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Hdd Servo Lifting Weight In Pounds

Afternoon All According to the product specs the new HDD servos can lift up to 19kg. I used several online converters for kg to pds and it came out to 41 pounds. Is this correct? Thanks, D. Scott
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Persistent Sound Coming From Jd Ez-B Controller

Hello, I have successfully gone through the tutorials and manual to set up JD Humanoid. He can do various actions, songs etc , even do the facial recognition. However, I am noticing that there is a persistent "clicking" or "humming" sound coming from the EZ-B controller, sounds almost like a servo in action. Is this normal?...
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Terrible Whine  From  Hs-5805Mg Giant Scale Metal Gear Digital Servo Motor

Terrible Whine From Hs-5805Mg Giant Scale Metal Gear Digital Servo Motor

Hello All those smart than I. I am trying Digital giant scale servos on my...
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My Windows-10 Web-Browser Stopped Working

My web-browser stops working while I'm trying to connect my robot to ARC. On my HP full-ver win-10, OS ve 15063.674, Browser won't load pages after doing a tutorial. fix only for windows full-ver. not upgrade. WARNING, requires restart. resets net-drivr. favs stay, no changes.only brings your browser back when Win-10 full-ver browser stops working....
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Playing With Leds

playing with leds,am beginning to see what flowing in a script mean. when flowing is not good the robot motion will be slow or not complete. as seen in the last part of the video.
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3D Printing Designer Resources (Camera / Micro Servo)

I am trying to find stl files for the ez-robot camera and the ez-robot micro-hd servo but I am unable to track them down. It was noted in a previous thread that the micro sd servo is only available in ARC , but I have downloaded it and I can't find it in the Bit Library. Additionally while there have been a couple of people who have created designs...
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Explaining Computers Doing A Jd Review Video

Explaining Computers Doing A Jd Review Video

I love watching this guy's channel (Christopher Barnatt) Explaining Computer's... Anyway looks like he will be doing a segment on EZ...
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Newbie Needs Some Advice

New to Ez-B and feeling my way. Picked up JD Humanoid on Friday so I figured I would share experiences to date. I also got a dev kit for spares. Using an apple mac with a VM for Windows, Couple of challenges with network timeouts, cam connection etc,. Powered on JD and had a jittery servo (support said would replace), used one from the dev kit as a...
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Ot: Spock / Leonard Nimoy

Ot: Spock / Leonard Nimoy

Way off topic here, kinda. I watched "Spock" on Netflix last night. I was putting it off because it had such low ratings. However afterwards I gave it my 5 Star...
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I Think Its A Great Idea

I Think Its A Great Idea

the jd robot is the only one who batterie is diff to check,diff i mean, screwing 4 screws out every time you want to check the batt. so i come up with this idea ,some...
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Jd Goes Predator

my first atempt for jd predator.he will get the ez robot head&feets. also an idea is make a double head jd robot.with the lazer on the side head. all ideas are welkom.
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Wireless Camera With Usb Dongle

I have the Wireless Camera with USB Dongle that came with my original ez-robot kit. My question is what software can I get to use this camera without the ez-robot board? I am using a higher resolution camera on my ez-robot, but would like to use this one on other projects The description of the product (still sold) is: "he EZ-Robot 2.4 GHz...