Robot Doc
Country: USA
Member Since:
Retired Sr Engineer Bell Telephone Laboratories Started a website for Robotic vacuum repair http://www.Robot-Doc.com http://www.vic7767.com email e_vickery@bellsouth.net
Achievements
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2012-07-14 - joined Synthiam
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2012-07-31 - created first new question
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2013-04-24 - joined your first forum discussion
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2013-07-29 - answered a forum question
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2013-11-25 - posted a robot project showcase
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2013-12-03 - posted your first tutorial
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2014-08-07 - attempted to help a fellow robot builder
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2014-08-09 - shared your first photo in the forum
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2014-08-16 - connected ARC to the cloud
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2014-12-13 - shared your first video in the forum
Latest submissions
Questions (38)
Robots (3)
Skills (0)
General (0)
Hack Events (0)
Tutorials (1)
Apps (4)
Firmwares (0)
3D Parts (0)
Feature Requests (0)
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Make Your Own Fuse Protection
Sometimes when designing different robots to interface with the EZB(4). Consideration must be given to whether additional fuse protection may be needed or...question

Two Ezb V(3)S Available
Cleaning out the early robots and ran across two of the Version 3 EZB controllers. These have the better Class 1 Bluetooth devices installed and will provide up to 100 meters...question

I2c And The Mini 8X8 Leds
The Adafruit mini 8x8 LED displays arrived and I wired three of them up with assigned addresses of 0x70, 0x71, and 0x72. I could only get the first address to work. As...question

Mini Mod To The Ezb(4)
For those EZB(4) users that have a vertical clearance challenge, there are a couple of things that can be done to shorten the amount of vertical space occupied by your new...question

Easy Hardware Mods For The Irobot Create 2
The Create 2 from iRobot can be easily modified using additional parts from the 500 and 700 model Roombas. These modifications will...question

Low Cost Eyeballs For Your Project
Recently stumbled across this web site - www.GlowUniverse.com that has a novelty item that is a painted eyeball with LEDs installed inside and is...question

Inside The Revolution Digital Camera
The decision to take the camera apart is due to the fact that the 6 conductor ribbon cable is too short to allow the camera to be mounted where I...question

Roomba Drive Speed Using The Slider Control On Android Mobile
While building an Android Mobile app Im trying to figure out how to use the Slider button to...question

Uart Terminal Display, Cant See Last Line
When using UART 0 Serial terminal to read ASCII output from the Roomba diagnostic tests, as each test is printed out, the last line of...question

Roomba 500 Locks Up Using Ezb4 With D0
Testing the Roomba 595 using the EZB4 connected to D0 does not work very well. Sometimes the selection boxes for turning on the side brush,...question

Need A Way To Monitor The Ezb4 Serial Ports
Now that the EZB4 has arrived is there a way we can monitor the three serial ports using the ARC terminal GUI ? Not all at once of...question

Roomba With Eyes An Attitude
Just got a sound sensor from China, mounted it between two speakers, wired a couple of LED spinning lights (12vdc) to it and ran a couple of recorded sound...question

Wheres The Comm Port Procedure For The Ezb4 ?
Cant find the post detailing the WiFi steps for the EZB4 ports to establish a connection.question

Powering Up The Ezb-(4)
Using a 7.4 vdc LI-ion custom built power pack with a 2.5mm power plug was able to power up the EZB-(4) for the first time. Nothing is hooked up to the controller yet. This...question

New Bot Shown On Two And A Half Men
A cool looking robot was shown during the final two and a half men show tonight. It would really be a great platform for the new EZB(4).question

New Robot Dinosaur
This is a neat robotic dinosaur that may have some EZ-B potentialquestion

Ez-Robot Developers Kit For Sale Again !
I thought that the EZ-Robot Developers Kit (V3) had been sold on ebay but the buyer didnt want it after all so its back here and is up for...question

New Ez-B(3) Developers Kit Up For Sale
Fellow EZ-Bers. I have one complete never used EZ-B version 3 developers kit that includes a Class 1 Bluetooth modification to the EZ-Board. It...question

Emet 4.0 Message On Ez-B Community
Dont know if this means a lot but I keep getting this pop-up when opening Community posts. EDIT: Rich found out the cause of this and it is internal to...question

Ez-B Powered By Roomba
Here is one way to eliminate the need for an additional battery to power the EZ-B. The Roomba SCI 7-pin mini din connector provides unregulated battery power at 1/2 amp...question

Flashforge 3D Printer
Anyone have experience or knowledge of this 3d printer ? FlashForge 3D printer, dual extruder w/2 ABS spools- FlashForge Technology $1,199.00question

Neat Little Bump Switch
Found a great little two pack bumper switch $12.99 plus shipping that will work with the digital ports of the EZ-B. Heres the URL.question

Ez-B With H-Bridge Sharp Collision Question
Need some insight here..... When I add just the H-Bridge control to the EZ-B(V3) I can run the H-Bridge direction controls (Forward,...question

L298n H-Bridge Heads-Up
Finally got around to using the 2.5 amp H-bridge that I had purchased from the EZ-Store many moons ago. After reading through Richs tutorial about hooking the little guy up I...question

Circle Navigator Coming Soon
From concept to commitment to construction is taking awhile but this project is beginning to take form. The 500 Roomba wheels took a lot of time to hack and replace...question

A Low Cost Li-Ion Battery Solution
I use LI-ion cell phone batteries in the Roomba robot, the EZ-B, and the Wifi board. All of the batteries have built in Power control boards that...question

Vk-162 Gps Module
The actual pinout assignments for this device are shown in the next to last image posted.question

Trying To Use Ez-B And Connect To Wifi
Purchased the recommended WiFi module from China, fired it up, populated the various fields on the configuration views, saved the changes....No general conversations. Click here to start a conversation.
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Robots First Attempt Building An Android App For The Irobot Dirt Dog
Upgraded the speakers to 8 ohm 2 watt 1 inch diameter units and hid everything...robot
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Robots R3 Roomba Control Using 5 Volt Relays
In the land of the iRobot Roomba, if you want to turn it on there are presently two ways to do so. The first way is just a simple...robot

Robots Irobot Create With An Arm
Heres my first attempt of using a V3 EZ-B and controlling an iRobot Create robot with a 6 servo arm attached. The video displays a Roomba that has...No live robot hacking sessions. Click here to view the past live robot hacks.
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8X8
Two I2C 8x8 LED units using addresses 0x70 and 0x71 used to simulate the left 0x71 and right 0x70 eye movementsapp

Roomba Interface
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Roomba Built In Test Activation
This routine operates three 5 vdc relays that have NO (normally open) contacts wired to the tabs of the Spot button, Clean button, and Dock button. This will...app

Roomba Power Up
This routine operates a 5 vdc relay that has a NO (normally open) contact wired to the tabs of the Clean button. This will electrically replicate a press of the clean button for one second....No firmwares. Click here to view robot hardware and firmwares.
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