Robot Building Questions

Use Buttons To Control Stepper Motors

Hello Athena, I am using the stepper servo robot skill. I am trying to add 3 buttons, 1 for CW, 1 for CCW, and 1 to stop. Can you guide me on how I can achieve that? I have 2 stepper motors, both have different travel distance but they come back to position 0.

Improving JD Humanoids Conversation Responses

I am working with a JD Humanoid Robot and utilizing Bing Speech Recognition and AIMLBot to enable conversational interactions with it. However, I am encountering issues where the robot responds with irrelevant or nonsensical answers to my questions. For example, when I ask, "Robot, do you have a name?" the robot simply replies, "I...

Handling Weather Script Connection Errors

I have a JavaScript in ARC that go onto the Internet and retrieves a full weather report from a Weather service, parses information out of the returned file and has the robot speak the information For Example: A section of my ARC Setup INT script will set the  variable $OutsideTemp to "1" and then a ControlCommand will start a separate...

Firmware Update Compilation Error

I just downloaded the newest firmware 1/25/2025 from today and I get the following error on compiling: C:\Users\User\Downloads\EZ-ESP32-CAM (1)\EZ-ESP32-CAM\EZ-ESP32-CAM.ino: In function 'void doEZProtocol()': C:\Users\User\Downloads\EZ-ESP32-CAM (1)\EZ-ESP32-CAM\EZ-ESP32-CAM.ino:820:15: error: 'class HardwareSerial' has no member named...

Batch File Automation For ARC Connection

Hello [Synthiam Community or ], I am currently working on automating a project launch using startup scripts and have encountered an issue. My goal is to launch a project via a batch file instead of using the Windows Startup folder. Here's the project setup: When I manually open the project in Synthiam ARC and click 'Connect' (with an IoTiny...

Integrating DIY Mars Rover Components

Hello, Athena! I am in the process of building a Mars rover prototype, which features six DC motors and six servos, much like the design of NASA's Perseverance rover. Each wheel of the rover is equipped with a servo for directional steering control. I'm thinking of using an IO Tiny combined with a PCA9685 servo driver to manage the servos. For the...

Self-Contained Offline Robotics Systems

Are there any robotic systems designed to be completely self-contained and operate offline? I am interested in building an animatronic robot capable of engaging in interactive and realistic conversations using strictly Edge AI technology. My goal is to avoid any ongoing API fees associated with cloud-based services. Has anyone successfully...

Mac Support

Before I purchase ARC Pro, I need to know if it will run on my MacBook, which uses the M3 Pro chip. I currently run ARC on my Intel-based MacBook. Will ARC be compatible with the M3 Pro MacBook?