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Hi all,
I just unpacked ny new V4 EZB and thought I'd shoot a video of what it looks loke up close and with all the plastic caseing taken off. I wanted to get ths posted last night but Youtube took forever to up load. Enjoy:
Richard R you are right on ebay I found the ezb v3 for 290 euros
@Herr Ball I also get static noise coming from from my speaker. It is much more noticeable now that I have wired the Ez-B directly to the original speaker that came with Wall-E. The sound produced is better but the static is more clearly there (in comparison to the Ez-B inbuilt speaker). Significantly worst static occurs when starting the camera via the camera control panel. Stopping the camera reduces the static. Moving the camera around when it's on has no effect on the amount of static. Oddly there can be an occasional split second pause in the static, when doing nothing to bring this about. Does the camera need to be shielded from the Ez-B?
The speaker connection on the ezb goes through it's own amp... simply wiring another speaker (did you check and see if the speaker you wired it to has the same ohm rating as the built in ezb's speaker? Because that could be your problem) will just produce the same distortion that existed before... there is another through hole speaker connection on the ezb4 board that bypasses the built in pre amp.... if you wire your own amplifier and speaker to that connection instead you should get clean (louder) output... Dave has done this with his B9 so there is a recent thread floating around here on how to do this... It only involves 2wires... ground connection and the other wire to the new speaker output
Very nice external audio post
Looks like a great product. I only have one question why was the switch made from Bluetooth to Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi is not going to be available in every location and the robot can only be used at home?
@4R2D33700 - You can connect to the EZ-B v4 directly from your phone or computer so you can use it anywhere, not just somewhere that has wireless internet.
Almost every portable PC made in the last decade has wifi too, which can be used to connect to the EZ-B. If it doesnt then a wifi dongle is actually cheaper than a bluetooth one.
Ok. So it connects directly just like the Bluetooth did with no data plan needed?