Robot Building Questions

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

Voice Recognition

Hi, I'm 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 I'm presenting, the robot responds to my voice and performs actions (sit,...

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...

Omnibot 2000 Tire

Hi Guys I am in desperate need of an Omnibot 2000 tire, can anyone help?