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Cat Wearing A Shark Costume Cleans The Kitchen On A Roomba

Cat Wearing A Shark Costume Cleans The Kitchen On A Roomba

Not my video and not entirely relevant to this forum except for Roomba fans and we are into scary...
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Plastic Piece On Left Foot Servo Is Wallowed Out Is Just Spinning On Servo Gear

Finally after dealing with my HP computer that would not pick up the EZB-v4 , I bought a new Dell computer that JD would work on! He is amazing but in doing some already programmed procedures from you, JD fell off the table & wallowed out the plastic that attaches to his left foot so I am down until I can get a replacement part! DJ, your...
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Jd Makes Us Breakfast

Jd Makes Us Breakfast

The wonderful Varij taught JD how to make us breakfast this morning. What a guy!
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Cannot Connect To Ez-Robot

Hello everyone, I have recently bought the Ez-Robot developer kit. I got batteries and assembled everything together. It booted up and I heard the chime. I went to my wifi connections and found it. However it will not let me connect to it. The odd thing is it connected on my other computer that runs windows 7 but it will not connect on my primary...
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Battery Question

The green light will not turn on our JD unit. Any advice? The red light comes on but the green light does not when plugged in. It was working just fine until today. Thanks in advance.
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The Dragontear Robot Evolution Mad Lab

The Dragontear Robot Evolution Mad Lab

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Current Revolution Owner Question - Servos

This is a question for Revolution owners. I'm in China right now checking up on our factories. Boy is it ever a great experience! I've been here a few times throughout the last year, researching available products and manufacturing abilities of factories. There are quite a few factories and companies involved in the manufacturing of the product...
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Convert A String Into A Numeric Value

Hello Everyone, I'm writing a script that will allow JD to give a short & simple math quiz to 6th grade special education students (my wife is a special ed teacher). A challenge I have run into, is with converting the spoken text into a numeric value. For example: $response = WaitForSpeech(30, "4", "3") Is not detecting...
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Interfacing A Pir Onto The Ezb

I have tried every which a way and I cannot find a way to hook the PIR to the EZB. I have tried Analog,Digital, etc. I bought a dozen of these units - the ones with the TWO Potentiometers on the PC. You help would be appreciated. Thanks,
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Micro Gripper

Micro Gripper

I know someone asked a long time ago about micro grippers and we discussed the Micro Gripper from Servo City. I got one and it is tiny! Servo City says it is compatible with Hitec’s HS-55 servo...
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Servoss

i want to know about the ic used in servo and where i can get it.
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Gripper

This looks cool. Gripper