Ikai
Hi, I am currently building an R2D2. I have the drive and dome motors running off RC fine. I came accross the EZ robot platform on Youtube as was consideration arduino for lights/sound and dome panel animation. I have some questions regarding EZ robot and the project
1) I have a sabertooth motor control in place for the scooter motors, is EZ robot able to integrate with it? Similar question for the dome
2) The pie panels will open and close with servos, is it possible to program multiple servo animations
3) I would like r2 to funtion in an 'rc' type way and an automated way - maybe in reaction to voice commands - is this possible
4) does the EZ robot need continual connection to a PC, I noted there were android options, if so I have a Microsoft surface 2 with I7 processor and 8 GB of ram , would this be able to run the software and be a romote (it's touch screen)
Thanks
Steve Greenfield
1) Yes, sabertooth works beautifully with the ezb4
2) Yes, the ezb can do multiple servo moves and has an awesome Auto Position control to set up animation for servo movements using frames and actions... Puts Flowbotics to shame....
3) Hell yeah, and you can do it on the fly (switch back and forth from RC to autonomous) with voice command or click of a mouse
4) Yes, but you now have got the power of a pc in your robot... It's seamless, fast and works over the wifi network... Also no unplugging your controller then plugging it into the PC in order to change your code.... Everything is real time.... Your ***Surface*** will work great with ARC software....
As soon as you wrap your head around the way the ezb4 works, you'll be stunned at how much better of a robot controller it is than the arduino....
***EDIT*** ARC won't run under Windows RT, unfortunately...
P.S. My first project with ez robot was an Interactive R2 D2 that I gutted and installed an ezb3 (older version) in it.... Sabertooth too
Alan
Alan
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