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Servo And Sound Being Stuck(Or Slow Reaction)

Hello everyone. Why my roli gets stuck while making an action or speaking out words? This issue seems random. For example, when I instruct my roli to do "clap" action again and again in ARC , the robot may finish the action very slow one time, but normally the other time. I suspect this problem may be caused by the connection issue. I...
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Servo Burnt Out?

Servo Burnt Out?

I was running JD successfully last night, up until the time I had to put him on charge. Charged up the battery, disconnected after the charge. Tonight after powering him up as usual, I...
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Introducing Amos

Introducing Amos

Hi everyone. Quick introduction, I am Peter Anderson and this is my Inmoov Robot Amos. I recently purchased an Ezbv4 and camera for Amos and have spent the weekend playing. I would just...
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Feedback From 2 Day Workshop

Feedback From 2 Day Workshop

Just ran a two day workshop based around Adveturebot, a couple of pieces of feedback. Firstly there is a link to a place in the tutorial explaining what to if...
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Wifi To Bluetooth

I have a EZ B v3 with a Bluetooth module. I downloaded the newest software and it looks like it uses wifi to connect to the board. Is there way to switch wifi connection to Bluetooth ? Or should I download the older version of the software ? Thanks! Shak
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Intermittent Exception Error When Trying To Start Custom Http Server?

I originally posted this thread in another topic discussion, but thought it should maybe start a different thread for this discussion. Below, is what I posted in a previous discussion on the HTTP Custom Web Server Control: I noticed that when I activate the custom web server in my project sometimes I get the following exception error: "Object...
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Adventure Bot Auto Position Movement Panel

Hello, I performed the calibration procedure that DJ made up for the continuous rotation servos of the Adventure Bot using a test continuous rotation movement panel. All worked out great. I then opened my main project for Adventure Bot that uses the Auto Position Movement Panel and it acts differently. When I click forward, reverse, left and right...
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Usb Ttl To Ez-B 3.0

hello all, I know Im a little behind in the times, but I have a ez-b 3 that I am trying to get rid of the Bluetooth and go with a usb ttl. I have tried it in to in and out to out also in to out and out to in. I have the ground connected, but not the power lead. at one point I did manage to update the firmware. but is still cant figure it out. I...
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Something Happened Visually To Some Of My Controls After Last Update

Something Happened Visually To Some Of My Controls After Last Update

After the last ARC update my autopostioner looks like this (settings). There is no...
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ARC Can't Connect To Revolution Jd

I'm running ARC version 2016.08.29.00, trying to talk to a Revolution JD, from Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. It's been a year since I used the JD, but it worked fine at the time. My wi-fi finds and connects to the unit as an access point. But ARC will not connect to it. The IP address is correct (192.168.1.1:23) and I reset the robot just to be sure. From...
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Leonardo

Leonardo

Hehe, found this on youtube, I just love him!
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Animation With ARC

Hey guys, I just wanted to know if anyone has info on some stuff that I am trying to sort out here... So I would like to do some correctly timed animation with my robot, my plan is to script the animation frame by frame...so it will be done with an EZ-Script rather than inside of the Auto Position Control. So I init the servo speed first... For the...