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About Using The Server Tab In Networking

Does anyone know how to get more then 5 EZB on that tab,do you change the port # or ?
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Scanning Room With Laser

Has anyone done a room scan with a laser or some other method? What hardware would you recommend? How much programming is involved? (I'm not afraid of programming, just curious how much of scanning task is handled by hardware) What about cost? options?
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Haar Xml Files

I've been having a lot of fun with the camera control and custom detection using the Haar xml files examples. I can get my left eye or right eye detected by ARC even a clock face not all seem to work but the ones that do are great. Has anyone found any links to other xml files for other objects to detect or a simple way to create them?
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Ez-B Power

Hi! I finally got around to opening up the EZ Robot kit and start building a robot. The tutorial tells me that when I connect the batteries to the EZ-B there should be two blinking lights but mine does not light up at all. I am sure that the batteries are brand new and that the wires are connected properly. Does anyone have any ideas as to what the...
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Multiturn Winch Servos Question

Willl the EZ board work with the 3 and 6 turn winch servos instead of multi-turn with gears, that way i'll still have step control instead of timing to stop. thanks alot for your help on the servo stop question, the ReleaseAll() works until the update. Thanks Mike
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Sendserial Question

DJ, is it possible that there is a bug in SendSerial? I have an alternate MP3 board that worked fine up until a couple days ago. Not sure if I (ehem) messed something up on the board, or something happened with the scripting engine. Anyone else experiencing any SendSerial issues? I'm using the 40MP3 Module. Thanks.
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Battery Level Sensor

Battery Level Sensor

I'm struggling to find any info on how to make/connect a battery level sensor for the EZ-B. Basically, I want to be able to have the EZ-B know when the battery is getting flat so...
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Nintendo Robotic Operating Buddy , Rob

Nintendo Robotic Operating Buddy , Rob

What to do? What to do? I have a ROB on the way and EZ Robot can give him new life , could rob learn to play the Wii? Lol maybe not but im not...
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Variables; Local Or Global In Scripts?

If I want to set a variable based on a result in one script, can I pass that variable to another script? Man, this programming thing is getting complicated
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On Board Mini Itx And Sound Questions With Speech Recognition

On Board Mini Itx And Sound Questions With Speech Recognition

Using a mini itx on board a robot keeps popping up in posts here and each time I see one I start...
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Control Command Question

Control Command Question

Trying to implement some Auto Position actions in a script. Hopwever, when I try to execute a Command Control, I get a dialog telling me the Action can't be found, although...
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Controlling Grippers On Both Arms

If I had a gripper w/ a rotating wrist for each arm: let's say O be the right arm, and SQUARE be the left arm (for PS3 controller). Is it possible to press O and have the arrows keys on the left side of the controller be for the left arm? Left and right arrows be to rotate the wrist of a gripper, and up and down be to open and close the gripper....