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Rfid?

Came across this little unit and was wondering if it can be easily incorporated to give my robot RFID capabilities. https://www.electronics123.com/s.nl/it.A/id.3268/.f?sc=18&category=240484 I was thinking it could be used to trigger various actions based on proximity to RFID tags placed around the house.
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Controlling Multiple Robots With One Instance Of ARC?

Under the tutorial for the Movement Panel I noticed that while ARC can control multiple EZ-B's, it can only control one Movement Panel at a time. Is there a way to work around this to control two separate robots with one instance of ARC? I'm putting the finishing touches on my first robot now and thinking about picking up another kit for a second...
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Happy Holidays From New Jersey

Happy Holidays From New Jersey

Hi All, I just wanted to tell everyone how much I've enjoyed being on this site. It's so good to be on a site, where everyone is so helpful, and caring. It...
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No Bluetooth Icon In System Tray / Devices And Printers

I just received my EZ-Robot V3 and I'm stuck on step 1. No bluetooth icon appears in the system tray or devices and printers window. I am using the bluetooth USB included with the EZB3 kit and the board is powered up brand new batteries. both LED's active. I am running on a Lenovo G575 win7 64bit. There are what appear to be current bluetooth...
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General Questions

Santa just gave me my EZ-B Neat tin can for a bot. The mem stick did nt show up under computer in windows 7. Any thoughts?
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General Questions

Santa just gave me my EZ-B Neat tin can for a bot. The mem stick did nt show up under computer in windows 7. Any thoughts?
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Using Ezb With Parallels On Mac Os X

Does anyone know if this would work? (Trying to figure out if I need to get a cheap PC or not) I'm using a Mac running Parallels "VM'ing" Windows 7? Any help would be great! Thanks, Randy
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Range Extender

Hi DJ, I understand from communication with your sales department that the range is 10 -20 meters depending on the antennae in laptop bluetooth. In on of your forums you mention 50 meters. For my project will need about 30 meters of range. Will I be able to get this with a good bluetooth dongle (class 1)?...
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Problem With If

Problem With If

I was trying to script with an "if" command and in the script functions it says if (adc[port])[condiction][value]) in the sample it says if(adc(adc2)>50) and leaves out the...
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Bluetooth Requires Reset On Power Cycling Ez-B

I can connect to the EZ-B no problem, but I have to reseat my bluetooth adapter every time I power cycle the EZ-B. Any ideas? The wall-e I built has located the EZB in a very remote location. I am contemplating rerouting the 4 connection wires to the outside of the robot case so I can do this remotely, but that is a bit hack.. Are there any easy...
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Something To Get Ideas

hey I don't know if you know about this, there is a gnu project called robocub that is trying to get a robot to learn like an 8 year old I have the source but you can get it online free and easy. This program has some perfect ideas to bring over to this. I have been checking out the learning source to see what i can do with it has others too let me...
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Reading Switch (Digital Input)

Reading Switch (Digital Input)

Hi DJ, I'd like to read the position of a switch. So, when a button is pushed, I get a Boolean that becomes true (or an integer that becomes 1). As soon as the...