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How To Connect Ezb To A Create 2

I have been looking on the forum for a wiring tutorial for the ezb and create 2. There are a lot of ideas and very complicated ideas that seem to work but no simple tutorial to connect ezb to a create 2.

Please let me know if there is a tutorial or can you provide me with one.

Thanks,


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#65  

@Ellis Let me know if you figure out a way to tap the Roomba battery

I was hoping that the I would see battery power on the Roomba jack... nope

Frank

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#66  

Hey @Frank battery is a 12V 3.5Ah lead acid. Think I paid about $20.

The charger is a 12V charger with a 12v float charger on it. This is important so you don’t overcharge and can keep topped.

I connect direct to EZB and not to LIPO so EZB always runs off lead acid battery.

It was really what I had laying around from other projects but if I was to buy I would build a couple of lithium pack from 18650 batteries and a specialized charger.

#67  

I don't know if that question was for me but I am using the Roomba Dock.

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#68  

Here is my latest head assembly. I swapped out my nock off MG996R for Ez- robot HDDs. and added a 3rd servo so now I have yaw pitch and roll.

I decided to go with an iPad for now, I found my old IPad 2 and it seems to do FaceTime OK. It is so slow I can’t use it for anything else. I will use the acer laptop for EZ-robot I think so I don’t have to spend money and it should have enough horse power if I disable all the back ground bloatware to run EZB and a remote takeover app.

@Ellis think I will use your idea and do a VPN tunnel and route all traffic back to my house as I am worried I am going to get all sorts of network issues. So adhock on 2nd network card on acer and iPad and EZB can connect to that and then route all traffic over VPN to home network.

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#69  

@Nink If your iPad can run IOS 11, FaceTime can auto answer

Frank

#70  

@Nink, Some interesting info from @DJ in another post that may remove the need for VPN synthiam.com/Community/Questions/5919

Quote:

Posted 2 hours ago

  1. Opening ports is fine, long as it's ONLY to the EZ-B

  2. no one can relay from the EZ-B to any other computer in your network

  3. You can change the port of your EZ-B if you don't want tcp 23 (for what ever reason). This is done in the EZ-B's config - OR - most routers when opening a port allow you to specify the Internal and External port. So you can make the internal 23 and external what ever you want...

I know that I have been able to control over the Internet to an EZ-B

Frank

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Canada
#71  

Hi @Frank

There is no way I could get (or would ask) my IT department to port forward to EZB. I have tons of respect for @DJ but if someone hacked into the EZB remotely and jumped onto the network at work DJ and I would both be on the front page of the New York Times.

On the iPad 2 sadly it only supports IOS 9. Now I have another problem to solve :-(.

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#72  

Spent some time in roughing a frame. It is too tall so will have to cut down as it is top heavy. Was thinking of fiberglass over cardboard or maybe just some of that plastidip on paper mache to keep it lighter.

Laptop is 20v 2.5 amp so need to add another 12v battery in series and get a 24v float charger.

Ptp suggested a pico projector, it’s a good idea but they are expensive for a decent one 500+ lumens. I need a way to control remote as well.

I was thinking of stealing Rollis arms and padding out with some ezybits blocks to do some simple tasks.

I ended up using a HDD servo for switch.

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