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Battery

hi dj sures i asked a question from facebook you told me to ask here again so i did. hi i saw your heavy duty robot i was wondering what is your charger for the Power-Sonic 12V/35AH Sealed Lead Acid Battery and when connecting battery to the ez kit you don't need to use anything else right (except alternate power adapter:-)
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Dual Input Power Supplies

I'm looking for a premade (manufactured) power board/regulator that I can use in a docking station type synario where the robot comes to home base, plugs into the docking station, and then switches from its battery power sourse (internal) to the docks supply (external). Switching from one to another via relay seems a bit messy in terms of bounces...
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Button Placement On Servo Controls

Button Placement On Servo Controls

I'll just quickly mention something here that "may" be related to the newest release (or has taken me this long to notice blush )... I don't...
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Stargate Malp

So I just gave DJ a bunch more money for another EZ-B, a wild thumper 6wd chassis, another cam, and some H-bridge controllers. My very own SG1 MALP is in in my future.
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If Conditions Broke On 9-14-2012 Update

Here's some sample code that just keeps counting beyond 90 where on the previous update it exits as it's told. $position = 10 :loop servo(d1, $position) print("Position: $position") Say("$Position") sleep(1000) $position = $position + 10 if ($position > 90) goto(done) goto(loop) :done Say("I'm Done counting!")...
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Roomba Help

Roomba Help

I have a roomba 4105 that has a four button top panel with three extra led's. My problem is that I am covering the panel when I build my robot. I was going to just relocate it but the panel is too...
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3.5 Channel Remote Control Helicopter Upgrade

I want to start this project on my 3.5 RC Helicopter but I have some concerns on the hardware, Question: can I use the same Kind of System that was used in The AR Drone Parrot, I mean the Board and how to buy it please help I want to accomplish my project
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Windows Home Server

My EZB and I are sitting looking decidedly pale without a little bit of blue in our mutual existances...(Mine is a passion for the cheese - lol) Why ... because I have spent the last couple of days setting ip the master computer to act as the central hub for my robot army... (Vicky lol) only to find WHS (Windows Home Server) does not natively...
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Canadian Omnibot To Collectible To Use?

Hi Guys, Probably a silly question but having some collectible hobbies of my own I thought I should ask if I modify a fairly complete Canadian Omnibot would it ruin something that could have decent collector value? I've always been interested in building a robot, especially these past couple of years but just have too many projects. I've since...
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Windows 8 Compat Question

I think its related to windows 8, when using the camera control I am unable to use any network camera like the one in the kit or brookstone rover. however USB camera's still work. Has anyone experienced the same?
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Windows 7 Voice Recgunition Setting

Hello I Live in japan and recently i bought a Ez-robot Controller I did tutorial step by step, then i could not contunoue at the speech recogunition, befoe to start ARC , I have aleady set up voice recogunition, but EZ-builser speech recogunition can not responce, I think base point is that japanease voice recogunition is not mach BZ-Builder ??...
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Console Application Example

Hey, I was wondering if anyone had an example of using the EZ SDK via a console application? All the samples are full on WinForm apps, where as I would just like to create a simple console app. The problem being, it seems all connections in the WinForms apps are using the EZB_Connect user control, which doesn't work inside a console app. Has...