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Niek

Country: Netherlands
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Achievements

  • 2011-07-25 - joined Synthiam
  • 2011-07-25 - created first new question
  • 2011-10-22 - joined your first forum discussion
  • 2011-11-17 - posted a robot project showcase
  • 2013-07-22 - answered a forum question
  • 2014-10-06 - created a custom avatar
  • 2014-10-21 - shared your first photo in the forum
  • 2014-11-24 - attempted to help a fellow robot builder
  • 2014-12-10 - connected ARC to the cloud
  • 2014-12-10 - shared your first video in the forum

Latest submissions

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A Very Roli Christmas

A Very Roli Christmas

I wonder whats in here.. After a bit of hassle with the delivery guy I was finally able to pay the import duties and pick up my Roli :) Looks like its already been opened,...
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Look What I Saw Hiding In An Episode Of Doctor Who

Look What I Saw Hiding In An Episode Of Doctor Who

Its Magic Mike! :D
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Sightseeing

Sightseeing

This first week was amazing. I had a lot of fun meeting the entire team and following some of them around to see what their roles are like at EZ-Robot. I tagged along with Jeremie, Cory and Geoff...
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Ez-Challenge

Ez-Challenge

This morning I woke up and found DJ already working! DJ works best at home, so he often stays up until late at night and then wakes up to continue working. Alan (Operations at EZ-Robot) and I were...
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Omnibot-Like Candy Dispensing Robot

Omnibot-Like Candy Dispensing Robot

Heres a robot I found while browsing the internet, it looks remarkably similar to an omnibot. Though its not ran by an EZ-B, it shouldnt be hard at...
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Not Able To Update Over Usb Serial

Im trying to update the firmware of the EZ-B inside my robot. Its connected to the PC over a USB-Serial converter. Every time it just hangs at Uploaded. However, when I switch to the bluetooth module, it works fine. Any reason why?
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Makerbot Digitizer Desktop Scanner

Makerbot Digitizer Desktop Scanner

For all you makerbotters out there, the MakerBot Digitizer: www.makerbot.com/digitizer Loads of possibilities :D
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Nieks Ez-Robot Experience

Heres a little summary for you: There is 1 final video still to come :D
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Ez-Mini V4 Prototype Sneak Peek

Ez-Mini V4 Prototype Sneak Peek

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Learning Steps

Learning Steps

At the EZ-Robot office, I started the day trying to get a prototype of the biped robot "JD" to walk. I got as far as having him stand on one foot. It was much harder than I had...
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Meet The Workbench

Meet The Workbench

I woke up at 8am this morning, so I guess Im finally used to the time difference between Canada and the Netherlands. To kill some time until DJ woke up (whod been working on ARC til...
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First Impressions

First Impressions

I arrived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on Tuesday July 15th, 2013 with the DJ and the entire EZ-Robot team waiting to pick me up at the airport. After a quick introduction to everyone, I...
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Office Camera Suggestion

Hi DJ et al, Maybe you could add a timestamp to the stream/clock on the page of the EZ-Office camera. It would be useful so people in other timezones (like me) dont have to keep converting the times :D
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Html Error

I doubt it will make any difference, but when I looked at the EZ-Office page source to find out what script you use for refreshing I found a little typo in the code. At line 17, it says The type is correct, but the language should be without the k. I think most browsers will interpret the code just fine, but I thought Id give you guys a heads up...
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Omnibot 5402 Battery

Omnibot 5402 Battery

Hi everyone, Due to being disoperational for over a year, my omnibots battery has died. Does anybody know a good replacement? The dead one is a 6V 4Ah lead-acid with this form...
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Contact Dj

Hi DJ, I sent an email to support@ez-robot.com about a week ago and got a respons within a couple of days saying it had been forwarded to you. I know youre a busy man and I really appreciate it but did you by any chance get to read it yet?
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Dealextreme Arduino Compatible Bluetooth Robot Car

Hey DJ, Are you aware of your ez-b video being used in DealExtremes video advertising an arduino bluetooth car?
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Hey Dj! You're On Makemagazine!

Hey Dj! Youre On Makemagazine!

They just uploaded a video with short shots of 3 of your robots :D (From 1:00)
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Bluetooth

Hi DJ, Just a little question out of curiosity: At what baud rate is the bluetooth module configured? :D
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Resize Script Help

Resize Script Help

Hey DJ, I was wondering if you could make the script help resizable, this is how mine looks now on Omnis brain Netbook:
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Ez-Mini

Hey DJ, Ive got a cool idea assuming the IC on the EZ-B is a Pic18F97j60: Could i design a EZ-Mini that uses the SMD version of the IC? If you could provide me with the schematic (dont need the PIC code) i could design a example. What do you think? :D
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Map() Feature

Hey DJ, Is there a map feature in ARC? I have a voltage divider setup to measure the battery voltage and i would like to show the voltage on my Omnibots LCD. Now the value is 0-10v in stead of 5v so i would like to map the ADC value from 0-255(is 255 the max value of the EZ-B?) to 0-10v.
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Usb->Serial Adapter

Hi DJ, For my omnibot, i am using a USB to Serial converter from SparkFun. However, since the newest firmware update, i havent been able to connect. Ive tried multiple converters but all fail... Did you change anything?
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Attention Dutch People

Are we still going to Maker faire 050? I was thinking we could try to get a table there to demonstrate all of our bots (and promote EZ-Robot :)) Anyways, im going. If youre in contact me at redacted
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Omnibot Sounds

Hey! Ive ripped some omnibot sounds off youtube videos, thought it might also be useful for you! omnibotsounds-ByNiek.zip
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Update Hangs

Update Hangs

Hi, Im trying to update my EZ-B firmware. I hooked everything up correctly but the update program keeps freezing at this point. I even tried on multiple computers :(
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Floor Map

Floor Map

What can you do with floor map after you have the floor mapped? Can you let it go the route it has just driven?
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ARC Has Stopped Working.

I just installed windows 7 on my eee PC 4g and installed .NetFW but when i try to start ARC i get the message that EZ-Builder has stopped working. Does anybody know how to fix this?
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Omnibot 5402 Tray

Hey, Does anybody have a tray i can use for my omnibot? I am willing to pay for it.
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Motor Load Detection

Motor Load Detection

Hey DJ, At this stream at about 13:15 you said you had the motors plugged into the ADC port for load detection, How exactly did you do it? I would like to know for my omnibot :D
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Re: I2c Help

Hi DJ, In your i2c help, you mentioned that the address is 7 bits correct me if im wrong but if youve got bit 0-7 then isnt it 8 bits? Let me explain: bit 0 - 1 bit bit 1 - 1 bit bit 2 - 1 bit bit 3 - 1 bit bit 4 - 1 bit bit 5 - 1 bit bit 6 - 1 bit bit 7 - 1 bit You see? in total, youve got 8 bits now. Edit: wait im confused *blush* please delete...
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Omnibot Price?

Omnibot Price?

Hi, I recently won an auction for a omnibot 5402 (robot only). I thought it was cheap because it was only $52. Then i found out shipping to the Netherlands was $62 and i still thought it was...
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Dutch Meetup

Hey, How many of you are dutch? i noticed Pab!o,Okidey, and budel0 are from the Netherlands :D I think we should do a meeting and show our bots sometime. I was thinking of Maker Faire 050, Since last years mf050 was a big success. Now they are organizing another one on may 12th 2012. What do you think?
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Ping)) Ultrasonic Sensor Question

My sensor only has a Vcc, Gnd and Signal pin on it, can i wire it with just 1 servo wire?
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Arduino Adapter

Hey DJ, Any news on the ez-b arduino shield adapter? i didnt get one with my EZ-B :(
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Movement Script

How do i start a script from the Movement Script Config but it doesnt work, i tried ControlCommand(Script1,start) But it doesnt work *blush*
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My Blog Post

*Never mind*
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3.3V

Hey DJ, I was just wondering what you are using on the ez-b to get 3.3v i saw this tutorial but im not sure if it will work.
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Kind Of Funny

Hey DJ, I have a English teacher here in holland who looks exactly like you, hes also even from canada :D are you sure you didnt secretly moved to holland? As you may have noticed, he did his job well :)
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Max. Voltage

What is the maximum voltage the EZ-B can take? I have a 7.2v accu pack here that i want to use with my EZ-B but dont know if it will work :D
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Status LED Fail

Hey! Yesterday i was driving around with my robot powered by EZ-B when it got stuck in forward (not the software but the ez-b itself) and i couldnt stop it, i rebooted and it got stuck in turning. Now i powered it up but the Bluetooth module light wont come on, then it finally came on and everything works as normal but the status led doesnt work....
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BT Question

I have a question, If i hook this up to my arduino, will i be able to configure it as a bluetooth COM-port so i can upload sketches to it via BT and send it serial data?
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CHEAP Servo Wires

I just bought 2 packs of 10 servo wires for only $5 (3!) at BuyInCoins First, i bought it from ebay and i left positive feedback so i got the 10% off coupon 10%eBay2011 I know this may sound as a advertisement but i just want to share this EXTREMELY cheap offer, you can also buy 15cm cables for even less money!
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Windows CE?

Does ARC work on Windows CE? if so, you could possibly use this laptop in your robot.
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Ping Obstacle Not Working

I have ping obstacle control on, my ping sensor works perfectly but the robot doesnt stop once it is at the set min. distance to a object.
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Sparkfun Serlcd

Hey everyone! I finally got my EZ-B (after 5,5 weeks) and i am trying to get my lcd with sparkfuns serial backpack working, i found THIS great arduino site. I adapted the code to this: SendSerial(D13,9600,0xFE) //command flag SendSerial(D13,9600,0x01) //Clear LCD Sleep(10) SendSerial(D13,9600,0x7c) //command flag for backlight stuff...
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