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Mobile App Editing Text In Blockly

The iPad software is not letting anyone to type into the test for Say EZB or Say PC. Once you click on the text, the window comes up to type into but you can see in the background that there is another window open for Duplicate, Remove Comment - drop down. No matter what is done the text never changes. Some schools, all they have is iPads. This...
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Use Android Mobile Joystick To Control Robot

Hello: I have been following EZ Robot for some time now. I am amazed at the progress you have made with this system. I am intrigued with the possibility of hosting EZ Build on a Raspberry Pi and controlling the bot with an Android device. I would like to use the Android mobile control Joystick to drive a Bot with a RPi as the EZB Host/Server. If I...
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Bumper Switch With Iotiny?

Hi there. Please could you tell me if i can use a simple on/off switch as a bumper switch on the ez-b tiny?? also can i use a Ir infrared obstacle avoidance sensor module?? Many thank charlie
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Moving Head Sound Detector

Moving Head Sound Detector

How do I get my sound detectors to give constant voltage readings on the ADC Graph?  I am using the two detectors to see where the loudest signal came from then move...
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Joystick In ARC

Joystick In ARC

The picture shows the up, down, left and right buttons are hard linked to the joystick, (buttons do not act like this) and this does not make sense. How do I map the up, down, left and right...
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EZ-Bulider Error Loading Plugin Issue

EZ-Bulider Error Loading Plugin Issue

I just downloaded New version of ARC. Some plugin can not work! Anyone can help to repair this problems? Thanks a lot!
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Experiments With Google Just Launched Teachable Machine 2.0

Experiments With Google Just Launched Teachable Machine 2.0

Go over to their website to check the new features!! https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/...
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Covered In Schmutz...

Covered In Schmutz...

So my first developer kit has finally arrived, and I'm excited to bust out its contents and start experimenting with them. To my surprise, I find that the EZ-B is covered in some...
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In-Browser Object Detection Using YOLO And Tensorflow.Js

This is interesting...might be worth checking out! What do you guys think? https://github.com/ModelDepot/tfjs-yolo-tiny https://www.npmjs.com/package/tfjs-yolo
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Reading UART Integer/Float Sent From Arduino

Hi, I've been using the following tutorial and code to get data from an Arduino for a battery of sensors...  >> Using Arduino as Encoder One of my sensors is a Barometer and is sending the pressure....but the value falls outside of the 255 that this tutorial seems to accept. The number for the pressure on my arduino is a float of currently...
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Dynamixel Trouble?

Dynamixel Trouble?

Hello, I've just updated to ARC software. I am getting an error on startup regarding the dynamixels in my project. Is this plug-in working with the new ARC software? I looked and can...
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My EZ-Cloud Files

Hi Synthiam,  I am having trouble accessing and deleting a troublesome project in my EZ-Cloud.  I added a multi colour tracking variable to the default EZ-Robot Roli project and uploaded to my EZ-Cloud so I could use the mobile app to track and interact with that multi colour variable.  When I opened the ARC App and tried to download the project I...