Robot Building Questions

Can ARC Receive Sensor Feedback From A Roomba

My big robot project is set aside for the summer while I'm on my summer hobby of tractors. So for a rainy day small project I have a Roomba 560 I'm going to put the EZ-B on, but I was wondering if I can get the EZ-B to see the output of the sensors of the roomba? I want to use them in the logic of ez-script. I've looked at the tutorial for hooking...

New To Ez-Robot

Hello Everyone! My name is Joseph I have just received the EZ-Robot kit, and I can't wait to get at it. I have also ordered the Rover 5 which I should receive next Monday. Unfortunately I'm at work, and it will have to wait until I get home. Maybe I'll get sick and have to leave early. Ha! Ha! I have been looking at a lot of the projects you all...

New Kinect

Here's a cool video with a demo of the new Kinect sensor which will be shipping later this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi5kMNfgDS4

Horizontal Servo Centering Bug

I only just opened my EZ-Robot Package tonight, but it seems the centering button on the horizontal servo control is not working correctly. I think the center position should be the maximum value minus the minimum divided by two then added to the min. OR, CENTER = (MAX-MIN)/2+MIN It appears to be simply (MAX-MIN)/2. For example if you set the MAX...

Ez-B Heatsink Overheat

Once again, my barely used ez-b is overheating. All the wiring has been checked, the ez-b is sitting on the back of the battery case so no shorts can happen, and all the wiring is tied together held away from the ez-b. I have the following plugged in: 4 standard servos 2 continues rotation servos 1 ping radar 1 camera(hacked) What could be causing...

Camera Lag, How To Dampen The Process?

So im trying to do tracking with wall-e. red ball is sitting right in front of him not moving at all. I start color tracking and his head starts randomly shaking back and forth. I can tell the camera is lagging a fair bit. I was brought the idea of 'dampening' the tracking process. Aka. tell the camera function to make a decision on what to do...

Blown 5A Regulator I/O

Thought I'd post this just to help out. Recently I was working with two Pololu 18/7 simple motor controllers and the EZ-B. After some configuration with the Pololu software I got the controllers working with the EZ-B. I decided to try to calibrate the left controller as it didn't feel like the right while I tested it in the servo panel. After...

Symbol Detection

Is it possible to use this software to detect certain symbols, say a heart on a playing card? If the heart is detected, it will engage a servo. If the heart it is not detected, it will engage another servo.