Robot Building Questions

Common Questions For Reporting Questions

I just created some trouble reporting forms to use with the call center agents at work when they report problems to my team because we always need to go back to them and ask questions to clarify what the issue is. I see the same thing happen here all the time where someone will write a post tjat "x doesn't work" or "y crashes"...

Is It Possible To Ramp Up And Down The Brightness Of Leds?

No lucking finding a post on this. I am working on a BB-8 driod with the EZ-Robot and am looking to get LEDs to quickly ramp to full brightness and fade out the same way (as opposed to just turn on or off.) Any ideas on the best way to achieve this? Thanks, Bob

Script To Refresh Joystick

is there a command i can put in script to refresh the joystick ez panel as opposed to clicking the refresh button in the ez joystick window?

Ultrasound, Ping And Object Avoidancec On The Ezb-V3

Richard, would you know what script the Object Avoidance was for the v3. I have One PING unit with One sharp IR. . that's it. I just want to find that little algorythm. I used to know this site like the palm of my hand. But, I have forgotten a lot in the last many years. I am down to one robot, Sally. I finally scraped up enough to get some eyes. I...

Obvious - Dumb Question - 7.4V Lipo Pack - But Most Servos Including Ez-Servos R

I am going to ask a question that has been gnawing at the back of my head. I have searched around and I see yes's and no's. If a Servo is one of the many servos that gives you a torque at 4.8v and 6.0v And the EZBV4 pins are unregulated. Does the LiPo powering the EZBV4 mean that I need to only look for 7.4v servos?

Adc Ports

I just want to confirm, so as to NOT release the magic smoke, I want to trigger scripts wit the press of a button or the closing of a normally open contact. I figure that I connect the Red (3.3 Volts) and White (signal) on an ADC port across the switching contacts and have a script watching the assigned ADC port for change. I also planned to...

Jd Walking

Perhaps I am just too dense to find it but the out-of-the-box actions in ARC for JD have dancing, sitting, etc. but nothing for walking. Given the things has legs and is a "humanoid" this must exist? Can anyone help point me to how I accomplish getting JD to walk? Thanks Scott

Is The Robot Hobby For Everyone?

There is a good article in this months Maker Magazine where someone made the comment that Robotics fascinates them because of all of the various disciplines that one has to have to build robots. This got me thinking about everything that you would need to understand in order to be proficient at building a robot. It also got me thinking about all of...