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Joystick Control Only When Activated?

Joystick Control Only When Activated?

Hi,  i am playing around with the Joystick Plugin in ARC on EZ-B v4, and it works really good with my old PS3 Controller. But, as i am programming...
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EZ Robot JD Servo/Control Problem

EZ Robot JD Servo/Control Problem

Hi! Unfortunately, I have a strange problem with my EZ Robot JD.... my right arm Servos are having a strange behaviour! I try to explain: When i do the...
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Darknet / Yolo Real-Time Object Detection

Darknet / Yolo Real-Time Object Detection

DJ and Team, Have you seen the TensorFlow / Darknet / YOLO Real-time Object Detection videos? A friend of mine has implemented it on his...
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ARC Like Noah's Ark?

How do you pronounce your ARC? Or A. R. C.? Or something else?  2. Where did the name Synthiam come from and why the change?
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Power Options From Wall To Ez-B

I recieved my Ez-B 4 and camera. I am planning to build a robot starting with the head. As the Ez-b and camera did not come with a power source ( completly my fault for not looking first) I understand I can use the lipo battery  which is all good once im finished building everything As is had the bottom power part for the Ez-b with a round power...
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Servos Suited For Legs

Servos Suited For Legs

Can anyone provide some advice on high torque servos suitable to use for robot legs? I just finished installing the standard EZ robot HDD servos - one in each hip and one in...
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H Brige Not Working

H Brige Not Working

Sorry, this was my first attempt to hook EZ B to a motor controller. I looked up several sources and thought sure everything was set up correctly but it isn't working. See the...
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Confused Between EZ-B And ESP32

Im trying to search but I cant find anythng I understand the EZ-B is easy to use from all the videos of it I have also seen it can be used with an esp32 ( I want to use an esp8266 with wifi) As an example why cant i use a esp32 with a pwm channel that give me the 16 servos connectd to the esp8266 also the esp does have connections for cameras and...
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Sirius A Mini PC

Has anyone considered the possibility of running ARC on a Ockel's Sirius A ultra small PC? You could attach it to your robot and give it some degree of autonomy. Are the Sirius A's specs up to the job? Looks OK to me.
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Glitching Sound

Glitching Sound

After hooking up an external 8 ohm speaker to the EZB and figuring out how to get the LED in my Robie Sr.'s mouth to flash like I wanted, everything was working great. But then for no...
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Controlling A Motor By Analog Input Feedback

Would you pls give me a brief indication as to how I could use a 10k lin pot on my DC gear motor shaft presented as an analog input to EZ-b controller.  My motor is driven by a Sabertooth (no Kangaroo present).  Do you have an example tutorial you could direct me to pls?
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Question On Playback Rates

Question On Playback Rates

Ok im having a head scratcher today. I connected Alan and Alena up to different laptops to run them simultaneously. One is an older Apple Mac Pro with bootcamp and Win...