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Vex Optical Shaft Encoder With A Kangaroo Board

Tonight I installed the vex shaft optical encoders on the inside shaft the wheels go on. I had to drill out the encoder wheel to fit the shaft and disassembled the encoder wheel and optics to mount on the metal gearbox, I also had to cut back the green plastic fins so it did not catch the encoder optics. I hope it works using the kangaroo board?...
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Long Jd

Long Jd

I made a long Jd I call him LD for long D here is the picture hope you guys like it And i was even able to move him and best part no extension cables were used.
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Jd Chest Gripper

Jd Chest Gripper

From now on jd has a chest gripper video coming soon
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Product Information

I am interested in purchasing some items and have some general information questions: 1) I noticed that the 4 in 1 orientation sensor is out of stock. Will it be back in stock soon? 2) The inverted pendulums are in stock but it states that they are Pre-Order-Only. What do you mean by Pre-Order-Only? 3) I am interested in experimenting with the...
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Jd Needs Shoes

Hello all, Didn't find anything on this in discussions but I think I have the worst possible combination environment for JD. On my wood floors, poor guy sort of wobbles around in circles while trying to walk straight because his feet keep slipping , then to make things worse, we have an area rug which has a slightly higher than average pile (not...
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Questione

Hallo ich bin Neu hier da mein Englisch nicht so gut ist um technische Probleme klären zu können suche ich jemanden aus Deutschland. Kurze Problem Beschreibung ich habe den EZ-B v4 Controller einmal auf dem iPad Mini und auf dem Rechner Installiert, wenn ich die WiFi Verbindung herstelle kommt die Meldung eingeschränkte Verbindung und bricht gleich...
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Device Connection

Our research project is trying to interface three TI-EZ430 watches and one Myo to mimic movement. We would like to be able to interface all four components at once. Is this possible?
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Cont. Rotation Servo .Stl - Size Right?

Could someone from EZ-Robot or someone else that has printed the continuous rotation servo double check it for me? The female ez-bit slot size seems way too small. I've printed the ez-bit cubes and their male and female bits match up with purchased ez-robot/ez-bit items. So that tells me the cube .stl is good and my print can print them correctly....
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Open To Suggestions For Daddy/Daughter Build

I want to start a project with my 6yo daughter to nurture her interest in robotics. Currently have a fairly large RC collection of ground, air, and water based units, I have plenty of unused Arduino boards megas and unos...I have a power wheel chair sitting, two sabertooths one a 2x25 and one a 2x32...2 150lb 10" stroke and 2 150lb 6"...
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Outputting Snapshop From Videostream In C++

Has any one had success with setting up a camera stream and saving a snapshot to a file using c++? This is what I have so far: EZ_B::EZB ^ezb; ezb = gcnew EZ_B::EZB("MyEZB"); EZ_B::Camera ^ezbCam; ezbCam = gcnew EZ_B::Camera(ezb); ezbCam->StartCamera(EZ_B::Camera::GetVideoCaptureDevices()[1], 320, 240);...
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Ez-Script Escaping Specific Characters

Ez-Script Escaping Specific Characters

what i want to do: $pos = IndexOf($buffer, "\n") this is what i tried without success $pos = IndexOf($buffer, 0x0a) i didn't...
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Filereadall Stops Working

Tested with the last version and the previous version The following code: 1: ClearVariables() 2: $test1 = FileReadAll("c:\dev\test.txt") 3: FileReadClose("c:\dev\test.txt") 4: Print(Length($test1)) Generates an error: Quote: Error on line 4: Missing String Quotes or Invalid Expression at index 0: "hello the...