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Ezb V4- Unboxing

Ezb V4- Unboxing

Hello all, I was across the country for work when both my EZB4s and cameras arrived at my house. I'm back and today I unboxed everything. My first impressions are...wow. Are we sure there...
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Sf Bay Area Get Together And Hack?

Hey, I blew the dust off my wall-e after taking a year to get my career back on track. Looking to see if there are enough folks in the Bay area to do a meet-up one night or weekend to compare projects, compare notes, have a beer (or soft drink) and some food?
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Getting Several Ar Parrot Drone's To Sync During Flight

Hi, I'm interested in syncing several AR Parrot drones to work off one controller as demonstrated in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmPJuRN6WJs My question is what combination of hardware / software do I need to make this happen. Also, is it possible to mod the Parrot to have it receive signal from a 2.4ghz controller rather then wifi....
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Pwm Slider Question Pwm On D4 Turns D14 On And Off

I am finding PWM slider issues, here's one that I have posted in the cloud, (is this the proper way to request help?) When the PWM slider on d4 is moved up to 100%, d14 output goes high. Then when I slide the d4 PWM slider down to 0% d14 then output goes low. This happens across multiple software revs, board os and 2 different v3 boards. This can...
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Ez-B V4 Firmware Error

Ez-B V4 Firmware Error

So I've got my EZ-B v4. It works in AP mode and connects to my network in Client mode. So far so good. When I scan in ARC , the EZ-B gets located, but it disconnects and...
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Random Personality Script Not Running

I cant seem to get this script to do anything other than to assign a random number to the $personality variable. When I run the script, it changes the variable and does nothing. I have been watching the variable change and it does hit 1, 2, 10 and 19 but nothing fires from there. Does anyone see anything wrong with the script? I am on version...
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Help With Connecting A Serial Device

Help With Connecting A Serial Device

I'll try to make this quick and to the point. Trying to interface a device that has a rs-232>ttl converter attached to it (the device is like a...
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A Pat On The Back

Hey EZ-Robot. I've not been very active on the forums lately so I just wanted to give a quick thank you for all of the new features added to EZ-Robot recently. From website enhancements (,mobile version is great looking btw) to all of the amazing features added to EZ-Bulider. (Too many to mention but the port assignment and script editor...
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Socket In ARC

Hello everyone, I was wondering how can I write a socket program in ARC for it to communicate with my c# code. Any help will be highly appreciated.
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Connectors, Sockets,Housing

If anyone is looking to make there own connectors you can get some nice crimpers, I use them a lot, that work on just about any pin type. They are 45 dollars, not bad considering that the one designed for a specific pin type will probably run you 250 to 300 dollars. They are at Digikey.com a company that is very nice to deal with. I also included...
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Need A Way To Monitor The Ezb4 Serial Ports

Need A Way To Monitor The Ezb4 Serial Ports

Now that the EZB4 has arrived is there a way we can monitor the three serial ports using the ARC terminal GUI ? Not all at once of...
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Help With Sdk!

Hello friends I want to know how can I use the EZ_SDK in Free Software (Linux), I have a project and I want to migrate to Linux, I hope your help!