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Ez-Robot Visits Endeavour Arts Studio

Ez-Robot Visits Endeavour Arts Studio

We were asked to attend a small function at Endeavour Arts tonight. I managed to free up a bit of time and brought a few of my most recent robots....
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Saved Project - Blinking Light

Hello all, I have saved and reopened a project before but now I reopened it today and I get the tiny blinking light on top of the EZ-B. The big light in the corner is "on" and working but the little tiny light on top is blinking steady and functions like servo commands or mp3 trigger seems to be "inactivated". How can I fix...
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Save Button On Voice Synthesis Config

Hey all, I have been playing with the Soundboard and Text to Speech (TTS) (Voice Synthesis). Both awesome ARC tools! I have noticed that there is now a config setting for the voice synthesis that allows for change to male female child voice etc. I cannot figure out how to save the configuration however. Looks like there may be a SAVE button...
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Using Roomba Motors And Maybe Wheels?

Hello all, i previously asked another member about the tracks on rad 2.0 he indicated that it could probably pull the robot but motors may not last. My idea hear is probably replace the motors. I have a omnibot 2000 on the way and im looking for a good alternative to the loud 1984 motors in the omnibot. Roombas wieght 6.5 pounds , so 4 roomba...
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Movement Script For Bv4113 H-Bridge

I have a small bi-ped robot with a separate dc motor in each foot and the BV4113 controlling the two motors. I'm trying to configure the Movement Script so that the FORWARD command alternates short bursts to each foot to mimic walking. Is there an easy way to do this?
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Http Server

Hi All, I'm having a problem with the HTTP server control. When I click on start I get the error "The specified TCP port for this web service is in use by another application" I found that it was due to SKYPE running on my laptop. I'm assuming that it is the port 80 that is the conflict. Does anyone use a different port and how do you use...
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El Wire

Can I hook up EL Wire directly to the EZ-B or do I need to use the inverter provided with the EL Wire and just power it from the EZ-B?
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Would This Work?

I usually run my ez- b controller off of a 7.2v 3 amp rc battery with about 6 Servos running along with it, with no problems. But I like to use a werker 12v 12ah agm battery from the ez- b controller to run the sabertooth 2x15 which run 2 12v dc reversible gearhead motors 160rpms( is powered by 2 12v batterys), a 12v lighting system,a mp3...
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Blinkm

I saw that BlinkM was recommended so I bought one... plugged it in on the EZ-B and it goes thru a demo phase... connected to the software and added an I2C control. When I used the slider to go red... it turned red, for a second or two... then resumed it's demo (white, red, green, blue, dark). That said I have no CLUE as to what I am doing! And I...
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Happy New Year! Bring On 2012!

Happy New Year! Bring On 2012!

Happy New Year everyone! It has been exactly one year since I launched ARC - that excites me. It is hard to imagine how far EZ-Robot has come. Everyday I log...
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Wowwee Tribot

I have the kit coming next week so I was looking at my parts drawer. I have a Wowwee Tribot that I would like to set up. It has three omni wheels 120 degrees apart and want to keep that drivetrain arrangement. Has anyone done this setup yet? Any help would e appreciated. I also have a Parallax BOEbot with the gripper I'm going to do something with....
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Looking For Someone To Convert C++ To Vb.Net

trying to add learning and decision making to ez-robot giving it a neural network but it is in c++ and ez-robot can only be vb or c# I would gladly share code if someone would help