Robot Building Questions

Check The Arms Like An Excavator

If I control the arms with the Servopad, everything is too rude for me. Has anyone ever driven an excavator? If you move the joystick slightly in one direction, The arm moves continuously slowly in the direction. If you move the joystick strongly in one direction, The arm moves continuously rapidly in one direction. For my robot I would like...

Omnibot 5402 - Belts

Saw a few posts about Omnibots here, joined the site hoping for some help. Just put a battery in my old Omnibot... has been on a shelf since the late '80s. Turned it on, went to test the tape deck and the motor turns without a tape, but with a tape it doesn't. I suspect a slipping belt issue. Anyone know what belt I need for the deck on this?...

Small Headset Mic Suggestions Needed

Hello Everyone, I am looking for a small wireless headset mic with a mute function for when I am using voice control with my R2D2 in a crowded room or convention. Does anyone have an good suggestions? For some reason I am not having any luck in my search; they either don't have a mute button or are designed to work with a cellphone. Any help is...

ARC Error At Loading Of Ippsp Libarary

EZ-Builder opens ok, Select a project and the error "Error at loading of ippSP Libarary", and Comment "No DLLs were found in the Waterfall Procedure" pops up and ARC freezes and the closes. Did a complete uninstall, downloaded fresh copy of latest version and the problem still persists. Help appreciated?

Can I Connect A Microphone To Ezb

Hello everyone I tried to find some information in the forum, but my search was unsuccessful. I have also found no tutorial. I would like to use my robot in other rooms and in the garden. I would like to hear what happened there. Voice control does not have to be. I just want to hear what's going on in the area when the motors are not running. I...

Ultrasonic Device

I can not get the ultrasonic device to detect an object, (wall ect). I have the ultrasonic device connect to trigger D21 echo D22 and even tried to swapping the trigger with the echo. If I look at the radar the distance is always 255. and I see two red spots that I think are the end points. I removed the device from the servo and tried not moving...

How To Add Leg Servos To Jd And Get Them To Show Up In The Design Pictures

I'm trying to add two more leg servo's to jd . I can add the servo box in the motion control panel but I can't find any way to add the new servo's to the design picture, or how to get the new servo ports in the port lists ?

Recent ARC Update

I just updated the ARC windows software because the message popped out that there was an updated version. Then after it said windows 7 is no longer supported but may still load and should upgrade to windows 10. That is not really an option for me now,Prefer my win 7.Is this going to be a problem for all the cool plug in programs I want to start...

Ideas For Plastic Outer Cover For Max

I need to get outer plastic body for Max to cover all the internal parts and make him cool. Does anyone have any suggestions? https://youtu.be/EdNz9cD2uAc

Reading Mpu9150 From Python

Hi all, Is there a way to get sensor readings from an MPU9150 directly in Python? I've tried writing its values to a file and then reading from that file as it's being written into (to develop a live interface), but that crashes when both ARC and Python are trying to access the same file at once. Python was able to get the camera image data just...