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Zeemote-Ish Controllers Out There?

Zeemote-Ish Controllers Out There?

I was stalking the Interweb this weekend looking for a small remote to use when I want my robot under my control... A Zeemote-ish kinda controller would...
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New Robot Film Trailer

New Robot Film Trailer

This movie looks good from the director of District 9 Chappie
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Ar Drone 2.0 Camera Stream

I need help for some problems in my project at the university. can you help me about Ardrone 2.0 camera stream. I used ARC and it's very useful software. i need to video stream from Ardrone 2.0 to use in matlab applications. But the format of the video data of Ardrone is h264. an application can be made as your camera script for to use in matlab or...
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Kobuki Support

Hello, I have a Kobuki base/platform that was originally intended for a turtlebot. Unfortunately ROS's learning curve has proven a bit to steep for me. Has anyone had success with an EZ Board/controller and a mobility?
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Help On Edit

I could not find instructions about entering contributions, no Help button, F1 doesn't work, and I also couldn't find a tutorial. Do I have to change my browser settings for display/access to such items? How can I e.g. quote text from another entry?
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Continuous Rotation Servo Powered Externally

Continuous Rotation Servo Powered Externally

Hello! So I've been battling with maths recently and trying to figure out the torque required to shift my robot. I've got some on...
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Cannot Connect In Wifi Client Mode

After configuring my Roli to client mode, it says that it connected successfully to my WLAN. But the ARC scan cannot find it :-( It may be a policy (firewall?) problem, but I have not installed or activated any AV software. [Using Win8]
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Movement Tracking

Movement Tracking

I am trying to get my Wall-E to follow the color red. The problem is when it see's the red object it turns away from the object. I have everything set up as in the Roli exercise. If I...
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How Do I Change My Email

My email is wrong. It needs to be [email protected]. Cant seem to fix from my end. Any help I can get or can you wipe the username and let me start again as I want to keep the user name. Thanks
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11.1V 1300Mah

11.1V 1300Mah

Can the ezb4 use a 11.1v 1300 mAh bettery directly?
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Using Kalman Filter For Tracking Position And Orientation Of Imu

I'm applying the Kalman Filter to track position and orientation of a device which has Inertial Navigation Units (accelerometer and gyroscope). I'm not sure if I use acceleration as input (control process) or velocity or none of them. Can you help me? And one of the propositions is that the velocity is constant (module).
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ARC To Text

Can the graphical interface of ARC be converted to a text file? What I mean is can I somehow convert my program in ARC to a script without coding it myself. Sort of like how with web design editors (WYSIWYGs) you can design the page in a graphical interface and then export the code in (X)HTML. Thanks.