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Long Video Camera Cable

Long Video Camera Cable

My Robot hands turned up (about 100 tiny little pieces each and no assembly instructions :-) . I want to embed a camera in each of the hands so I can see what I am about to...
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How Do I Set Up Ez-B V4 To Use An Rc Esc With Linear Actuator?

How Do I Set Up Ez-B V4 To Use An Rc Esc With Linear Actuator?

Hello All, Anyone know how to wire/configure to use an RC ESC with linear actuator to be...
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Camera - Camera Snapshot - Wrong Width/Height

@DJ, A clean project with two controls: Camera Device and Camera snapshot. 1) Camera Device using EZR camera V2, 640 x 480 size. I take a snapshot and the picture size is 320 x 240 2) Camera Device using a USB camera, 640 x 480 size I take a snapshot and the picture size is 640 x 480. I would like to take 640 x 480 snapshot pictures using the EZR...
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Broken Jd Shoulder

One of my wonderful students drove their JD off the desk and broke the shoulder joint. Is there a 3D model available to print? If not I am happy to develop an .stl file based on the EZ Clip female file.
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Left Shoulder

I have tried all the debugging and trouble shooting videos and can not get the left shoulder to move at all. When the robot is off you can turn it but when I turn it on it is stuck in place. This is a new out the box robot. I even connected it to another servo port to see if I could get that to move. Is is possible that it is just broken? What...
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Distance Sensor

I have a linear actuator to control how tall my Tin Man robot will be. The problem is that even though I can control the actuator with the Ezb I wonder if I can control the location of the actuator with a sonic distance sensor. It's accuracy is 2cm (3/4") to 450cm (177"). If it would work I am planning on attaching sensor on the underside...
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Inspiration For New Projects

Inspiration For New Projects

Hello Community! I've been out of the robot circuit for a while, but have recently made some new acquisitions that I would like to utilize in a project. I am...
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Hockie Redneck Mock-Up For Robot Camera Two.  Low Tec

Hockie Redneck Mock-Up For Robot Camera Two. Low Tec

Not calibrated but you get the idea wifi animatronic Ring
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Charger

Charger

Hi, I am having great success with the Roli on the software side where I have integrated the EmguCV libraries with the SDK and doing a lot of experiments. However, I got a sudden problem with the charger....
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Control 48V Or Higher Voltage Motors

Control 48V Or Higher Voltage Motors

Greetings, Attempting to take the DIY supplied small voltage servos and run large voltage 1000 watt electric motors (2). I think it can be done with...
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Multi Color Tracking Question

An implementation question. When tracking (multicolor) with two objects matching different colors, JD appears to always return first color defined in the CameraObjectColor variable. The other color object variables either have the first color in the detection group or the last color defined. For example: with a red ball only, it sees a red ball....
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Camera Unreliable ? Using Blockly

I am trying to get jd to recognize different object by using multicolor tracking. I have defined 3 colors (red, green and yellow) for multicolor tracking. Using blockly, I have an if statement "if cameraobjectcolor_1 = "red" . If is sees red it says I see red. etc The problem is that it is unreliable. I can see the tracking box...