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Extended Range Wifi From Ezb?

So once the ezb v4 is inside the lawn mower bot it doesn't pick up as well, Any ideas on making an external antenna or adding a booster/ amp? I need the mower not to eat the neighbors cat , haha
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Neopixels

I was wondering that it was possible to connect an neopixel ring(16) directly to the ez b4? If so, where do i connect the com port to ? tnx
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Servospeed Questions And Questions

Whoops! The title was supposed to be ServoSpeed Questions and Issues Unfortunately you can't change the title so we are stuck with "Questions and Questions", Sorry @DJ_Sures Lately, I and Mickey666Maus have been working with recording the movements from a virtual robot in 3ds with the purpose of playing them back in ARC. This we can do....
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What Is The Best Remote Control Solution For My 30Dof Robot?

What Is The Best Remote Control Solution For My 30Dof Robot?

Hi there, I would like to control my Humanoid Robot (custom robot with 30 degrees of freedom - 2...
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One Board Connects To Wifi But Won't Get An Ip Address

Hello everybody! Just checking if I may be able to fix this issue otherwise than by changing the main board to my main robot. This robot has 2 V4 boards (+ 1 V3 that serves only to put everything on standby by controlling a simple relay). One of the 2 V4 boards will simply not be able to get a stable IP address. Since I use 2 DHCP routers which...
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Action If A Variable Changes?

Maybe this is not possible, I'm stuck on finding a method that would allow this to work. I know I can script checking for a specific variable change like this: If ($WhatIsForDinner = "ChickenPotPie") Print("Yummy") EndIf But I would like a script to take action anytime a specific variable changes. This would just run all the...
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Wifi On Board Or Using Another Network?

Here is My question and I may not be understanding the Wifi is the controller the Wifi ,or does it link to an existing network and use its wifi ? This makes a difference because of what i was planing to use the controller for which is outdoors away from any network
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I've Started To Work On Mapping Using The Vx-11 Lidar

The boards have been pretty quiet so I thought I would share what I am working on now. This is for robots using an on-board computer I have started making a plugin that is designed to use the xv-11 sensor, wheel radius and encoder counts per revolution of the wheels to make a map of the environment. It also uses the compass part of the 4-in-1...
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Question Editing Frames

Question Editing Frames

I get a "unhandled exception" error whenever I try to edit frames. I am using a six with claw robot. I can see all the servos in the settings but error occurs when...
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ARC For Windows

ARC For Windows

I try to run the ARC for Windows using Parallells Desktop in a iMac. After downloading, I get error message like the attached image. Can anyone help please? confused Lennart
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Executing Functions At Certain Times Of The Day

Depending on the time of the day, I want my robot to do one thing or a different thing. I cant figure the logic out to make something like below to happen. I am hoping someone can give me some hints. Here is my script If ($time > "9:30:00" and $time "16:00"00" and $time < "09:30:00") print("to the other...
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Serial Port Monitor On Ez-B's Bluetooth Port ?

Saturday, 2 February 2013 Good Morning EZ-Robot Community ! HHD Software has a Serial Port Monitor that I used to Monitor & Record the communication to my iRobot Roomba via an RS-232 Tether Cable. https://www.serial-port-monitor.com/ Does anyone have any success with any Serial Port Monitors for EZ-B's Bluetooth Serial Port ? Mine is on (COM3)...