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Kismet - Video From The 1990S On An Interactive Bot (See How Far We've Come)

The link below will take you to a video that was shot in the 1990s in the MIT AI lab. Meet Kismet If you are interested in social behavior of robots, take a look, and then compare with more advanced achievements by some of our community members. Ron
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Udp Client (Lean)

Wrote a Windows program that will send an UDP message once a while from a different PC. I would like to use that message inside the ARC script. Very similar to the iPhone sensor module (UDP Listening). Although I could emulate the UDP string as per the Sensor Stream Server App, I would like to keep this as lean as possible (a couple of bytes is...
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Galapagos Bot Strafe Button On Iphone

Galapagos Bot Strafe Button On Iphone

I'm not sure the strafe button works on the iPhone or iPad app. Can you tell me exactly what the Galapagos bot is supposed to do when I press...
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.Net Questions With Installing ARC On Windows 7

.Net Questions With Installing ARC On Windows 7

Hello, new user, just ordered the developer's kit and going through the tutorials but got stuck when I downloaded the...
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Can I Connect ARC Mobile To An Ez-B V3 ?

Anyone has ever tried to connect ARC mobile to an EZ-B V3 over TCP port? WHen I try I get the error message "Disconnected by remote host". I also tried over Http server, no joy. Any idea, beside throwing away all my V3 boards? NB : Tcp connection works fine over telenet, so no pb on my network side. Thanks in advance. Elfège.
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Is It Too Soon In The Ez-Robot History To Talk About Retail Franchises?

DJ, what sort of support opportunities would be available from EZ-Robot for individuals interested in opening a retail outlet exclusively for EZ-Robot products? Ron
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Maximum Current From Digital Pins

I want to drive some LED's directly (with current limiting resistor) from a digital output. What is the maximum current output of the digital pins on the EZ-Bv4 please?
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Rotate Camera Input

Is it possible to rotate the camera input feed by 180 degrees? The camera circuit board will fit better on my robots face if it can be mounted upside down.
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Iphone 6 And Ipad 2

I have the Galapagos bot and I have loaded the iPhone app, when I use the iPhone app everything connects to the robot but the control all go crazy and the diamond arrow controller does not work. When I use the iPad 2 with iOS 7 the app works better. The bot will walk but only if I go to the controller tab. All the tabs respond correctly. But on the...
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Ez-Face Recognition Questions With Multiple Cameras

@JustinRatliff In a previous thread you mentioned that EZ-Face would need to be retrained when a camera is replaced. If my development project goes as planned, I will have several humanoid heads interacting with multiple persons, not necessarily paired up the same way, from day-to-day. So, my plan is, in a few months, to investigate the algorithm...
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Evangelist Team Feedback

Say, DJ, as a member of the evangelist team, I would like some (candid) feedback on how I can improve my postings in support of EZ-Robot. I have a thick skin, so if you have a chance to review my evangelistic postings, I'd like to know how I can improve to offer better support
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New Balance Battery Charger Vs. The Blue Charger

I received my JD robot kit about 1.5 weeks ago and it came with the blue battery charger. Today I got an email directing me to new info on the batter charger lesson. On the lesson it talks about the new balance charger and refers to mine as the "deprecated blue ez-robot charger". The word "deprecated" obviously got my attention...