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Control LewanSoul LX-16A servos via ARC (EZ-B v4/IoTiny): assign virtual ports, read positions, set speeds, and enable continuous rotation.

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Customize Robosapien with an EZ-B controller and Wii remote: external battery, added laser, jetpack enclosure planned, camera coming soon.

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Instructables

Have you all seen www.instructables.com? I have some of my robots up. They have great contests for robots and stuff. There is one robot contest right now! With the stuff going on here, if you all entered, I bet one of you will be taking home a prize!!! I can say it helps to make a video also... Pictures are really important. The more information...
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Robotic Arm On Ebay

Robotic Arm On Ebay

Hey Gang, I found this robotic arm on ebay and it is ripe for an EZ-B. ROBOT ARM SOMEONE BOUGHT IT - HOPEFULLY SOMEONE FROM THE EZ COMMUNITY
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Digital Port On/Off Status When Ezb Disconnected

Digital Port On/Off Status When Ezb Disconnected

I seem to remember that there's a way to set the EZB so digital port stay in OFF mode (current=0) once it is disconnected. I...
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Ez-B V3 For Sale?

Ok now the updates for the V4 have been released, anybody wanna get rid of their (working) EZb V3s? I'm gonna need a few for my projects, and since the V4 is not readily available yet... Send me an email and offer: [email protected] Thanks!
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Power Distribution Daughter Card For Ezb-V4

Power Distribution Daughter Card For Ezb-V4

@EZ-Robot I'd like to float the idea of creating a daughter card that interfaces with the EZB-v4. The main purpose would be to allow a...
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Iron Man Suit (Josh S )

@Josh This animatronic suit looks very cool! Perhaps it might give you some ideas, though I know you have your own! I would appreciate a comment/critique! Will your be similar etc. Of course anyone else 's comments welcome too Iron Man animatronic suit
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Possible Feature Request?

Well, many of my builds are going to be mobile robots and some will actually have the PC (my asus mini nettop computer) on board as well as the ezb controller... PCs require much more battery power.. I thought a nice script command to save power is to be able to tell the PC enter sleep mode... I realize I will have to hit the power button to wake...
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Robot Confusion. Motors Turn But Don't Stop

Robot Confusion. Motors Turn But Don't Stop

Hi all. First post. I got my ezb two Christmases ago to build a robot idea I had. Life happened and now I'm finally ready to build. I...
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Firmware ¿

Hello i have an EZB 3 that needs tobe updated I know that soon there will no longer be suported What im wondering is if the firmware comes as part of ARC or if its stored remotely on the EZ-Robot website
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Native C Or C++ Api (Without .Net)

Hi guys, hi DJ, Is there any possibility to program EZ-B without dependency on .NET Framework? Unfortunately .NET is quite unportable (even with Mono). I'd like to control robot using Android or Linux application for example. I guess I don't need a full SDK with such functionality like picture recognition or support of twitter and RSS. I just need...
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Heres Something Different So Far. Part 2

Heres Something Different So Far. Part 2

Here are a few updated pictures of my robot ROAMIN since I have painted him. The bottom piece I am still working on, so it's still in...
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Sabretooth 2X25

Sabretooth 2X25

I hooked my Sabretooth up serial 38400 and the only thing I can get this bot to do is run in circles Can someone please tell me if they have seen this. I tried a search but came up empty...