Robot Building Questions

Which Bluetooth Dongle Works Flawlessly With Dell Latitude E6410 And Win 7

I have a Dell Latitude E6410. But, it does not have built in bluetooth. I have a nondescript bluetooth dongle that works on it's whim. I have had to attempt numerous times to connect it make it work. After trying for more than 100 times (both with Windows native stack and Blue Soleiel), I have managed to connect 3 times. On one occasion, with 4...

Brookestone Rover Claw Modification

I'm doing my capstone project for my machine design class and am lookign at modifying the brookestone rover & retrofiting it with a simple claw right below the camera in the front. I need some feedback on this idea and what I'd need to do this? I'm looking for a plug and play setup for the robotics part, and also wouldn't mind using my xbox...

Confused Using Auto Position In ARC

I add "Auto Position" control to ARC project. I set up six servos in the control. I create three frames and one action. I am confused by "Fine Tune" dialog box. How do I use the "Fine Tune" dialog box"? Even after centering the servos before attaching them to the robot, the joints are slightly bent instead of...

Writing And Saving Code

I am trying to access and write c# code for my robot and am having a difficult time finding the process to write the code. Can anyone help

Where Is Sam? She Is Missed.

Where is Sam? she is missed. What have your robots been upto lately. Are you going to dress them up for Halloween?

Ez Robot Math

Hello Again, Has anyone figured out a way to do simple math with ARC? We have servo position and camera coordinates. We are trying to couple them to derive driving and firing solutions, while scanning the camera. We used to do all of that with a Cortex. It seems pretty simple. Maybe we need to go with a different processor. Any thoughts are...

Ping Radar Running A Script Instead Of Turning Robot?

Would it be resonable to have ARC Execute a Stop command to the movement panel and then run a script if something has tripped the distance trigger? A script could have the robot make a tone with speaker tone or trigger and MP3 with the MP3 Trigger and then it could be programmed to execute a turn or use the ping sensor and ping sensor servo to try...

Parallax Hb-25

I was wondering how to make the HB-25(H Bridge motor controller) from parallax to work with ez-robot could some one please help thanks dustin

My Kingdom For A Manual

Hello Team, Does anyone know how to get the camera resolution settings back that used to be available? Thanks, Yours truely, Forum Groveler

Quick Servo Question Before I Order

Looking to get some servos for my Omnibot project and had some questions before I placed my order. First I was planing on using high torque servos from the store to power the arms on my omni and just wanted to know if they would be strong enough to lift something around 12 ounces. Maybe like oh I don't know say a bottle of beer. The second question...