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MPU9150 Polling Freezes PCA9685 Servos

MPU9150 Polling Freezes PCA9685 Servos

Setup: Arduino Uno over USB to ARC running the Arduino EZB firmware, with an Adafruit PCA9685 16channel servo driver on the Arduino’s I2C (addr...
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Ensure Variable State Saver Loads First

Ensure Variable State Saver Loads First

Running a JD Humanoid over WiFi to an EZB, and I’m trying to persist a few calibration/tuning variables between ARC sessions using the...
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Sound Servo EZB Not Reacting On Roomba Iotiny

Sound Servo EZB Not Reacting On Roomba Iotiny

I’m building a talking Roomba (650) and hit a wall with Sound Servo (EZB). Hardware: Roomba base, Synthiam ARC on Windows,...
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Text Overlay Flicker With Hugging Face

Text Overlay Flicker With Hugging Face

I’ve got an Atomic Pi mounted in a small rover running Windows with ARC, a Logitech C920 on USB, and WiFi for internet access. I’m using the...
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Virtual Robot With Two Controllers

Virtual Robot With Two Controllers

Running ARC on a LattePanda (Windows) with the onboard Arduino Leonardo flashed with the EZ-Genuino_Leonardo firmware and connected over USB. I checked...
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Cloud Upload XML Error Large Project

Cloud Upload XML Error Large Project

I'm trying to save a large ARC project to the Synthiam cloud from the PC running ARC, but the upload fails with this error: "An error...
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ARC Onboard Versus Remote Limits

ARC Onboard Versus Remote Limits

If I run the ARC application on a Raspberry Pi 5 (Windows on ARM) mounted on my robot, with the robot’s controllers connected to that Pi, what limitations...
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Six Locks Up With RGB 8X8

Six Locks Up With RGB 8X8

I mounted the Synthiam RGB 8x8 Display on my EZ-Robot Six Hexapod and am driving it with the RGB 8x8 Animator skill to show status icons while Six is walking. ARC is...
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Speech Recognition Mic Variable

Speech Recognition Mic Variable

, I'm using the Speech Recognition Robot Skill in ARC. From a Python script running in that Speech Recognition Skill, I'm attempting to start Object...
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Getrss 403 And Empty Arrays On Six

Getrss 403 And Empty Arrays On Six

Running a Six Hexapod (EZ-B v4 over WiFi in client mode) from ARC on Windows, I added the GetRSS robot skill to have Six read a few headlines while...
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Smoothing Frequency Detector Servo

Smoothing Frequency Detector Servo

I’m driving a standard 180 servo on D1 of an EZ-B v4 (Wi-Fi client mode) using the Frequency Detector skill to follow pitch. Windows default recording...
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Camera Tracking Type Variable Bug

Camera Tracking Type Variable Bug

Athena, I'm using the Camera Skill with Object Recognition in ARC and I think I've found a bug. The ARC Variable Watcher shows $CameraTrackingType as type...