
jmayes

Hi, I a a nubie with Synthiam and have done much research and searching. When I first run ARC it gives me several demo robots to load, one of which is the RoboSapien which I happen to have one. I figure this would be a great starting project to learn the process however it seems much of the project has going the way of the dodo as when I click for the instructions I get 'page not found' and when I run the file I get an error "System Exception: Unknown control type 'RoboSapienMovementPanel' Your ARC may be out of date or require upgrading or be corrupt" I have downloaded the latest copy and this is a demo project is one the installer suggests. What am I missing? This would be a perfect first step for me and I would like to make this work. Any help is greatly appreciated. J
and, welcome to synthiam
J
Not all movement panels are built in. See the products page for controls that can be added. Anyone can make a skill control, and it can also be a movement panel. See the getting started menu option on the website.
the trouble with the woweee robosapien toy was it’s not a robot and can’t do much - so no one wanted to continue supporting it because it wasn’t interesting. With a hot glue gun, tissue box and a few servos, you can make a more capable robot with a camera that uses machine learning and speech recognition and other leading technologies... so that robosapien toy wasn’t as useful to the community
No, there isn't code on the EZ-Bv4 that sends the IR protocol to the Robosapien, you are correct the PC does the work. The Robosapien & Roboquad protocols were supported in the past but have been discontinued. As @Robo Rad suggested, there are other ways to control the Robosapien. You could use Relays or H-Bridges to control the motors, or you could take the electronics (and potentiometer) out of a servo and combine them with the motors on the Robosapien to make them much easier to control with the EZ-Bv4 (or IoTiny).
Thankx again,
J
https://playground.arduino.cc/Main/RoboSapienIR/