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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?
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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...
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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.
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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
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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...
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Speech

Hello, Can the EX-B directly drive a Parallax EMIC speech board?
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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....
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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...
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A Line Of Code Equivalent To Servo Release?

Hi, after the servo moves, sometimes, i get a constant buzz from the servo, like the motor is still trying to lock and stay in 1 place. the servo already moved to the desire position. But to get rid of the buzz sound, i press "Release" button on the ARC Seervo control box. This stops the buzzing sound from the servo. Is there a scripting...
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Verobot

I am new to the ez-b and the forums. I do not even have an ez-b yet but hoping to get one for my b-day. i have been brainstorming and thinking of which robot toy to use. I did not want to start too big (omnibot) but did not want it to be s little stupid robot. I decided to do a verbot, I noticed Dj was planing on doing one (and also noticed he does...
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ARC Voice Recognition

As of version 2011.02.28.00 of ARC, voice recognition has been implemented and works in Windows Vista and Windows 7. It will not work in Windows XP, although we are investigating how to make it happen. Each phrase can be user defined. And for each phrase, there is a corresponding script command. The Config window displays all available commands....
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ARC

Hello, Did I hear you correctly that ARC will support more than one EZ-B at a time now? If so I need another one. The last one took a month to get to me. Do you have expedited shipping?