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Irobot Roomba Is Now Supported!

Irobot Roomba Is Now Supported!

That's right, the iRobot Roomba is now supported by the EZ-B. No more wires! Bluetooth connectivity to your Roomba with the EZ-B. All you need is a PS2...
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My Chair Bot.  Have A Few Questions.  Help A Chicken Out!

My Chair Bot. Have A Few Questions. Help A Chicken Out!

Greetings Everyone... Had a lot of fun this weekend assembling my chair bot.. Ran into a few issues that I...
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Ez-B Heatsink Overheat

Once again, my barely used ez-b is overheating. All the wiring has been checked, the ez-b is sitting on the back of the battery case so no shorts can happen, and all the wiring is tied together held away from the ez-b. I have the following plugged in: 4 standard servos 2 continues rotation servos 1 ping radar 1 camera(hacked) What could be causing...
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Camera Lag, How To Dampen The Process?

So im trying to do tracking with wall-e. red ball is sitting right in front of him not moving at all. I start color tracking and his head starts randomly shaking back and forth. I can tell the camera is lagging a fair bit. I was brought the idea of 'dampening' the tracking process. Aka. tell the camera function to make a decision on what to do...
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Blown 5A Regulator I/O

Thought I'd post this just to help out. Recently I was working with two Pololu 18/7 simple motor controllers and the EZ-B. After some configuration with the Pololu software I got the controllers working with the EZ-B. I decided to try to calibrate the left controller as it didn't feel like the right while I tested it in the servo panel. After...
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Symbol Detection

Is it possible to use this software to detect certain symbols, say a heart on a playing card? If the heart is detected, it will engage a servo. If the heart it is not detected, it will engage another servo.
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Camera Not Working

got my kit today and was some kind of excited about it.the camera is where i have a problem everything else is perfect. i charged it or tried but the light won t stay on but 5 min if that. but worse my computer tell me that the device isn t working properly. i troubleshoot it but no success. i thought may be it was the pairing but no success after...
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Still Looking For Any Help With My Camera Tracking Question.

Hey guys, just got back from picking up the kiddo from Basic Training at Fort Benning GA! Crazy drive.... I'm about to tackle my issues again with the camera tracking and could use some help. Thanks for any you could give... Here is the link to my original post explaining everything. https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/3622 Thanks again for...
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Camera Charging Questions

Hello, I just got my EZ-Robot Complete Kit today. Quite excited. So I got it and decided to first charge the wireless camera before anything. I took my iphone charger and plugged the wireless camera in the charger using the supplied usb cable. The red light turned on at first but is now off. How does the camera charging work? Is there a light that...
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Technopro's Wall_E Complete

Technopro's Wall_E Complete

In case you didn't notice my post on my project I am posting it again! SO Wall-e is finally finished! he is put putting around and waving and everything! Stuff is...
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An Official Microsoft Kinect Robot Uses Ultrasonic And Ir

An Official Microsoft Kinect Robot Uses Ultrasonic And Ir

I thought it was funny one of the Microsoft development platforms is using a couple of ultrasonic and 3...
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New Ez Board And Robot?

I was under the impression that there was an over haul on the ez board and new stuff coming out? I about to buy the board but if a new one about to come out ill hold off?