DuxDucis
USA
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Hey, I received my EZ Robot kit yesterday at night, and I set up the camera and everything worked fine, at a moment, I noticed the camera wouldn't turn off, I left it there until today. Now today when I tried it just displayed a black screen, already tried pairing but I see that the usb is not receiving a signal as the lights just flash and after about 7 seconds they always stop flashing, always 7 seconds even if I don't press any button on the camera device. What may this be? I still can't power it off, the Work blue light is still on even if I press the power button for 5 seconds or until for a long time it won't turn off, thanks.
Remember you need to regularly dip the tip of the soldering iron into a fresh bit of solder especially before you start as it contains flux that helps melt previously soldered joints. Unfortunately the flux evaporates quickly so old joints dont have any and are almost impossible to melt. Keep hacking
Thank you very much,
As Alan suggested, charging the camera has fixed the problem. I would like to implement this mod, but i'm afraid of damaging something; would you advise an amateur to try this, or should i ask someone more experienced to solder this for me?
I did the mod with barely any issues and I hadn't touched a soldering iron in 15 years and had the worlds worst iron anyway.
Soldering the VCC and Ground wires to where the battery is/was is the easy bit, nothing can really go wrong there. The signal cable was the awkward one mainly because it is unclear in the video and photos where it goes, you need to look closely at the images, but even that's not too hard.
I would say go for it, just make sure you don't short anything when soldering the signal wire.
I might also add to Rich's great instruction by saying to practise on something else first! till you feel comfortable with the flow and quanity of solder
Yes, practice first if you aren't feeling at all comfortable with it. Pick up a bunch of strip boards/vero boards and components and just practice and get comfortable with the way solder works etc. Or open up an old appliance that's broken (be careful around capacitors, they can hold a hell of a belt)