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Servo Auto Position

Just wondering how the servos auto position. When you plug them in do they centre? or do you have to do it manually? if manually, please tell me how. Preparing for my wall-e project. Hope i'm not hoging the forums!
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About Using Pot For Feedback Or Speed

Here is some info about using pots as encoder for motor speed its mostly for DAVE but info is for everyone IF you are looking to use a pot for speed of a motor as encoder its kinda hard Multiturn pots are high precision ,but not for feedback ,i dont know if anyone open up a pot but it has a stop inside and wafer and metal fingers,stop is one...
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Vex Microcontroller

Hello, I was wondering if you could use EZ-B software with VEX microcontroller! If so Please Reply, thanks
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Brookstone Rover 2

Can I use your design for the brookstone tank 2 and copter parrot 2? Or only for version 1? And if not then how i can use your development for this robot (brookstone tank 2 and copter parrot 2) What i can change in source of ARC program
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Making A Ir Illuminator For Low Light Or Dark Areas

Making A Ir Illuminator For Low Light Or Dark Areas

I have 150 or maybe more ir LEDs , most are flat top wide angle and others regular 5mm round tip LEDs. I also have...
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Wall-E Question Quick

here's the notepad info: The Real Wall-e without Script Manager Camera Power: D1 ModifiedServoMovementPanel: D13, D14 Left Arm: D8 (low 8, high 36) Right Arm: D9 (low 56, high 28) Left Eye: D15 Neck Horizontal: D6 (center 32, 50, 20) Head Vertical: D7 (center 35, high 44, low 24) Ping: (Trigger d2, response d3) What is the left eye servo? theres...
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Wall-E Autonomous(Think Thats How To Spell It)

I would like to know how wall-e in dj's video moved autonomous-ly. Using his wall-e example file how do you activate this?
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How Does The Camera Connect?

Dj made a video of connecting the camera to the ez-b. He did it in the Wall-e so i may have to. is it required for the wall-e to have the camera connected to the ez-b directly through cable or can it be configured to work wirelessly? Also, how does the wall-e vision track on the vertical and horizontal while refrencing by the camera? How is it...
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Thermal Printer

Can an EZ b control (directly or indirectly) a small thermal printer? I see they can be hooked up to an arduino. https://learn.adafruit.com/mini-thermal-receipt-printer thanks in advance, Frank
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Camera Not Owrking

Camera was working fine for a couple of weeks. This morning dead. Tried repairing as per video and it seems to connect ok, just getting black screen. Any suggestions?
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Has The Flat Battery Holder Changed

Has The Flat Battery Holder Changed

Before i got 5 AA flat battery holder with my EZB and now with the 10 EZB i got from robotshop is has 6 AA flat battery holder
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Dip Switch Setting Selector Circuit- Toggles Between Two Dip Switches

Hello all. I have been very busy lately but I finally got a few weekends to work on the robot. I have poured over the forum and web trying to find a way to smoothly change from EZ-B control to R/C control and back again. From what I have read, it seemed others were having this issue as well. I have looked at all the tutorials and contacted...