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Camera Control Tracking Scripts

The tracking scripts in the camera control now don't appear to do anything if a script is added The Glyph scripts action once only so if Glyph one is detected the script runs but another Glyph has to be detected before the Glyph one script can run again. (this maybe intentional of course) Got the Haar custom tracking to work how cool is this. Need...
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Lcd With Ez-B

dj sures could you demonstrate how to use lcd with ez-b.
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The Image Of My Camera Freeze When The Wheels Of My Robot Work ! !

Hi, The image of my camera freeze when the wheels of my robot (Wall E) work. Why? Help! Thanks! Excuse I, my English is very bad.
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Motor (Drvmotr1270 & 1271) Hub Help

Hi Folks, I have wheelchair motors (dvrmotr1270 & 1271) to use for my bot. Here is a pair on Ebay: www.ebay.com/itm/271032127539?hlp=false Anyone know where I can buy hubs that will fit on these shafts? I found a couple different ones here: www.robotmarketplace.com/products/NPC-PH817.html www.robotmarketplace.com/products/NPC-PH804.html They...
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Robot Manuals

Here is a great site I came across that has a multitude of robot manuals from all manufacturers. Robot Manuals
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C# If And Boolean Operators Are Broke Me Thinks.

Hi I'm trying to move the ping sensor to 3 locations and capture the variables of $left, $Center and $right and compare which has the largest distance among these three locations to make the robot move in that direction. I've moved from EZ-Script to the C# scripting for better conditional control. The goforward() command for the h-bridge in your c#...
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Executing A Remote Script

A little puzzled here lads and lasses Just working on a local and remote copy of ARC for my workshop project. While I can execute remote changes in a data line from my copy of ARC on the PC in the study how do I execute a remote script on the robot? I can't seem to get it do it.... Hmmmm. Ideas anyone?
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Hi! I Need Help Please!

Hi... Here is the problem.. I am writing an application in C# but I have a problem... I want to stop the task for 3 seconds and continue the task... but the problem is.. I do not know how to do that! Visual C# has a function called system.treating.tread.sleep() but this function freeze my graphical interface!.... Help! Thanks!
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I Am New To Ez Robot Cant Get Project To Save

running windows xp .. when i try to save to computer or cloud or load exisitng program from community i get same exception error: an attempt was made to load program with an incorrect format.. please help.. i cant load any existing programs from the community either same error and times out what to do if i cant save or load this is useless
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Hacked A Spykee

The Spykee was kinda lousy as a robot, limited, never updated and i was starting to think i wasted my money on it years ago. . . so. . . since I liked the spykee tracks. . ., it already had motors. . . and i had one laying around, my son and I Cracked it open, stripped out all the electronics, hooked up 2 tazer 10T ESC's to the motors and stacked...
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Adc ?

Having a problem reading adc Using the following script if (adc(adc0) > 10 ) servo(d1,29) ----------------------- adc0 shows full 5.volts but no change in servo value ? am I using incorrect commands ?
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Brushless Motors

I wanted to know how I can connect a brushless motor to the EZ-Robot. I also wanted to know if the EZ-robot has support for the Dynamixel servos.