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Exporting Video Stream To Open Cv/ Face Recognition

Hi there, I am trying to export my video feed to openCV via the ARC. Is there built in functionality to do this? I am aiming to implement a custom facial recognition fisherfaces algorithm on the video feed from the AR drone. Alternatively does anyone know if i can resolve the fisherfaces model to a Haar cascade which i could simply import into the...
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How To Trigger Mp3 In ARC

i am making a robot wall-e but i dont have mp3 trigger ,neither i planning to get one,i was plannin that instead of using mp3 trigger i was planning to use pc speakers but i am not getting how to make it do so
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Diy Attempt To Make Ar Drone 2.0 Ez-Robot Compatible

Well. I'm actually trying. So. Because the ar drone 2.0 is not compatible with ARC , I decided to try to do it myself. Right now, the movement panel for the ar drone 1.0 works with my 2.0, but I cant see the camera. So here's what I've come up with: 1.Mounting ez-b V4 with camera on ar drone(somewhat straight forward) Or 2.Find a way to connect to...
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Robot Head Tilt

Found this interesting tilt mechanism. Thought I would share. Thinking about trying this. But how would you keep the two servos from fighting each other? Robot Head Tilt
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Ez-Survey

You go through and answer 18 questions and then you're sent back to question 1 again. What up ?
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Uart Port On Ezb4

Will the new EZB4 with UART control/work with dynamixel servos? Thanks Chris
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The Future Of Design - 3D Metal Printing

The Future Of Design - 3D Metal Printing

New breakthroughs will change manufacturing as we know it. 3D Metal Printing
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Out Of Memory Which Saving Project

I'm running the latest version of ARC on win 7. Each time I try to save my project I get an out of memory error message. I click on the message and it comes back several times then finally saves . However the wallpaper disappears and background goes white. this is happening every time.
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Servo/Robot Magazine

Servo/Robot Magazine

How come I never see anything regarding EZ- robot in either of these 2 magazines? Servo or Robot magazine. They seem to cater to the arduino crowd. Just wondering? Chris
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Interaccion Con Kinect Con ARC Y Control De Movimiento

Interaccion Con Kinect Con ARC Y Control De Movimiento

Presentamos nuestra primera Version de WALL-E (NO ES LA MEJOR PERO ALGO ES ALGO Y ESPERAMOS MEJORARLA)...
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Looking For The Right Control

Looking For The Right Control

I'm trying to decide which is the best control to use when operating three servos. Right now I'm operating them through timing in scripts. It works OK but...
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Script Coding

In looking at the script coding for Ping Roam I can guess the # means a comment. In trying to save I keep getting an error about unable to find label for Goto (detect) and the same error for a GOTO (detect). I did find a grin:tect and changed it to detect but still have the error pop up when attempt to save or check for syntax errors. I would be...