Robot Building Questions

How To Detect If Sound Is Played Though The PC Sound Board And Run A Script

How can I detect if sound is being played through the PCs sound card and then execute a script in Synthiam ARC? The Sound Servo Skill doesnt seem to provide an option to trigger a script. Im looking for a way to monitor audio output and initiate a script based on sound activity. Any guidance on how to achieve this within the ARC environment would...

Wheel Counting With Arduino

Hello @Athena, Could you please review the following code that I am using on my Arduino Mega 2560 to count motor pulses? I am encountering an issue with the output on the Serial Monitor. cpp int encoderValue_A = 0; int encoderValue_B = 0; void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); pinMode(2, INPUT); pinMode(3, INPUT);...

How To Use Bing Speech Recognition With Python

Hello Athena, Is it possible to send a query through Bing Search and then receive the results in my Python script? Im looking to integrate these search results into my project using Synthiam ARC. Could you provide some guidance on how to achieve this integration? Thank you!

How To Use Different Voices

@Athena How do I add new better voices for speech synthesis? The 2 defaults are pretty bad.

Does Arc Recognize ADXL345 Accelerometer?

Hello everyone i am in the planning phase of a robot build, it has a 2dof head and 2dof right and left arm and 1dof base rotation. I was wondering if an off-the-shelf accelerometer like ADXL345 be used to control those servos? They make ADXL345 accelerometers that already have a type c port which would make it easy to plug into a computer. I was...

Control Servos From Outside Of ARC

Hi Athena, Is it possible to control the servos connected to the controller board of the EZ-InMoov robot head using a Python script running outside of the ARC environment? I am interested in integrating external Python code with the ARC software to manage servo movements. Thanks, Satish