Robot Building Questions

Spidey Bot

I'm considering a scratch-built spider like (spidey bot) robot for my next project. I once owned an OWI Spider Kit that used only 2 motors to operate it's 6 legs. I think my wife throw it out after we got married. Anyway, I think it would be somewhat simple to mill out the pieces for such a robot using basic woodworking tools with some 1/4"...

Pl2303hx Converter Usb To Ttl Usb To Com Serial Adapter Cable Module

When connecting one of these to one of the ports, is it possible to send AND receive data in strings to another device?

ARC And Scripting Time Management

As robots become more elaborate mechanically the software must keep up. As the monitoring of sensors, particularly, increases, I would like to know what the experianced robot builders opinions are of how to keep the software from " hanging up, bogging down etc" What is the most time intensive ARC commands and scripts? Also what time...

Alarm Clock Script

Hi I'm trying to finish my alarm clock script using script manager and I don't know what to do can anyone help me please? Here is a copy of my alarm scripting... # Jocasta Nu alarm clock v1.0 # By William Chase # ======================= # Assign system variables # ======================= # System variables program :variables $Count=0...

New Ez-B Same Question And More.

Hi, afraid I'm on here asking for help again since I'm still having issues When I got my first EZ-B this happened... my original connection issue I just got the replacement in the post. Powered it up and ... no blue light. The little red one flashes and it still connected to bluetooth on the laptop. But again I can't get it to connect to ARC or the...

Calgary Floods

I hope everyone at EZ-Robot stayed safe and dry during the Calgary floods!

Question About Wifi

I want to extend the range and also connect with my robot away from home. I saw this WIFI modual TLG10UA03 and was wondering if anyone has used this before to control a robot. Thanks

Ideas To Create A Whirring Sound

Greetings all, My project has a "time machine" (H.G.Wells) for the robot(Steam Punk) to use and I would like it to engage levers to activate it. These will turn on plasma lights and a revolving day month, and year. Its a mechanical(an old copper gasoline gallon indicator). Now here's the question: How can I create a mechanical sound to...

Now These Are Cool Robots-Biped And Hexapod

I was going though Netflix and ran across this movie called Eyeborg. At first I thought it was going to be a B rated dumb movie. The FX in this is great and the plot is not bad, but the robots are awesome.

Good 3D Design Software That Works With Ez-Bits

i'm trying to find a 3d design software that is fairly simple and works with stl files. does anyone know good software?