
starwarsjunkie
USA
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I am a potential new customer looking to understand the EZ-Robot developer's kit.
My question is:
Is the kit capable of stand alone operation? Or, will my robot require wired/wireless tethering to a host computer to do everything? Specifically interested in the speech recognition functions.
1. So wireless tethering only works with a PC/MAC? Or will it work with an Android mobile device?
2. For vision recognition, is the camera hooked up the robot kit? Or the host PC? If it is hooked up the robot, is the video information from the camera wirelessly transmitted back to the host PC for processing?
You can use the ezb4 camera (plugs into the ezb4 for super convenience) or you can use any camera of your choice as long as it is recognized by Windows... You would have to power it separately as only the ezb4 camera plugs directly into the ezb4... FYI the ezb4 camera is pretty good and priced reasonably...
ARC also runs fine in Windows virtual machines so Parallels or Virtual PC running Windows under OSX will work on a MAC.
Alan
For reference, here's the link to the product page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=19&v=FGJlRqZ_KRM
There's also a video on the page as well. Thanks in advance and welcome to the website!
I spent about one hour on your web site before asking the question. I saw the video you mentioned. In that video, there is a segment showing programming, but no where is it mentioned that a full time tether to a pc is required for operation.
Forget videos. Most technical people assume it is marketing fluff. Put up a link on your home page titled "What is EZ Robot? " When I click on the link, show me clear stick figure drawings showing a basic setup. It comprises of a pc sending wireless commands to the kit, and the kit sending back telemetry to the pc. The pc processes the return data according to the users program, and issues new commands. That makes the minimum requirements clear.
Every first time visitor will assume, like I did, that this is a autonomous kit like Arduino. I work for the firm that designs on one of the processors in your kit. I got doubts because I know that processor cannot do vision processing etc. Someone who does not have that knowledge will assume this is a stand alone kit.
Maybe you could add a capability that certain functions can be uploaded? E.g. if you create a script that only uses servo positions (or other light weight functions) an option will appear to export it?
Edit: I famous Dutch soccer player stated: "Every advantage has it's disadvantage", I guess it is true over here as well. I love the integration to Msft cognitive services, integration of Dynamixel, etc. So I probably need to put a NUC in my robot as well to make it autonomous.