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Real-life Wall-E built with EZ-B Robot Kit uses camera, servos and voice to track motion, color and faces and react with sounds and dances.
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Hi, I'm New
I last built a robot 30 years ago It was named Forbin and was designed to be autonomous (as far as was possible 30 years ago) - it could detect sound and light, follow a track and a buried guide wire, avoid obstacles and talk as it wandered the room - I was proud to bits of it! Then having a life got in the way However, I was so enthused when I saw...
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MrCrispi |
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Bay Area
Anyone in the SF Bay Area want to hack together some robots? Beer n Bots anyone? CK
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hoolagen1 |
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Bluetooth Swap Out
@DJ, I see there is a T and an R along with plus and minus pins on the BlueTooth plug... Is this a TTL level serial Trans/Receive or RS232 level or ??? What is the max acceptable baud? and what is the voltage on the + - pins? thanks Dave
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Troy |
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Ideas
I was about to build my dream robot when I was delayed by some faulty servos. I requested to have my faulty servos replaced with working ones. So while I wait I wanted to know if you have any ideas for a cool...
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Troy |
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Question With Examples In Sdk.. Help?
HI! everyone.. I have been using Visual C# and I can not do to work the examples... in every example of the SDK I have this problem... If someone...
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edison2 |
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High Torque Standard Servos
Hi All, I'm looking to purchase a couple of high torque servo's - perferably cheap Does anyone know where the best place to get these from is and also which ones I...
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jstarne1 |
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I Don't Know How To Word This. But Would Like To Know If It Is Possible.
Ok, I have one ARC setup on EZB that does all of the RSS. I have a second set that does Navigation. I have a third set that is kind of like a ChatBot. When I try to operate all of these together at one time in one script, it gets so sluggish that the mouse sort of freezes while it does say a video tracking, or radar scan, etc. then it comes back....
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MovieMaker |
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Roomba Port Rxd Voltage Output
I am eager to connect my EZ-B to my Roomba, but don't want to risk frying the board. The EZ-B tutorial states: *Note Before Connecting To EZ-B:: Check the signal wire (white wire) with a volt meter and ensure you have zero volts from the Roomba. If you see voltage, you're connected to the wrong port. If you apply current to the the EZ-B from the...
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DJ Sures |
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Hexapod
Is it possible to control a hexapod using EZ-script or movement script in the ARC built for non-programmers?
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techcrab101 |
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Ez-Bits - Can Someone Give An Overview Please?
Hi All, I'm a newbie and I'm currently connecting all sorts of goodies to my EZ-B. I've seen various refences on the forums to EZ-bits as a future add-on mechanism for peripherals and I've also noted that apparently the PCB went to the printers a few weeks ago, but I can't find any reference to what capabilities it is expected to have, or when it...
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fxrtst |
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Bluetooth Replacement Gone Wrong?
DJ, since im having issues with win8, I decided to pull out my usb to serial adapter. it does 3.3 or 5v. I tried 3.3. I attached according to how labeled on my board. Starting from pin closest to power connector it is RX,TX,GND,V+ I smelled hot resistor after a couple minutes so I unplugged everything and checked the underside of the Bluetooth...
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orwnic82 |
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Bug With Windows Speech Recognition Macros
Hello, I have a bug since I installed Windows Speech Recognition Macros that I had not before. When I want to use speech recognition to ARC, I get this message: " Voice recognition was not able to start. There is either no listening device or the your operating system is not supported". My other voice recognition programs work well. I use...
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reaktor |