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Robots Are Coming, Like It Or Not.

That's what Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said about the inevitability of robotic technology. Intel plans to launch a 3-D printable robot kit by the end of the year. The "consumer" version will start around $1,600 plus PIY (print it yourself) body. The robot will be open source. Not much detail about the hardware for the 'consumer"...
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Misterious Click

hi has anyone hear this clicking sound?i hear it in the speaker. i cant feel it in any servo.what i do find is that the circuitboard gets hot.
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Congrats To Dschulpius

Congrats To Dschulpius

3 EZRobot people entered the Instructables robot contest and Dave was one of the runnerups! Very cool! Next time I hope to see more entries running V4's. . Congrats Dave! Show...
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Need Help With My Ez-B V3. Dropping Bluetooth Connection

Need Help With My Ez-B V3. Dropping Bluetooth Connection

Hello, I just recently purchased a V3 EZ-B and am having a hard time keeping it connected to my computer. My...
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New To Rebotics

Hello all, my name is AJ. I found EZ by happenstance and now I'm hooked on the idea of building a bot. I've been working on an SRAI (stimulated response artificial intelligence) entity build around AIML for some time now. It (Sam) runs on a server in my house. It's a client/server setup so that Sam can answer or work on any PC in the house. I've...
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Interesting News Story: Robots In Market Place Trend

https://www.businessinsider.com/market-forecast-and-growth-trends-for-consumer-and-office-robots-2014-5
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Adding Buttons+Scripts To Customer Movement Panel

Adding Buttons+Scripts To Customer Movement Panel

I am building a control interface for a custom quadcopter. when i call out the "custom movement panel" control,...
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Slowly Getting Back At It

Well im slowly getting back to work on my bot Scraps I discovered a few problems with trying to run my bot here at my place 1 shag carpet Tracked bots don't turn well on shag carpet or in my case it don't turn on it at all 2 my place is small and the room I have to keep my pc in is the one with the shag carpet and if I put the put in the other room...
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Botfeeder 3D Printer Filament 1St Year Anniversary

Dear 3D Printer Users, Thank you for all your supports. It has been an amazing time for BotFeeder in the U.S. & Canada. We are expecting to set up more distribution centers in the near future. In the coming years, we are expecting 3D Printing Industry to grow at an exponential rate. According to many analysts that we are in the 1st phase of the...
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I2C Thoughts...

...from the newbie... Can each digital port send I2C? Because I saw some I2C servo controllers that handle multiple servos. Could this expand the number of servos (or H-bridges) controlled?
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Vendor For Power Connectors

Hello All I've lost my power connectors and cannot find a vendor to purchase a new one. Perhaps I'm using the wrong term when I do searches online. Can anyone direct me? The new batteries from EZ won't be available until July. Thanks, Daniel
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Still Suffering Rearrange Bug

Still Suffering Rearrange Bug

I still have the issue of ARC rearranging my project controls on opening. I'm using the latest version of ARC and I freshly built a new project file and it still...