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Easy To Make Robot Grippers?

Easy To Make Robot Grippers?

For an upcoming project I need a simple, easy to make, cheap robot gripper. I have some ideas but I want to see what the community can come up with.
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Angle Sensor Compatible With Ez-B V4

Hi fellas, I was planning on using an angle sensor to get readings in 2D plane, just the horizontal. I was wondering if anyone here has experience using such sensors in conjunction with EZ-b. Following are the two low cost sensors i've considered so far, any advises and tutorials would be wonderful. Option 1;...
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Windows 8 Update To 8.1

Windows 8 Update To 8.1

This is a tutorial and update with my windows 8 updating to windows 8.1 " free update" that takes a long time, and ARC. I could not connect to ARC with my old...
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Ways To Add More Servo Ports?

Hello! I've been building a humanoid robot (ready for a EZ-B v4!) and i was wondering if there was any way to add more servo ports to the EZ-B. I'm going to have to use up all 24 servos for just body movements (each arm has 5 servos, and each leg has 6) and i want to add some sensors/more servos. I've been looking at this:...
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Video Tutorial

hi DJ is there a video tutorial from robosapien v2? blush
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Omnibot Project

Inspired by this website and it's community I have just got hold of an old omnibot for my first attempt at creating an ez robot. As this is my first time I need some help and advice as to what I can and can't do and thought I would put my ideas to you guys and see what comes back. My first idea is to remove the original drive and replace it with...
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Lcd For Ezb

hi.will there be an LCD screen availeble for ezb?
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Ez-B Powered By Roomba

Ez-B Powered By Roomba

Here is one way to eliminate the need for an additional battery to power the EZ-B. The Roomba SCI 7-pin mini din connector provides unregulated battery power at 1/2 amp...
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Another Omni2000 On Ebay

Here is an Omni 2000 listed at a "buy it now" price. The pics show it in pretty good condition. If you want to fix the arm I may have the original part you need. However, you probably want to replace those gears with a servo anyway.
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Name That Bot.

Name That Bot.

I was surfing and found this. It's not from any TV or movie in case you're wondering. I added this thinking it may give some inspiration.
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Help With Vr On New Pc

We purchased a new Asus PC w windows 8. ARC loaded fine and after pairing, I was able to connect. I can not get any VR commands to operate? I did get it to respond at first to "Yes" on RSS News feed twice. Maybe I have something toggled wrong? The VR pause box is not checked. I noticed that the sound servo LEDS on my robots mouth freeze...
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2D Floormap And Qr Codes Testing

2D Floormap And Qr Codes Testing

Since QR codes can be read from a distance I'm going to expirement with QR code grid based location. I searched often for this on Google and found different...