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Building A Drone To Live Stream Video

Building A Drone To Live Stream Video

Hi everyone. I am currently trying to assemble a drone to live stream video to a phone app. Right now, I am working on controlling the drone...
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Ipad Air Connecting To Ez-Bv4

Until two days ago had no problems connecting IPad Air to Ez-Bv4 in either mode AP or Client. Now all goes well until you hit the connect button and the controller beeps and the red light comes on. No servo's are connected and the Lipo is fully charged. I have two Ez-Bv4's and cannot get either to connect. Up till now it was a doddle but am I...
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Tracked Robot - Mobile Controls

Tracked Robot - Mobile Controls

Hello Everyone! New to the platform, please forgive me if these questions have very obvious answers. I'm incorporating the EZ Platform into a tracked robot....
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Edit Window Not Remembering It's Last Size Or Position

@DJSures As of the last two updates, the script edit window is not remembering it's last size, partition splitter setting, or position upon closing. It always opens in full screen. Please look into this as soon as possible as it is very tedious to have to change back it every time. Thanks.
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What's Worry With My Jd?Please Help Me!

After I finish the assembly of the JD,and then connected to the JD through the ARC.But the right server seems to have a problem with the termination of the initial,as shown in Figure.I can hear the sound of the right foot server,and it's going to get hot.How do I get my robot to dancing and singging? Please help me,thanks a lot!
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Reading Through An Rss File To Get Specific Data

Reading Through An Rss File To Get Specific Data

I have been able to get and save the attached file to my hard drive. I can read it but I can not figure out how to pull just...
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Anyone Here Tested Any Tof Sensors?

Does anyone have any experience they would like to share with these ToF sensors, VL53L0X or VL6180X?
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Need Help With Plugin

Need Help With Plugin

I need some help with a plugin I am working on. I am new to C# and OOP. Have went thru the Tutorial and the SDK Tutorials also. How do I get the values from the form in to my C#...
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Omnibot Build?

Hi all, I want to do copy of DJ's Omnibot 5402. I have the bot Just need the ez-robot parts. Would I be better off (pricewise) buying the Ezb v4 developers kit or buying the parts individually. Also if buying the parts individually, could someone provide a list of parts needed to complete the build? I have looked at the build tutorial page but the...
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Ezb V4/2

What are the improvements of this over the v4? I didn't see anything pointing that out on the products page
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Holiday Lights - Looking For A Script

Good Morning! I had a thought of using my EZB to turn on and turn off my holiday lights on my house. The only issue I think I may have is the code. I do not know enough code to turn on lights at 6pm and then turn off at 11pm. Would anyone in the community be willing to help with this code? Thanks Wayne
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Phone App Questions

hi all i have all this code put together to make my bb8 move, make sound head turn left and right , camera interaction and the sort. problem is that when i try to create the interface for my tablet or phone it does not do anything. i hit configure on the interface screens to copy the information i gave the controllers. when i click on the servos or...