Robot Building Questions

General Question

So after much fidling i have managed to blow up my sparkfun H bridge, oh well i hated the damn thing anyways so i have butchered an earlier bot i built and used the sabertooth H bridge controller i have, great.....nope for some reason the sabertooth doesnt understand the way that the modified servo panel works, but no issue i just made scripts to...

Xbox 360 Kinect

Has anyone investigated using the Kinect as a robot control interface???? A google ; and youtube; search yeilded some absolutely mind boogling hacks of the Kinect sensor array. I also found a number of people that have already applied the technology. What do you think DJ ?

Wall E Program

Hey DJ, a little clarification please. When I saved the "Wall e Big" file as a document; then opened it I'm seeing what I presume is promgramming code. Is this correct? I then opened it in ARC and it would appear that all the programming is there and ready to "start". Could it actually be that easy????????? Once the physical...

Looking For A Tutor

I'm looking for someone that would be willing to tutor me with the EZ-B via personal email. A perspective tutor should have lots of patience. Since my stroke I've found that things come much harder for me. I've spent hours on end trying to get a grasp on this and I'm not making much progress. I would really appreciate it. My personal email is:...

HC-SR04 Sensor

Any chance of a wiring diagram? Tutorial is great on describing operation. but I need help in connecting to EZB confused

Servo Mounted Security Camera (2-Axis)

I am well on the way in the programming of my security camera. Camera servo tracking is enabled for the two servos- the horizontal and vertical axis. When one of the two servos moves to follow movement the alarm will be activated, starting both the Alert and Snapshot scripts. Here are the scripts I have written for the camera: System On Script...

IP CAM

Hello, I would like to hook up a Dlink IP Cam to my EZ-B. It calls for 5V and 1.2A. Can I hook this up to the 5V output connection on the ez-b to power my IP Cam? Thanks!

Scripting In VB

I'm brand new to VB. I went through the first two tutorials and now I'm interested in how to make a control for script commands like a simpler version of the scripting window in ARC. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

EZ-B V2.1

Hi, Just wondering is there any performance differences between the old Ver 2.1 board and the new V3 board. I have both now and old board works fine so I might save the new V3 for a new project and keep the V2.1 in my current robot