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Omnibot 5402 - Belts

Saw a few posts about Omnibots here, joined the site hoping for some help. Just put a battery in my old Omnibot... has been on a shelf since the late '80s. Turned it on, went to test the tape deck and the motor turns without a tape, but with a tape it doesn't. I suspect a slipping belt issue. Anyone know what belt I need for the deck on this?...
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Small Headset Mic Suggestions Needed

Hello Everyone, I am looking for a small wireless headset mic with a mute function for when I am using voice control with my R2D2 in a crowded room or convention. Does anyone have an good suggestions? For some reason I am not having any luck in my search; they either don't have a mute button or are designed to work with a cellphone. Any help is...
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ARC Error At Loading Of Ippsp Libarary

EZ-Builder opens ok, Select a project and the error "Error at loading of ippSP Libarary", and Comment "No DLLs were found in the Waterfall Procedure" pops up and ARC freezes and the closes. Did a complete uninstall, downloaded fresh copy of latest version and the problem still persists. Help appreciated?
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Can I Connect A Microphone To Ezb

Hello everyone I tried to find some information in the forum, but my search was unsuccessful. I have also found no tutorial. I would like to use my robot in other rooms and in the garden. I would like to hear what happened there. Voice control does not have to be. I just want to hear what's going on in the area when the motors are not running. I...
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Ultrasonic Device

I can not get the ultrasonic device to detect an object, (wall ect). I have the ultrasonic device connect to trigger D21 echo D22 and even tried to swapping the trigger with the echo. If I look at the radar the distance is always 255. and I see two red spots that I think are the end points. I removed the device from the servo and tried not moving...
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How To Add Leg Servos To Jd And Get Them To Show Up In The Design Pictures

I'm trying to add two more leg servo's to jd . I can add the servo box in the motion control panel but I can't find any way to add the new servo's to the design picture, or how to get the new servo ports in the port lists ?
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Auto Release Control

Auto Release Control

It probably is a simple change to make the Servo Dropdown list on the Auto Release control so the user may Select Multiple servos at once. A user friendly change... <select...
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Recent ARC Update

I just updated the ARC windows software because the message popped out that there was an updated version. Then after it said windows 7 is no longer supported but may still load and should upgrade to windows 10. That is not really an option for me now,Prefer my win 7.Is this going to be a problem for all the cool plug in programs I want to start...
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Ideas For Plastic Outer Cover For Max

I need to get outer plastic body for Max to cover all the internal parts and make him cool. Does anyone have any suggestions? https://youtu.be/EdNz9cD2uAc
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Reading Mpu9150 From Python

Hi all, Is there a way to get sensor readings from an MPU9150 directly in Python? I've tried writing its values to a file and then reading from that file as it's being written into (to develop a live interface), but that crashes when both ARC and Python are trying to access the same file at once. Python was able to get the camera image data just...
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In The Rafters?

In The Rafters?

Ok. The entire office is in an elevator shaft, right? eek
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Thanks Trevor Hardware

just started a sainsmart 17 dof bot.how is the operational.r you planning on adding neck servos,camera,mb leds. such as ez robot head.new gyro board.im new at this programing. but I am pretty good at 3d printing using my rostockv2. thanks jeff