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Soundservo Tied To The Rgb Animator?

@DJ.... Not sure this is even remotely possible. Could you tie in something like the soundServo control to the RGB Animator and/or the new 64 LED animator matrix you guys are working on and have it respond to sound? It would cool to be able to simulate a talking mouth by using the animator and a variation of the sound servo control or to just fade...
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Burnt Out Shoulder On Jd After Just A Couple Of Days

Hi, I assembled the JD robot, and used it for 2 evenings. It was great until on Sunday afternoon the robot was just being used for about 10 minutes, and I left it on for a further 5 minutes not doing anything, and standing on it's 2 feet - when there was a burning smell, and the body of the robot got hot. It turned out to be the right shoulder...
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Mobile Interface Running Background Colour

Mobile Interface Running Background Colour

I've come across a little issue and not sure if it's a bug or not. What it is, is when editing a mobile interface "Add Button"...
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Specific Rechargeable Batteries For Ez-B V 4 Controller

Hi I was wondering if there is a specific rechargeable battery that the ez-b v4 requires? I see on amazon that the rechargeable batteries are either Rechargeable alakline, Ni-he or Ni-Lith but I'm not sure which type to use for the ez-b v4 controller to maintain proper charge and damage control for use on the servos any ideas on which batteries to...
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Virtual Robot Control - Varible Display Feature Request

Virtual Robot Control - Varible Display Feature Request

Just an idea: Please consider adding a right click add variable display on the virtual robot control. I know...
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Servo Controlled Grippers For Rubik's Cube Scrambler

Servo Controlled Grippers For Rubik's Cube Scrambler

Most of my failed projects come from me overstepping my bounds. This time around, I'm looking to purchase (not...
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Throw Away Those Old Printers. Here Comes A 3D Printer That Is Upto 100 Times Fa

Upto 100 times faster 3D printer! Not only that, the Quality is MUCH MUCH Better! get this
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Dead Battery Out-Of-The-Box

Dead Battery Out-Of-The-Box

I think A) our battery has died, and B) our spare (BT684, 7.4V 1300MAH, 25C) is dead out-of-the-box! I am attaching an image of our battery, and the image showing a...
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Hard, Protective Coating For 3D Prints

Hard, Protective Coating For 3D Prints

stumbled upon this from my silicone supplier...might be of interest to the 3D priniting crowd... XTC-3D
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What Is The Fastest Baud Rate For The Ezb 3. I Am Only Getting 9600 Baud

What is the FASTEST Baud rate for the EZB 3. I am only getting 9600 baud. Is that the MAX? I know it is at the end of it's rope. But, it is all I have right now. It seems so slow. thanks, mel
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Six Servo Motor Frozen

One servo motor for my SIX is practically frozen. It requires too much force to turn it in any direction. When fully assembly, there is no movement and it hums.
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Jd Head Eye Faulty

Not sure whether to handle this with a return. I picked up a humanoid head (among other parts) to add to my Roli base. Everything works fine except the middle right pixel of the left eye does not display any shade of red. Green, blue are fine but it's unable to display red which obviously screws that pixel up for everything except for colors...