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Sabertooth Movement Panel by Dimension Engineering
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Sabertooth Movement Panel

Sabertooth movement panel: control two motors via Simplified Serial with variable speed sliders, movement buttons, and serial port options.

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Build a 2.5-3 kg butler robot with ez-b: 15kg continuous wheel servos, 2-axis head, arm servos, 3 Ping + Sharp IR sensors, voice control

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Blockly And Communication

Blockly And Communication

first question: when I installed the application, i put that i was comfortable with programming and that i could therefore use python, which is the case, but I would also...
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How To Design Custom PCB's

How To Design Custom PCB's

In my Inmoov project I need to develop some break-out PC boards for the signal lines and power to different parts of the robot.  I have seen others that have done this...
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Python Servo Control

Python Servo Control

How to start using python in ARC? Could not find how to create and run python app in the ARC. Ta
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ARC And How It Uses My CPU

This question stems from my worrying about my little Rock Pi X not being powerful enough to run my complex robot smoothly. I have the ver B, 4GB/128GB model. I also know that the Intel Cherry Trail quad core processor Z8350 is an older CPU at about 4 years old and I've read in reviews that it has trouble running process demanding programs. I also...
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Iotiny To PC USB Connectivity

I've sent this question into EZ Robot but thought I could get a faster answer here. Is the IoTiny able to connect to PC through the PC's USB port and the Camera port like the EZB v4 can? I see this on EZ Robot's website but I don't see how to set up the IoTiny to drectly connect to the PC: Quote:The EZ-B v4 Smart Robot Controller and IoTiny v4 may...
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Looking For Compatible EZB Camera Cable

Looking For Compatible EZB Camera Cable

Does anyone know of a cable I could buy domestically to the US with connectors that is compatible with the EZB camera port? I'd like to find a...
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Audio To Servo Mouth Movement

Do you have a shield that turns audio to servo movement similar to the famous scary terry skull movement ?
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Cannot Get Servos To Respond Via Arduino Mega

Cannot Get Servos To Respond Via Arduino Mega

Hello, I cannot get my Ardunio MEGA to control servos in my Inmoov via USB. I have followed the instructions closely multiple...
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Connection Skill - Reordering Positions Of Several EZB's

Hi all, I've already set up the connection skill and added 4 different EZB's into the wanted slots and saved the project. There has been times when I have wanted to swap a couple EZB's in their positions because I put them in incorrectly. Example: I'll exchange the ones that were previously stored in slots 1 and 2. When I do this sometimes one or...
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Com Ports In Connection Control

Com Ports In Connection Control

This is a two part. One part may be best answered by EZ Robot but hoping someone may have insight. The second is probably Synthiam's.  I'm trying to connect...
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Movement Panel For Sound Movement

Hi, I am trying to use the Sound Movement skill to move a head from left to right and have set-up my stereo microphones. Unfortunately, the above instructions do not make it clear which 'Movement Panel' I am supposed to use, nor how I configure a port, so the EZ controller knows which servo to move. Can anyone help me out?
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Functions Not Working

Functions Not Working

Problems: 1 - Microphone dose not record. it registers on the wave form but pushing record does not change colour stays red. 2 - Audio recognises a phrase usually 90+% but does...