Also just had a thought, I'm going to code Google Voice integration for making calls via robot if/when I want to - and texting too. This is gonna be so much fun!

What would be even better than VOIP integration would be if I could code + design + print a bit that accepts a SIM card on 3g. . thoughts? Also I'm going to code bots to play against me in chess, I'll integrate it with an online chess site probably. And if I have more than a few bots I'll actually have them run a process continually where they play chess with each other. I actually just posted an ad trying to sell my MacBook Pro so I can get a few bots ordered!

How good are the cameras at at pattern recognition? I wonder if I can code a bot to deal texas hold'em. . .

facebook graph api integration, google contacts + google calendar integration. 'Hey robots, what am I doing next week?'

Hello @jrsfiend22 i see that you're new here, Welcome to the forums!

To answer your first question, you are able to download both ARC and EZ-SDK free of charge and you can start playing with them right away! Check out our Download section.

Sounds like you've got some cool plans for your robots, I look forward to seeing your ideas come to life!

Thanks kindly! I was half sure the downloads were free, but I didn't know really because you can 3d print your own parts so I thought the sale was more concerned with the software - it's great I get to start coding quickly!

I actually did find a buyer for my MacBook Pro (the only thing I own of value) so I'm likely putting in an order for a hexapod and a humanoid tomorrow. I'm very excited.

@skater_j10 I can't sleep I don't think so I'll get that software downloaded on my Windows boot partition and start playing around

Cheers!

Well, ARC is fun.

With the SDK and C# in VS2012 most of the projects error out on start, getting:

Could not load file or assembly 'EZ_B, Version=2013.1.29.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c3a3457c97d352d9' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

and I've checked, I'm set to run x86 and I've copied all the dlls into the bin/debug folder. Any thoughts or should I start a thread in C#? I also added the dll as a reference.

Also, if I buy a robot or two will they come with more C# / ARC apps for me to play around with? Could I receive them immediately after my order, so I can have the best examples of cool stuff I can do? I did have a ball with speech recognition and coded responses. This is gonna be tons of fun