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My Rover-Roli Called Snack Butler

My Rover-Roli Called Snack Butler

Here he is... not finished... lol But he is working hard now... j
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Periferal Input On Ez-B

I just have the idea that the EZ-B would have somehow some kind of ports on it to connect it directly to the PC as an alternative way. Will EZ-B update its products or so?
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Muscle Wire

Muscle Wire

I found this ,, I know its a toy but I do think one can learn a bit about this tech for cheep this way. Has anyone else looked at Muscle wire? to similar tech? muscle wire hand
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How Do You Get Two Ezb's To Work Together?

I have got two EZBv4's connected to my project. As you can see in the code below, I have an Ultrasonic sensor connected to controller #1 and I am trying to get it to move a servo one controller #0. When I run it, the servo does not move. Am I missing something in communicating between the two controllers? $trigport = 1.D0 $echoport = 1.D1...
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Scripts Not Executing On Mobile App

Hello, I finished putting together my 1st set of actions and scripts to be executed from the mobile app. All of my actions execute perfectly, but none of my buttons that trigger scripts are working from the mobile app (all buttons script & action work fine while executing from the computer). Attached I have provided my program, if someone can...
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Test This Script For Me

Good Morning, Could the members of the community with fast computers please run this script for me and tell me the CPU load from ARC. For me, when I run this script my CPU process from ARC is 50 percent. If you have something at D20,D21,D22 just comment the PWM statements out. :loop REPEAT($x,0,100,10) PWM(D20,$x) PWM(D21,$x) PWM(D22,$x) print($x)...
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Low Cost Eyeballs For Your Project

Low Cost Eyeballs For Your Project

Recently stumbled across this web site - www.GlowUniverse.com that has a novelty item that is a painted eyeball with LEDs installed inside and is...
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Right When I Start The Software

Hey guys. Idk what it means but when I start the EZ-B Version, a pop up comes out from the buttom and I copied what it says. Here what it said: EZB 0: EZB 1: EZB 2: EZB 3: EZB 4: 11/9/2014 10:22 AM - TCP Server stopped 11/9/2014 10:22 AM - TCP Server stopped 11/9/2014 10:22 AM - TCP Server stopped 11/9/2014 10:22 AM - TCP Server stopped 11/9/2014...
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Made 3D Printed Part For My Rover-Roli

Made 3D Printed Part For My Rover-Roli

Made 3d printed part for my rover-Roli... My Robot's watching... lol j
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Ultrasonic Sensor On Adc Ports

I am trying to get a HC - SR04 Ultrasonic sensor to work off of ADC ports and having a little difficulty. Before I go any further into frustration - can you run this sensor off of ADC ports?
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Ezb4 Speaker With Pandorabots

Ezb4 Speaker With Pandorabots

EDIT. I just want to mention that anyone looking to do something similar to what I have mentioned in this first post, should look at post #7 for more details, as...
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Can We Get More Virtual Ports?

Hello EZ-Robot Team.. We now have virtual ports for storing servo info in. But they only go to 19 ,, now that we have more ports can we get that extended to match the ports. I have some script that will need to store and recall the positions of servos after a selected task is complete. Thanks in advance for all your awesome help! Also if anyone is...