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Servos Suited For Legs

Servos Suited For Legs

Can anyone provide some advice on high torque servos suitable to use for robot legs? I just finished installing the standard EZ robot HDD servos - one in each hip and one in...
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H Brige Not Working

H Brige Not Working

Sorry, this was my first attempt to hook EZ B to a motor controller. I looked up several sources and thought sure everything was set up correctly but it isnt working. See the...
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Confused Between EZ-B And ESP32

Im trying to search but I cant find anythng I understand the EZ-B is easy to use from all the videos of it I have also seen it can be used with an esp32 ( I want to use an esp8266 with wifi) As an example why cant i use a esp32 with a pwm channel that give me the 16 servos connectd to the esp8266 also the esp does have connections for cameras and...
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Sirius A Mini PC

Has anyone considered the possibility of running ARC on a Ockels Sirius A ultra small PC? You could attach it to your robot and give it some degree of autonomy. Are the Sirius As specs up to the job? Looks OK to me.
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Glitching Sound

Glitching Sound

After hooking up an external 8 ohm speaker to the EZB and figuring out how to get the LED in my Robie Sr.s mouth to flash like I wanted, everything was working great. But then for no reason...
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Controlling A Motor By Analog Input Feedback

Would you pls give me a brief indication as to how I could use a 10k lin pot on my DC gear motor shaft presented as an analog input to EZ-b controller.  My motor is driven by a Sabertooth (no Kangaroo present).  Do you have an example tutorial you could direct me to pls?
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Question On Playback Rates

Question On Playback Rates

Ok im having a head scratcher today. I connected Alan and Alena up to different laptops to run them simultaneously. One is an older Apple Mac Pro with bootcamp and Win...
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Soundboard Ticking-Noise Scriptcode - Energy Pulse

Soundboard Ticking-Noise Scriptcode - Energy Pulse

Dear Synthiam Crew and Friends, its an old problem since the beginning of EZB. The Ticking/ Clicking-Noise from the EZB...
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Does Synthiam Support Wifi Connection To Uno WIFI Rev 2?

Does Synthiam Support Wifi Connection To Uno WIFI Rev 2?

Just got a couple of UNO WIFI Rev 2s.  https://store.arduino.cc/usa/arduino-uno-wifi-rev2 This is an Uno...
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Error After Closing Arc

Error After Closing Arc

when am closing ARC iget this message ,what does this mean? thanks anyone
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EZ-B V4 : Connection Failed: System.Exception: Controller Not Responding

The EZB V4 will not connect to ARC.  This projects uses two EZBs:  EZB 0 and EZB 1.   During a normal power cycle EZB 1 stopped connecting to the ARC app.  The other unit EZB 0 continues to operate normally.  The EZ builder connection widget provided a notification that it was unable to connect to EZB 1.  These units are configured as a WIFI...
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Release Command In EZ Scripts

Release Command In EZ Scripts

I can’t seem to get the Release command to work when I do it for a particular Servo/s in ARC, using EZ scripts. I can use ReleaseAll and it works fine for all the...