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Can I Connect A Microphone To Ezb

Hello everyone I tried to find some information in the forum, but my search was unsuccessful. I have also found no tutorial. I would like to use my robot in other rooms and in the garden. I would like to hear what happened there. Voice control does not have to be. I just want to hear what's going on in the area when the motors are not running. I...
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Ultrasonic Device

I can not get the ultrasonic device to detect an object, (wall ect). I have the ultrasonic device connect to trigger D21 echo D22 and even tried to swapping the trigger with the echo. If I look at the radar the distance is always 255. and I see two red spots that I think are the end points. I removed the device from the servo and tried not moving...
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How To Add Leg Servos To Jd And Get Them To Show Up In The Design Pictures

I'm trying to add two more leg servo's to jd . I can add the servo box in the motion control panel but I can't find any way to add the new servo's to the design picture, or how to get the new servo ports in the port lists ?
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Auto Release Control

Auto Release Control

It probably is a simple change to make the Servo Dropdown list on the Auto Release control so the user may Select Multiple servos at once. A user friendly change... <select...
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Recent ARC Update

I just updated the ARC windows software because the message popped out that there was an updated version. Then after it said windows 7 is no longer supported but may still load and should upgrade to windows 10. That is not really an option for me now,Prefer my win 7.Is this going to be a problem for all the cool plug in programs I want to start...
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Ideas For Plastic Outer Cover For Max

I need to get outer plastic body for Max to cover all the internal parts and make him cool. Does anyone have any suggestions? https://youtu.be/EdNz9cD2uAc
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Reading Mpu9150 From Python

Hi all, Is there a way to get sensor readings from an MPU9150 directly in Python? I've tried writing its values to a file and then reading from that file as it's being written into (to develop a live interface), but that crashes when both ARC and Python are trying to access the same file at once. Python was able to get the camera image data just...
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In The Rafters?

In The Rafters?

Ok. The entire office is in an elevator shaft, right? eek
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Thanks Trevor Hardware

just started a sainsmart 17 dof bot.how is the operational.r you planning on adding neck servos,camera,mb leds. such as ez robot head.new gyro board.im new at this programing. but I am pretty good at 3d printing using my rostockv2. thanks jeff
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Ez-B V3 Looking For With Robot Ok

If anyone has an ez-b v3 they are willing to part with let me know. or If anyone has an ez-b v3 already in something like roboquad let me know as I could be interested (depending on price). Thanks
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Ezb V4 And Roboquad

Has anyone found a way to work around the limitations of the EZB V4 with the Roboquad or any robosapien? Its sad that the support was dropped with the EZB V4. I was pumped to make an uber intelligent wifi based Roboquad - but will not work.
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Shoulder Servos Don't Move

After charging the battery and inserting the cpu, I tried to check out which shoulder servo was left by following the tutorial. (After powering on of course) Neither shoulder servo moved. Am I doing something wrong or do I have a bad body?