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 PC's sound card and then execute a script in Synthiam ARC? The Sound Servo Skill doesn't seem to provide an option to trigger a script. I'm 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...

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 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