Robot Building Questions

Rounding To 3 Places

I think there may be a bug in the rounding to 3 places, it seems that it rounds to 2 places. Here is my little test program that shows it. It may be I'm doing something wrong too. $55 = 55.18975647547689 $rten = Round($55,0) Print($rten) $55 = 55.18975647547689 $rten = Round($55,1) Print($rten) $55 = 55.18975647547689 $rten = Round($55,2)...

Help With Grandsons Robot

I just ordered another EZB4 for myself and I am trying to help my 8 yr grandson" Hunter" who has been begging to build his own EZ robot. I am starting him off with one of my EZBV3 kits. I am having trouble finding the basic boxbot tutorials all together without jumping around on the video links? What can I Email him? I wanted something...

13 Year Old Beginner Please Help

I am a binner in robotics from south africa and am 13 years old. I have acces to a arduino and would like to know if there is any way I could use that instead of the ARC board because I have no way of buying it because I dont have the funds and my parents dont allow me to use their credit card on the internet. Another question I have is that...

Dc Motor

I am planning my design and tech of my robot but I realized I do not know how to make a dc motor work I know I can use a continuous rotation servo but I will have to learn how to work a dc motor at some point. I would really appreciate it if someone could post a tutorial on how to connect the wires.

Ez-B V4 Gets Another Uart Serial Ttl Port

While the plastic injection molds are being verified and the PCB's are being assembled for delivery, I decided to spend a little time in the EZ-B v4 firmware to see what else I could pull out of it for features... You know, to make your wait worth it While the molds are checked over for quality injections. Well, I discovered there was just enough...

EZ-Robot Complete Kit

Ta-Da! Happy Binary Day!!! (11-11-11) What better way to compliment an important holiday than something that brings people together (remember, it's Remembrance Day)... The EZ-Robot Complete Kit is now available! Following the overwhelming response from the Real Wall-E Video, I found myself in a challenging position. With so many questions and...

C# Sdk Tutorial 52 Get Variable Question

I'm using the C# SDK Tutorial 52 Get Variable to test communications with my app EZ-Face. The code below shows how to send or set a variable "X" and Get "X". I understand Set "X" private void btnSetX_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { sendCommand(string.Format("$FaceName = {0}", tbX.Text)); } private void...

Camera Frequency

Anyone know what frequency the transmitter is in the original EZ-B cameras?

First Little Progress-Camera Tracking

hi all.i though i dont have parts yet so couldn do anything. but i had the camera so i think what can i do.like dj says few clicks,and immediate result. this is what i found.now i think give me more give me more haha feeling good.

Nature Is Awesome

This is off topic sorry , But learning about robotics and programming makes you really appreciate nature. Just today , me and my son were watching an ant , This ant was walking around an injured ant and checking to see where the best place to carry the injured ant from. Eventually it picked the injured ant up and took it away. My son asked if the...