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Revolution Jd Arms Locking Behind Back Doing The Haunt Me Sample Dance

I got JD and enjoyed putting him together and setting everything up. I got as far as trying the sample dance "Haunt me" without any frustration or hick ups. He started the dance and went along very well for a while but when his hands got behind his back they would get stuck behind his upper legs and pulled the arms right out of the...
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Working With Serial Terminal  & System Variables

Working With Serial Terminal & System Variables

I have a device that is sending information in on a serial port. I want to evaluate the incoming string then if it = a...
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Connecting To Jd Questions

Connecting To Jd Questions

Thanks for all the help with battery charger. We have a new charger and it DID charge the battery. Now onto the next issue we are having. Whenever I try to connect my...
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Roli Not Moving

Roli Not Moving

received roli the other day. went through the following steps: 1. unpacked everything and laid out on table. 2. verified all parts ordered were received and set up charging since it was a no...
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Pc Soundboard Sound Wave Form

@DJ Sure Are you planning to add the same sound wave and auto position functions that the V4 soundboard has to the soundboard control for pc sound? Thanks
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Cam Rip Daily Planet

Cam Rip Daily Planet

Ok here is the cam rip of @DJ Sures on Daily Planet
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Ezb Configuration Control

Newbie to product. Question regarding message below. 1/12/2015 9:10 AM - Attempting connection on 192.168.1.1:23 1/12/2015 9:10 AM - Connected to 192.168.1.1:23 1/12/2015 9:10 AM - EZ-B reports EZ-B v4 OS 1/12/2015 9:10 AM - Welcome to EZ-B v4 Beta! 1/12/2015 9:10 AM - EZ-B v4 ID: 57-51-0-0-47-255-60-57-57-37-38-38 1/12/2015 9:10 AM - Connected...
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Dj On Daily Planet

Dj On Daily Planet

It took me some time to find a link to the Daily Planet show that @DJ is on Here it is for all that wish to see it DJ starts at about 31 minutes in DJ on the Daily Planet
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Turns When Walking Forward

I have build six as the builder shows and ran the servos outside of the mounting joints to ensure everything was set correctly. Six tends to do two things, one of the servos seems to love to hum very loudly when the robot stops moving. Making to robot move once stops it for a while. I have taken the servos out of the mounts and reran the "all...
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Ces 2015: Meet Sopo, The Ugly Paper Robot That Brings You Drinks?

Ces 2015: Meet Sopo, The Ugly Paper Robot That Brings You Drinks?

Gang, I'm all about supporting and encouraging innovation, but this was not ready for CES...
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Jd Not Working Properly

Hello! I recently bought a JD ezrobot and I have been trying to make it work properly for a few days now. I built the robot twice already (with the motors facing the right way) and have connceted the wires, again, twice. I also calibrated the motors, as said in the calibrating lesson so basically I did every thing I could. Now, I have encountered a...
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Initial Classes And Setting Up Servos - Last One (Grippers)

Working through the tutorials...the gripper one is confusing to me. The last tutorial on kinematic setup of the servos for the gripper...all others work as expected and are correct. Gripper servos set to 90 degrees (as instructed) fully opens both my grippers to fully open position. Instructions show fully closed and describe such. I can obviously...