castlephelps
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Hi,
Now that I have the proper power plug and have my EZ-B powered up I am confused as to how to begin. I have read the lessons on the EZ-B, the Developer Kit and ARC software. I don't have any of the robots that the other tutorials seem to address - so how do I just do something like hook up a servo and have it move or make the camera display an image?
I connected my laptop to the EZ-B wirelessly and created a project, opened the camera but am getting a message that the camera is not active or something like that.
Yes, I'm really new to this stuff so any guidance to playing with the Developer Kit would be appreciated.
Thanks, Castle
First can you confirm that you are connected with ARC? Solid blue or green LED on your EZB... Once we can confirm you are connected we can start you off with some samples...
by the way, ARC has dozen of example projects you can load and learn from...
Hmmmm / when I power up the EZ-B I get the announcements and a blue led. When I connect my laptop wirelessly I get the web page which includes diagnostics and I can make it make the different sounds and announcements...
Yes that is the ezb's web server... If you want you can flip the ezb into client mode from there... This way the ezb will be part of your network like all your other wifi devices... It is crucial you take the time to view as many tutorials as possible as it is the quickest way to get rolling with this. Later if you run into any issues we can help you here...
Bottom line is to get ARC connected to your ezb (yes, sorry tutorials again LOL) then we can load some easy sample projects to get you started...
I'm guessing you mean the tutorials for the other robots? I've done the dev kit and builder ones...
@castlephelps after I got my Dev Kit, I bulit a Camera pan/Tilt mount and played with the camera tracking objects, and my face.. you can do the same with just some hot glue, the camera, servo, and servo-head.. I also played around with the radar sensor on-top of a servo in the same fashion.. Since I have 3d printer I started printing out a hexapod (spider) bot to mount the Ez-b4 onto..
Just a few ideas.. hope that helps..
Hi, @castlephelps,
The project examples Richard is talking can be loaded right from inside ARC. There's tons of them covering all sorts of robots that both EZ Robot has built through a bunch that regular folks like me and you have made.
Go to the File tab then look to the right for the EZ Cloud section. Clink on the Download button and play around in there looking through all the projects. Download any of them to ARC.
You can also click the Browse button and it will hook you up. Read the introduction then click on the Robot Apps title on the left. Look through the list and pick one to download then open it in ARC.
@castlephelps Actually I was just talking about the tutorials that involve connecting to the ezb. Also the tutorial that explains the 2 connection modes... So those examples are under the "open" file dialog menu option in ARC....
Online here there are also tutorials explaining what all the controls and script commands do... Here is information on ez robot controls for example... Control tutorials