castlephelps
Country: USA
Member Since:
Retired Naval Aviator Tech Support Manager Action Instruments Senior Analyst - Operational Experimentation The Ranger Group Curator - Cielo Vista Observatory
Achievements
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2014-12-25 - joined Synthiam
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2014-12-25 - joined your first forum discussion
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2014-12-25 - attempted to help a fellow robot builder
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2014-12-25 - created first new question
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2014-12-25 - connected ARC to the cloud
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2014-12-26 - created a custom avatar
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2015-11-22 - shared your first photo in the forum
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Moving Discrete Distances
Now that I have part of Wiggins (my robot arms name) built with multiple motors and multiple sabertooth/kangaroos all of which are being driven by digital ports on EZ-B...
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Multiple Motors
The robot that I am building is going to have DC motors for XY and Z movement as well as elbow bending, wrist turning, etc. I will probably wind up with eight DC motors when Im done. Now...
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Driving Stepper Motors With Ezb V4
Done a lot of looking on the forum and still cant figure it out. I am building a pretty heavy duty robot and want to use the power of stepper motors. Question is - how do I interface the stepper motor with the EZB? I have Kollmoren P22 stepper motor - 8 wires, capable of bipolar, unipolar and parallel operation. I guess I need a recommended drive...
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Building A Gripper
I reached the point with my Developer Kit that I needed a gripper. So I downloaded and printed the plastic parts but then discovered that I needed a smaller servo than what was in the Kit. So I ordered a micro servo which arrived yesterday. Looks like I need to modify either the micro servo or the housing to fit the micro servo into the gripper?...
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Polar Coordinate Steering
Thanks to everyone for helping me get up and going! Ive learned how to connect hardware, download projects and learning ez scripting. I have never been one to reinvent the wheel so here goes.... I am looking to build a robot that will steer using polar coordinates. Is there an easy way to do this? Castle
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Power Plug Doesnt Fit - Developer Kit
The power plug you included in the Developer Kit does not fit into the power base. Reading on your forums this is a common problem? Pretty poor...
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Getting Started With Developer Kit
Hi, Now that I have the proper power plug and have my EZ-B powered up I am confused as to how to begin. I have read the lessons on the EZ-B, the Developer Kit and ARC software. I dont have any of the robots that the other tutorials seem to address - so how do I just do something like hook up a servo and have it move or make the camera display an...
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