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Helicopter Board To Rc Receiver

Hey guys, I was just thinking about a possible way to make the ez-b controllable via any rc receiver/transmitter. What I would do is wire a 2 motored helicopter recieving board, and would hook the motor line to adc ports on the ez-b. Then, one motor will translate into forward speed, and the other will translate into turning speed and direction....
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Help Losing Audio With Speech Recognition

I am having audio problems. When I talk to my robot it recognizes commands ,but after issuing about 5 or 6 verbal commands the audio is no longer there. I have the latest version of ARC. Everything else works. Their is also no audio from speech synthesis..No errors are showing .
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Variable $Mmay,Mmaz, Or Mmax Not Defined ?

In the MMA7544 window if wrote balance script with (if )statement example: if ($mmay>90) press run script it stops here saying Variable $mmay not defined Whats really weird is that the whole script ran fine till I saved my file and reopened it an hour later. This is a bug right? this is latest version software 3/7
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Billy's I Want To Attach A Propeller T

Build quadcopter robots with propellers, claw grippers on JD or Six, 3-4 finger hands for JD/Roli, lag-free camera and fluid, lifelike motion.
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Thinking Of Selling Ez-Robot

Well, thought the kids would enjoy the robot(JD) more but they don't. We all put it together and did some exercises with it and now they don't even ask doing anything with it. So I may sell it if someone is interested. Still mint condition and original box/packaging. Extra battery to. If anyone is interested let me know? Also if I sell it locally,...
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High Torque Servos

High Torque Servos

Has anybody here tried these out? I'm experimenting with different configs and different gear motors that i can use as servos...is this a good option? High Power High Torque Robot...
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Charging

Charging

We're holding a robotics camp at our school. We left the battery charging overnight and the charger lights were off when we arrived this morning. JD still tells us that the battery is low. What could have...
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Ezb Can Figure Out What Side Sound Is Coming From

Ezb Can Figure Out What Side Sound Is Coming From

I used two DFB Robot sound sensors to give EZB sound localization. These are analog sensors and I tweaked the RX analog...
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Video Overlay Display. Hidden Feature?

Video Overlay Display. Hidden Feature?

Has anyone else discovered the video overlays in the camera control? I just discovered this and I haven't seen a topic on it so I thought I...
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Release 2012.10.06.00

Release 2012.10.06.00

Synthiam ARC: video recording via speech/script, overlays, faster color tracking, Parrot AR drone cameras/nav, unlimited joysticks, EZ-Script
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Security Robot On Tv

Security Robot On Tv

Just a bit of fun. I just saw something I wanted to share with you guys. I just watched an episode of one of my all time favourite TV shows "MacGyver", and I remembered...
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Cliffordkoperski's Cliff Robot

Cliffordkoperski's Cliff Robot

Cliff robot test run showing motion without gyro/accelerometer; future sensor demo planned; affordable Oak Studios servo brackets for replication.