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Any Hear Say About Shipping Dates Yet?

Any Hear Say About Shipping Dates Yet?

I am asking this question, because I think a lot of us are wanting to know when we might be getting our preorders, I know some are supposed to...
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Wtd: Ezb3 Board

Since we have yet another delay in shipping of ezb4... I am looking to pick up another V3 board to tide me over until then... email is robotguy505(at)gmail.com or respond here... Thanks Richard
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What Is The Best Way To Connect A Lithium-Ion Polymer Battery To Ezb V3

What is the best way to connect a Lithium-ion polymer battery to ezb v3? j
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Some Extra Parts Lying Around.

Some Extra Parts Lying Around.

Figured I would put some spare parts out into the robotic building world that are just sitting around drawing dust. If anyone is interested, let me know, I...
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Simple Dance Script

Looking for a simple example of a dance script. Something that would have my robot move his arms up and down and turn left and right. Also looking for it to start a audio track
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C ++ Programming

So I have zero experience in C++ programming. I see on Dave Shinsels website maker of the robot LOKI, that he offers his source code for his arduino based I/o control. Can this code be directly used for the ezb4 and just modified for whatever is used or unused on my particular project? Thanks Chris
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Office Cams.

ez-robot staff meeting going now? 1:32 pm eastern day light time. j
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V3 Ez-B For Sale

I see Robot City Workshop has EZ-b v3 for 110 dollars.
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Cheap 3D Printer

today i was checking on ebay for a 3dprinter when i saw a makerbot for only 645$ so i thought if you do not have a 3d printer and you want one for cheap like me then you mite like this here is the...
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Servos

Servos

I need help I want to buy the ezb but I want to know what part I will need to connect many servos to my ezb
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Rounding To 3 Places

I think there may be a bug in the rounding to 3 places, it seems that it rounds to 2 places. Here is my little test program that shows it. It may be I'm doing something wrong too. $55 = 55.18975647547689 $rten = Round($55,0) Print($rten) $55 = 55.18975647547689 $rten = Round($55,1) Print($rten) $55 = 55.18975647547689 $rten = Round($55,2)...
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Help With Grandsons Robot

I just ordered another EZB4 for myself and I am trying to help my 8 yr grandson" Hunter" who has been begging to build his own EZ robot. I am starting him off with one of my EZBV3 kits. I am having trouble finding the basic boxbot tutorials all together without jumping around on the video links? What can I Email him? I wanted something...