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Hovis Eco Control

I am thinking of trying to hack a Hovis Eco and control it with an EZB4. The guestion I have is would it be possible to unplug the Eco's IR receiver from it's CPUs port and plug in a cable from the EZB4 to take over the IR commands to the Eco. This would let the Eco controller handle servo control, LED control, sensors and movement control. The...
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Free Nasa Patents

NASA is making some of their patents available free for 3 yrs. Good opportunity to expose your EZ Robot family to new innovative evolution. https://www.technology.nasa.gov/patents
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Debugging Mobile Interface

First off, let me say thank you to all of you who have been so helpful. I'm a newbe with ARC, so I really appreciate the assistance. I'm having trouble with a script getting hung up, or stopping because of an error. It's a fairly striaght forward script, just moving a pan servo with my HCsr04 sonar on it, looking for obstacles, and directing the...
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Ezb V4 Camera Replacement

Hi I found a secondhand ezb v4 kit on ebay, user had problems with the camera. I got it very cheap. The ezb works great but the camera doesnt. The Arm chip gets to hot to touch and theres no Picture. It also raises current draw from around 180 mAh to 900mAh when plugged in to the ezb. So the camera is broken and its out of stock here in the store....
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Relay Driver Using An Arduino To An Ezbv4

Relay Driver Using An Arduino To An Ezbv4

Hello All, I have an 8 relay 5volt relay board, (compatable with Arduino) which I want to drive from my EZBv4. I have made a script to run...
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Remote Control Robot Omnibot 2000

Hello everyone, I am looking for a remote control robot OMNIBOT 2000 quelquin peut'il inform me where I can buy one?
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Sync To Ez-Bit Library

I have been able to connect the bot to the wifi. I also have an internet cable plugged into my laptop. When I try to sync to EZ Cloud I get this: Unable to COnnect to EZ-Cloud. Please connect to the internet. The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine Can someone direct me towards my next steps?
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Whether Does Voice And Hearing Functions Support Chinese?

Hello all. Excuse me,I want to know whether voice and hearing functions support Chinese?Such as I can make voice communication with DJ robot in Chinese? chao
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The Connection Is Not Firm Between Ez-B V4 Tobot Controller And Body

The Connection Is Not Firm Between Ez-B V4 Tobot Controller And Body

The connection is not firm between EZ-B v4 tobot controller and body.It was...
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Newest Version Of ARC Cannot Install

I just downloaded the newest version of ARC, when I go to install it, Windows is telling me its not a valid installer program? I am running windows 7. Thoughts?
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Variables Not Global?

So, I thought I read somewhere in the forums that the variables that I create are all global. I wrote an "initialize" script that I run before any other script once I power up my EZB4. This script is for the purpose of declaring all of my variables, among other things. I wrote another script that would not work. It contains variables that...