Robot Building Questions

Anyone Around Pasedena For Hackaday Super Conference Nov 2Nd?

Anybody out there ? I will probably be going to Hackaday Super conference and bringing a demo of my project for the hackaday challenge and I believe they announce the winners then too.

Tts Voice

Hi all, I'm new to this robot stuff and having alot of fun with it, but looking for info. I want to try if my robot can speak Dutch. So I've started to look for info and found Ivona - Ruben as a voice. Can anyone confirm that Ivona voices are working on the latest build of ARC and Windows 10 64 bit?

Robot Currently Operates By Time - What Would Be A Good Upgrade?

Hello there I am part of a robotics team. every year we get avrious challenges and travel to a competition. the challenge in the competition changes each year. last year we had to pick up milk crates and put them into various places. when the round starts, there were 15 seconds on which the robot drives autonomosly, and 2 minutes after that was...

Another Dynamixel Servo Plugin Request

Robots (Mfg. of Dynamixl servos) has released their "TurtleBot 3" kits. "TurtleBot3 is a small, affordable, programmable, ROS-based mobile robot for use in education, research, hobby, and product prototyping." (From Robotics) These kits include a Robotics OpenCR board to control the servos, a Raspberry Pi (with camera) as...

Alternative To Speech Recognition As A Fail Safe Method

I am looking to use JD as an assistant in a comedy show I am doing for children. I know the children can create a lot of noise. Therefore I need to find the best fallback if speech recognition does not work. Is a keyboard shortcut the best alternative?

Questions Connecting To Robots Wifi

All our robots seem to have issue connecting the laptop to the robot wifi. I have ran updates on ARC latest version installed 2018.09.30.01and it then shows update available but when i download the latest version ending in 02 in doesn't install? When trying to connect the laptop to the robot the connecting always times out? Any help on getting...

Servo Recorder Control

The servo recorder is great but only seems to playback any servos only connected to Board 0. I can record from Board 1 using the servo pad control ( it shows data) but it won't playback the recordings of those servos connected to Board 1 or any other board (1-4). Am I missing anything obvious or is the servo recorded control only for board 0? I am...

Servo Control Voltage

I don't have a scope to verify this but would I be correct in assuming that the servo control voltage going to the servo is 3.3 volts on any particular digital port that a servo is connected to on an EZ Controller? The power to the servo would be the battery voltage that the EZ Controller is powered up from which is typically 7.2 Volts? Thanks...