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4 Relay Control

4 Relay Control

I saw on the message board that I can purchase relay boards that I can control with my Ez-Robot Micro-Controller. After a little investigation, I purchased a Four Relay Module. The...
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What Kind Of Charger Plug Is It ?

What Kind Of Charger Plug Is It ?

what kind of Charger/ Lipo battery-plug/ connector is it ? Its very similar to the tamiya plug. Anyone has an idea?
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Charging Cable Too Short

Why is the charging cable only sticking through the body about 1/4"? This makes it VERY hard to connect the charger. I have to remove the left arm and use needle nose pliers to hold the connector Is there an extension cable?
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Ezb Camera & Orientation Sensor

Ezb Camera & Orientation Sensor

Hi everyone, just wanted to ask a couple of quick questions.:) Does the old EZB camera from the earlier development kits not work with the EZB4? Before i did...
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Speech Recognition Language

EZB prompts me to select a language in speech recognition configuration window , But there is nothing there to choose from. It's blank. I have a mic connected , working well for EZB recording. I use win 7. What should I do to activate this function ?
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Ultrasonic Input Voltage From Battery Pack

Ultrasonic Input Voltage From Battery Pack

I think that some of my trouble started after I got the second Ultrasonic sensor ,as I did not upgrade the battery pack (old radio shack...
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Ot: Need Help With Dead Roomba

Ot: Need Help With Dead Roomba

Hi all, This is off topic but I know there are a few people here that may be able to help. Please forgive. I've got a Roomba model 531 and it's stopped working....
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Say Ezb

When I use the mobile Ez builder app and use Blocky , I get and Error message when I try to use the Say Ezb command. Example: SayEZB "Hello World" Code SayEZB("Hello World") I get the error message >Error on line 1: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'java.lang.Objectjava.util.HashMap.get(java.lang.Object)' on a null object...
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Autoposition Import/Export

I wanted to delete a couple of dozen frames to clean up the auto position control and created a problem. I know get the following error: Auto Position Thread Error: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array. Here is what I did. 1. Exported all actions and frames from the auto position utilities. 2. Deleted auto...
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Bing Speech .Dll Question

Bing Speech .Dll Question

I updated to the latest ver of ARC Release 2017.02.20.00, but when i install the plug in for Bing Speech I get the follow error when i try to launch: Same error when i...
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Pinout For I2c Connector

Pinout For I2c Connector

Hi -- I am trying to attach a LIDAR sensor to my ez-robot. It uses the I2C protocol. I need to know which pin on the I2C connector is SDA and which is SCL. Thank, Nick
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Anyone There?

Is anyone home this week? Keeping checking to see, but no one in, wanted to chat about an opportunity