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Why Is My Auto Position A Movement Panel

How can I make the autoposition skill be a nonmovement panel and then have a separate movement panel to control my steppers as you can have only one movement panel per project?
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How Can I Use Accelerometer From Iphone And App Interface To Steer My Robot

How can I use accelerometer from iPhone and app interface to steer my robot? I'd like to tilt my Iphone and drive my robot left, right, forward and backwards. I would like it to use the amount of tilt to produce the amount of speed. Where do I find the variable for the amount of tilt the iPhone produces?
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Custom Haar Tracking Using Cascade Defined Model

Hello All -  How can I use a Custom Haar cascade model within the camera module? I would like to use a defined model, not sure where to I can place the .xml file "directory" https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/data/haarcascades Thanks as always everyone.
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How Do I Display An Image

how do i display a changeable image on my mobile interface? I can assign text to a variable and display it. But how can I display a photo alongside that text?
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How To Control Servos With The Raspberrypi Running EZB Server (Blueberry Server)

Im trying to control Servomotors with my Raspberry Pi running EZB Server (BlueBerry Server). I added an Horizontal Servo Controller, selected D13, wired everything up accordingly and defined the min and max values. Just like I'm used to with my EZ-Robot board. However on the RaspberryPi I didnt achieve a single movement. What am I missing here?
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Open Ai Chat GPT Not Saving Edited Conversation

Open Ai Chat GPT Not Saving Edited Conversation

ARC Pro 11.29 How can I have Open Ai Chat GPT save the edited conversation? When I goto openai chatgpt and the conversation...
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Adding Two More Movementpannels

Adding Two More Movementpannels

hi #athena is it possible to get these two movement pannels in ARC? i see the mobil is not there anymore . thanks
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Making A Arc Tutorial

Making A Arc Tutorial

I am thinking about making a tutorial for Arc. Please show me a link to the start page?
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Brushed Esc

What movement panel or control to use with Brushed esc for brushed motors?
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HSD8001 Tablet/PC

Has anyone tried running  ARC on a HSD8001 Tablet/PC?  It is a nice size for mounting on a robot. https://mobspares.com/products/hsd8001-tablet-pc-8-inch-2-5d-screen-4gb-64gb-windows-10-intel-atom-z8300-quad-core-support-tf-card-hdmi-bluetooth-dual-wifisilver?variant=43025678041282
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Arc Auto Update

Two arc updates ago you included an option to disable automatic updating of the program. I cannot seem to find that option anywhere in arc. Can you point me in the right direction where this option is available? And I'm going to schedule and need to get this figured out by tomorrow afternoon (Thursday). Your quick attention would be appreciated....
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UART And ASCII Dec.

UART And ASCII Dec.

@DJ My question pertains to UART communication. Hopefully I can explain this ... lol? ASCII UARTWrite(0,0,"49") in decimal form is = 1 UARTWrite(0,0,"50") in...