Robot Building Questions

Tutorials On Electricity (Basics)?

does anyone know any good books or websites where i can learn the (absolute) basics of electricity? i'm interested in the field of robotics but don't know much about electrical components, vocabulary, and solutions. (i don't have many resources) any help would be appreciated thanks p.s. still in high school

Speech Commands In Vb

Hi, I tried a few lines of code that go like this: EzB_Connect1.EZB.SpeechSynth.ListenForSpeechCommand(10000) EzB_Connect1.EZB.SpeechSynth.StartListening() and some other try outs, however I don't get very far. The idea is to assign voice commands in a string and/or array. I want the robot to react to voice commands that are prédefined. Any...

Software/Firmware Update Broke My Scripts?

Hey guys, I just updated from v 15.8 to v16 and have a small problem. My Wall-E's scripts for following colour or motion don't work quite right anymore. When I run them (by voice or click) all tracking turns on. Motion, colour, face and glyph. I even loaded the EZ-Robot example "Robot - Wall e big" and when I simply click to start the...

Lots Of Script Examples

HAZBOT, lots of script Examples in Examples. Also, read the SDK and regular Release notes. Mel

Can You Init Roomba From EZ-Script?

Is it possible to click the init button on the Roomba movement panel through a software function? This way, I could just power up the notebook and then the EZB and have it call the start-up script and then do the number to the Roomba so I could control the Roomba without having to hit that button. Everything done in one swift step. Also, I am...

Celebrate The Worlds Greatest Robot Made It To Mars

Robot enthusiasts starting out with your EZ-B, check out the greatest most expensive robot ever made. Called " Curiosity" it recently landed on Mars, cost about $2.5 billion and is as big as a car. It has an amazing design and totally incredible. Click To Watch Video

Connection Failures With The Ez-B

I bought an ez-b about 4-5 months back and only used it three to four times the thing is that i used it for a robot and so i used up about 7-8 ports (6 of them were for servos) i realized that i got connection failures for that because i was only using 5 double A batteries so then again tried it with a 6 volt battery and then a nine volt battery,...

An Evening Of Sushi And Sensors...

SO I had a bad Ping sensor in my kit, the guys at EZ-R were having a hell of a time convincing their distributor that it was really bad and were demanding that EZ-R PROVE IT before they would replace it. What a drag (and poor customer support on the Dist.'s side.) In the meantime, Alan (the other 50% of EZ-R) is hanging out in Sunnyvale, CA. Get's...

Typos In Script Manual

DJ, I noticed a few apparent typos in the script manual for the following commands, where the listed examples don't match the syntax of the command definition. PWMRandom (digitalPort, lowSpeed, highSpeed) ServoSpeedRandom (servoPort, lowSpeed, highSpeed) SetRandom (digitalPort) SpeakRSSDescription( url, [story index] ) I2CWrite( hexAddress, data,...