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Ez-B Camera Not Connecting To Camera Device Control

You can see error below. It has never successfully connected to the camera. ARC can connect to ez-b. Under Advanced Settings for the EZ-B HTTP page, Camera Transmit Nagle: disabled Camera Transmit Max Packet Size: 1152 EZ-B Transmit Nagle: disabled EZ-B Receive Buffer Size: 4000 Wi-fi client mode Camera has solid LED Any diagnostics that I can run?...
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Connecting A Neopixel Ring To An Iotiny

I'm trying to get a NeoPixel Ring running off of an IOTiny board. On a EZBv4 the TX and RX are connected: D18 Signal Pin on the EZB to RX on the Arduino, D19 Signal Pin on the EZB to TX on the Arduino Which pins would I attach to on the IOTiny or can I run the ring off of the Tiny? I've tried all of the Digital pins and they don't work. Thanks
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Camera Image Won't Rotate On Mobil

Camera Image Won't Rotate On Mobil

I'm helping my son build his first Ez-Robot (Kleenex box type). As such I helped him with his first Mobile App which is basically just a test app for...
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Rad-Bot With Sonar Progress

started to actually test robot with ultrasonic sensor to avoid walls/obstacles.I think i need to add real servo motor sweeping with the sonar sensor, though the Laptop is showing some sort of radar sweeping picking up the pings,not sure how that works when the sonar is just taped on the front for now.Also need to modify the obstacle avoidance ,so...
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Inmoov Servos

I am moving away from MRL to EZB for my Inmoov. I have the entire robot wit all the arduinos etc working at a basic level. I seem to be constantly stuck with too many things with MRL. So I did get an EZB and have toyed with it with a couple of servos. I am really happy with the simpler interface etc. Before I hook up any more servos, Can someone...
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Smoking Servo

New to the forum and robotics I've searched but not found something to my specific issue. I've Just received a brand new Developer Kit - one of my continuous rotation servos attached to d1 on a EZ-b v4 continuously rotated then started smoking and went red hot. At the time I was just setting up, so I had one HD servo plugged into D0 but nothing...
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Power Connection Ezb

My Rad 1.0 project robot is nearly completed but have one serious question about causing power damage to either the 4 wire H bridge pwm or the EZB_4. After completion of successfully wire soldering to original rad 6 volt motors to H Bridge which is sharing the same dual 7.2 Nimh battery packs with Ezb_4, I also rewired the original Rad wires and...
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Tutorial Update Questions

It was noticed that the Arduino sketch I put in the Neopixal tutorial wasn't working. https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/UserTutorials/150/1 I have tried to edit it so it will work, however, I can't add a missing line that has somehow gone missing from the sketch. In the sketch there is a line that should read; #include <Adafruit_NeoPixel.h> I...
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Ez-B V3

Hello, I bought the EZ-b robot kit many moons ago (approx 5yrs), The v3, yes I know it's discontinued ?? Life has been chaotic and my robot project has been slow in the making. Long story short, I can't find the documents that came with it, so I don't have the Bluetooth password. Please help! EZ-B V3
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Ezb Formula Race Car?

I was thinking about getting this 8 year old Giant race car to work with my Lap top,it is huge about the size of my kitchen table and really,really fast,needs a huge empty parking lot to use with Radio control but thinking how neat it would be to watch Live video and drive it with cell phone app or Lap top.Has anyone done this and is the EZB camera...
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Neopixel Control

Neopixel Control

I see there is a NeoPixel (software) Control Ok - Now what? Board 1, Port D8 -- do I connect my ring here? I see it says, "no" but that was two years ago, before this control...
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We Made The Local Paper

Just my small town paper (population 130k - ish) but a pretty good article. And I made sure that EZ-Robot was mentioned. iRobot in my local paper