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How Many Servos

Dose any one know how many servos the control board will run ?
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Meet The Irowe 4550, Neat, Little Robot With A Sweet 3D Printed Body.

Meet The Irowe 4550, Neat, Little Robot With A Sweet 3D Printed Body.

Hi, I have designed a clever, pro little bot, its a small design with lots of cool...
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Happy Easter Everyone I Am Back For Good

Just saying HAPPY EASTER to everyone including RICH and DJ MY work is over ,just one last party at work and sayong my goodbyes stress THEN FULL TIME ON MY ROBOTS. TODAY just having a great easter dinner with a big get together and monday should be able to start on my robots ,cant wait
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Dropping 3.3V To 3.0V

I managed to destroy one Robosapien board by putting 6v where it shouldn't go I'm going to use the 3.3v supply on the ez-b to power my other Robosapien, but now I'm a bit nervous about blowing it. What resistor should I use to drop the voltage from 3.3v to 3.0v? I read up on Ohm's law, but it seems to depend on how many amps are being pulled. Is...
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The Fortune Teller

The Fortune Teller

Hi Dave here Just orderd a kit from here a week ago But I think the order got stuffed up The shipper has no record of the number that was sent to me Oh we'll hope it gets fixed soon...
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Relative Servo + Invert Option Question

can any confirm the relative servi control is working properly? please. i can get it to work but when i try to invert the motion one servo goes dead ive tried clicking on the invert on both the master and seondary servo but nothing.... ive tried doing the multiple servo control and inverting there, same result. i guess i can write a script, but...
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Ez Robot Camera Question

Hey guys, the camera used in my robot is displaying very off blurry colors now. It was working fine before, but now it comes out a blurry purple and white. I am not sure if it is a setting, or if it needs the batteries charged or what. I hope you guys can help me soon- thanks.
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How To Add More Digital And Analog Ports Tutorial

How To Add More Digital And Analog Ports Tutorial

Started this post on how to add more digital and analog ports to your EZB without losing speed or spending over $70 for...
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Need Guidance With Camera Tracking

Need Guidance With Camera Tracking

So, I've gotten my wireless camera I bought from EZ Robot temporally mounted on top of the brain of my B9 and powered from the 3rd EZB I've got mounted...
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Scripting Attempt # 1

Hey All, I've been working on my big R2 recently. It has a Sabertooth 2x25 for the foot drives and a Syren 10 for the dome. So that leaves me with using serial commands to control the dome. My dome uses a Pittman motor. R2's dome has a large gear type setup. The Pittman motor is a bit abrupt for starting and stopping. I've made my first attempt at...
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Wall-E

I am quite a geek, and like WALL-E, I am kind, curious, obsessive, and lonely- very lonely. It reminds me of my amazing, but distant friend Mackenzie, a girl that I care for deeply that I don't get too see or talk to very often- because of my own lives situation. But our wonderful friendship reminds me of WALL-E and EVE I just wish and pray...
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Robot Direction Movement Faults.

Whenever I press the keys to move my robot forwards, backwards, left, and right- it gets the directions mixed up. For example- when I press the forward button, my robot just spins in a circle. when I press the backward button, it just spins the other direction. When I click the left and right keys, it goes forward and reverse...:vS If anyone could...