Robot Building Questions

Charging Your Robot

I know the Roomba vacumn has an automatic recharge feature which is very cool. However I would like to have my robot when is is hungry to feed itself. Has anyone come up with a solution to this yet. I have been reading a lot of posts but this one I have not seen.

Direction Controls Reversed

OK, so I added a modified servo control panel to Junk-Bot and when I click on the forward or backward keys the bot moves as expected, however, the right and left keys have the opposite outcome to what I would expect. Right arrow makes the bot turn to it's left. I'm sure this is a simple, easy fix, but I didn't want to monkey around and guess at...

Print Your Own Parts? I Think So!

Hey EZ-B community! I was wondering if anyone was thinking the same thing I did when I saw the Solidoodle on Engadget recently? Solidoodle is a that would be freakin awesome for printing those robot parts you just can't find anywhere else. All it requires is power and a USB port. If I can justify it, I will probably pick one up this summer, but if...

Couple Small Ui Tweaks For Accessibility

3 small UI tweaks that would help me allot with my robot. On Touch Tablet Controls, two selectable options: 1st - One that causes the panel to lock onto the mouse on one click (like holding the mouse button) and release on the next click. 2nd - One that makes it activate the Movement Panel's stop function when released. On Servo Controls with a...

New Robot Kit

Hi DJ, I read a reference to a new bot kit you mentioned at the Calgary Comicon, When is it going to be forsale??????? and also the ever coming EZ-Bits !!!!! I am actually aging and thou the old brain is still firing on all cylinders the much needed upgrades are always welcome SOONER than LATER Dave

Dj Another Good Question About Sonars

is there a way to adjust the offset on sonars in EZB ,like i can do easy in LEAF project most sonars start at 3 inches,so if you are 1 foot from the robot it reads 9 inches so it needs a offset of +3 inches,same goes with mounting a camera in the center of 12 inch disk it will be off by 3 inches,center is 6 inches -3 inch = -3 inch offset it will...

Going On Another Trip For Work Again

this time cleveland ,ohio on may 9 to may 12 ,short trip to repair test in-hose test equipment for company i work for ,i built the tester,good news getting very close to buy my new bigger house i want,looking at 4 bed 2 1/2 bath with computer ,room big pool area and big ROBOT BUILDING AREA found one near the lake with a lot of land for $400k,they...

Yet Another Question 4-D.J. Or Anyone Else That Knows

OK, I haven't actually hooked my EZ-board up to any of my robots yet. But, I am curious about something. Ok, so we have told our robot Exactly what we want it to do. We have all of these windows up now all over the screen. How do we actually run the Entire group of programs? Do we have to hit start in all of the windows individually? or do we have...