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Good Runthrough Of Adding Sabertooth And Syren

Good Runthrough Of Adding Sabertooth And Syren

Looking for shadowing session with a Ez User on walkthrough through connecting a styrene and a sabertooth controller to be...
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Battery Charger

Just got this robot for Christmas. Have not been able to get it to connect more than the camera.. and a claw moving around... then battery low notification started... we thought the battery was charged we had it plugged in for at least 2 hours... both lights the red and green blink when it is plugged in.. is it charging? and if not what needs to be...
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Holiday Robot Contest

Holiday Robot Contest

This my robot I created for the holidays.It was created from a Christmas ornament,a Brookstone rover and an ez v3. Happy Holidays
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Pin Out Details On Ezb V4

Pin Out Details On Ezb V4

On the EZB V4 digital pins, what color is VCC Pin, Output/Input pin, and Gnd Pin? Is it White(or Blue), Red, Black?
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Roli Treads Stiff

Hi, I really love Roli. However, his treads are stiff and thus when he moves the motors go through a labored sound and he kind of lurches and slows down again and again as the treads work their way around the mechanism. Is there a suggested way to soften the treads? I imagine this was because they were installed at the factory and have...
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Mma 7455

Mma 7455

I have a problem with the MMA7455 panel in ARC normally ARC connects fine but if I add the 7455 panel it locks up ARC on connecting to the EZ B board and I have to use Windows task manager to shut it down...
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Getting Started With Developer Kit

Hi, Now that I have the proper power plug and have my EZ-B powered up I am confused as to how to begin. I have read the lessons on the EZ-B, the Developer Kit and ARC software. I don't have any of the robots that the other tutorials seem to address - so how do I just do something like hook up a servo and have it move or make the camera display an...
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Ar.Drone 2.0 And Color Tracking

Hello from germany ;-) Im trying to track colors with my AR Drone 2. Tutorial 31 (ARDrone) works really well. The video is nearly without latency and i made some modifications to controlling the drone with my joystick/gamepad. This works pretty good, too! In Tutorial 11 (Color Tracking) works with my webcam, but i have a delay of about 1,5 seconds,...
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Ez Is Chipping Now At Lightning Speed

Ez Is Chipping Now At Lightning Speed

just recieve mail my order goes from step 3 to 4. i though great,till i checked the tracking, then i tought woohoe awesome. i wonder whits space...
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ARC For Ios?

Hello, I just got my EZ-robot dev kit yesterday and have been fiddling with the ARC software since then. At first I thought it seemed fairly easy to get started right out of the box, and to my surprise it actually took me several hours to figure out how to make a single servo turn... It seems like I've gotten all the servos calibrated correctly...
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Old Wirelless Camera Ez-B V3 Camera

Old Wirelless Camera Ez-B V3 Camera

I have Wirelless Camera EZ-B V3 Camera need power spply is transformer o usb cable?
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Neato Lidar Integration

Has anyone integrated the NEATO robot LIDAR? I pulled one out of a broken XV-11 and bought a low cost controller from https://www.getsurreal.com/product-category/electronics/xv-lidar Neato lidar