Journey Week 14…∞ In this week I learnt about 3D Printing. There are some open-source CAD files for JD which are available on EZB to download and print. If we do not have our own 3D Printer then there is a EZB 3D Printing Community portal as well which we can use to…

Journey Week 13 In this week I learnt about how to control JD from Twitter under creative applications control. It requires a connection to both robot and internet at same time. There is a control in EZB known as Twitter Recognition to add the twitter recognition controls which can be accessed through project>add…

Journey Week 12 In this week I learnt about MYO Gesture Armband under positional control of JD. Basically, it is a creative controller for interacting with robot. It uses gestures and an accelerometer to trigger actions, events and move servos. The servos can mimic movements using built-in accelerometer. After that I moved on…

Journey Week 11 In this week I learnt about sound board under positioning control. It is used to add robot audio control which can be accessed using Project>add controls>audio. After that I moved on to learn how to program a robot to move using auto position control in EZ-Builder. It allows still frames…

Journey Week 10 In this week I learnt about different types of servo under positioning control of EZ-Builder. There are 3 types of servo, Positional Rotation, Continuous Rotation and Linear. Positional Rotation are the most common ones and they provide 180° rotation. Continuous Rotation ones are the same ones as positional except it…

Journey Week 9 In this week I learnt in depth about servo motor under positioning control. Servo motor or servo is a rotary actuator that allows for precise control of angular position, velocity and acceleration. Servos are used to manage movement of joints, pan and tilt and continuous rotational movement. EZ-B sends an…

Journey Week 8 In this week I learnt about servos under positioning control. Every control that uses servos has a configuration dialog (usually for horizontal or/and vertical servo) for specifying the servo port, min. and max. range. Invert function is used if servo is moving in incorrect direction, it will reverse/invert direction of servo.The multi servo option allows a ratio to be specified. The ratio is based off the primary value for first servo in the list. If the servo degree position for the first servo is specified as 10 and the ratio is 2, the respective servo will move to degree position 20. There is another servo control called relative servo control which will be useful if we want a servo or group of servos to move together from script. This can be accessed using project>add controls>servo tab.

Journey Week 7 In this week, I learnt speech recognition under audio input control of EZ-Builder. This is particularly used to control and interact with robot. In order to increase recognition threshold lower confidence value but low value may provide false positives. I created a block program for this using blockly. Further, I…

Journey Week 6 In this week I learnt QR Code detection using camera control in EZ-Builder. QR means quick response. Information’s stored in QR Codes. Basically, it is a 2D bar code for encoding information. QR Code Encoder Control is used to create custom QR Codes. This can be accessed using project>add controls>camera…