
ProskieDaGreat
USA
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Hello, I am a bit new to what the EZ-Robot is. I have a few questions. First, you can buy pieces and build your own robot correct? And, second I was curious on how controlling them works. Like are they remote controlled or are they not controllable at all? Thanks for reading and if you can answer that'd be great.
Briefly put (as I am sure it's all explained on the explore pages of the site).
EZ-Robot Revolution is a click n play system which allows you to build a robot from parts that simply click together. There are three revolution robots currently, JD - a biped, Six - a hexapod and Roli - a rover.
They are controlled by the EZ-B V4 robot controller which connects to a PC via WiFi. The free ARC software (download and play with it now, it's free and it will give an idea of what controls are available) then controls whatever you connect to the EZ-B.
However, you don't need to use the click n play pieces, look in the project showcase for ideas on the communities robots. Many have taken old robots like the Omnibot or Wall-E and converted it to run the EZ-B. Others have built robots from scratch, converted old RC cars, even home automation has been done with the EZ-B.
Hopefully that explains it enough for you but if not, browse the site, watch the video tutorials, check the community built project showcase and DJ's robots.
Hello @ProskieDaGreat welcome to the forums!
The answers to your questions are: Yes you can definitely pre-order the individual parts and create your own design and you can remote control your robots with all kinds of Human interface devices that hook up to your PC/laptop via Bluetooth or USB. Two examples that come to mind are a Wii Controller and USB Gamepad. Otherwise you can use some programming to create some autonomous functionality with EZ-Scripts or C# inside the EZ-SDK.
Thanks for joining us here, and let us know if you have any more questions
*Edit: Thanks for the help Rich, you are much quicker on the keyboard that I.
Ahh okay thanks for the quick answers guys.