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Robot Only Turns One Way

Robot Only Turns One Way

Afternoon All. I am using Ultrasonic radar which scans and displays reds dots ok. Also 4 wire H bridge which operates in all directions ok. But when used together the Bot...
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Long Range Xbee & Other Robot Communication

Long Range Xbee & Other Robot Communication

I was browsing the EZ forum and saw some one mention the incredible distances that you can communicate with robot,RC vehicles,balloons...
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Google Home Diy With Raspberrypi

Google Home Diy With Raspberrypi

FIY The MagPI magazine #57 contains a DIY project for a Google Home in a Box: https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/find-the-magpi-57/ Copies have been shipped...
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Auto Position Thread Error

As soon as I connect SIX I get the following error. If it's being caused by a frame how do I tell which one? I can open the servo configuration and the servos alll move fine. 4/6/2017 12:01:09 PM - Auto Position Thread Error: System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array. at EZ_B.AutoPosition.MoveImmediate(String...
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Ultrasonic Radar

Hi. Using Ultrasonic Radar with HBridgePWM it seems that unless you have a 1-180 degree sweep of the HC-SR04 it only asks the bridge to turn one way. I have tried different sweep angles with no success. I would like a sweep of 45-135 degree. Anybody know the answer to my problem?
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Speech Recognition+Autoposition Actions

Hi everyone! I have made an inmoov head and i want to use autoposition actions under speech recognition for eyes and moving head left and right. For mouth i have allready use a talk servo and it's ok. Farther more i want the head and eyes for some commands move in random positions while ezb speak. what i have done untill now is this:...
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Avg Update Corrupting ARC Windows 10

During the night,AVG virus protection did an update secretly on Laptop windows 10 and this update put ARC.Exe into virus jail! Took me hours to figure out why it loads but then refuse to connect to EZB! so I tried my cell phone app Android and no problems then I tried my desktop PC with no problems ...but suddenly desktop AVG started an update and...
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Change Email Address ?

Can someone explain how I can change my profiles email address ?
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Adding Laptop Script Sonar To Mobile Phone App?

I was making great scripts for my laptop ARC windows and figured out how to transfer them all to mobile phone app ARC. everything will work just like the laptop but then the robot will hit walls,seems like the ultrasonic sonar does not work in Mobile App? I was reading all night and can't find any example program script for mobile phone on sonar...
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Hiding The Wires Idea For Robot Project

Just a Quick update on the paranormal Rad robot project. I wanted a quick way to hide the wires and holes I drilled. So I got this idea to use chrome duct tape from watching the bogus moon landing NASA space craft and many of the robot probes. Only difference is I did not use the same NASA Gold Tin foil ,duct tape and chicken wire ,LOL! I am ready...
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How Do I Connect This 2 ? Don't Wanna Blow Anything Up

How Do I Connect This 2 ? Don't Wanna Blow Anything Up

Hi All, OK. I have searched the forums and everywhere..But I couldnt find the example of how to connect these 2...
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Robo-Cams

It is needed for this robot to have a microphone so I was testing my cell phone camera and IP web-cam app ,it works too well for picking up sounds ,it must pause to listen in the scripting,Problem comes with movements ,to get high frame rate I need to use lowest setting resolution. A higher resolution looks great but gets a bit "choppy" I...