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I Purchased The 4 Wheel Drive With Crapler Arm

I am trying to get figure out how to make the vehicle turn Do I put both left motors (Front and Back) on one circuit then put the two rights on an another.
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Camera Tracking?

I have been able to activate lots of great features on EZ robot except camera tracking. I have watched the tutorials, loaded and ran stand alone sample examples, but I cannot get any grid to appear, or even take a picture. Nothing shows in the activity box when I try color recognition. I have tried the EZ camera, the web camera on PC. on realtime...
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Rover / 4X4 / Tank Tracks Or Awd Robot Base 4 Channel H Bridge

Rover / 4X4 / Tank Tracks Or Awd Robot Base 4 Channel H Bridge

If dj gets them back in stock I hear his h bridges are good but right now he's out. I know a few...
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H-Bridge Max Input Voltage

What is the max input voltage for the 2.5 amp H-bridge? I am powering a 4wd thumper with 2 H-bridges and wanted to use my 18 volt Dewalt battery packs. is this possible?
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E-Bay: Omnibot Head

Saw this on E-Bay. Thought maybe someone here might need a replacement. Omnibot Head Replacement
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Rc Car Into Robot

hi, i have an associates degree in electronics that is to say i have somewhat of a fimiliarity with small electronics as i had very good teachers and have always been interested in such things. i beleive electronics, computers, and yes robotics are the future. as such i am looking for a fun project to get my young son interested in these things as...
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Example Script For Facedetect.Vision.Detection.Haarrectangle

Hi, I have some Python code working that uses CameraFaceDetection.GetFaceDetection(), and I will post this soon. But it only outputs the region where the face is. I looked for an example script that calls FaceDetect.Vision.Detection.HaarRectangle, which I'm guessing gives exact coordinates. Can anyone point me to such an example? The language...
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Motor Driver Or Esc For Large R/C Car?

Please help me buy a motor driver or ESC for a large R/C car. The car is VW New Beetle made by New Bright. It is over two feet long. I may have to replace the motor for steering front wheels with servo. The motor driving rear wheels is about 1-1/2 inches long.
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Example Python Scripts Calling Ez_B.Dll

Hi, These are intended to be for guidance only, so others can get the idea of how to convert C# or VB into Python. They are probably only useful to people who already use Python. First step in to install IronPython from here: https://ironpython.net/download/ Ironpython is simply a version of Python with extra .NET bindings. At the IronPython...
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Question About Digital Port Limits Re Leds.

Howdy, EZers! So, I'm putting together an IR emitter for one of my projects, and I think I've got it all within safe limits, but I wanted to run it past y'all just incase... The circuit is as follows... +5v ---- |>|---|>|---|>|----///---GND D0 ------L1----L2-----L3-----R1----GND Where: L1,L2,L3 are IR Leds, with a 1.2v forward voltage,...
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Help With Syntax To Call Ez_B.Dll Functions (Python)

Hi, I've tried all sensible combinations I can think of to call EZ_B.dll functions in Python. I know if I can get the syntax right for one, the rest will follow. Any suggestion appreciated. David. ------------------------ from ctypes import * > libEZB = CDLL("C:\Documents and Settings\David\My Documents\EZ-SDK\DLL\EZ_B.dll") >...
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Loadproject

Loadproject

@DJSures While I know no other command can be executed from within your existing project when you use the LoadProject command, is there any way we could pass a parameter to automatically run a...