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Budget quadruped with 1.5mm carbon fiber/aluminum frame, 12 MG995 servos and EZ-B controller for omni-directional walking.

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Is There A Trick To Getting A The Blue Tooth To See A Second Ez-B Controller?

My first EZ-B controller works well, but is dedicated to a robot. I bought a second EZ-B controller to start another project, but cannot get the blue tooth to recognize the new controller. Note that I just used the first controller and disconected power before trying to recognize the second controller. Thanks
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How Do You Use The Speed Control Slider On Joystick?

How Do You Use The Speed Control Slider On Joystick?

I have a logitech X3D Pro that I picked up at a yard sale new for only $3. Its an awesome joystick. I want to make...
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Who Am I

I live in the us in NC my name is Gary, What I would like to do is build a robot lawnmower. I have some wheelchair 12v motors that I need to find out how to use them wifi. The mower part will be easy. Guess it's the controller,camera, servoes and software. If I buy the starter pack will this all work?
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A Few More Questions Please.

So, i'm seeing a few autonomous projects floating around and I've got some ideas masked as questions masked as ideas. What my ultimate goal is, is to have a robot that roams around 24/7 with the following causes. I'd like it to roam around for 10 minutes then stop or even sleep (but stop would do) for 20 min the roam again for 10. Unless a sensor...
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Connecting To More Than One Camera

Now I have my second EZ-Kit and EZ-Camera I'm toying with the idea of using 2 cameras in my build, or possibly one PC using 2 cameras in 2 robots. But, the problem seems to be that both show up as Windows Video Device in the dropdown when two are installed. I can select one of them and it'll work fine but selecting the other is not selectable (or...
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I Have A Few Questions With My Ez Robot

Hello again, Lately- I have been working on ARC with my EZ robot and have been quite stumped with 3 things. 1. My robot doesn't track my face, it just quickly swivels the camera around and doesn't seem to focus on my face without looking away frantically. I have tried different things- but now it is getting a bit frustrating. I clicked the word...
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Drone Controls Questions

Hello there! I have a few questions regarding the AR drone EZ-B control: 1.Why is the camera device control showing me the drone bottom camera and not the front one? 2.Why is the whole ARC software, always crashing, about half a minute after the drone camera is connected, in the camera device control? 3.Why are the servos attached to the EZ-B,...
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Hello All .Net Developer

Hello All .Net Developer

Hello my name is Kenneth I am a .NET developer in the mortgage industry. E-Z robot appealed to me in that it was affordable and had an sdk based in .NET. As my first...
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Upload Script To Controller?

Hello! Is there a way to upload and executed scripts on the controller itself, so a computer communicating with the controller, will not be needed? Thanks, Roi.
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Screen Capture In ARC

Screen Capture In ARC

I think that would be an awesome feature. Just a simple button to screen grab and save a jpeg to a folder or the desktop.it can be optimized for file size and resolution.(with...
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Wi-Fi Help! Urgent!

Wi-Fi Help! Urgent!

Hi, I'm trying to build the Wall-E robot using wifi. I am using the UART-Wifi suggested. Do I need an arduino to make this work with EZ-B? And I tried downloading the wifi software...
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Ip Cam

Ip Cam

I can't get my IP cams to show in ARC. These are MJPEG cameras so it should work I guess. EZB initializes the parameters but nothing shows in the window. Here are the parameters :...