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Movie Night

Movie Night

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Continuous Servo Movement

Hello, I've recently finished creating my robot with the developer kit and everything is fantastic! I'm just a little confused with the continuous servos, I've got one on each side of my robot for the wheels, however when I control it to move forward, I have one wheel moving forward and the other moving in reverse. this is probably me being really...
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Does I Need A Specific Charger For Lead-Acid Batteries

i have a lead-acid battery 12v 9.0ah and i was charging it with a dc adaptor 12v 4A do i need a custom lead-acid battery charger like in lipo's or i could just charge it this way
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Companion Robot Owners

I am looking to gather info on the impact of human- companion robot interactions. If anyone has a companion robot and would like to answer the following questions, it would be greatly appreciated! What type of companion robot do you have? How has having a companion robot impacted your life? What are your favorite and least favorite features of your...
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Controlling 4 Continuous Rotation Servos

I was wondering if its possible to use 4 continuous rotation servos but use it with a joystick and how far you push the joystick will determine speed, and/or have a speed control to go as fast as you want to go, I have the bot running with 4 continuous rotation servos but its goes full speed and I made buttons to go which direction.
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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...
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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...