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Omnibot2000 Shoulder/Elbow Gears

Im definately not using the gears in the upper arm. Id like to offer them to someone who may need them and wants to keep their Omni stock.

Getting The Word Out. Your Thoughts?

I was just thinking of helping out our favorite robotics company by brainstorming with the community. To get this thread started off I want to ask all of you what tags should be added to our YouTube videos to increase exposure of the EZB there. I feel this is a zero cost form of advertising will be beneficial. Thoughts? I will group them all in...

I2C Thoughts...

...from the newbie... Can each digital port send I2C? Because I saw some I2C servo controllers that handle multiple servos. Could this expand the number of servos (or H-bridges) controlled?

Voltage Regulators

I found this very informative guide on voltage regulators from Dimension Engineering and why switching regulators extends your battery life between charges. ------------------------------------------------ A Beginners Guide to Switching Regulators What is wrong with a linear regulator? Linear regulators are great for powering very low powered...

Nerf Battlebot Idea

Its not a new idea but there are a few nice pictures of the inside of the Nerf gun someone may be interested in for hack purposes. Popular Science Article Here are a couple of links for the Nerf N-Strike Elite: Stryfe Blaster and the NERF N-Strike 18-Dart Clip System Drum. {I would post a pic from the magazine but Im not sure if reproduction is...

Natural Movements During Social Interaction.

This paper is very interesting! I grant you that this may be for more advanced robotics people but everyone can get something out of it for thier robot script or AI. See also the other supporting documentation in the reference section too. Conversational Gaze Aversion for Humanlike Robots

Dedication!

I happen to notice several staff member working in the engineering office at 1 am! I dont know if this is an early day or they are working through the night. I just want you guys to know that these guys are putting in the hours for us.

They Took Our Jobs!

Here is another fun read on robotics. Clickety click here

Roboearth

Interesting read. RoboEarth.org

Didnt Get A 3D Printer For Christmas?

Check out these ideas I found on Shapeways. Animatronic Puppet Eye Kit Animatronic Head NANO

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas (aka Happy Christmas) from across the international date line to those in North America and everyone else! The new year will bring even better creations using the Version 4 EZB! Worth the wait!

Another Omni2000 On Ebay

Here is an Omni 2000 listed at a buy it now price. The pics show it in pretty good condition. If you want to fix the arm I may have the original part you need. However, you probably want to replace those gears with a servo anyway.

To Any With 3D Printer

I was just thinking of a new part for Omni2000s. Make a battery door with the EZ-Robot logo and EZ-B under the hood, or Powered by EZ-Robot.com or just an area for status display or fuse panel.

Missing Control After Update

I thought that the multi-servo control was under the servo control group. After I updated I dont seem to find it. ----- Ah I think I see why. Relative servo can do the same thing.

Beginner To Novice Tutorials At Sparkfun

I grant you that this isnt my tutorial but rather a reference to tutorials. That being said, here ya go. ---- I was poking around the SparkFun.com website and took a little time looking at what they have in the tutorials section. Quite a lot of it is illustrated well for beginners to novice. I thought Id share this with our newer members but its...

Question On Wifi?

Will the store be carrying the wifi boards to use as an upgrade to our V3 EZ-Bs?

Rovio Northstar/Truetrack Navigation

Im curious to know if anyone here has tinkered with Rovios nav system. Ive seen it mentioned before a while back as a possible hack for bots. Any luck? Here are a couple links on the nav. Rovio TrueTrack room beacon Rovio API Spec This is much cheaper than this version sold at robotshop.com. Hagisonic StarGazer Robot Localization System

New And Improved Ez-B!

Quoted from the store: EZ-B v4 120MHz, 150 DMIPS, unique chip ID#, DAC amplified audio with Speaker for Robot voice, 8 Analog ports, 24 Digital ports, Wifi connectivity, i2c, UART, Resettable fuse protection, Reverse polarity protection, and on-board 3.3VDC More ports, additional protection, audio, wifi....all of it is gold to me! PS: GREAT PRICE...

Useful Reference

I stumbled on this electronics reference website. A handy quick ref. Lessons In Electric Circuits

A Creepy Robot To Watch Over Elderly.

PopSci article

Exterrrminate!

Quick! Someone send him an EZ-Board before he gets talked into something silly like a Leafboard! Dalek

Cheap Robot Platform On Ebay

Here is an inexpensive robot to EZ-Robotify. Link Link2

3.3V Vs 5V Strapping On Serial Connector

Another post reminded me of this question Ive been meaning to ask. The underside of the EZB has traces near the bluetooth connector that seem to me like a user selectable voltage to the connector. My question is: Can I break the trace for the +5V jumper pad and solder the jumper pad for +3.3V? Also would this change the logic levels on that...

Robot Combat League?

I miss American TV. I found this on youtube. The creator of Loki robot is also in it! DJ its your turn to be on.

Upcoming New Ez-Robot Website Features?

I was curious if there were any features you were willing to divulge on the new website. Any changes to the forums too?

Handy Link For Calculations

I stumbled on this one today. The electrical and gear tabs are of particular interest. WEBLINK

Emotions With Auto Position

I was poking around in the examples folder and opening them one by one to become morez edjamakayted. I found something that startled me a little. Take a look under the auto position config tab, lol I instinctively looked at my webcam to see if the light was on! lol

Tendon Driven Robots

An interesting article on Roboy. Any other tendon driven ones?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Its 1pm here and Ive just finished eating. OMG! Stuffed!

Useful Link

I happened upon this link that can be useful in choosing hardware.

Mythbuster Robot Guru

I wonder if Grant Imahara has an EZ-B. Hes into robotics of many types.

Speech Recognition Control

It may only be my computer but I was wondering if its happening to anyone else. I made a simple command in speech to recognize a phrase then repeat back a new phrase using the SAY command. I framed the command wrong and forgot the parenthesis. It still said the phrase but preceded it with the word I. I double checked a few things before I saw my...

Resizeable Script Box?

DJ I was wondering if we could have the script box resizeable so I can see more of the title.

Dj, Is This Trademark Infringement On You?

Take a look. LINK

Bluetooth Replacement Gone Wrong?

DJ, since im having issues with win8, I decided to pull out my usb to serial adapter. it does 3.3 or 5v. I tried 3.3. I attached according to how labeled on my board. Starting from pin closest to power connector it is RX,TX,GND,V+ I smelled hot resistor after a couple minutes so I unplugged everything and checked the underside of the Bluetooth...

Community Polling?

I just had a thought. Have you considered adding a polling feature on the website? I think that would be helpful when you want to know at a glance (as well as short and to the point) what the general opinion/wants might be of your community as a whole.

Sound Movement Control

Eventually I will be putting this in but I have questions on how. I see the config on the control sets minimum trigger levels for left and right but which ports can separate mics be attached to? If they are attached to analog ports where do we identify which is left and which is right. I know it may be a silly question and I may have missed...

Sound Servo Control

Has anyone tried this one? I was looking at it and I see where you identify which servo port to use but does it always move whenever something is played on the speaker? DJ, can we enable and disable the monitoring of the speaker? Say for instance I wanted to play a sound effect but I dont want the mouth to move during it, then afterwards re-enable...

Item Find...Transducer Speakers

If you have a project that you cant just cut in a speaker grill and mess up its looks...apply this to the inside and the bots casing becomes a speaker. Vibro speakers

Djs Awesome Releases

Has anyone noticed he has done 12 releases in the last 60 days?! I tell ya the man never sleeps!

Happy Fathers Day!

Dont forget to make your calls or visits to your loved ones!

Google Sketchup Sketchyphysics

Ive seen a few mentions of sketchup and Ive started learning about it. Ive found that there are a few Wall-E already done but no Omnibots unfortunately. I think sketchup would help us a lot in the imagination/design stage and would be cool to show off in our forums. Here is a Tomy Dingbot

Joggobot AR Parrot Drone

Take a look at this interesting article. Joggobot

12V Li-On Battery And Charger Solution

I found this deal on E-bay and thought Id share. You can fit up to 4 of them in the bottom drawer of the Omnibot2000. Li-on and charger

New Board In The Future?

Whats the possibility of a new board with more servos like say 25 or 30? Also optional separate servo power input? Is it in the plans?

Hey Robotmaker! Have You Applied Yet?

This sounds up your alley. News link

Has Anyone Ever Used Sintra Product?

Here is the link to some its properties. Im thinking of using it to get my future Omnibot taller.

Small Spelling Error

-Deleted by me- I know it sounds petty given the HUGE accomplishment rolling out the build. Again I love what youve done!

I2cwrite Command For Blinkm

I hope someone can help me with this. Ive been tinkering with my MinM light and Im trying to adjust the playback of the built in light script to a shorter time loop. On page 22 of the blinkM datasheet it says to send command t, (-128 to 128). My command on EZscript would be i2cwrite (0x12,t, -100) to shorten time. However a negative number isnt...

Problem With I2c Script

I think I initially posted this on wrong section. THREAD LINK

I-Cybie?

Anyone know if the ez-b can fit in it? Heck, even if it did Im not sure what Id try and do.

Do Ya Feel Me Bro?

I ran across this on eBay. I began thinking...wouldnt this be cool to add touch sensors under the plastic casing of our robots and make them even more interactive?! Image it playing a particular script if touched under its arms or play a sound file when pet. Here is an info grab of this particular device that only uses one input to read 8 sensors!...

Openservo Hardware

Has anyone had any experience with these? I see sparkfun has a version on thier website but checking openservo.com there is a version 3 out. Basically its a servo mod for I2C interface. Theres lots more over my head stuff at the website.

Max # Of Servos Without Jitter

I am new to this and I havent my ez-b yet to test it. Ive researched online and discovered that some boards are capable of many servo connections, there is a problem with efficient software routines to prevent jitter due to # of servos and other processes in the programming. I intend to use 14 servos and prob all the DIO. DJ, do you think this will...

Homing Beacon To Charging Station?

Anyone have a good link for the best way to go about this?

Hackable Toys Thread

I found on Ebay a Sir Galaxy robot that looks prime for hacking with Ez-B. Take a look sometime. Here is a brief description: Transmit your voice from the Remote to Sir Galaxy! (excellent for sending those R2D2 sounds if you hack its remote) Arms are poseable with spring loaded hands. (prime for servo transplant) He can walk forward, turn left or...

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio?

Has anyone ever tried MS RDS with the EZ-B? Can it be done or is it worth it for more complex script for beginners? Thoughts?

E-Bay Wall-E Heads Up

Theres a cheap Wall-e UCommand (no remote) bid online right now for $10.50 plus $10 shipping. Only 42 hours left to final. Just thought Id help. I would have bid on it but Im gonna pass this time.