Robot Building Questions

Homing Beacon To Charging Station?

Anyone have a good link for the best way to go about this?

Windows CE?

Does ARC work on Windows CE? if so, you could possibly use this laptop in your robot.

Speaker Power

Okay, so I bought the USB sound card and it works great with head phones but I want to run it to the speaker in my Robot. I guess I need a LITTLE amp. Anyone have a simple answer?

Nixie Eyes Featured On Hack A Day!

Just saw that Vanilla's Nixie Eyes were featured on Hack a Day yesterday morning! You'd think they'd let a brother know?! Using nixie tubes as robot eyes (Hack a Day)

Ping Obstacle Not Working

I have ping obstacle control on, my ping sensor works perfectly but the robot doesn't stop once it is at the set min. distance to a object.

Visual Basic Speech

As a first robot project I plan to make a voice-controlled robot that goes to a given colored ball (among many) on command. I like the idea of the multi-function EZ-B single-board controller and the off-board intelligence provided by a Bluetooth-linked PC. That certainly makes voice recognition a lot less expensive! However, I'm having trouble with...

CANNOT CONNECT!

I just got my Bluetooth adapter in the mail today, when I went to connect to the EZB, it couldn't find the device. It must be the EZB as my phone will connect to the Bluetooth and be recognised easily. The only thing I have done to the EZB since I got it was rewire the power to the two connection points beside the barrel connector. The reason I did...

Sparkfun Serlcd

Hey everyone! I finally got my EZ-B (after 5,5 weeks) and i am trying to get my lcd with sparkfun's serial backpack working, i found THIS great arduino site. I adapted the code to this: SendSerial(D13,9600,0xFE) //command flag SendSerial(D13,9600,0x01) //Clear LCD Sleep(10) SendSerial(D13,9600,0x7c) //command flag for backlight stuff...

Hackable Toys Thread

I found on Ebay a Sir Galaxy robot that looks prime for hacking with Ez-B. Take a look sometime. Here is a brief description: Transmit your voice from the Remote to Sir Galaxy! (excellent for sending those R2D2 sounds if you hack its remote) Arms are poseable with spring loaded hands. (prime for servo transplant) He can walk forward, turn left or...

Tomy Verbot On Ebay

Just wanted to post this for who ever was looking to hack a robot verbot on ebay click me Shipping: $5.95 Expedited Shipping

Ping Sensor Orientation

Quick question, Does it matter which way I install the Ping Sensor? Its in a tight space and I would like to place it so the connection pins are up as opposed to down. I would plug it into the EZ-B for a test, but I am still waiting on a Bluetooth adapter (thats the last time I order something from southern china). I assume its would be fine, but I...

Servo Buying Decisions

My first project Fred the Lobot (see Fred the Lobot (Lego Robot)) is in need of some servos but I am not sure where to buy them. If I was anywhere closer than Australia I would happily choose HVW Technologies but for where I am the postage is a minimum of $30. I have a list of a few more local online robotics stores but am unsure of which one is...