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Ideal Mounting Height ? , Ultrasonic Sensor / Radar

Ideal Mounting Height ? , Ultrasonic Sensor / Radar

I am thinking of mounting the radar inside the base facing out. That's 8 to 9 inches I'm guessing after the wheels are...
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Charging Base / How Can Robot Find Charger With Camera Or Map

Charging Base / How Can Robot Find Charger With Camera Or Map

Ok this is dedicated to making.a charging base for.omnibot 2000. Basically I would like ideas of...
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Extend Servo Shaft

Extend Servo Shaft

Waiting for my parts i'm searching a way to extend a servo shaft. Need this to fixed the robot arm to the servo who's intern the bot someone a idea ??
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Quadracopters Perform James Bond

James Bond theme
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ARC Soundboard Problem

I tried to get the soundboard control working in the latest version of software. No luck. First it looks diferent then what the tutorial shows. Second it is missing the text on the spaces normally used to label the buttons in the control. I want to simply play a .wav or .mp3 sound effect on my pc that is running EZB. Windows 7 operating system. Can...
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Ok Guys, Let Me Have This One.....Please

i just bid on it, ends it 2 days....come on! LINK!!!
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Seperate Power Source For Ezb , Servoes And Motors And One Charging Source

Seperate Power Source For Ezb , Servoes And Motors And One Charging Source

Ok the term paralleled means all positives are connected together and...
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Newbie With Questions.

Newbie With Questions.

Hello. I am new here. I am new to robotics as well. I am building a large, heavy robot ("Lost In Space" replica). It will be driven by wheel chair motors. The rest of...
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How To Ambient Light Sensor For Ezb To Trigger Ir Lights

How To Ambient Light Sensor For Ezb To Trigger Ir Lights

Ok so I need to make ir buy a light sensor that I can place ontop of my bot through a drilled hole on...
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Roomba Interface

are you able to add the 3 buttons and more to the roomba interface ,like clean and other commands,main reason is that once you remove the 3 vacuum motors you have 3 high current switches to switch on a camera or anything else one thing great about the ROOMBA is that you can get one very cheap on ebay plus once you remove all vacuum motors have more...
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Re: I2c Help

Hi DJ, In your i2c help, you mentioned that the address is 7 bits correct me if i'm wrong but if you've got bit 0-7 then isn't it 8 bits? Let me explain: bit 0 - 1 bit bit 1 - 1 bit bit 2 - 1 bit bit 3 - 1 bit bit 4 - 1 bit bit 5 - 1 bit bit 6 - 1 bit bit 7 - 1 bit You see? in total, you've got 8 bits now. Edit: wait i'm confused blush please...
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Waist Turning Actuation With Servos , Lazy Susan?

Waist Turning Actuation With Servos , Lazy Susan?

Hey.Bret brought out the lazy Susan furniture bearing idea. It's two flat plates with a bearing in the center. Any other...