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
Right clicking and open with ARC worked!
There ya' go... You're in business now.... Have fun...
Just to wrap this up fully. there are two ways to open a project on EZ-cloud, and you should know both (I'll explain why shortly).
There is the way you learned, which is to browse online, which opens a browser and allows you to download the .EZB file which you can then open locally (either like you did, but clicking on the project itself, or through the file open dialog within ARC).
The other way is directly within ARC. On teh file tab, on the right, is the EZ-Cloud section. It has Open, Save, and Browse buttons.
If you click the Open button, you get a search window that allows you to narrow your search by project type and person, or select to show "Your" files.
Once you find the file you want, just click on it, and it will download and open in ARC. You can then save it locally using the save or save_as buttons on the left side of the file tab.
If you want to save one of your files to EZ-Cloud, you use the SAVE button. You can then define the type of file and other properties so others can search for it, or you can make it private so only you can see it.
There are 3 reasons you want to do this.
it is a great way to have a backup of your file. It is rare, but ARC has been known to save corrupted files. EZ-Cloud automatically keeps several revisions of backups when you save a new file there, so you can go back to a known good copy.
You can easily move a project between your own computers by saving to the cloud on one and downloading on the other. I do this regularly. I do most of my design on a desktop computer but then download to a laptop or tablet when running the robot.
This is the only way to use the Android (or soon iOS and Windows Phone) apps. You design the app on a PC and upload it to the cloud, then from your mobile device, you download it from the cloud and run it from the device.
Alan