Dunning-Kruger

Minimum Pc Requirements For ARC

So I have been looking into a small windows PC to embed into my next project... Though about a cheap Windows 8 tablet, but now I have the chance to buy a cheap Asus nettop running Win 7 Pro... I just want to know if it will be able to run ARC properly... I Looked, but I didn't find any detailed specs on what min requirements that ARC needs... Here...

Servopluse Possible Script Command Request?

As we know ez robot servos seem to be able to travel a full 180deg range... However Hitec (and other servos) don't... @DJ I was wondering if we sent specific pulses to the large scale hitecs (instead of using the basic Servo command) if we could stretch them to 180deg?... For instance a new servo I am using for inMoov claims it can do 180deg, but...

I Am Moving On Or?

So, long story short I am learning/moving on to ROS (Robot Operating System)... Ez Robot is still the easiest and greatest software on the market especially for the beginner. I will always push it when people ask me "where should I start". However, I have hit the wall and want to go further, After seeing what Willow Garage's PR2, Xaxxon's...

Microsoft Emotion And Face Api Plugin Too?

@DJ Thanks so much for the other MS API plugins... Cognitive vision works pretty good... I was wondering (and not to get greedy or anything) but would it be possible to create an Emotion and Face plugin as well?.... These api's are fantastic and add so much extra vision functionality to ARC... But If not, again thanks for what you have done so...

Camera Control No Longer Supports 90Deg And 270Deg Rotation?

My camera control repeatedly crashed with this latest ARC update... I figured it out to be because I had my camera image rotated 90deg previously in my inmoov head. There is no other position that the camera would fit without some serious modification... So now with only the option to rotate the camera image 180degs there is no way to get an...

Size Of The New 8X8 Rgb Animator

@EZRobot is there any way you can confirm the size (length and width) of the soon to be released 8 x 8 RGB? I am altering one of inMoov's parts to use with it so I just need to know the size of it... Thanks kindly Richard

Initial Feedback On The Iotiny

@DJ.... Received my iotiny's today and wanted to say they are simply awesome.... Another great innovation from ez robot.... And upgrading the firmware was absolutely seamless.... Can't believe you tucked all that tech in such a small package.... Can't wait for more products from ez robot.... EDIT @Jeremie credit goes to you too... Thanks for not...

New V4 Camera Fuzzy Image Compared To The Old V4 Camera?

I just received 4 of the new V4 one piece cameras... To be honest the image is way fuzzy and dark compared to the old camera... I have adjusted the focus on all 4 of them but the image is no where near the quality of the old V4 camera.... Did I just get the prototype batch or is there something I am missing? I can't really complain much as I did...

Ping Dj

Hey @DJ... Just a heads up... Check those bolts in inMoov's shoulders and elbows once in a while... Make sure they are good finger snug (maybe a little bit of wrench)... I say this because any slop (lateral movement) in the joint has a tendency to damage those plastic pots that read the joint rotation.... I killed 4 pots (in one shoulder) until I...

Flipping And/Or Reversing The Camera Via Script Commands?

@DJ, I have a project that uses a Roomba to keep and eye on the cats (and to break up the odd fight as well)... The Roomba is powering the ezb through a step down voltage regulator, so the ezb will (hopefully) be on or powered 24/7... I also have a pan and tilt servo camera setup on the Roomba. Now when the Roomba docks the camera just stares at a...

Interesting Indoor Navigation System/Kit

Just stumbled across this Indoor navigation Kit at RobotShop Canada...

Ssc-32 Servo Control Via Script

Someone on the forum contacted me via email and wanted a sample script of how to control the Lynxmotion ssc-32 servo board via a script.... I am posting it here in case anyone else might be interested... FYI ... ARC now has an SSC-32 control which is also supported in the auto-positioner.... #This is an example of controlling servos on the ssc-32...

Wall-E Sounds Files?

Trying not to get anyone in trouble here... I did an internet search for Wall-e sound bytes... Didn't find much, actually none... Does anyone here have some Wall-e sound file they can send me? Or a web link to download any? Thanks guys

Ping Jeremie

Hey Jeremie, can you tell me what size cap you were using to smooth out the power supply DJ was using to power inMoov with? Thanks Dude

The Inverted Pendulum

@EZ Robot.... I know you don't have a control for it yet so I am going by the picture of it in the store only. I think I have a pretty good idea of how it works... However, I was wondering if the inverted pendulum can be adapted to drive another type of motor controller in addition to the 360 servo?.... I have been using those cheap Vex $10 motor...

For Those Still Sitting On The 3D Printing Fence

I just backed this 3d printer on Kickstarter... Yes, I need another 3d printer like I need another hole in my head.... I feel like Anthony now who owns more 3d printers than underwear... LOL... Anyway check out the $179 Tiko 3D printer So anyone almost thinking of buying a 3d printer here is a great option... although it won't probably ship until...

Advice Needed For Computer Courses

Guys, need some help... I feel that I know a fair bit about robotics however I am held back by my lack of computer knowledge in general... I have actually had a few job offers after my inMoov video but I turned them down because I am a bit of a dumb a** when it comes to computer knowledge... I can't very go into an interview if the HR guy asks me...

Galapagos Bot And Adventure Bot Coming Soon To The Online Store

Sweet, the store is slowly beginning to be updated with new products... Great, more choices... now I don't know which one to buy

Soundservo Tied To The Rgb Animator?

@DJ.... Not sure this is even remotely possible. Could you tie in something like the soundServo control to the RGB Animator and/or the new 64 LED animator matrix you guys are working on and have it respond to sound? It would cool to be able to simulate a talking mouth by using the animator and a variation of the sound servo control or to just fade...

Make Magazine Wants A Few Words From Me About My Inmoov

Hey guys, Just got an email from someone at Make Magazine... They want me to talk a bit about my inMoov bartender for an upcoming article... How I built it, how I programed it and such... I only get a few lines in a sidebar so can't relate my life story here LOL... So I guess I need to mention just how awful the ezb and ez robot are?... Ok, you got...

David, A Real Life Use For Your Ai

Robotic help for Dementia patients

Dj On Computer America Radio Show

Just finished watching the video of you on the Computer America Radio Show.... Really great interview. I really enjoyed it.... So curious on what big companies have lic ez robot.....

Windows 10 Will Be A Free Upgrade For Win8/8.1 Users

Just thought I would post this just in case some were not aware that Win 10 will be out soon and will be a free upgrade to 8 and 8.1 users...Windows 10 to be a free upgrade for some

Uart Receive Query. Buffer Flush Command?

I am have a little issue with the below code.... I am attempting to read 3 different single byte return sensors on my new Create 2.... Now, it works perfectly if I read only one sensor in the repeatuntil loop. However if I do more than one read (like the code below).... the readings report back false... i.e. the bump sensor will indicate a bump...

Can The Store Lipos Be Sold Speperately Now?

Probably a question for the EZ Robot staff.... A while back there were some issues with selling the Lipo batteries separately from the Revolution kits... Is it still a problem or can I buy a just the lipos from the store? Thanks Richard

Sopo Ezb Powered Robot

Just saw the news article on the new Sopo Robot that is powered by ez robot... Congrats DJ and ez robot!... I assume this is the first of many for you guys.... I even went to their weside and in their download section is ARC program files.... Sopo robot Sopo website

Odd Ezb4 Question. D14 And D15 Seem To Be Linked?

Ok, so one of my EZB4 seems to have an odd problem... I have 2 servos connected... one on D14 and the other on D15. If I send a servo move command on D14, D15 also moves to the same position. Likewise, if I send a servo command to D15, D14 moves in parallel... I tested 2 other ezbs and they seem to work fine... Also seems to be only D14 and D15...

New Ezb4 Centre Power Pin Changed Diameter?

@DJ... Just received another new EZB4... The centre (positive) pin on the ezb4 base has increased in diameter... My 2.1mm plugs that work on all my other 5 ezb4 won't fit in the power shell now... Just thought I would let you guys know...

Heads Up. New Stuff In The Store

Hey guys, new items in the store including an extended camera cable and 5V voltage regulators... Wooo, hooo... Well, what do you know... They are doing something other than playing pinball

Microsoft Tts Voice Other Than Anna?

Hey guys, anyone know where (if any place) to download other text to speech voices for Windows? Windows default voice (Anna) doesn't really make it as a robot voice to me...

***Ping*** Robot-Doc

Hey Doc, hope you don't mind me asking... The flashforge printer you mentioned... What software are you using with it? How (or do you even need to) is the print platform leveled/adjusted?

@Dj Do We Need Another Forum Moderator?

I just thought as EZ Robot grows so is the forum (community). I thought it might be a appropriate to have one of us (don't worry I am not talking about me LOL) members as a moderator when you're not around... Like a union rep for the forum for lack of a better term... Obviously it's not an absolute necessity as we're generally a peaceful bunch......

The New Learn Section

@DJ/EZ-Robot team... The new Learn section here is awesome. I love the way you guys set it up like taking an online course.... Are you graded at the end? haha Time to take the course....

Pc Wireless Adapter Questions, Keeps Disconnecting

I have a new ACER All In One PC running Win8.1... great PC, but a couple a times a day needs to reset it's wireless adapter... I get kicked off the internet/network and when I run diagnostics windows fixes it by resetting the wireless adapter... Can someone tell me what's going on here?... Do I have a crap wifi module? Just a moment ago I lost my...

Anyone Own/Use A Robotic Lawnmower?

Toying with the idea of getting a basic model (something like a Robomow rm510)...For one, I like my Roomba cleaning my house, 2) kinda' getting a little lazy now, and 3) well, I just like robots in general.... Any comments, caveats or advice from anyone who has any experience with them? Yes, I do realize I could build one as well... just an...

Uartwrite Question?

Trying to send the below code via serial to my SSC-32 servo board to test servo movement... it gives me an error because $pw is greater than 255 (max for a byte which I do understand)... It's probably me not getting it, but how do I send numbers greater than 255? This is the error "Error on line 6: Value was either too large or too small for...

A Possible New Forum Feature. Threads Containing Polls?

Just thinking that the ability to create a user poll in our forum would be a nice addition to already great forum... The ability for someone to say... set up a poll which the users of the forum could vote for their favourite robot or whatever the poll is about... Then have the stats/results embedded in the Thread? Just a lazy sunday morning...

Indispensible To Robotics. The Basic Multimeter

Hey guys... I wanted to post a quick 2 videos on how to use a basic multimeter... Some of you guys on here are not so comfortable with electronics so I am hoping my video will keep you from blowing up your shiny new Revolution robot or V4 board... For that matter any other electronic device as well... Just 2 quick videos... remember before hooking...

Anti Spam Acceptance Email From Ez Robot?

I got an email today from what looks like EZ Robot regarding anti spam .... it requires a response via a link.... Before I do it, I just wanted to make sure it actually came from EZ Robot ... Thanks Richard

Help Setting Up My New Dlink Router. No Internet Connection

Ok, so I set up my new router and all is ok except no internet connection... I can log on to the networks with any of my wifi devices/computers, but there is no internet connection... Since I am a bit daft with the network stuff I need help. This is what I did 1) Logged on to my old router/modem combo and disabled the wifi... 2) I am using a wired...

Possible On/Off Camera Script Command?

DJ...First, outstanding job on the camera... I have no idea how you managed what you did and still the camera only draws about a 100mA... Wow!... Anyway.. no biggie (since the camera does not draw much power anyway)... But, would it be possible to have a script command to turn on and off the camera? I mean actually powering off and on to save...

Few More Ezb4 Power Details

Just an FYI (probably doesn't really warrant a thread of it's own, but)... The EZB4 draws about 80mA idle (connected to the network and ARC, with no peripherals attached)... With the Camera plugged in (again @ idle) it is drawing about 180mA... Cheers

New V4 Camera

Just got my EZ4s today... After a long Canada (take your sweet time) Post journey... Just started messing with them.... Right off... The camera is absolutely brilliant! What a difference over the V3... Well done DJ and team...

5V Inline Regulators For Sensors And?

I know sensors like pings and IR will need a 5V regulator inline if you put more than 5V through the V4 board... Just noticed my sabertooth motor controller also uses a 5V input line in addition to the signal line and ground line... Does this mean even motor controllers will need a 5V inline reg as well? I tried removing the +5V wire from the...

Why Does This Script Not Work?

Below is a script I wrote to have my robot smoothly look around the room (relatively that is)... I want each servo move to execute one right after the previous one finishes... However, when I run the script it blazes through the script in about a 10th of a second.. The servos don't move(except for a quick jitter)... Do I need to use sleep() instead...

Possible Feature Request?

Well, many of my builds are going to be mobile robots and some will actually have the PC (my asus mini nettop computer) on board as well as the ezb controller... PCs require much more battery power.. I thought a nice script command to save power is to be able to tell the PC enter sleep mode... I realize I will have to hit the power button to wake...

Ezb Serial Communication With The Vex Cortex

So I realize this is probably a long shot, but I am hoping one of you C programmers can help me... The Vex cortex micro controller would serve me well as a low level sensor/bump and motor controller for my current project... What I want to do is use my EZB4 to communicate with it over UART (since the vex cortex has 2 UART ports)... The wiring and...

Convert Speech To Text (Not Text To Speech), Possible?

I am just throwing around some new ideas I have... One of them is I am trying to figure out if there is any way to use WriteFile and ReadFile in Ez Builder to create a database for my robot to learn new phrases and commands on his own... So instead of just using a list of typical canned responses to questions and phrases already programmed, I would...

Wtd: Ezb3 Board

Since we have yet another delay in shipping of ezb4... I am looking to pick up another V3 board to tide me over until then... email is robotguy505(at)gmail.com or respond here... Thanks Richard

Looking For Mini Itx Or Similar To Run ARC

Hey guys, Looking to buy a mini windows7 PC to include as an on board computer in one of my upcoming projects... Not really wanting a slow netbook, so does anyone got any recommendations for a light weight, low power consumption itx type PC or? Thanks Richard

Re: Recent Brewster Robot

Loved it and the video!... It got me thinking of my own Roomba Create project and now I am really inspired. The Roomba platform is great as it has built in low level programming for motor control, sensors, encoders etc (so I am hoping EZB4 will be able to read serial data, not just send it)...So now I am thinking about something DJ mentioned a...

Wtd: Ezb3 Board

Anyone have an EZB 3 board they want to sell? Thanks R

Request For Auto File Save Feature

Ez Builder seems to lock up on me sometimes (Not responding issues)... Today I made a lot of program changes to my R2 D2 project which I lost because of EZ- Builder stopped working... Over an hours work gone... The lock up seems to happen around using the "phrases show and phrases hide" panel for some reason... Anyway an auto file save...

Exiting A Classic Control Loop In A Script Via Voice Command?

Below is a simple code I hacked up to use with the voice recognition control... It works as expected... I am controlling the robot via voice mostly, but sometimes i want it to roam autonomously (as per my simple code below). However, problem is I can't figure out how to exit the script at will... Once this script starts it only stops when the ping...

Controlling Motor Speed In Speech Recognition Contol Panel?

Hello, so I have set up a sabertooth 2 x 12 dual (using serial) motor controller with a movement panel and speech recognition to control my robot... So far so good... works great... However using the commands... forward, reverse, left and right speech commands only drive the motors at full speed (no matter what number I put in the command as a...

ARC Http Server Control

My project I am working is remote presence robot controlled obviously remotely... I think I am missing something, though because I can only get my robot and camera to operate if I am actually on my own wifi network... I tested it over my girlfriends wifi network at her work (using her android tablet), but she kept getting page not found error when...

Wtd: Ezb3 Camera

Anyone know where (or is selling) I can get a camera for Version 3 of the EZB controller? Or even a compatible camera? Just snagged a Version 3 EZB from a fellow forum member. Now looking for a camera to go with it... Thanks R

What Microphone For ARC?

My Panasonic Toughbook does not have a built in mic... Before I trawl eBay for one does anyone recommend a good quality one that will work well with ARC?.... I realize I probably need to avoid the cheap ones from China that of course flood eBay auctions... Thanks R

Srf05 Ping Sonar

Hi, been using Devantech SRF05 (Positive TTL level) pings forever with my previous controller Basic Atompro... The neat thing about the SRF05 is the trigger and echo use the same pin (meaning simple 3 wire connection)... I haven't used the EZB before but I have a pre-order in for the Roli kit... So, my question is can (since I have 5 of the SRF05)...