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Measure distance in inches with HC-SR04 on Arduino using Synthiam ARC serial monitor; converts pulse microseconds to inches via speed of sound

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Connect To My Cloud And Use The Virtual Machine?

Hello, the intelligent and friendly people in the forum! Based on my understanding, Most of processing of ez-robot is going on in PC rather than the ezb v4 itself, such as voice recognition... The ezb is more like a controller which can receive the instructions sent from the PC, providing feedback and then understand and execute those instructions....
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Looking For Some Help With My Robot

I am asking the community for some help. I dont know anything about programming or writing code etc. But, I can get almost anything to move or animate. My back ground is Make up effects for films and television, but I started out as an R/C animatronic mechanic, (back in the day when there was animatronics (now its all CGI). Anyways, I have a full...
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Sensors For Object Grasping By A Robotic Arm

Sensors For Object Grasping By A Robotic Arm

I'm looking for simple sensors to make a robotic arm detect an object and then grasp it. I don't find adequate sensors, capable of...
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What About We Send Him A Gift?

What About We Send Him A Gift?

Hi friends Browsing around the instructables site I found this kid in Indonesia! His version of wal-e made of junk really impressed me....
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Errors Generated In Debugging

Hello! All the smart and friendly people in the forum. I have encountered two errors while debugging the SDK tutorials, and I am looking for help here. First of all, I have read the README - INSTALLATION!.txt. Then I loaded Robot - Remote controll project and (according to my understanding) did whatever the readme file told me to do. There were two...
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Roli Stl File

I'm working on an idea for a robot based on the Roli, but I need to change some of the dimensions to make it lower and wider. I went to the resources page, but there doesn't seem to be a download link for the Roli. Are these files available?
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Product Time Line

First and foremost I don't want a refund, but I would like to know if there is any more development of the Inverted Pendulum which I've had on order since May 2015.
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Extended Range Wifi From Ezb?

So once the ezb v4 is inside the lawn mower bot it doesn't pick up as well, Any ideas on making an external antenna or adding a booster/ amp? I need the mower not to eat the neighbors cat , haha
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Neopixels

I was wondering that it was possible to connect an neopixel ring(16) directly to the ez b4? If so, where do i connect the com port to ? tnx
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Servospeed Questions And Questions

Whoops! The title was supposed to be ServoSpeed Questions and Issues Unfortunately you can't change the title so we are stuck with "Questions and Questions", Sorry @DJ_Sures Lately, I and Mickey666Maus have been working with recording the movements from a virtual robot in 3ds with the purpose of playing them back in ARC. This we can do....
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What Is The Best Remote Control Solution For My 30Dof Robot?

What Is The Best Remote Control Solution For My 30Dof Robot?

Hi there, I would like to control my Humanoid Robot (custom robot with 30 degrees of freedom - 2...
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One Board Connects To Wifi But Won't Get An Ip Address

Hello everybody! Just checking if I may be able to fix this issue otherwise than by changing the main board to my main robot. This robot has 2 V4 boards (+ 1 V3 that serves only to put everything on standby by controlling a simple relay). One of the 2 V4 boards will simply not be able to get a stable IP address. Since I use 2 DHCP routers which...