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User Book To Better Under Stand Scripting/ Programming

Hoping/ wondering if anyone has suggestions on a book that would help me with scripting and understanding programming something simple. My work takes up so much Gray matter these days, it's hard keeping up with work, I love working on robots even though I don't get it sometimes. If I was retired then I can focus 100% On EZB. So I'm looking for a...
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Sound Servo Script

Hi guys. I used Sound servo to drive a led to blink according to soundboard but i dont know how to make it work with mobile interface. i know how to make a button to make it sound but not the led part. is it possible ?
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Anyone Using A Steam Controller?

Anyone Using A Steam Controller?

As the subject suggests really. Wondering if anyone has got any experience using Steam Contollers with the Builder or SDK? If not, let's start putting some...
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Jittery Servo Movement

Jittery Servo Movement

Hey there, I am having an issue with my robots movement here. I build a litte Lego robot consisting of 10 micro servos, they are supposed to have a 4.8Volts input....
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Help With Information On This

Help With Information On This

Hey everyone! I purchased this motor controller from a yard sale for a dollar. Figured I could not go wrong if it worked. However the person had no info on the...
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Roli Rover Video Streaming Over The Internet

I am very interested in Ezrobot Products, especially the Roli Rover. I am looking for and have been for some time, an economical security type robot for home use where I can control the base over the internet and control the camera pan/tilt functions over the internet and stream live video streaming over the internet using my Samsung Galaxy S4 over...
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Voice Communication With ARC And A Framework

Hello, I use to communicate with ARC, SARAH framework (NodeJs). Through this framework I use the grammar of an XML file which uses Windows Speech recognition and for more specific words such as research on wikipedia I use api speech Google. I use this way of keywords, for exemple: Victor turn left, Victor can you turn left ?, Victor I want you turn...
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Help Needed With A Code

I have been trying to get this code to work, #Power Up ControlCommand("Script Manager", ScriptStart, "Amp On") Sleep(500) ControlCommand("Auto Release", PauseOn) Sleep(2000) ControlCommand("Auto Position 3", AutoPositionFrame, "Tilt Straight",100,7,4) sleep(5000) ControlCommand("Auto...
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Tapping Into The Original

I was thinking again, and I figured there must be a way to get position feedback from a standard servo. I found this forum post outlining exactly what I was thinking. forums.trossenrobotics.com/tutorials/how-to-diy-128/get-position-feedback-from-a-standard-hobby-servo-3279/ Basically, you connect a wire to the servos potemeter and another to the...
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Ez-Copters?

I know there was one person who made a quadcopter with the ez-b but is there anyone else who made a helicopter with the ez-b? if so, could you give some tips?
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Servo Lever And Backs

Is there a way to order just the servo levers and backs for the servos that came with the developers kit. I don't have a 3d printer and have requested part costs from the 3d community before with no response. Any help would be appreciated.
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Ezb Jd With Attention Spotter

In a collaboration between Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and University of Southern Denmark we've been working to get an attention spotter to run with the EZ-B JD. The spotter which originally was developed for the iCub robot, uses an Asus Xtion 3D sensor to track a human and any objects that come close. Here's a short video of our work:...