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Movement Joystick by Synthiam
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Movement Joystick

Analog joystick UI to control any ARC movement panel via mouse/touch-configurable dead zone, max speed, center-reset for smooth robot motion

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Build an R2-D2 replica from a Lysol wipe container using cardboard, servos and a ping sensor, finished with paper-mâché and paint.

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Speech Recognition That Can Achieve Several Commands ?

Current speech recognition can operate one command line but is there a way a speech line can effect a series of servo scripts for a series of actions to take place. For example:A speech command as a question instead of a directive such as - Microphone command: Robot are you happy : # Robot nods head servo(d14, 32) sleep(500) servo(d14,83)...
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Getting The Wii Remote To Work

hello all. I''ve been trying to get my Wii remote to connect and it keeps on coming up with the following message: Error connecting to wii remote: Timed out weaiting for status report. Has anyone else had this problem? What do I need to so to sort it out? I can connect the wii to the bluetooth, no probs, I just can't get the EZ board to find it....
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Motor Controllers:

Can an R/C electronic motor controller be used with the EZ-B? ESC's have a typical (servo type) 3 wire plug that would be capable of plugging into the digital I/O ports.Of course 2 ESC's would be required, one for right motor, one for left motor.I am also aware that it would require an ESC with a "reverse" capability. With only one 3 wire...
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Motor Controllers And Drivers

As some of you may be aware of I have been having a very difficult time with finding a motor controller/ driver that works for me. There are a lot of sucessful, working robots being made by builders in this community so I thought I'd throw a general question out. What motor controllers are most of you using and have had the most sucess with? What...
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Need Ideas On Waist And Neck Rotation For Magnus

Need Ideas On Waist And Neck Rotation For Magnus

Here's the problem. Magnus will be mostly remote controlled as far as driving him around, making his arms move, waist...
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About Embedded Mini-Itx Computer Inside Robots

About Embedded Mini-Itx Computer Inside Robots

I was thinking about embedding a computer inside the robot, my concerns are: how do you operate it without a screen? for example...
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Input Voltage?

What is the maximum input voltage that can carry power adapter?
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To Mel On His Request For An Update On Gizmo

@ Mel: Thanks for your interest in the progress of "Gizmo". All progress has been stopped as I cannot get the L289N motor driver to work; and there is no use in going forward with anything else on it until basic movement is achieved. You can find details on the problem under my post in the hardware section entitled, Back again with...
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Ez-Robot Item Weights

I was asked for the weights of some EZ-Robot items, and posting on the forum felt like the appropiate place EZ-Robot Camera With Battery And Case: 77 grams EZ-Robot Camera PCB With Battery: 28 grams EZ-Robot Camera PCB: 20 grams EZ-B: 54 grams
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Which Programming Language For A Newbie

As I near the completion of my little B9 I am contemplating programming. While the EZ-B is very robust for non-programmers, there is so much more I can do with code. My problem is I don't know any code. So as a total beginner, which should I use? VB, C#, C++ I just don't know which would be easiest for my old brain to wrap to itself around. Any...
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Dj, Is This Trademark Infringement On You?

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