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What Capacitor Is It?
Yesterday when I was looking at my EZ-B, I observed a new kind of Capacitor in the place C1 of EZ-B... I have known about electrolytic capacitors and ceramic capacitors.. What...
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oliver82 |
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Ultrasonic Distance Sensor
How do you connect the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor without losing servos. and How do you set up the robot to run on its own using the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor to keep...
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jfew |
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Can I Do This With Ez Robot?
What I want to do is the following - Encapsulated programs that will control motors and select voice files to be played. The programs will be randomly selected to...
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Dave Schulpius |
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Omnibot On Ebay - Might Be A Bargain
Here is an Omnibot auction on ebay - includes a Chatbot: 121174248933
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MikeDC |
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Using Multiple Ez-B
I see a number of people here using multiple EZ-B on their robots, if the reason is just running out of port lines and number of servos etc, then there is a really good alternative. Many moons ago, long before the dawning of the EZ-B, the first AIMEC:3 used the SD20 (I2C 20 channel servo driver) chip www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/sd20tech.htm...
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Dave Schulpius |
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I2c Query
Hi folks, I have another I2C query. I've learned now that I2C devices have addresses meaning multiple devices can be attached. This is awesome of course. My question is now, if I had, say 2 accelerometer's of the same type attached, can these be accessed separately? Am I correct in thinking that they would have the same address code? For scripting...
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Rich |
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Expanding Digitalports
I was wondering if anyone had a simple solution for adding more digital connections to the controller. One idea I had was to link an arduino to it via i2c, although I don't know where to start to do that. I need to increase the connections by about 6 ( making 26 ) minimum.
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Rich |
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Useful Reference
I stumbled on this electronics reference website. A handy quick ref. Lessons In Electric Circuits
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Bravia |
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Header Pin Questions.
Hey everybody. I have a some bread boards and an arduino uno and they all have female socket headers as to where the EZ has male headers. I have some jumper wires that I use with the other stuff and I would like to do the stuff with the EZB. Is there a connector or socket cover or something. Can I just pull the pins out of one of these then...
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Antron007 |
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85 Lumen Mini Projector Find
This little guy could fit in quite a few of our bots. Brookstone HDMI Pocket Projector
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MovieMaker |
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Attacknid Quad Walking Robot With Guns Find! Hackable?
Their website and lots of videos https://www.combatcreatures.com/videos looks like a cam type system but the turret could easily hold a camera. On amazon I saw them cheap as 70 and high as 19.99 for a blue one called stryder
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jstarne1 |
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Need Help On Using Two Ezbs On Same Project.
I am having a devil of a time getting TWO ezbs to work together. I can start my netbook, load up EZB0 OR EZB1, but not both. I can...
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Rich |