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Using A Joy Stick To Take Pictures With Snap Shot

Using A Joy Stick To Take Pictures With Snap Shot

Hello everyone, I have a question about the snap shot control. I want to be able to take a picture with a joy stick button...
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Does The Ezb Require A Connection To The Pc, Or Can It Operate Untethered? And A

Does The Ezb Require A Connection To The Pc, Or Can It Operate Untethered? And A

Hi there! New to the EZB, trying to figure out if I want to...
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Battery Tech Is Improving

Battery Tech Is Improving

Take a look at the latest I found. There was another breakthrough last month as well but I didnt think to post it. The point being that battery technology is still...
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Have The Models Began Shipping?

Hello, We are excited to order JD, have the models began shipping yet? Thanks,
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Power Went Down In The Street

Power Went Down In The Street

1 hour ago the power went down in ower street suddenly.no i cant see the side bar, and only half off the button ubove.i try to correct it but no luck. if i make a...
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Video Intro Splash Screen

Video Intro Splash Screen

Just something goofy I wanted to share. In preparation for new videos I made a green ratings splash screen like you see for movies. Feel free to grab it and use it in...
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New To Robots / Ezrobot

Can someone explain to me or provide me script that will drive two servos at the same time. I have been able to get one servo to run using the add component of ARC . But I don't understand how to get two to rotate. Thanks in advance.
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Ultrasonic Sensor And Sharp Ir Sensor

Looking for some help / sample of a script combining the 2 for navigation. This is on a omnibot 5402. I have the IR sensor mounted above his speaker. The ultra sonic is on a sweeping servo right above the IR sensor. I tried playing with Richs ping roam script and he just spins in circles. I would be grateful for any help with this.
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Voice Recognition Was Not Able To Start

"Voice recognition was not able to start. There is either no listening device or your operating system is not supported" That's the message I get when I try to add speech recognition. I can record sounds using the microphone function and sound servo also works, so I assume there is a listening device? When I quit speech recognition, I get...
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Reaction And Movement Of Robot

Hi Everyone, I would like to enquire if the EZ-Script is able to program the robot in such a way that.. 1. Detect red/green object 2. Move towards the object 3. Stop before the object (Around 3-5cm where it will be able to grab hold of the object) Is it possible? I would have to use the multi-color detection for detecting both colors (Red and...
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Able To Track Object Within All The Same Colors

Hi Everyone, Will it be possible to track object of the same color around it? Eg. Having a red pen and a mouse. Will I be able to write out a script for the Robot to grab the red pen instead of the red mouse? Thank you everybody!
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Ezb V4 And Robosapien - Is It Supported? Possible?

I've just received my developers kit and I'm really pleased with the initial experience - easy to set and play with camera etc However, I originally ordered based on the v3 dev kit late in 2013 and acquired a robosapien v1 ready to get going - now from what I can gather from some of the other forum posts that I can't use the v4 board with the...