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New Sensor P.I.X.Y Camera

i found this really fast camera. new camera
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Wiimote Question

Hi, I ordered a WiiMote Motion Plus and found out after the fact that it is incompatible with ARC. This is stated in the tutorial. Is there a work-around? From what I see on Amazon all of the WiiMotes are Motion Plus except for a couple of used ones. Tom
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Ezb4 Controller

Which power supply portable or ac adapter that I can use for the ezb4 controller? MC....
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Camera Image Freezes

Camera Disabled Camera Initialized: EZB://192.168.1.1 @ 160x120 EZ-B v4 Camera Error: System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond....
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Accessing Engenius Eap350 With More Then One Ezb

On the advice of fellow members of this forum I bought an EnGenius EAP350 a while back. The thinking was to give my EZB an access point with a stronger signal to access then my network's wireless router. It worked like a charm. Here's my question; I now have 3 EZB's in my robot and have noticed that only one is using the EnGenius EAP350 as an...
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Digital Pins Not Working

All the digital pins on one of my 3 EZB V4's stopped working. I rebooted and reset the unit and still can't get the 3 volts at any of the digital pins when I try to turn them on through ARC. I probably burned something up on the EZB but was wondering what type of mishap would cause them all to stop responding? I'm a little leary to just swap out...
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Lekrunda Right Leg

right leg middle servo wrong way.head not in the middle
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Ez-B V4 Disconnects Whenever I Try To Move The Servos

i am working on making a custom six robot that I am modeling after the Ez Robot six robot, I am running 12 servos of of 5 rechargeable 1.2 volt AA's, I have already set the battery monitor to 5.2. The servos I am using are 3 EZROBOT HD servos, 3 Tower pro MG995 hi-speed servos, and 6 GWServo so3 STD servos. what happens is I connect to the ez-b...
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Commotion Motor Driver / Mecanum Wheels

I've been having a look at the ComMotion motor driver as an option to drive two motors much like a Sabertooth. With the onboard encoder counting, it should be possible to create something via serial or i2c that acts like a Kangaroo. My thought is that I could later get two more motors and some omni/mecanum wheels in the future for another platform...
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Face Mouse

Face Mouse

You might get a kick out of this. I use the Remote Mouse plugin to control the mouse using my face... Plugin: https://synthiam.com/EZ-Builder/Plugins/view/37
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New Plugin Idea. Hud Display Camera Overlay. I.E. Terminator Vision

New Plugin Idea. Hud Display Camera Overlay. I.E. Terminator Vision

Per Richard R, he suggested a HUD information display to overlay the EZ Camera video....
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Design Tool For 3D-Printable Robots From Disney Research

https://makezine.com/2015/11/12/design-tool-for-3d-printable-robots-from-disney-research/