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Cyber Monday

Well just ordered a load of Hardware thanks to Cyber Monday PayPal was struggling but worked in the end

New Eu And Canada Trade Agreement

click here This is potentially very good news for EZ-Robot purchasers based in the EU. If approved by the EU parliaments and Germany almost all customs tariffs will be eliminated and markets for services will be opened up. So fingers crossed I wont have to pay additional custom charges on my EZ-Robot orders

Iphone Or Ipad User

Heres a tip if you use Icloud and photo stream you can set the camera panel to store your Robots snapshots to the Icloud photo stream upload folder on your PC or Mac and they will get uploaded to your Iphone/IPad/Apple TV. Only just started playing with this so waiting to see if it works like I think it should. Does open up lots of other ideas to...

The Internet Of Things

Heres an interesting new product Electric Imp Cloud based programmable device to connect things via WiFi and then runs code it downloads. Uses squirrel via a browser

Wifi Spykee Robot By Mecanno Or Erector In Us

DJ or anyone looked at adding this to ARC there are a few online hacks out there and you can now download the source code and instructions from Spykeeworld.com

Frustrations With 2013.03.18.00

Im really struggling with this version 2013.03.18.00 anyone else got these problems? and yes I realise some of these changes have been with us a while in earlier versions but ARC stability and connection stability is getting worse. It used to be really rock solid now Im getting screen freezes and odd behaviour that was never there before. 1....

Great New Hacking Material Sugru

Have you guys seen this could be very handy cant understand why Ive not seen it before? Sugru Its basically mouldable like play dough that sticks to almost anything then cures overnight to form a permanent silicon rubber overnight

Haar Xml Files

Ive been having a lot of fun with the camera control and custom detection using the Haar xml files examples. I can get my left eye or right eye detected by ARC even a clock face not all seem to work but the ones that do are great. Has anyone found any links to other xml files for other objects to detect or a simple way to create them?

Sound Servo

Once the EZ-B connects via Bluetooth the sound servo control stops. So the servo doesnt respond to any sounds

Camera Control Tracking Scripts

The tracking scripts in the camera control now dont appear to do anything if a script is added The Glyph scripts action once only so if Glyph one is detected the script runs but another Glyph has to be detected before the Glyph one script can run again. (this maybe intentional of course) Got the Haar custom tracking to work how cool is this. Need...

Finding Help

Would this help? If you find a Tip you want to pass on post as $Tip That way all the tips should show up if you search for $Tip Any other thoughts?

Omnibot On Patrol

Modded the example script Security Guard and now my Omnibot is scarily keeping an eye on any movement in front of him. The submarine style pinging is great if not slightly ominous!

Firmware Updater

Noticed that I cant edit the com port in the Fimware updater like you can in ARC my windows assigned COM port is Com 8 apperas on ARC as Com 83 no problem delete the 3 and Im up and running. Need this feature in the firmware updater though Also I paired my EZ-B board without adding a pairing code and it pairs just fine then when I run ARC and click...

On Holiday?

Has anyone seen or heard from our Imperious leader? DJ and crew are they on leave or moving to the USA

User Details

Hi anyone know how to update EZ-B Projects in user details

Connection Keeps Dropping

Recently got Gerrard my Butler Bot (get it?) up and running after a recent spot of upgrades and noticed that the Bluetooth connection drops regularly after a minute or two. Which it didnt do before he would quite happily sit there for hours watching the TV. I have a Ver 2.1 board fitted saving the my V3 board for another project. Also get...

Omnibot Build

Hi, Loved the Omnibot project you made so now making my own Ive managed to source an old Omnibot via Ebay and in the process of re-painting and getting everything ready for the arrival of the EZ Board. I have a couple of build questions I think I can roughly work out how your robot arms are modified is the servo horn just pushed onto the servo and...

Release Notes For 2012.01.26.01

Hi, Any major changes for this release noticed the GET commands and VB script (may have been there before though) Love the script commands Land and Take Off!! Glyph response seems a lot better and looks like they can be tracked by the camera As always awesome Neil

Ultra Prt Heathrow

Nothing to do with EZ-B for once but a very cool robot transport system that I used recently at Lomdons Heathrow Airport. Worth parking in the Exec Car Park just for the ride Click To Watch Video Click To Watch Video

EZ-B V2.1

Hi, Just wondering is there any performance differences between the old Ver 2.1 board and the new V3 board. I have both now and old board works fine so I might save the new V3 for a new project and keep the V2.1 in my current robot

New Omnibot Power Train

My Omnibot although brilliant is very noisy trundling about. Also due to the original battery being a big heavy lump it now needs weighing down at the back to stop it lurching or rocking when starting up. Although the original motors are very capable/powerful to pull along all the weight I was wondering if anyone would recommend swapping to...

Set Command In ARC Script

There appears to be a bug in the SET script command it causes a compiler syntax error when used. Im using ToggleDigital as a workaround for now

Sparkfun Dual Motor Driver

Hi DJ Getting on well with my Omnibot. I now have a second one courtesy of Ebay always handy for spares I guess Any chance you could post the connections needed between the EZ-Board and the SparkFun Dual Motor Driver breakout board. Some of the online documentation on this board is none to clear Thanks

Speaker Tone Bug

Hi I noticed when playing a speaker tone or random set of notes the ping servo I have going bak and forth stops until the tone finishes!