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Scripting Attempt # 1

Hey All, I've been working on my big R2 recently. It has a Sabertooth 2x25 for the foot drives and a Syren 10 for the dome. So that leaves me with using serial commands to control the dome. My dome uses a Pittman motor. R2's dome has a large gear type setup. The Pittman motor is a bit abrupt for starting and stopping. I've made my first attempt at...
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Wall-E

I am quite a geek, and like WALL-E, I am kind, curious, obsessive, and lonely- very lonely. It reminds me of my amazing, but distant friend Mackenzie, a girl that I care for deeply that I don't get too see or talk to very often- because of my own lives situation. But our wonderful friendship reminds me of WALL-E and EVE I just wish and pray...
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Robot Direction Movement Faults.

Whenever I press the keys to move my robot forwards, backwards, left, and right- it gets the directions mixed up. For example- when I press the forward button, my robot just spins in a circle. when I press the backward button, it just spins the other direction. When I click the left and right keys, it goes forward and reverse...:vS If anyone could...
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Ez Robot Power Supply Question.

Hello everyone! I just got my wall-e EZ build working perfectly! Everything is good. just a lot of problem solving lately. I just had a quick question to ask...since my robot runs on 6 non rechargeable energizer AA's, is it safe to use 6 rechargeable energizer AA's? I didn't want to try it till I was reassured. It would be better if I could,...
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Can I Delete My Post?

How do you delete post on here?
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Does EZ-B Make A Loud Alarm Sound?

I was checking out hooking my bluetooth up to my laptop, I left the room and the ez robot was still plugged in but not connected to bluetooth, all of a sudden , this loud alarm went off and at first I didn't know what it was, but I will tell you, It was ear piecring and I was in the next room, is that a low battery voltage alarm? Because when I...
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Has The Mini Ezb Board Been Canceled

DJ it looks like very good design to have a tiny board in side small robots.
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Using Ez_B To Throw A Switch

Hi Hardware, I'm going to get my roboquad working by triggering the switches on the remote, and having the IR LED in the remote taped directly to the robot's IR sensor. I need the ez-b to emulate pressing of switches on the remote. I've checked the voltage across each switch and it's tiny, only 0.06V. I don't know how much current goes through...
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Lcd

Lcd

Hello everyone, I have another question. I have this neat little serial 2x8 lcd screen. Its got this rs-232 port with a gnd, 5v, and rx pin. I think I have this lcd connected accordingly. gnd on gnd pin, 5v on...
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Additional Hardware Help

I'm just wondering if anyone knows if these can be connected to the ezb board: https://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/tsa01.htm https://proto-pic.co.uk/tmp36-temperature-sensor/ https://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/cmps3tech.htm https://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/datasheets/uCAM-DS-rev4.pdf...
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Radar Scan/Ping Sensor

Radar Scan/Ping Sensor

I watched the video tutorial of Dj on the radar scan and how to hook it up, I noticed he said always remember, negative is always in the center, did he make a mistake when he...
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How Can I Use Multiple Modified Servos?

I have two kits I am trying to run all four continuous servos Only can get two to run