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Will ez robot accessories that connect to the ezb-v4 work on the i/o and other pins of the rasp pi 3/4 and arduino's like other manufacturers accessory kits do or am I wasting my time? I want to know becuase i don't plan on using ARC or ezb-v4. The ez robot accessories are better quality built and give faster explanation of their useability than other accessory kits do and its just faster to buy thought ez robot then any other manufacturers. Plus python is a faster way to program on pi than to run through ARC and ezb, at least how i run through things, instead of using c# like a old pc from the old days. Love ez-robot but just need a faster easier approach to start with.
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While I can't answer support questions for ezrobot products, because this is synthiam.com not ez-robot.com - what ezrobot products are you wanting to connect to an arduino or raspberry pi? Specifically, what do you mean by "raspberry pi or arduino". Because those are different. The EZ-Robot EZ-B v4, Raspberry Pi and Arduino are all entirely different things.
I know the arduino/pi/ezb are different, but what im I'm wanting to know is all the accessories, like sensors, servos, camera's that ez-robot sell for the ezbv4, will they connect and work the same as the accessories kits that work on arduino and raspberry pi. I am wanting to use the rasp pi 3/4 for form factor, computational ability, and accessory functionality controls all in one in a powerful 16 node super computer cluster, mostly for use with Linux and python coding ability for faster easier coding functional and speed. And its much easier to understand what each accessory is used for through ez robot webpage for and ez robot's accessories are much better in quality than other manufactures accessory kits.
EZ-Robot Camera is not compatible with arduino. Arduino and audio or video isn't really a thing. Although there is an arduino cam and some others, but they're 1 or 2 frames per second and can't process video tracking or anything. So no, arduino can't support cameras. Raspberry pi has it's own camera called the Pi Cam.
Servos from ezrobot can work on arduino, natively. Although, arduino doesn't have very high resolution for servo positions. And arduino has issues moving more than a few servos at the same time. Raspberry pi can't move servos at all because they don't have PWM. There is a "hat" for a raspbery pi for servos. Have to remember that all pwm servos, whether ezrobot or not, use the same signal for moving. EZRobot servos' are merely stronger and better than all pwm servos. This is because they have over current, stall and heat protection. Also they're super quiet and smooth because the motor oscillation is outside of the human hearing range. Dogs may not like it though
While i don't mind the raspberry pi, i'm not its biggest fan. It is about the same speed as an x86 based computer from 1998. That's about 22 years ago, so i'd rather spend the extra few dollars and use a more capable real computer with x86 enhanced cpu support. The computer i use, that's the same size as the raspberry pi, and runs full windows 10 is the latte panda. The latta panda even has an onboard soundcard, hdmi, and built-in arduino. So it can run ARC without troubles. I have a video review i did on the latte panda which i'll paste below...
See the full tutorial video series I did on the latte panda here: https://synthiam.com/Community/Tutorials/LattePanda-Beginners-Guide-18552/1
Wow i didnt realize how powerful latte panda's were, so last thing. You said in one of the videos it can be like an ezb without any thing else so can it be used like multi ezb's running in a servor cluster panda set up? Or should i just connect other ezb's to the latte panda instead? And plus is there a linux equivalent of the latte-panda that will work just as good as the window's latte panda, been havin lots of issues with windows and Linux just seems to be better alternative, but if there isnt one, i can always try again with lattepanda and its windows 10 os, ive used windows form dos/3.1/95/98/xp/Vista/7/8/8.1 and now 10 so ive used windows for a while but windows quality over the years just isnt the same any more.
Haha i hear you on the windows gripes! Seems like i'm installing windows from scratch every few months on my embedded solutions.
The thing about windows is... it gets clogged with programs quite easily. Mostly because they all seem to want to load when windows starts. The thing about linux is, there's not a lot it can do without a lot of custom work. For example, even having our software support linux is a pain in the butt. This is because there's no standard apis for things like speech or audio or webcams, etc.. Everyone implements their own interface to everything, and if they do decide to use an api, it's a different api or different version each time.
Linux may be "free" but supporting it an OS is the most costly venture i've ever embarked on... lessons learned!
Windows provides applications with standard interfaces for speech and audio and webcams, etc... At a small cost to performance (in some cases).
The solution I go with is Windows because it just works. I download windows installer to a USB key for free. I don't even bother paying for windows anymore because all you lose out on is changing the background. A unregistered copy of windows only prevents you from changing the background haha
So download windows, throw it on a usb key. Install it on the latte panda and put ARC on. Off to the races you go...
Great thing is if the computer ever starts acting funny, simply reinstall windows.
I don't install anything other than ARC these days though. I don't even use web browsers on my embedded computer. And if i do, i use the new EDGE because it's actually based on Chrome these days. And it installs much lighter than Chrome. I uninstalled chrome from all my computers and only use Edge. Never thought i'd be saying that but it's the truth
Thanks dj, i guess i just need to give windows another shot, plus installing api's which not sure what that is lmfao, but all the rest is to much of a headache, i guess i will role with the latta panda then and just come to the forums if any thing is being a pain with it, and see if the community has any imput that can help lol. Thanks for all your help dj, your a life saver.
Anytime! I'm going to plan a robot build with a latte panda soon - so we can share notes
Sweet and i forgot to ask but is the latta panda your using in the video tutorials the same as the latta panda alpha and delta or different? And if different will the alpha and delta models work the same?