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Question With Build

Question With Build

Hi, We built JD according to the instructions and his left side does not work except for the claw. We double checked the wiring and all seems fine. At the moment we are at a stand...
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Is Shop Closed

Is Shop Closed

add to cart option is down and I want (need) to spend
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Why My Camera Always Disable

Why My Camera Always Disable

I recently received EZ-B , a gift from EZ-Robot Community thanks for it. when i try for first time, I have a problem with my ez-robot camera whenever I press start...
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Wall-E

Wall-E

Hello there! Can you tell me where i have to put the wires for the wireles camera and where to connect to the ezb-4. Kind Regards Mvg, Jorrik
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Update On Trying Out A New Smaller Joystick

Update On Trying Out A New Smaller Joystick

I bit ago I was asking for info on small joystick controllers as I did not want some big hulking controller... Well I ended up going...
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How To Make The Robot Dance To A Song?

How To Make The Robot Dance To A Song?

I have made 3 different dance steps for 3 different songs. I want to make it in such a way that in the auto position window, when i execute an...
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How To Make Robot To Go To Its Respective Url After Detecting Glyph Graph ?

How To Make Robot To Go To Its Respective Url After Detecting Glyph Graph ?

My robot is able to detect glyph graph and converts it into augmented...
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Your Kit

To whom it may concern I would like to say that my school has robotic kits from another company and did not hear of your company. I stumbled upon the Internet and found your web site, and were impressed so I told my professor because I'm a future robotic student and I would like to know would your kit or senses work with my schools kit instead of...
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Power Question

Is there any reason why I can't/shouldn't use a 12 volt battery with a DC to DC converter set to an output of 7.4 volts? Physical size inside my bot isn't a problem. A gel cell is common/cheap and has lots of amp/hrs.
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Roli Dance

Roli Dance

Some nice actions have been added to the latest update :-) But with the differences a couple of programming questions arise. First one: how to play music and dance together? In the old program the...
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How To Make A Control Of Roli's Wheels Using A Slider For Mobile App?

I have made my mobile app of Roli weeks ago. I am able to make it move forward,reverse,left & right on the ARC Windows version but not Android, though there is a Forward,Reverse,Left & Right buttons on mobile. I am just thinking does it need the control of wheels because when i used the Example project of Roli, it didnt move forward until I...
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Editor Line Numbers Displaced

When scrolling a script in an editor window, the line numbers scroll not in sync with the text. The lines seem to scroll in discrete steps, while text scrolls smoothly. This can make the lines hang between the line numbers. To reproduce: edit a script with a length greater than the window height. Then scroll down, using the scrollbar or mouse...