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Ez-Robot Developers Kit

Ez-Robot Developers Kit

Dear ez-robot, I got "EZ-Robot Developers Kit" recently. I have a question about battery. For now, it is using "battery" for electricity. Could it be...
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Uart Read Commands

Perhaps it's just me but the UART commands for reading data is in the manual but when I try to type it in it does not seen to work and where the command would show up kind of like intellisense they do not. Any help would be appreciated.
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Voice Recognition In Acer Aspire Switch 10

Voice Recognition In Acer Aspire Switch 10

I bought a Acer Aspire Switch 10 (Z3745, 64 GB, 2GB RAM) and I tried to run my Robot setup in ARC. Everything worked OK except for...
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Text To Speech Servo Movement

I am starting this thread because it seems that a few people are having issues with this and perhaps we can get it working, I am trying to get the mouth of my robot to move according to the "text" I put in a command. So what ever I type in, the robot will speak those words (audio) and the mouth (jaw) will move similar to a humans for the...
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Six Revolution

Hello , well this is the month that the Six will ship. I have one on order (pre-Retail). An would like to connect with as many other Six owners as I can. I will post here once Six is in but would like to start making contacts now. So if you have Six and are waiting as I for his arrival please post here so I can try to form a small sub community for...
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My New Customer Makerbot Experience

My New Customer Makerbot Experience

Just like i did with the Solidoodle I am sharing my overall experience purchasing a new makerbot. I will compare some of the same prints i did on the...
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5 Boxes

5 Boxes

wow 5 boxes .
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Uartread

I get " syntax error, unknown command " when I try to put in UARTRead(0,0,10) in my script. Anyone come across this?
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I'm Out

Guys and Gals , I'm out. I do not belong to this community. I will return when I am an EZ Robot owner.
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Playing With Red Ball?

Playing With Red Ball?

playing with red ball? for what? j
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ARC Audio

It's been a while since I've had time to experiment with EZ Robot. I have version 3. My son wants to build an animated Halloween skeleton. He wants it to play some audio along with the animation. I thought there was a discussion where you can have the ARC play the audio through your computer after some event occurs (like motion detection). Can...
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Generate A Random Colour

Good Evening, I am trying to generate a random colour from four predefined colours. The pre defined colours are Red,Blue,Green,Yellow. Please take a look at what I written so far. :COLOR $1 = "RED" $2 = "GREEN" $3 = "BLUE" $4 = "YELLOW" $COLOUR = GETRANDOM($1,$4) say($COLOUR) I know why the error I am getting...