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
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