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Evacuated

Evacuated

What happened, why is ez-robot being evacuated on 6/20/13 at 8:09 pm, from the office web cam, was it a robot uprising?
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Exterrrminate!

Quick! Someone send him an EZ-Board before he gets talked into something silly like a Leafboard! Dalek
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How To Wire Up Rad Leds

How should I wire up the leds on my rad? can I PLUG THEM IN RIGHT ONTO THe board? or can I wire them together? how have other people did it?
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Maximum Gripper Size

Maximum Gripper Size

One of my planned projects is solving a Rubik's Cube. I originally bought the Wild Thumper 4WD Chassis With Gripper, but the gripper did not open quite far enough. The cube is...
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3-D Printing Tiny Lithium Batteries

3-D Printing Tiny Lithium Batteries

Now this looks vary cool 3-D Printing tiny lithium batteries
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Screw Servo Idea.

Screw Servo Idea.

so this is something I came up with a while ago(10 minutes). I think this could work for people who are needing to push/lift things with there robots. any questions just ask. I don't...
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Why No Mac :,( ?

My PC recently decided to give up on life; actually the hard drive broke. So I decided that instead of paying over and over again to get this thing fixed I'd switch to a Mac. But DJ, why dont you support the mac yet? stress I have a solution! One of the key features of Lion OS X is the apps (or at least I think this is a new feature). So why not...
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Suggestions For Component Boxes

I could not belive how many boxes I have for my robot project. When I look at the screen it's full like 6 servo, 2 h-bridges, the big camera, radar, voice recognition and the list goes on. I really like the auto arrange feature but every time I add a new component they all get switched around. Now my suggestion is since it is a window box for say...
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Pretty Cool Controller Project.

I found something today that I thought I'd share with you all here as I'm sure more than one of you might find it useful to integrate into your robot projects. Basically, I guy built a replacement circuit board for the PS3 DualShock controller that uses a zigbee radio instead of Bluetooth, giving it nearly a mile range. You could connect it to your...
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Unable To Load

I am trying to open an example and get error message: Unable to load C:\Users\jdeba_000\Documents\EZ-Builder\Examples\Revolution - JD.EZB. Reason: Buffer cannot be null. Parameter name:buffer using latest ARC 06.15 running windows 8 j
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Androind, Ios, Windows Phones?

Can the ezb be controlled independently via a mobile device at a remote location without having the pc running the software in the same place? Also can a robot be controlled using gps and a gui interface such as for instance google maps?
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Slider Question At 45%

I hooked up two motors through a H bridge and everything seemed ok at first. I noticed that as I moved the slider up and down it had a shift in the speed on each motor. It appears that when the slider is at 45%, the ez-b output goes to 5 Volts. I thought maybe it's a problem with my motors or H bridge, so I put a meter on another digital port. It...