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Ezb V4 And Roboquad

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Has anyone found a way to work around the limitations of the EZB V4 with the Roboquad or any robosapien? Its sad that the support was dropped with the EZB V4. I was pumped to make an uber intelligent wifi based Roboquad - but will not work.


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My roboquad worked great with the v3. It seems you could offer the same code you had before "as is" with no guarantee to users.

DJ didn't answered the question, and the answer can bring some light to the discussion.

The RobotQuad, RoboSapien features are supported through EZB 3 firmware, they are not inside ARC, so is not a question to enable the same features with EZB 4 controller.

From a firmware hardware perspective: EZB v3 is a PIC EZB v4 is a Arm Cortex M3

currently there isn't a simple procedure to update the EZB V4 firmware to support new features or deprecated features.

Although is possible to develop an ARC skill plugin to support the robot, the main question is: where's the motivation (e.g. money) to support a deprecated toy ?

@DJ please correct if i'm wrong.

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From DJ's first reply in this thread:

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There are too many hardware revisions of the toy robots that you mentioned. Wowwee toy robots were not standardized and the pcb, protocols, and wiring schematics of those toys changed numerous times throughout their lifetime. This made supporting those robots absolutely impossible - due to the lack of documentation of hardware revisions.

Alan

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Not that my friend is a very logical explanation and I thank you for the answer as it really did answer the question without just saying, "not supported". If I could report points I would.

@ptp Thank you very much!

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DJ didn't answered the question, and the answer can bring some light to the discussion.

The RobotQuad, RoboSapien features are supported through EZB 3 firmware, they are not inside ARC, so is not a question to enable the same features with EZB 4 controller.

From a firmware hardware perspective: EZB v3 is a PIC EZB v4 is a Arm Cortex M3

currently there isn't a simple procedure to update the EZB V4 firmware to support new features or deprecated features.

Although is possible to develop an ARC skill plugin to support the robot, the main question is: where's the motivation (e.g. money) to support a deprecated toy ?

@DJ please correct if i'm wrong.

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