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Roli Is Out For Delivery. Yea

Roli Is Out For Delivery. Yea

My rover-Roli is out for delivery, ordered 9/18/13... j
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Arduino Mega Is Being Powered Through The Uart Serial Tx/Rx Connection

Arduino Mega Is Being Powered Through The Uart Serial Tx/Rx Connection

So I want to control the Arduino power using this RFP30N06LE MOSFET and that...
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Catching Up

Hey guys, I haven't been super active in the forums lately so I wanted to say hello to the fantastic EZ community. There have been a lot of good threads with tons of information. I've enjoyed reading them. Thanks to everyone for sharing. I haven't touched my robot for a few weeks. (I made so poor engineering decisions and got flustered. I think...
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Tip120 & Tip122 Transistor Switching Circuit

Tip120 & Tip122 Transistor Switching Circuit

I want to make some the switching circuits as per the attached picture to control some small motors and due to my limited knowledge...
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Whoops

Ordered Left foot & ankle for JD & received the Right foot & ankle! Whoops!
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Help I Fried My Evbv4

Help I Fried My Evbv4

stress I connected an h bridge to my ezb and was messing around with what ports to use when my ezb started to smoke and the lights turned off when I plug it in more smoke...
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Would It Be Possible

would it be possible to included the end caps off servo's when ordering them. i think its good idea.
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Powering Stand Alone Robot

Powering Stand Alone Robot

Hello and first of all, scuse me for my bad english. I am working from about 3 years (.....too many time!) on my robot. It is able now to do many things. It can...
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Robot Losing Power, But Not The Battery

Robot Losing Power, But Not The Battery

Hi all. My K-9 2.0 build is just about complete but I've come up against an unexpected issue. After running a couple of drive and script tests...
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Help With Modified Servo

Hello. I have 2 motors controlled via a H-bridge so I have a movement panel all set up for this. But, I also have a single modified servo I need to control from time to time. Obviously I cannot use another movement panel as I already have one, so I have a modified servo control. It works but a cannot reduce the speed, even if I change the min and...
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Getting Ezb Camera Feed Using Opencv And Python

Getting Ezb Camera Feed Using Opencv And Python

Just an example showing how to get the EZB camera feed using Opencv and python. ARC has a greta setup but for those who would...
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Parrot Ar Drone 2.0 Programming

I am looking to connect with anyone who is programming the Parrot AR Drone 2.0. This drone has some amazing potential. EZ robot has an excellent intro video but I am very interested in developing stand alone programs and use additional sensors to make the drone human independent.