What is the problem with your motor driver?

Expirementing is your solution to any task. I've produced the best and easiest interface and other than physically doing it for you, I can only recommend testing, tutorials, and Expirementation.

I try to answer as best I can. However, time is a luxury. In order for you to have an ez robot website and product, it requires my development time and intervention.

Ok, I understand.

@ DJ :

I ,for one, understand that your time is at a premium. I also fully understand that you are dedicating your time to R&D and marketing in an attempt to give us an ever improving product at a fair and reasonable price. However, I do suggest that you keep in mind, those that have previously purchased your product and have the expectation (and rightly so, I believe) that, that product will preform as it was described or stated. Allow me to also point out that your customers; in most cases; have made a substanial financial investment not only in your product, but in support components as well. Considering the demands on your time, you may wish to consider putting in place, personnel that can dedicate their time to customer support and would be available to aid customers in resolving any problems they may encounter using your product. If your customers have made a sincere and concerted effort, using all the resources available to them, to resolve their issues and then find all their efforts exhausted, I believe it would be entirely acceptable and understandable that they would expect assistance from you, the manufacturer, to help them obtain a resolution. I, personally, would be quite dissappointed and dissatified to find myself in the position of having made a sustanial investment of time, effort and money only to discover that it was all in vain and find myself in possesion of a product that has become totally useless to me. I'm sure I would not be alone in that sentiment. I once made the statement that you may well prove to be the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of the robotics world. I'm also quite sure that at some point Mr. Jobs and Mr. Gates came to understand the importance of "customer support" after the sale. I further believe that they would not have attained the level of sucess they did, without that understanding and practice. It is my sincere hope that you do not lose sight of your original concept and commitment to those that had the dream of building and using robotics to enhance their lives.I do hope you accept these thoughts as constructive criticism and fodder for retrospective contemplation. With respect, Lloyd Cooper

@ MEL :

Sorry I misunderstood your question. The camera settings I have are as follows: EZB connected to COM 3 Horizontal camera servo is conected to pin D8 (Head "Tilt" Servo) Min. 30 / Max. 70 Vertical camera servo is connected to pin D9 (Head "Pan" Servo) Min. 1 / Max 100

Camera configuration: Camera servo Tracking, Enabled (Checked) Movement Tracking, Enabled (Checked) Allow Left/Right Movement, Enabled (Checked) Frames per second: have tried 3, 7, 10, and 30 Track by Relative Position, Disabled (Not checked) Motion delay, 50 ms

I also added a script command to the Main Script. ControlCommand("CameraAutoTracking",scriptstart) I have checked the boxes for "Face", "Color", "Motion".

I charged the camera battery for several hours prior to todays testing. In spite of that when I turned the camera on the battery level very quickly showed very low. The image was showing only in black and white and when "Motion" box was checked the camera just "jittered" around as if it were trying to locate an image. As soon as I "Uncheck" the motion box, the jittering stops. Based on your (and others) comments I supect that part of the problem is low operating voltage at the camera. I've taken note that some of you have supplied power to the camera from the EZ-B and resolved the operating power issue. I am going to attemp to view the available tutorials again and consider whether I can feel confident in modifiying the camera. Unfortunately I wasn"t able to locate the post from Winsth(?) on the camera mod. Would appreciate it if someone could point me to it. I will make another attemp to locate it however. Please keep us advised to your progress, as well as any one else's. Thank you

I tried just the color ball part of things. It took me about 3 days of trying EVERYTHING. I know D.J. is busy, but it is so hard to do all of this at my age. I am a senior. This is probably my LAST attempt to do this sort of thing. I have enjoyed Leaf for the last 2-3 years and having an A.I. Robot in the family is very enjoyable. I don't have the patience I used to have when I was 20. I tried using the chat. It hooked up and said welcome, but after about 10-15 minutes without an answer, I disconnected. I am actual tired after 40 years of Building robots. I want to enjoy operating them without pioneering and engineering them. I had the same problem with microcomputers in 1975-80. There was certain software that came out and after paying $2,000 for the software, I would find it did not work. Or , it just barely worked so I would have to program it until it Did work. I learned a lot about programming and it was a lot of fun. But, that is why I ordered Q.BO. Q.BO should just work out of the box. But, if it did, I would be surprised. On the other side of the coin, D.J. has the absolute BEST product that is available right now. I have lost thousands of dollars trying to learn ROS, Microsoft Robotics Studio,I have built Four turtles and they just sit there without doing anything useful. Now is the time where D.J. has made it possible with LESS work to achieve the goals that I had when I was a child. But, Is he going to provide what we need in time or not. He is a good man with lots of smarts and his products are really good. But, I haven't been able to follow all of the lessons verbatim and they work as advertised. Like he said, it takes Experimenting on top of what he has provided. He has saved us literally THOUSANDS of hours of work. But, I have a feeling that we still need to add scores if not hundreds of hours more to get where we want to be.

The preceding was my own opinion and not stated as a fact.

I got off the subject. But I was saying start with the RED or whatever color you like. Let it track that alone. Then add more to it. When I activated face and motion, it did not do Anything with the face tracking. And the motion tracking was so slow it wasn't any good. I tried Auto-Tracking and it just slowed the whole process down and it started to shake. The only difference I could see was the digital ports were different. Maybe it HAS to be D0 and D1 like he has it in the tutorial. I have D6 and D7. But, a digital port is a digital port.

Don't give up on Gizmo. He is a cute robot. I think that he is going to be swell. WE both just have to have a little patience which is something I never had before.

P.S.

Oh, I wanted to tell you that you are not supposed to put the servos in 1-100 positions. It says somewhere they need to be in 10-90 min and max. Of course I put mine on 5 because it wasn't going where I needed it to.

Wait, I have a GREAT idea. I just put all my robots up in the closet. I have ate,slept and breathed robots for so many years. I am taking a break!

Now, for the Great idea. Why don't we the community take on ONE problem at a time and solve it. I will give you an example. We are trying to do Color tracking. So, one of us starts it and the others work with it all day and post the answers we find to our experiments. By the end of 1 or 2 days, we will have that problem solved. Then go on to the next problem. By observing what others have found combined to what we have found, we can work together to solve the problem and let D.J. do his work. Of course, we probably need more than one or two people. But maybe not. What do you think?

I will start back on the 7th of June and pull my robots out of the closet and start experimenting again. I have just had too much for one lifetime.

Tell me what you guys think.