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Map Myo armband gestures and accelerometer to servos and ARC scripts for arm-mimic control; supports multiple armbands.

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Using Kalman Filter For Tracking Position And Orientation Of Imu

I'm applying the Kalman Filter to track position and orientation of a device which has Inertial Navigation Units (accelerometer and gyroscope). I'm not sure if I use acceleration as input (control process) or velocity or none of them. Can you help me? And one of the propositions is that the velocity is constant (module).
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ARC To Text

Can the graphical interface of ARC be converted to a text file? What I mean is can I somehow convert my program in ARC to a script without coding it myself. Sort of like how with web design editors (WYSIWYGs) you can design the page in a graphical interface and then export the code in (X)HTML. Thanks.
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Elderly Assistant

Guy's trying to write a script that will remind my father to take his pills everyday, need some help on this one. Do i use the camara to find him in the house? How would i do this? Thanks confused
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How To Time Sendserial Command

Ok... So I have a quick scripting question... I have two motor controllers in my project, and one is used up with the movement panel and the other I use send serial commands to control. Issue is how to write script to control duration of movement of the second ? I know for my movement controls I can script something like Forward(XXXX,XXX) and that...
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Video Player Within ARC

Good Morning, Has anyone used the Video Player from within ARC? I just discovered it and I played back an mpeg file. The playback was choppy with pixels and the video stopped playing after about 10 seconds into my 30 second clip.
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Downloading Software

Hello, I want to download the software to to an acer chromebook and having no success. The computer keeps on staying that I need to download an app in order to be able to use the software. Please help!
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Addminute() Usage

The example: $LaterHour = $hour $LaterMinute = AddMinute($minute, 1) RepeatUntil($hour < $LaterHour AND $minute < $LaterMinute) Print($second) EndRepeatUntil Verification of syntax reports 'No errors' When I start the script I receive the error in the debug window Quote:Error on line 2: Unknown function: AddMinute What am I missing...
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A Solution To Roli Wheel Slip

Several of us have mentioned that Roli's drive wheels sometimes slip, particularly when turning on carpet or other difficult terrain. I found an easy solution. I was shopping in the electrical department of Home Depot today and came across 3M 3/4" Friction Tape. It is a cloth tape designed to keep electrical cables from slipping around. I took...
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Fmtnum() Fmtdate() Documentation Or Usage Examples?

FmtNum() FmtDate() Don't see much documentation on this. Anyone have any usage examples?
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Lte Ez-Robot Connectivity

*Disclaimer: Do not relate what I am about to ask you to Terminator's SkyNet. However, we hope it to be much friendlier In an internal "moving forward" discussion, the topic of WiFi range was brought up. We notice many individuals would like to have a much longer range. However, due to the bandwidth limitations of long range Source/Point...
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Ez-Bv3

Ive had this product since 2013 and just recently got back into it. I was wondering can the new software work with the ezbv3. If not where can I find the software to use this model.
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Brookstone Rover 2.0

I have just gotten my kit up and running and am having a great time, I have a few rover 2.0s sitting about ... I had also given a few to friends and after a while the fun wore off, Seeing what can be done with the 1.0 and as it is a great platform for some ideas I would like to see if the 2.0 support option can get fixed I see it in the pull down...