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I was just wondering if anybody has posted any videos of an ez-robot completing tasks other than just dancing or other very simple things. People have been receiving them for a short while now so I just thought what I saw would be impressive by now. Not trying to be negative just trying to understand all the hype about it before I get mine cuz I have little experience which is why I chose EZ robot, thank you!
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The ezb runs circles around pretty much every controller on the market... it as simple and as complex as you want it to be... In other words it will grow with you as you learn.... Buy it, you won't regret it...
You could buy an arduino, but (like what happened to me) after a while you'll quickly get board of roaming around avoid objects with a ping...
Some of the custom made robots (such as LeXi, Josh's Jarvis, Josh's fish tank, the handful of lawnmowers, snow plows, butler bots etc.) have been made from no previous robot experience. In fact, I had no previous robot experience other than a much simpler version of Jarvis (which, for the record, runs rings around any "cheap" home automation out there and even some not so cheap).
When you do want an easy entry in to robotics I can assure you that EZ-Robot is the easiest path for many reasons (the top two reasons being the customer support and the community). And my offer above is 100% genuine, if you can find another micro controller which is as powerful and flexible as the EZ-B and ARC using only a point and click interface I will send you one of my EZ-B V4s.
Hi there. I was just going through the forum and stumbled upon your thread and was sorry to hear that you cancelled your order, so I thought I would I would tell you about my EZ-Robot experience so far, to give you a view of someone else who has no experience in this field and was in the same place as you are now.
A little history. I jumped in the deep end and started a robot build from scratch nearly a year ago now with the initial intent of making him (K-9) radio controlled, but nearly half way through the build I came across the EZ-Robot website. After a few hours of going through their site, community forum, and Youtube videos I was hooked and made an order for a load of items from their store. I received my goods a couple of months ago now and have not long finishing installing the servos, camera, LED panel, radar (ping) sensor and of course the microcontroller (EZ-B v4). Now I know you said that you originally ordered a Roli Robot and your not building your own, but the items I listed above are exactly the same as what's in the revolution robots and they use the same software.
Now getting back to what you where saying about using and setting up the robots and software. I, like you, had no experience with robotics, at least not micro-controlled ones, only R/C, and have even less experience and knowledge of writing scripts or programming. Infact I have none whatsoever. K-9 is now fully built I am currently going through the set up stage with the EZ-Robots hard and software. As some of the other members on the forum can probably tell you, I'm no expert and sometimes ask for help if I'm really stuck, especially Rich and Richard who have been very kind to me (being a newbie and all) and both helped me out along with other members too, a lot of the time with a very quick response. As you have probably seen yourself, this really is a great forum community. They are helpful, knowledgable, from all walks of life, and are willing to help others sometimes supplying photos, videos and script examples you can simply copy and paste to your own robot project.
I wanted to hit on the point that you said about having a "point and shoot" ability to get going quickly. One of the great things about the ARC software is that it contains script examples of all their revolution robots, including Roli, which are simple to get hold of, are free to use, easy to customise for your own use if you wanted too, and a good source to learn from to create your own scripts later down the road. With a pre written script example and I tiny bit of easy tinkering, you could easily get a robot to do what you tell it to with little effort.
I am still a long way from learning all of the functions and script EZ-Robots have to offer, but with what I have achieved so far with K-9, again with no experience, I have to say that I am pleased with my progress, and even if I say so myself, K-9 has turned out to be pretty cool. Non of which would have been possible without EZ-Robots and its community.
I know you said you would like to see videos but I personally do not have one of K-9 just yet, but hoping to film and post one within a couple of weeks when I showcase him on the forum (keep a look out). I hope what I have written here has gone some way to hopefully make you think "well if he can do it, then I surly can" (which believe me, you really can)
Steve.
It ain't easy.
They all have one thing in common,
Moravec's Paradox. Hard problems with robot AI are easy and the easy problems are hard, and I mean really hard.
Recognizing a face ,lifting a pencil or walking across a room.
It's all in the programming that hasn't been discovered yet or may never be discovered. But if anything else it gives you a immense appreciation for nature,
and if anything it's fun.
Thanks for your comment. These no going back for me now. I totally agree with you there about the learning just taking my time and enjoying it (mostly). Also that's why a went away from R/C in the end. I just got a bit boring in the end. *sleep*
You make me chuckle. I have a feeling we would get along well IRL. My responses are so similar to yours sometimes....I just don't type them in.
If I am ever down your neck of the woods I am buying the beer... wait, even better... I'll bring some Canadian beer...
I have many r/c, a couple which can go crazy fast but that comes with a price such as expensive broken parts happening routinely, and places to use them. Also I have a phantom quadcoper that is amazing, It can fly it into the clouds taking video and will return by itself via gps. However many have had a phantom just take off never to be seen again cuz some signal confused it or whatever, meaning over $1200 disappeared in a few seconds( I'm lucky so far).
From what I can see from reading though, robots especially EZ robot you can make it do whatever you want, it just takes a little more work to make it happen. But the possibilities are endless instead of being powerful doing one thing like most r/c.
You guys and the rest of the community have helped me decide to give it another shot. It's a great community and hopefully I can help some day to.
It's as simple or complicated as you want to make it.
I'm glad that reading about my expeariance gave you food for thought, and really pleased you decided to give it another go. Good for you. Honestly, you won't regret it.
Steve.