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Is There Any Way Of Powering A Jd Or Any Other Ez-Bot From Anything Not Battery

I know I am going to be asked about battery life no end of times, I just wondered if there was any other power source for limited motion. Like some kind of umbilicus that can bypass the battery, but still use the body with shoulder servos - would be hand for schools working with scripting.
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Need Help With Jd-Bot Connection

trying to control a jd-bot from a Fujitsu tablet, but ARC says cannot connect to ez-b. Bot is working fine, can control from my dell with no problem. Any clues what to look for?, have removed AV software just in case (was mcaffee- ugh) thx Paul confused confused
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Facial Recognition Question

Facial Recognition Question

Hi, I've been through the tutorial on facial recognition. Two issues: 1) I'm getting 'false positives.' Roli see's my face and moves (Enable Movement Tracking is...
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Where's Roli ?

Where's Roli ?

For all you "Where's Wally" and "Where's Waldo" fans... Where's Roli ? ? ?
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Radar Servo Position Scaling Not Correct

Radar Servo Position Scaling Not Correct

Since DJ changed the servo scaling from 0 to 100 to 0 to 180, the radar scan does not perform as expected. The scan does not go from 0 to...
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Newb Question, Can I Edit Poses By Typing?

I am trying to edit poses, and only appear to be able to click and drag to change values for each servo. I want to just click and type values, but that has not worked. Export and import gives me a work-around, but the rest of Builder is so user friendly I am hoping I am just missing something. I go into auto position, click settings, then select or...
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Radio Controlled Car

help how to connect the ez-robot radio controlled car
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This Brings Back Old Memories

This brings back old memories....... DR. Sbaitso
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Continuously Running Servos

Hi, I have two different projects where Roli is set to respond to the color red. One file works perfectly well. When I load the other, Roli's right servos start running immediately - no red ball visible anywhere. I deselected color tracking but the tread still runs. It's obviously getting a signal from somewhere but the settings between the two...
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Joystick/Movement Panel Question

Joystick/Movement Panel Question

So I am puzzled... I have my movement panel working and it works fine using arrow keys ... But when I use the joystick I can see the GU lighting up in...
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Screen Resolution

I just purchased a new dell XPS ultra book laptop with a native resolution of 3200x1800. After loading EZ software it did not present right. I went to tutorials and was instructed to move slider bar to smallest under resolution settings (dell had it set to highest). EZ software then presented correctly but the tool bar type was so small you could...
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Connecting Lipo 7.4V To Ez-Bv4

Connecting Lipo 7.4V To Ez-Bv4

Hey, I want to connect a lipo battery 7.4v to the EZ-Bv4 unluckily I don't know which port I need to use. I thought it was the I2C port, but I'm not sure that...