Robot Building Questions

Speech Recognition Doesn't Appear To Pause When Robot Is Speaking

I was thrilled to see the new feature of "speech Recognition pausing when speaking" in a recent release, because I have quite a loud (amplified) voice on my robot and a lot of Mp3 sound triggers (over 150 in fact!) and it routinely "interupts itself" when speaking as something it is saying triggers a new Mp3 track to play - in...

Project Aiko From Canada

hey, D.J., I have been following the Aiko Project for years and years. Are you familiar with it? just do a Google search for Aiko Robot. Since it was not for sale, I figured it was ok to talk about it. Since you are from Canada, thought you may be interested. Sincerely, Mel

Win 8 Release Preview In 2009 Macbook With Parallels 8.0. Question With Speech R

Hello there, I have installed the release preview of win 8 under parallels desktop 8.0 in my 2009 macbook. ARC works great. EZ-B connects with the built-in macbook bluetooth effortlessly and stays stable. The only problem I have is to get the speech recognition to work. I loaded the example file (date-time). Mic level is good. I have tested the Win...

Has Anyone Used Pir For Navigation? Do You Think That Is

Has anyone used PIR for Navigation? do you think that is even possible. It detects movement from about 30' away and turns on an on/off switch. Any ideas on that? Thanks, Mel (MovieMaker) Someone had made a while back a robot that supposedly followed the source of the movement with PIRs.

Is There Any Tutorial For How To Put The Ez Robot On Brutusbot?

Hello, I just got my EZ robot kit. Does anybody have a tutorial on how to attach it to the BrutusBot? Thanks

Mp3 Trigger - Sparkfun

Loaded up some Wall-E sounds onto my MP3 (Sparkfun) Trigger and can't seem to get it to work correctly. I have followed DJ's video on connecting it to the EZ-Board to the tee. I plug it into the EZ-Board, for power only, and try to cycle through the sounds using the button but only get one track (or sound) and it is fuzzy? The files are in the MP3...

Which Bluetooth Dongle Works Flawlessly With Dell Latitude E6410 And Win 7

I have a Dell Latitude E6410. But, it does not have built in bluetooth. I have a nondescript bluetooth dongle that works on it's whim. I have had to attempt numerous times to connect it make it work. After trying for more than 100 times (both with Windows native stack and Blue Soleiel), I have managed to connect 3 times. On one occasion, with 4...

Brookestone Rover Claw Modification

I'm doing my capstone project for my machine design class and am lookign at modifying the brookestone rover & retrofiting it with a simple claw right below the camera in the front. I need some feedback on this idea and what I'd need to do this? I'm looking for a plug and play setup for the robotics part, and also wouldn't mind using my xbox...

Confused Using Auto Position In ARC

I add "Auto Position" control to ARC project. I set up six servos in the control. I create three frames and one action. I am confused by "Fine Tune" dialog box. How do I use the "Fine Tune" dialog box"? Even after centering the servos before attaching them to the robot, the joints are slightly bent instead of...

Writing And Saving Code

I am trying to access and write c# code for my robot and am having a difficult time finding the process to write the code. Can anyone help