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Ar Drone Does Not Find Object Location

I am trying to create an application that will track a green tennis ball but I am having problems with finding the location the ball. Here's the code that I think is incorrect, how can I change it find the location of the ball? Thank you! private void timer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e) { camera = new Camera(ezB_Connect1.EZB);...
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Dc Motor Control Question

Hello, We are a team of engineering students working on a robotics project about to participate in a robotics competition. We have only a few days to finish up and we are currently having a problem with the DC motors for our second robot. We are trying to drive two DC motors to move the robot using PWM signals sent from an arduino card. Using an H...
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Adc To Move Jaw New Software

Adc To Move Jaw New Software

Hello, I had a working JAW/mouth working with older software. I upgrade to the lastest software and can't figure out how to sync the jaw using a analog to digital...
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Firmware Fail

Hi folks. Been awhile since I've been here. Blew the dust off my Wall-e and went to upgrade the firmware. Got about 3/4 of the way (twice), but it failed. Third time I tried, I get this response over and over again: EZ-Robot OS Updater Version: 2014.05.25.00 5/26/2014 12:29:15 PM - Begin 5/26/2014 12:29 PM - Attempting connection on COM4 5/26/2014...
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Rss Feeds

@MovieMaker mentioned he wanted more RSS Feeds in the AI topic earlier and listed out a few so... Here is a project with a single Script Manager (renamed as RSS Reader so you can import in to your project via the merge button - I suspect you don't already have a command called RSS Reader). I'm still working on it, I need to find some better RSS...
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Voltage Regulators

I found this very informative guide on voltage regulators from Dimension Engineering and why switching regulators extends your battery life between charges. ------------------------------------------------ A Beginner's Guide to Switching Regulators What is wrong with a linear regulator? Linear regulators are great for powering very low powered...
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Revolution Hardware List

Hi guys, Firstly thank you so much for uploading the new STL files for printing ! I have already printed some servo brackets, JD's head and have just started printing his body and feet ! They are all coming out incredibly well so I will post pics ASAP there does seem to be a strange line that comes out in the front section of the head (about 13mm...
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Greetings From Europe!

Hi EZ-Robot community, Just wanted to take the time to say hi from Europe and let you know that Im spreading the EZ-Robot Revolution world wide! Having more EZ-Robots in more peoples hands will bring new and exciting ideas and challenges for us to conquer together here in this forums. I hope youve all polished up your foreign language skills ;-)...
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For Those Who Have Received Confirmed Shipping Email?

For Those Who Have Received Confirmed Shipping Email?

I know that Rich got a confirmed shipping email... Anyone else? Can you post here and let us know?
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Intro And Project

Hello all, my name is Ryan, I bought the EZ B v4 unit to try and build a UAV DRONE and I saw that Ez Robot has beat me too it, they built an AR drone 1.0 on the v3 Ez b model, now I'm new to robotics; my question is can I use a AR DRONE 2.0 with the EZ B v4, and control it with my IPhone 5 but run the display through my Recon Jet HUD (still on pre...
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For Jazzy Wheel Chair Owners

For Jazzy Wheel Chair Owners

I turned the wheelchair over and got to the back of the motors. (phew! what a job!) I found white and yellow wires going to the brake. I clipped them. Have I done...
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3D Designing

3D Designing

Hi guys I was looking at a few of the threads and I found a lot of 3d designs so I was wondering what designing program is cheap and good for designing robots