Hello!
You may have seen the new tutorial section, and it looks like we already have a bunch of new tutorials. What we need is more tutorials, so I have created a list of tutorials below for anyone to take on. Just respond to this post with the tutorial you would like to create and get started. If you have any suggestions for other tutorials I can add them to the list as well. Upon completing the tutorial, you will be rewarded with the ez-credit value listed with each tutorial!
Some of these tutorials will be very simple, but keep in mind, it will be helpful for lots of new users.
EDIT: When you are done making the tutorials please make a post on this thread letting me know you are done. That way it will be a bit easier on me to keep things organized. Thanks!
IMPORTANT Credit must be given to any information obtained from 3rd party sources
Tutorials:
Controlling a Neo-Pixel ring with the EZ-B v4 and an Arduino - $20 bhouston Completed
How to connect and use multiple EZ-B v4s - $25 thetechguru
Speech Recognition - $10 Steve G Completed
Setting servo speed, and initialization scripts (Using the connection established command) - $10 Steve G Completed
Serial (Explanation of what it is, EZ-Script functions, peripherals that would use it, etc...) - $15
UART (Explanation of what it is, EZ-Script functions, peripherals that would use it, etc...) - $20 Richard R
i2c (Explanation of what it is, EZ-Script functions, peripherals that would use it, etc...) - $15
ADC (Explanation of what it is, EZ-Script functions, peripherals that would use it, etc...) - $15 Steve G Completed
Looping (Using repeatuntil, repeatwhile, goto, etc...) - $10 Richard R
Files (read, write, etc...) - $15 JustinRatliff Completed
Arrrays (Explanation, functions) - $15 Ravdeep Steve G Completed
Pandorabot - $20 Steve G Completed
Using a LIDAR with the EZ-B v4 - $15
Amps and Volts (Current draw, voltages for different peripherals, voltage regulators, voltage on pins, etc...) - $15 Steve G Completed
Battery choices (Different types of batteries and what to use them for) - $20 Ravdeep Completed
Power supplies (I believe that @Technopro has a thread on this. Maybe he wants to create a tutorial for power supplies using that thread) - $20 Technopro Completed
Sabertooth/Kangaroo - $25
Tip120 & Tip122 Transistor Switching Circuit Steve G Completed
Hey James, I am new here, just joined 10 mins ago. I am going with Battery choices (Different types of batteries and what to use them for) - $20. Can I get some references or link to the tutorials created by others..........
@Ravdeep.
If you click here, it will take you to the tutorials home page where you can view all of the tutorials made by fellow community members.
BTW, welcome to the forum.
Thanks @Ravdeep. I've marked you down
Hey James.
Just a quick note to let you know that the tutorials are now written up, and have gone live
. It took me a bit longer than I thought it would as my reading and writing are not so great, so the proof reading took ages. Anyway, I hope that they are okay and are the sort of things you and DJ were looking for.
Speech Recognition Tutorial.
Using ADC (Analog to Digital) Ports, Commands, and Controls.
Setting INIT servo speeds and Initialization Scripts.
Pandorabot Tutorial.
I also wrote up a tutorial on, well, how to make a tutorial. Hopefully members like our new friend @Ravdeep will find it useful. Check it out and see what you think.
How to Make an EZ_Robot Tutorial.
Writing the tutorials also took a lot longer than i initially thought, as I kinda got carried away and wrote some more. They were mostly information I already had posted in the forum which I have edited, added pictures, added tutorial links in the YouTube videos, and reformatted them to go with the new tutorial style. I'm not expecting any store credit for these, I just figured that someone, sometime will find them useful.
Cepstral Voice Effects.
Flex Sensors with an ADC Port.
Fixing Speech Synthesis Problem with Windows 8.1.
A couple of thins I wanted to mention. When creating a "Details" page, when writing a title and brief description, when you select a thumbnailI, the title and description disappear. A way around it is to choose a thumbnail first then save the details. Then add the written content.
One other thing, when using multiple ">Greater than" and "Less than<" symbols in a script or multiple scripts in one step, after saving the details, it plays havoc with what is written and deletes some of the contents. You can use one set of symbols however. Just thought you might want to know. Apart from those little issues, the new tutorial section really is great.
I must admit, the tutorials were fun to do, and actually learned a couple of new things too. Anyway, I hope the tutorials are alright.
Steve.
Great Tuts Steve. Really indepth with the Pandorabot, learned alot. I'd like to see the Flex sensor tut expanded a bit to show how perhaps you can take the data and connect it to a servo to get the servo to move.
@Steve... you can do mine too... The UART and repeatuntil loops.... Just check with James....
Wow @Steve. Those are amazing! Thank you! I'll update your account with well deserved ez-credit. I can assign @Richard's tutorials to you if you would like @Steve.
@Will.
Thanks your comment. Hopefully someone will find them useful.
@Richard.
Thanks for the offer, but I don't really know very much about UART. If used it a few times for certian things, but don't know if it's enough for a tutorial. BTW, although I stand by most of what I said, I'm sorry for going off at you the other day. That came at the end of probably the worst day I've had this year.
@James.
I'm really pleased you like the tutorials. I wasn't sure if I covered enough on the different subjects, but put in pretty much all I know and examples of what I have used. And thanks for the extra credit. You didn't have to do that, but it is appreciated. I will put it to good use by maybe putting it towards a dev kit or something, and enter it in a charity raffle. I did it a while back and the ticket sales went towards epilepsy research at a school charity event. The dev kit made a boy and his dad very happy, and ther was so much interest that it generated a few sales as well, and I've helped these new customers with setting things up for them.
Anyway, back on point, I'd like to do the UART one, but like I said above, I'm not sure I know enough to make it a worthy tutorial. I'd like to take a stab at the amps/volts one though (unless someone else would like to do it), as myself and others have answered many questions about this very subject and have accumulated lots of info. I don't know what the max current rating of the signal pins are, and the Max amp draw is for the HD servos (inrush and while moving) are though, as a lot of the info posted in the forum so far seems to be speculative. The signal pins was mentioned somewhere in the forum, and Jeremie made a correction, but I can't find it now, and I could use a multimeter, but if I was to do the tutorial, I would prefer to use official figures.
I have a couple of other small tutorial ideas I'll post sometime, but again, I wouldn't want credit for these as its information I already have... somewhere.