already had motors. . . and i had one laying around, my son and I Cracked it open, stripped out all the electronics, hooked up 2 tazer 10T ESC's to the motors and stacked...
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Adc ?

Having a problem reading adc Using the following script if (adc(adc0) > 10 ) servo(d1,29) ----------------------- adc0 shows full 5.volts but no change in servo value ? am I using incorrect commands ?
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Brushless Motors

I wanted to know how I can connect a brushless motor to the EZ-Robot. I also wanted to know if the EZ-robot has support for the Dynamixel servos.
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If (Digital) Statement Not Working In Ez Script

Having problem with the if (digital) statement working in the ez script. Anyone else having that problem, was working before I did the latest version update 9-17-12. For example: :menu_1 if (digital(d2) = true) goto(menu_2) if (digital(d3) = true) goto(menu_3) goto(menu_1) When I do a check syntax, it finds no errors, and the program will work up...