Robot Building Questions

Just Received Ezb V4 Controller With Camera.No Power Supply Included? From Re Se

https://www.robotshop.com/en/ez-b-v4-wifi-robot-controller-with-camera.html#productsReviewBoxTitle EZ-B V4 WiFi Robot Controller with Camera Product Code : RB-Ezr-16 by EZ-Robot I was thrilled to receive this in one day, free shipping from Robot Shop.. But didn't received Power Supply? No where does it state the power supply is separate and the...

Anyone Experience This On V4

Sorry to be so late to respond. I just got out of the Hospital. Anyone experience this on EZB V4: I apply power. It starts off with Blue Light It goes to Blinking blue light and stays. I hook up the EZB 4 to the first wireless network fine. when I try to hook in ARC, I can not. There is NO Sound from the EZB. It says: Connection Failed:...

Output Mismatch

Hi, I've a problem when I use forward(speed , millisecond) function , the robot move but it didn't stop after 5 sec . ex forward(90,5000) it didn't stop after 5 sec why ?

Disabling Certain Custom Colours , Blod Detection

Hi. Does anyone know if it is possible to temporarily disable certain custom colour? I have 3 custom colours in the multicolour tab, red, blue and green. What I want to do is disable two colours so the camera will only track the colour I wish, and ignore the other two even when all colours are in view of the camera. I need a command like this:...

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...

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.

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...

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: https://www.speechtechblog.com/2016/03/23/google-opens-access-speech-api I haven't looked at the API yet to see what would be involved, but I imagine a plugin would not be out of the question. Alan

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...

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