(Autonomous Robot Control Software)
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Change Release Notes
- Firmware v13 (Codename: OMG)
- ARC v2011.10.31.01
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This release updates the Firmware v13 OMG, EZ-SDK and ARC v2011.10.31.01
Contains many new features... Including:
- 70 servo Positions (double resolution!)
- 50 servo Speeds
- I2C Read for interactive console (Great for debugging and learning about your i2c device)
- support for 5 EZ-B's at once! (That's 100 Servos!)
- an interactive console to the script engine.
- more object avoidance.
- smarter self navigating.
- Script labelling, goto's and conditions.
- Faster and more reliable Ping Sensor support (with false positive algorythms)
- Improved timing on uart output
- Return() allows returning from a goto label in scripting
- Invert servo direction option in Radar Controls
- HTTP Web Server now works with Firefox, Safari, Apple iPhone and Android
- Release and ReleaseAll servo script commands
- ServoSpeed() script command to set the speed of a servo
- IF conditions in scripting
- ARC has keyboard shortcuts for quick access to help, console, openning and saving projects
- Benchmark control helps diagnose connection/peripheral/power related issues
- Various bug fixes
*Notes: Your existing scripts and controls dealing with servo positions will need to be modified for the higher servo resolution.
Did you know?
Here are a few statistics for the EZ-Robot Community...
- ARC has 19,695 lines of C++ and C# code
- EZ-SDK has 3,188 lines of C++ and C# code
- EZ-B Firmware has 2,546 lines of Assembler code
- The EZ-B Robot Project was launched February 1st 2011
- The project concept was conceived in April 2010 with this Wall-E Robot
- The current development time has been in excessive of 3,000 hours
ARC Downloads
ARC
FREE
$0
always free
- 1 third-party plugin skill per project
- Trial cloud services
- Personal, DIY & education use
- Updated every 6–12 months
Recommended
ARC
PRO
$8.99
per month
- Use on 2+ PCs simultaneously
- Unlimited robot skills
- Cloud backup & revision history
- Weekly features & bug fixes
- Business use permitted
ARC
RUNTIME
$0
always free
- Load & run any ARC project
- Read-only mode
- Unlimited robot skills
- Includes early access fixes & features
- Minimum requirements: Windows 10 or higher, 2 GB RAM, 500 MB free disk space.
- Recommended: Windows 10 or higher, 8 GB RAM, 1 GB free disk space.
- Prices are in USD.
- ARC Free known issues: view here.
- More about each edition: Download & install guide.
- Latest changes: Release notes.
Compare Editions
| Feature |
ARC
FREE
|
ARC
PRO
|
|---|---|---|
| Get ARC Free | View Plans | |
| Usage | Personal · DIY · Education | Personal · DIY · Education · Business |
| Early access to new features & fixes | — | ✓ |
| Simultaneous microcontroller connections * | 1 | 255 |
| Robot skills * | 20 | Unlimited |
| Skill Store plugins * | 1 | Unlimited |
| Cognitive services usage ** | 10 / day | 6,000 / day |
| Auto-positions gait actions * | 40 | Unlimited |
| Speech recognition phrases * | 10 | Unlimited |
| Camera devices * | 1 | Unlimited |
| Vision resolution | max 320×240 | Unlimited |
| Interface builder * | 2 | Unlimited |
| Cloud project size | — | 128 MB |
| Cloud project revision history | — | ✓ |
| Create Exosphere requests | — | 50 / month |
| Exosphere API access | — | Contact Us |
| Volume license discounts | — | Contact Us |
| Get ARC Free | View Plans |
* Per robot project
** 1,000 per cognitive type: vision recognition, speech recognition, face detection, sentiment, text recognition, emotion detection, azure text to speech
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