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Using Plastic 3D Printing For Robot Parts

Using Plastic 3D Printing For Robot Parts

Plexiglass/Acrylic is my go-to robot chasis-building material, but it is near-impossible to make round objects with plexiglass. I'm...
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Thormang 3

Thormang 3

I have always liked the track robots because of easy use outside but after watching this youtube robot here, Damn that looks seriously spooky/cool,about double the size of my tracked Rad bot! Rise of...
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Help Identifying 20 Pin Io

Help Identifying 20 Pin Io

Hey guys I'm trying to see if anyone can identify this 20 pin IO male and female connector. Its super tiny. It connects a camera to a PCB board. I'd like to add a...
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New Inmoov Builder Power Questions

For the inmoov builders here. For power distribution I am thinking of using a tiny and EZ/4 plus a SSC-32 spreading the BB805's out over the 3 boards. I have a 60A power supply to feed the boards. I understand the EZ will do 5A each so 2 805s on each EZ and a few small servos and the rest on a SSC-32. Do you think this is a way to go? . Right now 3...
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Uart Connecting To An Arduino

I'm very new to both the ez-b4 and Arduino and need basic help or advice. With my robot I want to be able to control LEDs through an Arduino. I have a Mega and with it I can add more LED functions to it as I learn. I've been reading a lot of posts on this and I took in so much info, I think I'm just dangerous and not knowledgeable. I want to start...
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Mqtt Conecting

Mqtt Conecting

i am trying to use the MQTT plugin with no luck. I have a host on 192.168.2.8 and so far am just hitting the connect button but its timing out with...
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Serial/Usb Connectivity

I really wanted to convert the wifi to USB conductivity on my EZB4 to connect directly to my pc, but after reading the tutorial the USB converter uses the camera port. Did I miss were you can still use the ARC camera with the USB conversion. Thanks, merne
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Neopixel Tutorial

Trying to work through the neopixel tutorial. Is this working for others? I can't get the Arduino sketch to compile with new and old versions of IDE. Is this working for others or is the problem on my end. Thanks
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Win 10

Well, I have just about had it trying to run windows 10 on both of my laptops which are only a few years old, ran always amazing with Win7 but when the latest update came on win10 while I was busy else where, the update caused the laptop to shut down,restart,shut down,restart...endlessly for an hour and completely damaged the hard drive. So...
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Providing Remote Help To Novice Robot Builders

I recently had my 11 year old nephew build an Adventure Bot using the Course materials while he was at my house and setup his Windows 10 tablet with ARC. He had a great time building and testing it here, but was worried about support at home, Of course I showed him all the great learning tools on the EZ-Robot site but I also added Splashtop to his...
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Help Connecting A Neopixel Ring

Help Connecting A Neopixel Ring

Hello all, Has anyone used a NeoPixel Ring before. I can't figure out how to wire it or connect it to EZB. Here is a link to the NeoPixel Ring site it has a...
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A Possible Feature Enhancement

A Possible Feature Enhancement

@DJ Sures, In ARC, could there be a "lock" added to controls (specifically scripts) that would require a user to unlock the control to make changes to...