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Camera Interference With Servo Movement?

Camera Interference With Servo Movement?

Hey guys, I was trying to script some animation for my robot...trying to figure out how to make smooth animations which will run correctly...
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Trying To Get Led To Flicker While Sound Is Playing

Trying To Get Led To Flicker While Sound Is Playing

I am building a semi static BB8 (from Star Wars) out of foam. I have the EZb playing different sound files when a...
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Nest Thermostat

Nest Thermostat

I have configured my nest account and linked it to ARC. But when I try to run the sample project for Nest. I get this error Object reference not set to an instance of an object. what am I...
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Controlling A Robot With Android Wear Smartwatch

Controlling A Robot With Android Wear Smartwatch

As discussed in this thread: https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/9107 I have been working on controlling my robots from...
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Error Handling

Is there a method to capture an error in a script but keep processing ? Right now I get an error and the script stops, I would like it to ignore the error and keep going.
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Wire Up A Single Led

I wonder if I am doing something wrong. I just got my developers kit and want to hook up a single LED. I have powered on and connected to the kit. I then added a "Set Digital" control to the project. But when I connect to the LED to the corresponding pins they do not turn on. I have wired the LED to a servo wire with the long wire...
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Servo And Sound Being Stuck(Or Slow Reaction)

Hello everyone. Why my roli gets stuck while making an action or speaking out words? This issue seems random. For example, when I instruct my roli to do "clap" action again and again in ARC , the robot may finish the action very slow one time, but normally the other time. I suspect this problem may be caused by the connection issue. I...
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Servo Burnt Out?

Servo Burnt Out?

I was running JD successfully last night, up until the time I had to put him on charge. Charged up the battery, disconnected after the charge. Tonight after powering him up as usual, I...
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Introducing Amos

Introducing Amos

Hi everyone. Quick introduction, I am Peter Anderson and this is my Inmoov Robot Amos. I recently purchased an Ezbv4 and camera for Amos and have spent the weekend playing. I would just...
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Feedback From 2 Day Workshop

Feedback From 2 Day Workshop

Just ran a two day workshop based around Adveturebot, a couple of pieces of feedback. Firstly there is a link to a place in the tutorial explaining what to if...
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Wifi To Bluetooth

I have a EZ B v3 with a Bluetooth module. I downloaded the newest software and it looks like it uses wifi to connect to the board. Is there way to switch wifi connection to Bluetooth ? Or should I download the older version of the software ? Thanks! Shak
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Intermittent Exception Error When Trying To Start Custom Http Server?

I originally posted this thread in another topic discussion, but thought it should maybe start a different thread for this discussion. Below, is what I posted in a previous discussion on the HTTP Custom Web Server Control: I noticed that when I activate the custom web server in my project sometimes I get the following exception error: "Object...