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12C Adres How Do I Know?

12C Adres How Do I Know?

i know i asked this before.but i cant find the topic. my question is ,if i change a 12c port as in pic below. how do i now withs port i changed on ezbv ?sinds there are 3...
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Camera Disables Any Suggestions?

Hi, Can someone please help out with suggestions? I ordered the roli rover from robotshop.com and received it on Friday. The good news is that everything but the camera works in the AP mode. I have spent several hours going through tutorials and executing the suggestions in other community posts on this issue. When connected in the AP wifi mode,...
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Ip Cam For Machine Vision, Resolution Compatibility

Hey guys, I haven't done this yet , so seeing if anyone has. I have pi ip cameras and you can access their stream I believe through the ip address, but if I have the cam set at 800x600 will ARC scale it down with the drop down box, or do I have to have that ip cam set at the 640x480 or lower? This could same be from using a ez cam and ip cam right...
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Wireless Charger

Has anyone made a wireless charger yet. use / charge / use / charge is getting a little tiresome and it is just my first week with ez-b. Logic is JD Humanoid (or your build of choice) looks around when battery is flat finds a Glyph (that points in direction to head) and then goes to the home Glyph and parks with coil on breast plate and wireless...
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Six Hexapod Ez-Robot Not Visible Any More Thru Wifi Direct

Hi, I just bought the Six Hexapod EZ-Robot. I followed all instructions and succedded in building, downloading, and getting it started through a laptop: it eventually moved the dance and everything. But after a few days, even with a fully loaded battery, I have the audio message "Im an unable to connect to your network". And the robot is...
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Robot Updates

Robot Updates

I am getting so inspired by what some of the projects are getting worked on with you guys here in the Forum,many great ideas you guys! The 2 bots I am updating as a result, My paranormal...
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Phone App Question Or Valuable Lesson?

Phone App Question Or Valuable Lesson?

I just got JD a few days ago and have used my PC for building and fine tuning JD and all has gone good until last night. When I tried using the...
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Ez Camera

Just wondering about what can be done with EZ cam as I have viewed some interesting applications where DJ shows off the Face tracking and color tracking using simple scripting in the ARC software plug ins.I am on the verge of buying one now but then I saw this interesting phone camera add on that has come down in price for heat /cold detection...
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Compass Use I2c On Ezb V 4

Hello all, I am asking if anyone else has used compass guided navigation? I am looking at a Tilt Compensated Magnetic Compass with I2C serial communication. I have never used one ,but I have a feeling in order to make sure my bot is going the correct direction outdoors I will need a compass at the least ( maybe a GPS in the future) Any feedback is...
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Cover Up Your Password For Mail

is it possible to cover up your password in the window for mail exchange ? smpt client .when you open the window ,you can see your password.
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What Is Wrong With This Script

for some reason I can not get the following simple statement to work $Test = "123 123 123" repeatuntil(contains($Test," ") != true) Print($Test) endrepeatuntil I get the following error 8: repeatuntil(contains($Test," ") = true) > Error on line 8: Missing ) in Expression I have tried using repeatWhile also...
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Easydriver Code Nema 17 Motor Driver With Io-Tiny

I am driving a SparkFun EasyDriver Nema 17 Motor Driver board with an iO-Tiny All are powered with a 6V SLA When I first connect to the Tiny with ARC the motor begins a slow spin. When I run the code below the motor stops as desired. SET(D0,OFF) // step pin SET(D1,OFF) // dir pin When I run the loop, converted from an Arduino Sketch to this, get...