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Battery Charging Incorrectly

I attempted to charge my robot's standard 2 cell 7.49 volt battery, but I received the error of "300 MV difference between charger and battery." I was using the standard included battery charger. I visited the forums to investigate this problem and was told that disconnecting the battery from the robot would help it charge, instead, I...
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Ez Robot Summer In Belgium

Ez Robot Summer In Belgium

Ez robot jd on a hacker camp in belgium FRI3D camp... having fun...
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Ez-Robot Has Become A Great Sucess

Hello D.J. EZ-Robot has really grown since I was a member/user back in the beginning. You deserve the success my friend. I've been extremely busy with my Paranormal Investigation Team (Ghost Quest) and it has delayed my return to the fold. I'm ready to incorporate robotics into the team. I saw (somewhere) that you may be buying back some of the...
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Speech Recognition

Speech Recognition

Hello, I have literally tried everything in every tutorial on here to get speech recognition to move servos and nothing at all as worked. what could i be doing wrong?
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Question Downloading ARC

Question Downloading ARC

Hello to all, I realize that this is very much a noobie question, however........ Does anyone know of any problems downloading the ARC software? I have tried repeatedly to...
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Can't Multiply Variables

Hi everyone, it's me again. I'm sorry if this question/suggestion has been asked/made before, but I am trying to make a custom AI with EZ-Script, and I would like to know if multiplication with declared number or float variables (i.e. "num1" * "num2") is possible at all. If not, I think it would make ARC so much more flexible!...
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Inmoov Pots

I am looking for an alternative to the servos with the pots removed on the InMoov robot. I was wondering if a continuous servo could replace these considering the comprehensive control we now have using ARC. I have removed a few of these pots but am still having issues with the shoulders operating reliably. I cant help but think there must be a...
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Camera Interference With Servo Movement?

Camera Interference With Servo Movement?

Hey guys, I was trying to script some animation for my robot...trying to figure out how to make smooth animations which will run correctly...
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Trying To Get Led To Flicker While Sound Is Playing

Trying To Get Led To Flicker While Sound Is Playing

I am building a semi static BB8 (from Star Wars) out of foam. I have the EZb playing different sound files when a...
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Nest Thermostat

Nest Thermostat

I have configured my nest account and linked it to ARC. But when I try to run the sample project for Nest. I get this error Object reference not set to an instance of an object. what am I...
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Controlling A Robot With Android Wear Smartwatch

Controlling A Robot With Android Wear Smartwatch

As discussed in this thread: https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/9107 I have been working on controlling my robots from...
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Error Handling

Is there a method to capture an error in a script but keep processing ? Right now I get an error and the script stops, I would like it to ignore the error and keep going.