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How Can I Plug These Servos Into The Ezb?

How Can I Plug These Servos Into The Ezb?

How do I plug these servos into the EZB please? https://www.active-robots.com/high-torque-dc-servo-motor-60rpm-with-uart-12c-ppm-drive
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Long Life 7.4V Lipo Battery And Charger For Ez-B V4

Long Life 7.4V Lipo Battery And Charger For Ez-B V4

Hi everyone. I need a little advice in regards to LiPo batteries for the EZ-B v4. I have been waiting for my dev kit,...
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Roboscratch On Ios

I'm running RoboScratch on my iPad and have a couple of basic questions. 1. How do I delete a step once I have created it? I don't want to clear all the steps and start over. 2. How do I move steps around? Drag and drop doesn't work
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Mp3 Trigger Mobile Control

Hi Folks, Its that time of year to get the G-Bot ready for Halloween! Always exciting. I must say I was a little disappointed to see the MP3 Trigger control is not supported on the mobile interface. It would be so much easier to control the robot from my phone 100%. Anyone know if there are plans to implement this anytime soon? Thanks, Gwen
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Mini Electric Metal Gear Motor

This question may have already been answered and may even be a dumb question but i could not find it. How would i go about hooking this motor in the attached link to the ezbv4. It only has a positive and negative wire and no signal wire mini gear motor
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Galapagos Bot

The strafe buttons do not work on the Galapagos bot ARC app for the iPhone. Also is there a way to add a battery level indicator into the control panel, to be able to see a visual battery level?
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4Wd Omni Wheel Drive

Question for you guys. I know we are limited to one motion panel ( h bridge or continue rot servo) per ARC, but was wondering if you could get motion from connecting opposite motors on a set up like this so, you have essentially two drive directions and then diagonal motion activating both forward and reverse. Take a look here this has independent...
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Sound Servo

I'd like to experiment servos simulating the robot mouth moving while EZB is speaking recorded messages. There is " talk servo", but this control seems to be only for speech synthesis. There's " sound servo", but this doesn't seem to be for recorded messages. How can I get servo movement from the pre-recorded messages that are...
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First Impressions Of My Purchase

Hello everyone, I'm a new customer of EZRobot and order my robot kit last Friday. I was told it would be here today. Needless to say it did not arrive today due to whatever reason, DHL just didn't make the delivery. This was going to be a very nice birthday present, but now its not. Some areas for improvement: 1) Faster responses on orders /...
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Personal Assistant

Here is a Kickstarter personal assistant robot that looks to good to be true. www.kickstarter.com/projects/403524037/personal-robot/description
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Changing The Battery Warning Voice?

I am building a BB8 and everything is going fine, however I was wondering if there was a way to change the "battery is low" warning. Having BB8 suddenly speak really ruins the whole effect. I was wondering if there was a way to change the warning to something else that would fit more with the BB8 character?.
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Wire Size Recommendation

Is there an optimal wire size recommendation for powering the Ez-b? I rewired my robot last week and took it to Long Beach Comic Con over the weekend. when rewiring it I used 18 gauge wire for the power lines. I experienced a lot of dropped wifi connections during the weekend and was not sure if this was a result of browning out the board. -all...