Robot Building Questions

Using A Motor For A Medium Size Bot

Hi I'd advice on a motor and motor controller. Also how do I add additional power to it?

I2cwrite Command For Blinkm

I hope someone can help me with this. I've been tinkering with my MinM light and Im trying to adjust the playback of the built in light script to a shorter time loop. On page 22 of the blinkM datasheet it says to send command 't', (-128 to 128). My command on EZscript would be i2cwrite (0x12,'t', -100) to shorten time. However a negative number...

Analog 4-20 Ma

Hey guys just wondering I have pretty good access to 4-20 ma xmitters 2'3'4 wire configs Would it be possible to implement a banner 20ft ultrasonic using the analog in.

Does Anyone Know The Brand Name Of The Developer

thats used to get the yellow out of plastics,was told to get 40 lift developer with brighter from sally beauty supply ,but they have many types and dont want to ruin my plastic right still in china for work,will be home in a week to work on my robots

Distance Sensor Mod

By using an exacto knife you can remove the wires on a standard servo cable and rearrange the pin connections to meet your needs. Pic 1 shows an exacto knife where the catch pin on the wire will be. By using a bit of patience you can remove the wires from the connector and replace them in the proper order. Than take another servo cable and remove...

Problem With I2c Script

I think I initially posted this on wrong section. THREAD LINK

Forum Upgrade

I've been following a lot of discussions on several of the EZ-Robot forum and realized that something was missing. There are times that I really don't wish to comment but would like to give a thumbs up to one of the previous comments. That is, a thumbs up that does not require FB. Is there any chance someone could add thumbs up functionality to the...

Tablet For Onboard Computing?!

DJ piggybacking on the small PI computer disscusion, I was wondering if any of the tablets that run windows 7 home edition, would be powerful enough to act as an onboard computer? They have have a built in touch screen and many are shipping with dual and quad cores. What do you recomend as the minimum amount of CPU and ram to run the EZ Board? Also...

Distance Sensor

does anyone know if you can use a 3-wire distance sensor, and if so how would you do it? Thanks 4/4/12

Curious About Something.

Let's say I have three sonars and three IRs or maybe a servo and one of each. (I don't have any yet.) And I set ALL sets to Radar Collision Detection. Will these work together for obstical advoidance ,or can you use only ONE type at a Time? Important Question. I also have four tiers on the robot so it would need to have possibly four areas to scan....