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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
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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...
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R/C Radio Transmitter Remote

R/C Radio Transmitter Remote

This maybe a dumb question but I have a 2.4Ghz 9Channel Transmitter w/ Module & 8ch Receiver, can I use this with the Ez-b? instead of using an xbox wireless...
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Problem With I2c Script

I think I initially posted this on wrong section. THREAD LINK
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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...
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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...
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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
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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....
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Cool Claw From The Creative Mind Of Magnus

Cool Claw From The Creative Mind Of Magnus

After reading the posts on Magnus I went searching for those cool claws he has and found this. At the Sportsman's Guide website for $50...
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Using Multiple Pings Sensors

Using Multiple Pings Sensors

Using multiple pings sensors Hello all, I was pondering on how to configure multiple pings sensors. If I mount 4 ping sensors on all 4 sides of my bot, could I use...
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Newcomer To The Ez-Bot Site.

Few things I wanted to mention, 1. Thanks for making it a very simple process to register! It's nice not to have to squint at captcha and guess at things and wait on registration confirmation emails, etc. 2. I found EZ-Robot.com through a suggestion made by someone on another forum and, although it is outside my price range and scope for my current...
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LED For WALL-E's Eye

Hey guys, I tried to use the original LED that comes with the WALL-E U-Command with the EZ-B, but the LED does not turn on (using digital ports). Should the original LED work, or should I use another type of LED with the EZ-B?