Robot Building Questions

Spoiler! Firmware V13

Coming Soon: Firmware v13 (Codename: OMG) Whoa! What's this? Firmware v13 for the EZ-B Robot Controller is in testing phase!... Isn't that supposed to be an unlucky number? Well, unlucky for ME because I haven't slept in a week ... So let's see what is new in the coming-soon Firmware v13... For those who haven't seen the progress over the past...

Servo Facts And Information

What is the input voltage range for my Hitec Servo? A. All Hitec servos can be operated within a 4.8 - 6V (4 or 5 cells) range. Only the HS-50 operates exclusively at 4.8 volts (4 cells). Be aware that "coreless" and digital servos often perform poorly when alkaline batteries are used. Q. What signal do servos require to operate? A. All...

Ping Radar

I have a question about the PING radar. Is there a way to reverse the display swing to match the same direction the servo is going? I looked for a servo reverse with no luck. I just recieved my EZ-B today. It is so easy to setup the hardware. Thanks DJ Sures!!!! Cadmanj

Speech Recognition

Hello, I just got my new computer and I am finally running Windows 7. To my dismay I spent the entire day and I can't get speech recognition to work. I have read all the turorials and searched and read everything on the forum to no avail. Language, default, Windows SR off, tried everything. Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Can You Help Me Make Custom Software/Hardware?

Can you help me make custom software/hardware? For example I like how the bit moves it's head using motion tracking and it's life like... I want only that motion tracking to control my servos, Not the rest if the board. Will that be cheap?

Learning To Use The EZ-B

OK, so far I've gotten my omnibot, EZ-B, servos, and camera. I've accomplished speech control with the head servo, and arm movment. The camera was checked out and I have to set it up.( Pretty sure I got that covered.) Still waiting on my motor controller from Sparkfun. I feel I'm making slow, but positive progress. Now I'd like to learn how to set...

Running 2 Ez-B's

I received my second EZ-B today (5 day delivery) and it took all of one minute to get it up and running. GREAT job DJ!! Works great. Now I can fill up another 20 ports.

Ebay Servo Deal!

I was looking for new servos today and came across this link on ebay! https://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150618805318&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT I just ordered a billion of them. For the price, works out to a little over $4 USD per servo (including shipping) Thought i'd give you cats a heads up

Boogie Question

I got my camera today ( the little blue one just like DJ's) and installed with the software that came with. When I select USB video device I get the. Built-in web cam. Will I have to disable the integrated web cam? Sorry bout that.............. I meat " noobie" question! I just hate ". Autocorrect!!!!!! The salutation for this post...

Speech

Hello, Can the EX-B directly drive a Parallax EMIC speech board?

Servos Fairly Cheap

I found a cheap servo that works really really well. I have everything from cheap $2 servos up to $100 titanium gear monsters and i recently bought some 8 dollar servos from Hobby King for arm servos. Hobby King They seem to perform really nice, lots of torque, got metal gears, can handle 5 to 7 volts and they feel like a much more expensive servo....

Concise EZ-Robot Post By Servo Magazine

I was browsing the other day and found this great Servo Magazine post about the EZ-Robot project. It's pretty much mostly copy and pasted text from the site but it's put together nicely. It's short, concise, looks great, and seem to cover all the bases. It seems it would be a great article to show your friends/co-workers when introducing them to...