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12V Or 24V Motor Controls

Hello Everyone. Does anyone have the EZ robot controler operating 12v or 24v DC Motors ? And if so can you give me some ideals for what type of motor controlers I can use that will interface with the device? I will keep looking in the forums but any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Woody
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Robosapian V2

Just bought one from a swap meet Look like it is good shape The Remote look like it works. The body not working at the moment Going to buy new batteries and see what happens Has ezbot been able to crack this guy it almost 2 feet tall and grey from shaper image it is signed by Mark Tilden on one foot
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Can Just A Laptop Give My Ez Robot Sound?

I asked this question earlier...I am wondering if I can give my ez robot sound through the laptop or a speaker. I need help with this because I just bought a Bluetooth speaker that is not compatible with my laptop sadly, so I need to figure out if my laptop alone can do the sound or if I should just buy another speaker. I also am wondering how you...
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Ar Drone Battery Monitor Script

Would this be correct? I want it to alert me with a beeping sound I got and it will do that at 14%(ar drone battery min and it alerts here on the ios app) #Low Battery script $DroneBatterymin=14 :start IF($DroneBattery=$DroneBatterymin) Controlcommand("soundboard", Track_0) ENDIF Goto(start)
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Need Some Help With My Ez Robot.

I asked this question earlier...I am wondering if I can give my ez robot sound through the laptop or a speaker. I need help with this because I just bought a Bluetooth speaker that is not compatible with my laptop sadly, so I need to figure out if my laptop alone can do the sound or if I should just buy another speaker. I also am wondering how you...
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Turning By Us (Ultra Sonic)

Hello, Forgive my newby question, but I am attempting to make my robot a little smarter at turning that just turn for x mseconds. Below is my adaptation of one of the sample scripts, but what I really want to do is if object A is 30 in front turn to a clear side until object A is> 120, then rescan and proceed forward. What I cant work out is how...
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Ar Drone Connection Protocol In ARC

I need to see the connection protocol for the ar drone from the ARC ar drone tool. Anyone that could show me the coding (any coding[preferably C#] or code from the SDK)
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To Dj Plz Read

hi i have bin looking at the ARC and want to ask you if you can make it arduino com. people that have a arduino would even pay (most $40) and many would not like to pay $60 for the ez-b.
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Adc Sound Wave Vr Script

Greetings Forum, I would like to incorporate an ADC Electret to assist with the windows 7 VR for my talking head FRED. We know that Windows 7 VR is really only good for one person, so it would be nice to differentiate 2 different voices and the robot responds accordingly. " Please Guest of Master (DJ Sures) may i have your name and the purpose...
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Tutorial 33 - Brookstone

Tutorial 33 - Brookstone

Hi, I got a problem compiling your sdk. Been trying to figure out but no luck. Hope that I can find your help here. (I did copy FFMPEG.dll into bin folder) It runs on...
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Found My Platform

I finally found a robot platform better then I hoped. I always want a strong track drive platform but unless I built one, they were ether to small or to expensive. I found this this weekend at a flee market, it's called the MG-A1 Tarantula Quadtrax or the Araneid King. Now the big challange will be interfacing the EZ-B to the platform. If anyone...
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Graphics Card Utilized For Increased Processed Video Performance

I read somewhere that the onboard graphics adapter and possibly external video card was going to be utilized to speed up processed video and overall get more efficiency from your project. Was this implemented? The reason I ask is I have a nvidia gt 560ti video card for Jarvis and as usual my motherboard has a modest HD video processor. If the video...