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Custom Movement Panel Speed Changed

Custom Movement Panel Speed Changed

I can't find any info on what this does and how to use it. any examples out there?
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Forum Pictures Not Showing Right

Hey all For some reason ever since the new website came up the pictures in the forum post are not showing right. I thought it was just the website needing fine tuned but now I'm sure that it's me ... lol The pictures are all long and very thin, if I click on them to show the large view all is ok. Is there a setting I need to change. Long live...
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Rashad's Basic Building Blocks Of Robotic Life.

Rashad's basic building blocks of robotic life. These are the tools that I use when I come up with a new idea.
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Multiple Servo Control Using Speech Recognition.

My Current project is a custom made robot for the Children's Museum that has two arms that move, with wrists that turn and two Eyes that open and close. How do I go about using the speech Recognition commands to operate multipule servos at the same time. For example: I want to say "Robot Blink" and have the two servos that control the...
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Classified Section

Hey DJ Most of us have lots of parts that we don't need anymore or are looking for. I have a mini ITX brand new with power supply a Roomba and a Rovio that I was going to put on ebay. I didn't want to take up space selling something with out asking first. Can we have a classified section on the forum? Just a thought. Thanks
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30 Year Wait Is Over

My 30 year wait is finaly over Many many years ago a book came out called controling the world with your pc For years i wanted it but could never find a copy and when i did i could not aford it Today my long awaited copy came in
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Back Again With The L289n Question

Back Again With The L289n Question

I am back again with the same problem with the motor driver. First, I have been experimenting for the past 3 weeks! without sucess! I have watched the...
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Keep Your Multi-Meter Handy.

I just learned a lesson and thought I should share. If something doesn't work, check the voltage and continuity of the hookup wires before taking things apart. I traded a smartphone with Josh for a robot claw. When I started to work with the claw, I could not get it to work. I took it completely apart to test the motors, and they were fine. After...
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Frustrations With 2013.03.18.00

I'm really struggling with this version 2013.03.18.00 anyone else got these problems? and yes I realise some of these changes have been with us a while in earlier versions but ARC stability and connection stability is getting worse. It used to be really rock solid now I'm getting screen freezes and odd behaviour that was never there before. 1....
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Extruding Pellets Into 3D Printer Filament , Reduces Material Costs To 1/5

Extruding Pellets Into 3D Printer Filament , Reduces Material Costs To 1/5

https://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/1973-The-Lyman-Filament-Extruder...
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How To Connect Xbee Wifi Ez-Robots

How to connect XBee Wifi hardware in ez-robots? Have tutorial? or UART is better? https://www.elechouse.com/elechouse/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=90_186&products_id=1007 Have Tutorial to connect hardware? Thanks!
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Just Bought Another Robot -Biped Design

Just Bought Another Robot -Biped Design

THIS is my 81 robot i bought and looks very good low cost iTS 15 DOF biped design without servo's from ebay fo $106 Reason i bought it without...