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Adc Ports

I just want to confirm, so as to NOT release the magic smoke, I want to trigger scripts wit the press of a button or the closing of a normally open contact. I figure that I connect the Red (3.3 Volts) and White (signal) on an ADC port across the switching contacts and have a script watching the assigned ADC port for change. I also planned to...
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Jd Walking

Perhaps I am just too dense to find it but the out-of-the-box actions in ARC for JD have dancing, sitting, etc. but nothing for walking. Given the things has legs and is a "humanoid" this must exist? Can anyone help point me to how I accomplish getting JD to walk? Thanks Scott
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Is The Robot Hobby For Everyone?

There is a good article in this months Maker Magazine where someone made the comment that Robotics fascinates them because of all of the various disciplines that one has to have to build robots. This got me thinking about everything that you would need to understand in order to be proficient at building a robot. It also got me thinking about all of...
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Internet Connetion Lan

Internet Connetion Lan

is there someone who can help me with changing a lan wire to another, router port?
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110 Vac Outlet Turned On By An Ezb

I want a voice or auto position command to turn on a lamp or a radio in a room. This outlet is in a remote area. Can anyone advise me what I can use? Wireless is the way I want to go. I would prefer to not do to much hacking if possible. Ron R
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Hi, Could I Get The Api Or Dll?

I want to buy JD Humanoid for redevelopment. Can I get the API or dll for redevelopment? Thank you!
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Call An Auto Position Script

How do you call an Auto Position script from another script. There is no way I can see to name an auto position so I can call different ones at different times. Am I missing something here? A quick search doesn't give any examples. Thanks.
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Not Working Correctly

Not Working Correctly

Just got my awesome jd. One of the arm pieces does not appear to bend thoughts? please help!
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L298 Bridge

L298 Bridge

I was looking around micro center and found this there. Took it home and wired it up and nothing. Anyone know if this works with the ezb v3 or v4? I feel like I'm missing something . Power supply is...
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Flipper Bot Not Getting Power

A month or two ago I purchased 2 Flipper Bots. Today I took one out of the box to set it up. The battery is fully charged, the ezB4 seems to lock in tight to the body unit but when I flip on the power I get nothing. I opened the battery housing and the battery appears ok. I did confirm its the body unit, because the EZB4 works fine in another body...
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Face Recognition Idea.Maybe?

I was wondering, since ez robot has face recognition..could some programming be done so the robot could take a picture and text it or load it automatically in Facebook or Any social network automatically? Think it would be cool to say "robot" take picture and load automatically to my Facebook then have people look immediately at them....
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Pandorabots - Ez-Robot-Alexa

So given Pandorabots new platform, is the pandorabots interface effectively broken? I read everything, but it applies to the old pandorabots platform. I have a developer account but can't integrate the appid/user key concept to the ezrobot interface. Also, has any work been done to integrate the Amazon ALEXA service with Ezrobot? It seems like a...