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4-series bar chart for real-time sensor comparison in ARC; set titles, values, RGB bar colors and conditional coloring via EZ-Script.

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3 Pin Connect Rgb

3 Pin Connect Rgb

hi is it possible to use the rgb slot from iotiny for an led with 3 pins?  i wanna try to control the meccanoid led ( eyes ) with the iotiny rgb .
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Meccano Rebuild

How to program a Meccanoid using ezb v4 with ez HDD servos? Some codes examples would be appreciated, thanks
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Voice Variable In VR

Voice Variable In VR

Hi all Is there a way to fire a voice command... like say Hi, then the script will say what is your name... then you say your name, and the VR holds that variable (e.g. your name)...
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Rock Pi X Uart Or EZB Uart?

Rock Pi X Uart Or EZB Uart?

I's setting up a Rock Pi X running Win 10 and ARC to be an onboard SBC to control my robot. Currently It's controlling 3 EZB v4's and 1 IoTiny. I'm using most Uart...
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Speech Syntheses

Speech Syntheses

Question answered -- I figured it out -- solved -- answer - use SpeakStop()  in a script, to stop Speech Syntheses -- Original question -- for others who may want to use this: Speech...
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Could Not Load File Or Assembly Visual Studio 2022

DJ,  So following the tutorial went as far as debugging ARC. When I tried to double click on MainForm.cs to add the button got the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'EZ_B, Version=2015.7.28.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c3a3457c97d352d9' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. I search the...
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Power On Sequence

My question relates to powering on the robot.  I am designing the power supply to my Inmoov robot and I will be using the LattePanda PC along with EZB V4's and IoTiny.   My plan was to have my LattePanda auto boot when power is applied to it and start ARC and load a project and Init Script.  At the same time the power is turned on to the LattePanda...
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Posting Robot Build

I tried to post the start of my Robot build last night under the SHARE A ROBOT PROJECT section with hopes of being able to update it regularly but the website will not take the post.  It does not provide any error or feedback of anything missing so I am not sure what the issue is. My question is should this be put under Share a Robot Project or...
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ARC Build Expired

ARC Build Expired

Hi all, We have a lab of laptops which have ARC installed on them to allow our students to program the 6 JD Humanoid robots we have. I am getting this error when launching ARC now, it...
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Support For The Oak-D Smart Camera By Luxonis

I am requesting a skill that would support the Oak-D (OpenCV AI Kit) by Luxonis. Having this interface would allow my robot to identify and locate an object such as a bottle, in 3D space, so that the robot could pick it up.  Oak-d Information Oak-d More Information From their website: Quote:"DepthAI is a platform built to allow the power of...
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EZB V4 Camera Port Connector Type?

I have a quick question I hope someone can answer for me. I want to make cables for the USB/TTL to the EZB V4 camera port but I need to know type of connectors the camera port is? I think they are JST-PH 2mm connectors but I would like to make sure.
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Robot Embedded Rock Pi X Power Down

I was wondering how those of you that have the Rock Pi X onboard your robot handle powering down the robot and the Rock PI. Do you/should you log out of windows and then power down the Rock Pi and then the robot? Or do you just flip the robot's power switch off and let everything die? I know it frowned upon to just pull the plug on a computer...