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Integrating DIY Mars Rover Components

Hello, Athena! I am in the process of building a Mars rover prototype, which features six DC motors and six servos, much like the design of NASA's Perseverance rover. Each wheel of the rover is equipped with a servo for directional steering control. I'm thinking of using an IO Tiny combined with a PCA9685 servo driver to manage the servos. For the...

Smooth Playback For C-3PO Animations

I am working on my C-3PO head again this year, trying to bring it back to life with holiday songs. I'm using the Sound Servo and Soundboard V4 features in Synthiam's ARC software to animate the head while Star Wars-themed Christmas music plays. The sound file is being played through a speaker located inside the C-3PO head. However, I am...

Building Omni-Wheel Robot With Iotiny

I am interested in building a three-wheeled robot utilizing omni-directional wheels, and I plan to power these wheels with 3-6V DC motors. For this project, I intend to use the IoTiny microcontroller. I would like to understand how to effectively execute this project using Synthiam ARC and the IoTiny. Could you provide guidance on the best approach...

Can This EPS32 Work As An EZB?

Can the ESP32 work with Synthiam ARC, especially considering that the IoTiny is currently difficult to purchase? For reference, here is the product link: Freenove ESP32-S3-WROOM on Amazon. I'm interested in understanding if this specific ESP32 model can be integrated with ARC for robot programming and control, given the current availability issues...

How To Use AI To Estimate Distances

How do I use AI to estimate distances using a ultrasonic sensor?

Servos Moving To Extreme End Of Travel On Connection Of EZ-B

Why are my servos jumping to an extreme end of travel when I connect to the IO-Tiny?   It moves so fast and bind the robot mechanism and reboots IO-Tiny. What is going on?

AI Chatbot Responds In Conversation Log, But Does Not Speak.

I am using the tutorial for the AI ChatGPT instructions from the skill tutorial.  I have an account on Open AI and I have my API key.  My issue is that I follow the directions as shown, and I do get the Chatbot to Respond in the conversation log either through Bing Speech Recognition or typing in the chat space.   However, it does not speak the...

OUTPUT PER PIN

CAN I DRIVE THREE 20MA LEDs from an output pin on the IO Tiny?

How Do I Drive An LED With A Digital Output

I want to use LEDs for my C3PO eyes/  How do I drive three 2.2V LEDs from a single output channel safely with the IO Tiny?

Interfacing With Nep Pixel String Of Lights

How would I interface and control a Neo Pixel light string using ARC?

Wireless Connection To Arduino?

I’m building Spot Micro Next. The base design uses a Arduino Mega.  I’d like to use ARC to program the robot.   Has anyone worked out how to wirelessly interface to an arduino with ARC?

Min Voltage For IO Tiny

I am working on the T3-DO project from Michael Baddeley Printed Droid.  I am planning on using the IO Tiny with MG90 and FS90R servos.  These are basically max 6V servos.   Does the IO Tiny regulate voltage?  My guess is no as I am pretty sure the EZ-BV4 does not either.  So, what is the min voltage for the IO Tiny? I don't want to use the EZ-Robot...

Anyone Building A Full Size R2D2 From Mr. Baddely Design?

Synthiam/ARC users, I now have some series 3D printers and I am starting to build a full size R2D2 unit working with this designer who has a FB page.... https://www.facebook.com/groups/MrBaddeley Most R2 builders use  Padawan 360 build which is based on Arduinos and various other components.  I am thinking about implementing an ARC build using an...

ARC Iraspbian Compatibility?

Would ARC run on iraspbian? https://boingboing.net/2020/05/18/raspberry-pi-operating-system.html https://raspbian-x.com/

My Battery Is Low

Should you keep batteries charging or Not? Seems my jd, rolli and 6 all are suffering from battery low issues when they have been plugged in the last 4 weeks while I was on travel.

Wired Usb Connection Please

I see for the Alan robot DJ was able to support a wired USB connection. Was this a hack for the effort or an new feature for the next EZ-B? If a hack can you share to community?

Jd Ezb Losing Power Connection If Bumped Or Jolted

I was very fortunate to pick up a used Six and a JD from Ebay for $350 total. The kits are in good shape. My JD robot EZB appears to be disconnecting from the battery if you bump the EZB or it does a move that jars the robot too much Is there some trick to keep it from disconnecting? Can the EZB be removed and re-seated into JD's back?

Re-Use Of Code

One of the things I love about the Arduino is that it’s easy to find a code snippet from someone’s project that you can reuse by cutting and pasting. What is the best way to do this in the ARC environment? Can one copy controls from one project to the next or just the scripts them self’s? It would be awesome for instance to take a fully configured...

Inmoov With Ez-B

Hey fellow roboticists, who has used the Ez-B v4 to control the inmoov head? My parts are practically all printed and I am about to start assembly. Anyone want to share their pointers, design mods, or project code?

Ezb V4 And Roboquad

Has anyone found a way to work around the limitations of the EZB V4 with the Roboquad or any robosapien? Its sad that the support was dropped with the EZB V4. I was pumped to make an uber intelligent wifi based Roboquad - but will not work.

Message Recieved When Trying To Add

What is wrong? Never seen this before... upgraded to latest version. Using new IOTiny... Error when selecting any script control... See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid. at...

New Scratch-Like Environment

DJ, You continue to amaze. Congrats on Make article. With the new Scratch Like Interface, are there examples or help files?

Ezb-V4 Power

For a Roomba application, will the EZB V4 handle the unregulated power input in the same way the EZB V3 could? I saw one discussion where the EZB V4 smoked after trying this....... https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/UserTutorials/115/1

Neato Support

JD, Can you add support for the Neato family of vacuum bots? They have a life which is very cool. Here is the reference to their programmers manual. https://www.neatorobotics.com/resources/programmersmanual_20140305.pdf

New Roli Wired Per Instructions But Forward And Backward Are Reversed In Control

I have a new roli. This one for prototyping at work. When I added movement controls in the ARC, forward it backward and backward is forward. What is wrong?

Dual Connection Simultaneously? Tablet Plus Pc?

In the rover project we are creating for autonomous indoor light measurement we are interested in having the rover work autonomously from a PC that is installed on the rover. We would like the option to have a tablet interface at the same time for some high level functions such as start measuring and driving, etc. We want to have the robot navigate...

Integrating ARC Windows With C Or Visual Basic Routines

We are looking to find out if the EZ-Robot platform can be used to read and act on data streams from a laboratory grade light meter and a LIDAR. Basically, we expect a string of data from the light meter that would have to be parsed and acted upon. I envision that we would need to write a routine in C or Visual basic that would poll the meter and...

Roli Treads Stiff

Hi, I really love Roli. However, his treads are stiff and thus when he moves the motors go through a labored sound and he kind of lurches and slows down again and again as the treads work their way around the mechanism. Is there a suggested way to soften the treads? I imagine this was because they were installed at the factory and have...

Neato Lidar Integration

Has anyone integrated the NEATO robot LIDAR? I pulled one out of a broken XV-11 and bought a low cost controller from https://www.getsurreal.com/product-category/electronics/xv-lidar Neato lidar

Cut And Paste Not Working In Ez Script

I am trying to cut and paste from one script to another. However, neither the edit function in the script editor or the control C and Control V are working. Is this a setting in my PC or is there something up? I have the latest version of easy builder as of 12/5/2014.

Cutting And Pasting Into Ez Scripts - Why Does It Not Work?

I am trying to do a simple cut and paste of code from the community forum into a an ez script. However, even though I try cut and paste with various methods (control C, Control V, edit cut, edit paste, etc) it does not work. What is going on? Without the simple ability to cut and paste code, its very hard to build on what others are doing ---- I...

Math In Ez-Script

How do you do basic math functions within EZ-Script?

What Are The Min Specs To Run ARC On A Netbook?

What are the min specs to run ARC on a netbook?

Spotty Speech Recognition In ARC

Sometimes speech recognition works on my system and sometimes it will not work at all. Also, it may work a while and them stop in the same session. I'd like to know if anyone has delt with this and if there is a solution or any pointers. I can see that the mic is picking up my voice by the bar chart moving when I talk. But, at times there is no...

Kinect Coming Soon?

See my blog posting link for an example of Kinect fun with kids at my work. I have had a lot of phone with the Kinect so far and I am really excited to see when DJ will finally get the Kinect added to the EZ Robot system. Has anyone done anything substantial with the EZB and the Kinect yet? blog about robot building in my garage

Pc On The Robot

What's the best low cost low power pc you have used to put the brains of the ebb on the robot?

Throwing Your Robot's Voice

As the EZ Robot system utilizes the PC as the main horsepower behind the robot, it would be great if the robot's voice came from the robot rather than from my nearby PC. For larger robots, the laptop can be on the robot, but for smaller robots, it not practical. I'd like to know if anyone is using wireless USB or Bluetooth on the robot to...

Communication Example With Arduino

Before I found the awesome EZ Robot board, I mainly used arduinos for my robots. Now I have this great EZ Robot board and I'd like to put my Arduino's to use as well. Has anyone used I^2C to communicate between the Arduino and EZB? Any examples?

Brookstone Rover Camera Not Seen In ARC

I was configuring a project last night and at one point the camera in the brookstone rover quit being read in the ARC panel. Previously I had it chasing a ball,etc and it worked fine. I double checked the camera with the IPAD and it works fine. I have changed batteries in the rover and rebooted my PC, etc. The ARC panel is setup for brookstone...

Color Or Motion Tracking Not Working In Latest Release 6/30, Fw 16

Using the brookestone rover, when I try to do color or motion tracking, the camera image freezes and does not recover. I am forced to leave the ARC ap and come back. Does not work and did before going to new version. Is there something that is possibly broken in the code with regard to the brookestone rover and video tracking? Have not tried with...

Help With Voice Recognition

See attached screen shot. Don't know what I am doing wrong. Do I need to fill in the script for any command, enable cmd, or disable cmd? I can't get it to recognize anything. Is there a training required or does something need to enabled in windows 7? I can see that the microphone is configured and detecting sounds of the my voice. Lost.