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Ezb Not Chowing On Iphone Wifi

Ezb Not Chowing On Iphone Wifi

i have a new ezb and david help me connected. problem is now i cant see the ezb on my iphone so i cant connect, ez builder mobile.any ideas anyone thank you
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Does Each Ez-B V4 Have A Unique Identifier Accessible From ARC?

I'm just wondering if, in a lab containing 25 or more EZ-Bs, each controller might have a unique ID in the firmware that can be accessed via ARC. I realize that assigned IPs will distinguish between the controllers for communication purposes. However from a system standpoint, unique IDs might help tighten cloud security when local ARC scripts...
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Tips On Humanoid Head Design For 3D Printing?

Tips On Humanoid Head Design For 3D Printing?

Soon, I will need to make a decision about whether the JD head will be the best choice for the user (student) interface for the...
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Multiple Robots

I know this topic has been done to death. I know this because I have been reading posts on it until I'm bleary eyed. Out of all the posts I have read there have been some concrete answers and some iffy so I've decided to add yet another to that long list of posts and just ask straight up. I've only just ordered more EZB4s and some other parts so I...
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Usage Of Home Robot

hey I am currently pursuing my masters in Information Security. As a part of my thesis (on vulnerabilities in home robots), i am conducting a small survey on Usage of home robots. I shall be truly grateful, if you could spare 2 mins and complete this survey https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/m3Nijxqt Thanks a million for the help...
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Southpark-Type Animation An Effective Substitute For Moving Mouth?

I'm wondering if some sort of mouth animation as seen in characters in, say, South Park, might provide an effective alternative to using servos to manufacture jaw movement. And more servos to manipulate physical mouth movement. So, I've just started looking around and am finding websites that claim that there are only 9 or 10 mouth (3D)...
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Sleep Zone

Sleep Zone

Well anyone else can't sleep because I can't ???? and I'm starting to get board so anyone got an idea cause I got zip ?????????????? and it's 4:23 here and now I'm anoid to no blasted end on the...
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Thoughts About Handwriting Recognition?

In my project prototype, I will have a JD head that provides interaction with a student who wants (needs?) to learn some remedial math. My design approach is that the bot interface will serve two purposes: 1. a friendly, engaging interface with the student 2. essentially a data collection device observing student understanding through a. spoken...
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Information On Available Servos

hello, I planned to restore my OMNIBOT 2000 and I wonder if we need servos left for the left arm and right servos for right fras? or is it that it does not matter? can someone informed me? thank you, sincerely eric
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Open Call Auditions – ‘Bot Heads For Potential Use In Final Product

(Got a bit nervous about propriety and good tase . . . If I could delete, I would. I should just look through the showcase.) Ron
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Required Servos For Alan Kit

Will, (So sorry if this info is on another thread - I did search.) Just went to your website to inquire about purchase of one and multiple Alans for my project prototyping and for presentation to investors in a couple of months. I suspect I can reuse my JD head EZ-B, two servos, and camera to partially fill in Alan's needs. However I'd like to know...
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Custom Color Detection - Mutliple Objects

Hello everyone First of all sorry for my english not great eyeroll I acquired JD Humanoid recently and I enjoy myself immensely with the SDK C # to learn all the functionalities But I have a problem on the detection of custom colors with the camera. I have a sheet with 16 squares of identical color on ARC detects my 16 square. With the SDK C # and...