Robot Building Questions

Is The ARC Required For A Bot To Work?

Hi Im currently looking into EZ-robot, cause i really love the whole idea of bringing robotics out to everyone. I've always done a lot of electronics and i work as a programmer . I worked a lot with the Fez Panda II, Netduino's, and recently got a Beaglebone black as well. So im used to the, some times painfully long process of "Write...

Getting The Word Out. Your Thoughts?

I was just thinking of helping out our favorite robotics company by brainstorming with the community. To get this thread started off I want to ask all of you what tags should be added to our YouTube videos to increase exposure of the EZB there. I feel this is a zero cost form of advertising will be beneficial. Thoughts? I will group them all in...

Only Mesh Stl Files Available For Ez-Bits?

Is it only possible to get the STL files of the ez-bits? I would be alot easier to extend, modify and create new ez-bits if we had access to the cad files? fx. the Roli Cover stl is huge and includes the rover chassis in one big mesh, so not really usefull for printing or modifying?

H-Bridge L298 Question

Morning all, I've a query about the L298 H-bridge that I hope that someone may be able to point me in the right direction with I've followed the same directions as in the thread here So in my setup, I've got it wired as follows H-Bridge: ENA & ENB - D19 SW1 OFF IN1 - D15 IN2 - D16 IN3 - D17 IN4 - D18 5V - D19 5V GND - D19 GND VCC - + battery...

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"...

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.

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...