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Combining Ezb 3 And 4

Hi All. I recently recieved my EZ B 4 and was wondering if I could use the 3 along with it. It's a little over-kill but since I now have an EZ B 3 that I'm not using, I thought I could use it to flash a panel of 14 lights in a random fashion. I'd be using these lights:...

Motor Gripper Constant Servo Noise

I have two of the servo grippers with the mini servos. When I first power up the EZB the servos make no noise. After telling the servo to go to a position the servo moves to the position and stops but keeps making a high pitched hum as if the servo is still trying to move. This occurs no matter what position it moves to. My other servos for example...

Change Layout Of The Moblie App From Within ARC

Good Afternoon, I have a question if the community doesn't mind. I would like to change the layout of the Mobile Page based upon scrips from within ARC. For instance, if my robot has to make a decision and it needs your help to make it, but the mobile interface currently only has two script buttons to press, is there a way to add another? (I hope I...

Communicating With A Dynamixel Servo

Today is the first time I really had a chance to play with the EZB-4. I've connected a Dynamixel servos and had mixed results. The resolution is 0 to 170 but the servos are unresponsive from 81 to 89 for some reason. I tried communicating with the servos with EZ script using UART 2 with no luck. I'm using the communication protocol for the servos....

Uart Compass

Hi Guys, I want to hook up my Sure Compass to UART and the manual says to send all commands in ASCII. I know how to convert text to ASCII but I am stumped as to how to put it into the UART commands in ARC script. Has anyone done this? I have seen and read the info on I2C in reference to the Compass but can't find anything on using UART. Manual

Working With Nomad18.08 On Getting His Ez-B V4 On The Network

I am typing this for patrick because english is my primary language and I have been working with him. He has a JD and another EZ-B v4. One of the two is able to connect to his network without any issue now, but one of them is having an issue connecting in AP mode. We cant connect via wifi from either of 2 computers to this one EZ-B v4. There is one...

Relays Or Switches?

Hi All. I'm trying to decide how to best activate a couple things on my robot build (full sized K-9 in my avatar). I need to turn on a laser pointer. I'm thinking a pico switch would work. https://www.dimensionengineering.com/products/picoswitch Is there a more direct solution with the EZ B (I'll be upgrading to v4 soon)? --- Also, I need to move a...