Robot Building Questions

Hello & Quick Computer Question

My names Grant. Eagerly awaiting me kit to arrive. I'm a puppeteer with the Jim Henson Company and I'm excited to try my hand at building an animatronic puppet. Control the mouth and eyes/eyelids with the kit. I am a die hard Mac computer user. I know my options are Parallels on a Mac but it's $70 for Parallels and then $199 for windows 7. I'm...

Power Regulator Fell Off

Oh No!!! One of the power reglators but snapped off my EZ board - the little pin in the heat shield wasn't soldered into the board and the pins snapped off through movementstress It's the one numbered 29300. Does anyone know what the correct name of this is - I'm going to have to get anoter one stat. If anyone can recommend where I could buy one of...

Which Battery Should I Use?

i am trying to create a mini wooden tank run by windshield wiper motors i am going to control the motors with a bunch of servo switches and wanted to know if it's ok to power both the ez-b (connected to about 5-6 servos) and both motors with the same battery if so which one of these should i buy (is it ok to go over 5 -- i don't want the fuse to...

Know Any Contests?

does anyone know any ongoing or even (closely) upcoming (anything technology related) (free to enter) contest? p.s. besides the ones on instructables.com p.p.s. online contests only please (photography counts as well)

Anyone Here A Nao Developer, If You Are I'd Like To Ask You A Question.

Hi, Anyone here a NAO developer, if you are I'd like to ask you a question about the NAO robot. I will bet that D.J.'s new little EZB-Mini will fit in the Nao. Thanks, Mel

Tutorials On Electricity (Basics)?

does anyone know any good books or websites where i can learn the (absolute) basics of electricity? i'm interested in the field of robotics but don't know much about electrical components, vocabulary, and solutions. (i don't have many resources) any help would be appreciated thanks p.s. still in high school

Speech Commands In Vb

Hi, I tried a few lines of code that go like this: EzB_Connect1.EZB.SpeechSynth.ListenForSpeechCommand(10000) EzB_Connect1.EZB.SpeechSynth.StartListening() and some other try outs, however I don't get very far. The idea is to assign voice commands in a string and/or array. I want the robot to react to voice commands that are prédefined. Any...

Software/Firmware Update Broke My Scripts?

Hey guys, I just updated from v 15.8 to v16 and have a small problem. My Wall-E's scripts for following colour or motion don't work quite right anymore. When I run them (by voice or click) all tracking turns on. Motion, colour, face and glyph. I even loaded the EZ-Robot example "Robot - Wall e big" and when I simply click to start the...

Lots Of Script Examples

HAZBOT, lots of script Examples in Examples. Also, read the SDK and regular Release notes. Mel