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Output Audio from EZ-B by Synthiam
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Output Audio From EZ-B

Example ARC skill demonstrating converting, compressing and streaming MP3/WAV to an EZ-B speaker, with play/stop commands and TTS examples.

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Ez-B Conection Brownout

hi all still having problems getting started i just got my pc reformatted (windows xp) and still no luck got this msg in fermware updater Attempting connection to COM3 Comm Err: The operation has timed out. BbytesToExpect: 1 Received: Disconnected Connection Failed: System.Exception: Controller Not Responding at EZ_B.EZB.Connect(String portName)...
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Cool Wooden Tank Thread Vehicle

Cool Wooden Tank Thread Vehicle

Here is a link to a cool Wooden tank thread vehicle from a site called woodgears.ca this is something i plan on building soon Wooden tank thread vehicle...
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Toy Hack

do you think i could fit the new ez-robot controller on one of those zu-zu pets?
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Looking For Info On The New Chat Software

you are working on,any ideas when it will be ready,i know you are very busy guy also will you be selling the pre-program chip any time soon i know a lot of us would love to buy some and make our own size pcb arduino and basic stamp ,and c-stamp is doing it,and can make a lot of money selling it too
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Need More Screen Space In ARC

Does anyone know a way around getting more space to fit script controls in the ARC window. I'm running command control to run scripts from voice for Head turn, neck turn, arms movement, wrist movement , claw actions and personality generator. Thats a lot of windows. I've tried closing them but if I do that I loose that control.I've tried to...
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Mini Ez-Robot Controller

has it came out yet?
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More Than One Command In Speech Recognition

As the tittle said, I am wondering if it is possible to give the speech recognition more than one command at a time? For example, if I say search for the glyph it will activate glyph tracking and say something like glyph tracking enabled. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance.
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Auto-Connect To Ez-B. Anyone?

I have seen a few posts where people said they would like to have EZ-B auto connect and open their file. I would like this too. I know Robotmaker said he is working on something. Anyone else do something like this?
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Robot Ideas

i need ideas for some robots please tell me what robot names you can think of
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Only One Com Port On Bluetooth

Hi, While setting up my Bluetooth connection I noticed I'm only given one Com Port option to connect to. In all the instructions I read they say I'll see two choices. I've gone ahead and set everything up useing the one choice given (Com 3) and all seems to work nicely and has been for a couple weeks now. However I'm worried that may change if I...
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Is Anyone Using Urbi Sdk ?

Is anyone using URBI and if so, what are the advantages ? Thanks
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Wall-E Sound Files...Enjoy

Got really tired of searching for a good set of sounds, so, in a VERY unscientific way, I extracted all of the sounds from the sound chip on the U-Command Wall-e. If you have audio experience, you might want to re-equalize the sounds. But they're "good enough" for now. Enjoy.Wall-E_Sounds.zip