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Pico Linear Servo Find

Pico Linear Servo Find

I usually dont find ones like this and I wanted to share. I hope it sparks a few creative ideas. From Solarbotics
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Selecting A Servo For A Project

here is info i am using for many years for my robots off the servo city site Servo power is stated as ounce-inches (oz-in.) This is the maximum amount of power the given servo will apply with a one inch arm. For example, if a servo has a power rating of 16 oz-in, the maximum amount of power it will be able to apply with a 1" arm will be 1 lbs....
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Using Continuous Servos As Drive Power Polulu Power Hd 240 Oz On Servo

Ok so I'm thinking of ideas like using servos for drive , mostly because they are easy to replace or upgrade , and I already need to cut out the bottom of Jarvis base to fit the vacuum power head. If I did one servo per wheel that's 480 oz in torque per side. Is this enough to scoot around a 50 pound robot? On carpet? I do have the option to use...
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Please Help Download

I tried to download the EZ-SDK but once I downloaded I had no idea what to do. Can you please help me? I am so confused. confused
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Color Sensor

Can an Ez-b sense color and if so what sensor should I use?and how?
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Hi, I'm New

I last built a robot 30 years ago It was named Forbin and was designed to be autonomous (as far as was possible 30 years ago) - it could detect sound and light, follow a track and a buried guide wire, avoid obstacles and talk as it wandered the room - I was proud to bits of it! Then having a life got in the way However, I was so enthused when I saw...
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Bay Area

Anyone in the SF Bay Area want to hack together some robots? Beer n Bots anyone? CK
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Bluetooth Swap Out

@DJ, I see there is a T and an R along with plus and minus pins on the BlueTooth plug... Is this a TTL level serial Trans/Receive or RS232 level or ??? What is the max acceptable baud? and what is the voltage on the + - pins? thanks Dave
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Ideas

Ideas

I was about to build my dream robot when I was delayed by some faulty servos. I requested to have my faulty servos replaced with working ones. So while I wait I wanted to know if you have any ideas for a cool...
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Question With Examples In Sdk.. Help?

Question With Examples In Sdk.. Help?

HI! everyone.. I have been using Visual C# and I can not do to work the examples... in every example of the SDK I have this problem... If someone...
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High Torque Standard Servos

High Torque Standard Servos

Hi All, I'm looking to purchase a couple of high torque servo's - perferably cheap Does anyone know where the best place to get these from is and also which ones I...
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I Don't Know How To Word This. But Would Like To Know If It Is Possible.

Ok, I have one ARC setup on EZB that does all of the RSS. I have a second set that does Navigation. I have a third set that is kind of like a ChatBot. When I try to operate all of these together at one time in one script, it gets so sluggish that the mouse sort of freezes while it does say a video tracking, or radar scan, etc. then it comes back....