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"I build robots" Hoodie

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This heavy hooded sweatshirt is perfect for robot builders. The material mix of cotton and polyester...
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Sabertooth Movement Panel by Dimension Engineering
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Sabertooth Movement Panel

Sabertooth movement panel: control two motors via Simplified Serial with variable speed sliders, movement buttons, and serial port options.

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ARC Mobile App And Firebase

Hi I have a simple question please when making ARC mobile app; can i connect the app with Firebase Realtime Database to read and store variables? i want to use those variables to start and stop scripts... thank you
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Who Won? Halloween Costume Competition

Who Won? Halloween Costume Competition

I believe the entries stopped yesterday morning, but I am pretty sure it is closed now. So who won? Anticipation is killing me and Roli really...
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Soldering A Wire

Soldering A Wire

when you solder a wire and they dont touch eachother.can this being seen as, a bad connection?
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Please Update ARC Desktop Third Party Library

@DJ, Q) Can you please update the ARC Desktop's Newtonsoft.Json assembly aspa ? Current version is 9.x and contains a nasty json bug. It seems (guessing) is only used with the Nest control. Please
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Frozen Shoulder Servo - What Servo Do I Need

Complete newbie here. I have a JD Humanoid and one of the shoulder servos is not responding. I have tried plugging it into another port with no luck and plugged the other shoulder in to check it was the servo and not the port. I took the body apart and can remove the servo in question but what servo do I need to replace it? Rotation? Lever? it is...
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Loomo By Segway

Loomo By Segway

I am about to receive a Loomo robot. I would like to know if there is any way of interfacing to it using a ez robot interface?
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Socially-Assistive Robot (Sar)

Socially-Assistive Robot (Sar)

{First Tine user and First Time question] Developing a Socially-Assistive Robot (SAR) to Engage Persons with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias...
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ARC Mobile Open Source?

hello, is the ARC Mobile an Open Source? like can I take it's code and modify it to include video? because I can put images in it but I don't think I can add videos, right?
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Questions With Video The Robot Program 072 - Adventure Bot And 360 Hdd Servos

Hey Ez Robot, just bringing to your attention that the video titled "The Robot Program 072 - Adventure Bot and 360 HDD Servos" has voice sync and audio problems (seems there is no audio from their mics). I thought it was my browser and tried several different ones on different machines and iphone/ipad. Definitely has issues and prolly...
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Streaming Audio From Other Program Through ARC

Streaming Audio From Other Program Through ARC

Hi all, Has anyone been able to Stream audio triggered from other programs through ARC over wifi to an EZB? I know the PC...
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Ez-B V4 Maximum Voltage

I cant seem to find this info anywhere, what is the maximum safe voltage I can supply the EZ-b controller? I am aware it wont regulate voltage to the servo pins but I wont power my servo's off the ezb as some will not like >6V and others may draw more power than I trust to run through the board. It will have to regulate voltage for it self and...
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3D Model Files Not Working

3D Model Files Not Working

I've been trying to work with the STL files from the official ARC team, but for whatever reason they're downloading as .htm files. The file itself seems to contain STL...