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Stepper Motor Control In ARC

Stepper Motor Control In ARC

Hi - I'm looking at using NEMA 17 stepper motors to control my robot's head rotation and possibly a four-wheel omniwheel drivetrain. I plan to control the motors...
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Target Overlay Misaligns After Flip

Target Overlay Misaligns After Flip

Running a Six Hexapod (EZ-Robot) with the EZ-B Wi-Fi camera mounted upside down under the top plate, connected over Wi-Fi to ARC on Windows. I’m using...
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ADC Graph Spikes On Mega

ADC Graph Spikes On Mega

I’m using an Arduino Mega 2560 over USB with ARC to log an analog Sharp GP2Y0A21 distance sensor on A0 while two micro servos run a pan/tilt on ARC servo ports D0 and D1...
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Feeding Rplidar Front Distance Into EZ Gauge Chart

Feeding Rplidar Front Distance Into EZ Gauge Chart

I’ve got an EZ-B IoTiny on a small 2WD rover (two CR servos on D0/D1, powered by a 2S LiPo with a 5V BEC to the IoTiny)....
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Sound Servo Lag And Mouth Twitch On ESP32

Sound Servo Lag And Mouth Twitch On ESP32

I’m driving a jaw servo from an ESP32 DevKit v1 (no camera) running the Synthiam ESP32 firmware over WiFi, and using the Sound Servo (PC...
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File Manager Won’T Release Read File

File Manager Won’T Release Read File

Using an OpenCR 1.0 over USB on Windows (COM5 at 921600, flashed with DJ’s OpenCR firmware) as my EZB, I’ve got ARC driving a few servos fine. On...
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Benchmark Spikes On Pi EZB Wifi

Benchmark Spikes On Pi EZB Wifi

I’m running ARC on a Windows laptop and using a Raspberry Pi 4 over Wi-Fi as my EZB server (DJ’s EZBPi image). The Pi handles a PCA9685 for 12 servos and an...
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Sound Servo Sync Issues

Sound Servo Sync Issues

I'm using the Sound Servo (EZB Playback) Robot Skill in ARC to control my robot's mouth servos. The audio is played through the EZB's audio output, but the mouth movement is...
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Touch Path Driving With Sabertooth

Touch Path Driving With Sabertooth

I’m running a Roli Rover with the EZB v4 over WiFi and swapped the stock Hbridge for a Sabertooth 2x12 (Simplified Serial on S1). In ARC I added the...
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Azure TTS Plays Wrong Device

Azure TTS Plays Wrong Device

, I have a sound problem. Hardware / connection: - I have two EZB controllers and one IoTiny: - EZB #0 - AP mode - IoTiny #1 - client mode (has a Z120 speaker...
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Chronos Tilt To Tello Yaw Mapping

Chronos Tilt To Tello Yaw Mapping

Trying to fly a DJI Tello hands-free using wrist tilt from a TI eZ430-Chronos watch in ARC. Hardware-wise: Windows laptop on the Tello WiFi, DJI Tello...
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Mega 2560 GPS UART Conflict

Mega 2560 GPS UART Conflict

I’m running an Arduino Mega 2560 over USB with ARC’s Arduino firmware and trying to add a NEO-6M GPS module. I first tried the GPS robot skill (by James Graham Hu)...
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