Robot Building Questions

Upgrade to ARC Pro
Your robot can be more than a simple automated machine with the power of ARC Pro!
Synthiam Credit
Earn synthiam credit to lower synthiam product costs
Your Synthiam Credit is $0.00
Discover ways you can lower the cost of Synthiam products by contributing to the platform and community.
Earn Synthiam Credit
Exosphere
Loading...
Remote control robots or add telepresence capabilities with Exosphere
Add remote telepresence capabilities to your robot from your phone or PC
Add your robot to Exosphere
Sythiam Swag
Men's High-top Sneakers

Men's High-top Sneakers

Cyborg fashion sense has no limits! These extremely comfortable high-top canvas sneakers are made to last and to impress...
IFTTT Sender by faengelm
Featured
By faengelm

IFTTT Sender

Provides a means to send HTTPGet() messages from ARC to the IFTTT applet Webhooks Channel in the "IF This" clause, allowing EZB scripts to...

Late 2017 Wall-e (yet Another Wall-e) by Sssuhl
Featured
By Sssuhl

Late 2017 Wall-e (yet Another Wall-e)

Hi Everyone - New to ez-robot, but long time rc hobbyist, IT guy, etc. Just wanted to put up a quick post to mostly say thank-you for all...

Your Community Content

Welcome to the Synthiam Robotics Community

Sign in to unlock your personalized community feed — browse your posts, track replies, follow discussions, and join the conversation.

Log In to Access Your Content
question
Ez-B Automatically Reconnect After Wifi Drop?

Ez-B Automatically Reconnect After Wifi Drop?

Is there a way to set the ez-b to automatically reconnect to wifi after the wifi drops out itself? For example, im using my 4GLTE...
question

Camera No Longer Works

Recently purchased one of the newer cameras, less than a month old. The camera for some reason no longer works, it gets super super hot, the heat sink has come unglued from the chip and the lense has come loose as well hanging by the ribbon cable. The light no longer comes on either. I can post the debug information if needed but at this point when...
question

R/C Receiver

Can model airplane r/c receiver be Connected to ezb for long range manual control . Possibly use fpv gear for video/telemetry Also have 433mhz serial modems , for telemetry.
question

Defective Parts

I recently ordered two six robots and some extra servos and some sensors from brookstone. I have a defective camera....I followed the advice here and confirmed bad camera after swapping in the other. Also reseated connectors and both circuit boards in bad camera, no help. I also have three bad lever servos...they just dont respond at all. I also...
question

New Option For Enhanced Speech Recognition

Google has just opened their speech API that powers Google now to developers, and at least for now it is free: http://www.speechtechblog.com/2016/03/23/google-opens-access-speech-api I havent looked at the API yet to see what would be involved, but I imagine a plugin would not be out of the question. Alan
question
It's.It's.Omg It's A Cylon

Its.Its.Omg Its A Cylon

Its now only a matter of time before they enslave us. Thanx!
question

New Ezb V4 Controller Connects And Disconnects On ARC Windows, Mobile. Cam

Hello; I have owned a EZB v3 for 4years and it worked fine. I just received a brand new EZBv4 controller and camera yesterday. I bought fresh rechargeable batteries and powered it up. Did the startup speech, networked it with my windows computer, tried my android phone and my win10 tablet. It connects DING! and then disconnects in a second. Funny...
question

Interesting Article And Discussion Describing What Servos Are And How They Work

Saw this today on Hack-a-day. Nothing new to me, but it ties directly to a conversation I was having recently with @RR333 about using a DC motor and why I thought a servo better fit his needs. https://hackaday.com/2016/03/24/hackaday-dictionary-servo-motors/ Alan
question
Peadro Robot Build

Peadro Robot Build

6 DOF robotic arm 12 volt gear motor driven tracked chassis with 10 pound capactiy 12 volt 6 amp hour battery Im going to use a DROK step down to lower the voltage where i like it for...
question
Servos For Hero 1

Servos For Hero 1

Hi all In my on-again/off-again Hero 1 reburb project Ive given up on trying to use the stepper motors for the steering, head and arms. Can someone suggest a good sized servo or setup to...
question

Voice Recognition

Hi, Im using the voice recognition control and it is working quite well. I do a lot of presentations and show this feature often. Just before moving on to another control, I pause the VR (checkbox) but for reasons unknown the setting does not hold. I works initially. While Im presenting, the robot responds to my voice and performs actions (sit,...
question

Print(Txt) Script Function Does Not Work As Documented

The documentation for the script print function indicates that it should output to the debug window: Print( txt ) Outputs the specified text to the debug console Example: Print(This is some text) Example: Print(Today is $Day) Example: Print($pi rounded is Round($pi, 2)) However, it is only outputting to the script window, so if I have a print...