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Making A Arc Tutorial

Making A Arc Tutorial

I am thinking about making a tutorial for Arc. Please show me a link to the start page?
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Brushed Esc

What movement panel or control to use with Brushed esc for brushed motors?
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HSD8001 Tablet/PC

Has anyone tried running  ARC on a HSD8001 Tablet/PC?  It is a nice size for mounting on a robot. https://mobspares.com/products/hsd8001-tablet-pc-8-inch-2-5d-screen-4gb-64gb-windows-10-intel-atom-z8300-quad-core-support-tf-card-hdmi-bluetooth-dual-wifisilver?variant=43025678041282
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Arc Auto Update

Two arc updates ago you included an option to disable automatic updating of the program. I cannot seem to find that option anywhere in arc. Can you point me in the right direction where this option is available? And I'm going to schedule and need to get this figured out by tomorrow afternoon (Thursday). Your quick attention would be appreciated....
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UART And ASCII Dec.

UART And ASCII Dec.

@DJ My question pertains to UART communication. Hopefully I can explain this ... lol? ASCII UARTWrite(0,0,"49") in decimal form is = 1 UARTWrite(0,0,"50") in...
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Cognitive Vision Not Speaking

Cognitive Vision Not Speaking

Hello All- How do I get Cognitive Vision to say what it see's from the camera? For some reason I can not get Cognitive Vision to speak the variable, it just says...
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Camera Script To Reconnect, Does It Exist

Does a Camera script to reconnect, exist? Sometimes not often the camera disconnects. Can a script be implemented to reconnect it? Thank you.
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Cognitive Vision Script Collection Only Executing Previous Vision

Hello All- Why is the script collection not executing the real time vision from Cognitive Vision skill? Im using Cognitive Vision - ControlCommand("Azure Text To Speech", "speak", "I see " + getVar("$VisionDescription")); and It works fine when I click describe image but when I make a script collection and...
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How Do I Make Bing Speech Recognition Not Trigger From Spoken Chatgpt Response?

How Do I Make Bing Speech Recognition Not Trigger From Spoken Chatgpt Response?

Is there a variable or method to know when servos have stopped...
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Bing Speech Wake Word Not Working

Hello All- I upgraded to ARC Pro 2023.11.15 and the wake word is not working anymore. I did remove Bing Speech and re-add it, no luck on wake word working. Any suggestions? I did reboot the computer. Bing Speech works fine with pressing the recording button and with VAD.
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Azure Text To Speech, Talk Servo V2 Not Working

Hello All- Im sure im missing something, but here is what Im working with. EZ robot head- Azure Text to Speech Bing Speech Recognition with VAD OpenAI ChatGpt Everything works great but cant get the mouth to move from response "Using speaker from robot head" Azure selected to use "Speak out of EZB"   If I dont use Azure text to...
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Speed Vs Velocity Configuration

Speed Vs Velocity Configuration

Why is there the option to set both the speed and the velocity parameters in the Actions tab of the Auto Position configuration panel?