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LynxMotion Smart Servos by LynxMotion
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Lynxmotion Smart Servos

Compact Lynxmotion Smart Servos with position feedback, safety features and UART TX/RX for Arduino/EZ-B v4; scriptable temp, load, load-dir and ping.

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Questor: compact autonomous test robot with EZ-B control, camera 'nose', IR LEDs, remote-control option and auto-charging goals for Magnus prototypes

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Firmware Update Questions,  Please Help

Firmware Update Questions, Please Help

I have a new EZ-Robot board and in order to use it I have to update the firmware to the latest version. I have followed the video tutorial...
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2.5 Amp Motor Controller

hi i have a h-bridge question fist i did all the wiring https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/Hardware.aspx?id=25 here i installed h-bridge like in the tutorial 1) Connect L298 VCC to your battery supply positive 2) Connect L298 GND to your battery supply negative 3) Connect L298 +5 to a +5 pin on the EZ-B (in the diagram I used +5 from Pin D0) 4) Connect...
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Control Interface

Hi everyone, I think this gesture control device will be a great control interface for our EZ-Robots in the future. New Gesture Control Device
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Ez-B Connect To The 4 Channel Motor Control Unit For Rover 5

Hello, I have bought a rover 5 4 motor with encoder and the 4 motor driver Board. I have watch the video from DJ Sure with the HBridge (L298N) but I can figure how to connect the 4 motor driver . Here is the board : any idea of the IN1,2,3,4 and ENA ? Do I need to connect PVM CH1,CH2,CH3 and CH4 ? thank you for ypour help.
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Solution Explorer Refernces Tutorial-19 Roomba No Ez-B ?

Tuesday, 19 March 2013 Good Morning EZ-SDK-C# Coders ! Microsoft Visual Studio 2012's Solution Explorer References reporting that Roomba Tutorial-19 has NO EZ-B ? What am I doing wrong ? I found these links on the EZ-Forum by D.J. Sures: By Right-Clicking and Opening Tutorial 19 - Roomba.csproj in EZ-SDK/C# Download, Roomba loaded into Visual...
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Multi Board Support For Robosapien?

Is Robosapien only capable of working on board 0? Trying to add him to my multi-robot fleet but it doesn't look like I can use any other board #'s to run him? It will be a bugger to switch/re-program the current robot on board 0 so I can make him work. DJ thoughts?
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Switching Circuit Toturials For Digital Outputs

Switching Circuit Toturials For Digital Outputs

I design alot of circuils been electronic engineer and was look at are using using switching transistors to turn on lights...
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10 Kg Servo

Just a quick question. What does the 10 kg bit mean? Does it mean they can push a weight of 10 kg?
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ARC Connect To The Pc's Generic Rs-232 Com1

Wednesday, 19 March 2013 Good Evening ARCs ! Feature Requests Rich, Thank You for Scripting Examples ! I had been requesting something like in previous EZ-Forum Posts. Friday, 1 February 2013 Good Morning Fellow EZ-Robot Scripters ! Is anyone available to colaborate on EZ-Scrpts and write simple Test Code Examples to become familar with Using the...
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Robotic Face

DJ, I recall seeing a post with a newer low cost acrylic cut robotic face/head. Maybe a Dagu product? Were you going to be offering those soon? The RoboticsSquared versions are nice, just pricey.
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Search Bar In The Forum

Hello everyone, I'm new to the site and robotics.i just learned about this product a few weeks ago, and am really excited.I'm going to buy a kit this week. I usually do a lot of research before i dive in, this site is very extensive in the amount of information provided. I wish there was a search function so i could easily find threads.kind of a...
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Omnibot 5402 Battery

Omnibot 5402 Battery

Hi everyone, Due to being disoperational for over a year, my omnibot's battery has died. Does anybody know a good replacement? The dead one is a 6V 4Ah lead-acid with this form...