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Feetech Serial Bus S…
Control Feetech SC serial bus smart servos via EZB UART or PC COM port with ARC virtual ports,...
Feetech RS485 Servo
Control Feetech serial bus smart servos via EZB UART or PC COM port in ARC using virtual ports...
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Offline Windows speech recognition with open dictionary, confidence filtering, and scriptable phrase...
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Stream robot camera to VR and control servos with headset pitch/yaw; supports SteamVR and Cardboard (iOS/Android) for immersive teleoperation
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HEMI home-health robot prototype lifts and transfers patients using high-torque servos, actuator, sensors, EZ-B control, Sabertooth drive.
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Microsoft Lifecam Hd-6000 Issue
Hello to all. I have just bought a Microsoft Life Cam HD-6000. As a web cam, it works supper. I can zoom in and out with no problem. When I use it in ARC, it so far zoomed in its almost unusable. I can be 10 feet from the cam and my head fills the window. So tracking any kind of movement is impossible due to the tracking window is full of an image....
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jstarne1 |
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Stairs / Edge Avoidance With Sonar Sensor , Whats Best For Omnibot 2000
Is sonar a good option to avoid stairs and objects in all conditions? Is there...
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jstarne1 |
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Continuous Rotation Servo Help
Hi Guys, Can a continuous servo be either timed to rotate forwards for X amount of time then go in reverse for the same amount of time OR Do X amount of...
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RichiesRC |
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Multiplexing Digital Ports
Hi Guys Is there anyway to 'multiplex' the 20 digital ports?. I want 6 columns and 14 rows to drive an LED dot matrix using row column addressing. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks danUK
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Power To Ezb
No Problem with my EZB works perfectly I supply do to d14 with an external power source,by initially cutting print on pcb when I disconnect main power to ezb and bluetooth red led goes out but the green led remains on is this normal don't want to do damage this brilliant card Pat
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DJ Sures |
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Connection Keeps Dropping
Recently got 'Gerrard' my Butler Bot (get it?) up and running after a recent spot of upgrades and noticed that the Bluetooth connection drops regularly after a minute or two. Which it didn't do before he would quite happily sit there for hours watching the TV. I have a Ver 2.1 board fitted saving the my V3 board for another project. Also get...
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DJ Sures |
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Com Ports Dropdown List In ARC And Firmware Updater
Hi All, I apologize if this has been posted with a solution but I could not find it in bugs. I noticed after the IP capable version of ARC came out (awesome btw) my COM Ports showed up in the pull down a little strange. Where I had COM6 before, I now had COM16 showing. The COM port was verified as COM6 with the OS and I was able to key in COM6 it...
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DJ Sures |
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Is There A Schematic Or Block Diagram For The Ez-Board
My subject is my question, I was wondering if there might be some documentation on the EZ-board in the form of a block diagram or a schematic. I am interested in the 3 Regulator and there appears to be a fuse between 2 of them. From the hardware manual I gathered that one of the regulators is one amp and that is probably for the micro and the...
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Jeremie |
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Ezb Kit Servos , What Is Everyone Using Them.For?
Are the ezb servos good as name brand? Anyone have specs in.them? I was thinking of using one for radar
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kkeast |
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Ice Cream Container = Robot Head
Hi, I just wanted to share an idea I had after eatting all the ice cream. to the left you can see the ice container before I painted. The eye are from a...
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hoolagen1 |
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Movie And Tv Bots
I thought it might be cool to see pics of bots from movies and TV - some we know very well, but some are more obscure. How about BB from 1986's Deadly Friend: Anyone else have any cool...
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jstarne1 |
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Chat Room Maybe ¿¿¿
Hello was just thinking that a live chat room/page on here could be something to look into setting up im sure it would get used alot i know i would
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jstarne1 |