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TMesserschmidt
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Robot builder. A.I. programmer and speaker. Author. Father of one girl, and many, many robots! and 1. Founder and current president of the Riverside Robotics Society. The RRS is a club with over 500 online members and over 50 local members offering classes, contests, and lectures in robotics. 2. Founder of the Riverside Robot Expo Event. 3. Riverside Robot Expo event coordinator for six years. 4. Writer for the number one robotics hobbyist magazine Servo Magazine. 5. Board member and past club officer of the Robotics Society of Southern California 6. Member of the Tech Room robotics club in San Bernardino 7. Robotics teacher and lecturer for over 9 years (private lessons) 8. Founder of www.robots-and-androids.com. 9. Creator of the life-like humanoid robot, Simone the A.I. Fembot. 10. Ex-employee of Nolan Bushnell’s Androbot robotics company. 11. Provider of animatronic software and hardware for the film industry. 12. A.I. lecture for Claremont Lincoln University, Claremont, CA. 13. CEO Space graduate. 14. Programmer for American Honda Motors. 15. A.I. “chatbot” programmer. 16. Alexa (Amazon Echo) programmer. 17. 5000+ Facebook followers and friends, Thomas (AKA “Riv Artoo”). Past speaking engagements include: Claremont Lincoln University, Riverside Robotics Society, Robotics Society of Southern California, Riverside Robot Expo, OC Mini Maker Faire, Star Wars Reads Day, and the Boy Scouts of America.
Achievements
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2012-04-20 - joined Synthiam
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2012-04-20 - joined your first forum discussion
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2012-04-20 - created first new question
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2012-10-28 - posted a robot project showcase
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2014-10-09 - connected ARC to the cloud
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2017-12-11 - shared your first video in the forum
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2017-12-11 - shared your first photo in the forum
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2018-03-28 - used the Bing Speech Recognition to convert spoken speech into text
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2018-03-28 - used Cognitive Text Sentiment Service
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2018-03-28 - used Cognitive Face Service to have your robot learn and remember faces
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2018-03-28 - used the Cognitive Vision Service to have the robot describe what it sees
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2018-03-30 - used the Cognitive Emotion Service to have a robot detect your emotion
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2021-04-29 - posted your first tutorial
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2021-11-30 - created a public ARC App
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2022-01-15 - purchased first robot swag
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2022-02-19 - subscribed to ARC and unlocked new features that make your robot even smarter
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2022-02-19 - purchasing an Annual Pro Subscription
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2022-07-13 - answered a forum question
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2022-07-28 - searched the Synthiam support section to learn about ARC features
Latest submissions
Questions (19)
Robots (7)
Skills (0)
General (0)
Hack Events (0)
Tutorials (1)
Apps (10)
Firmwares (0)
3D Parts (0)
Feature Requests (8)
question
My Computer Has Trouble With Windows 11
Hello, On my Windows 11 machine I cannot get anything but the EZ-Robot camera to work. Any other cameras that I plug into the computer are...
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DJ Sures |
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Skill Or Plug-In? (HELP!)
Hello, I am attempting to share my Simone ARC project in Servo Magazine. I am sure that most of my readers will try the Teams version of ARC before purchasing a license....
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TMesserschmidt |
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How Do I Hook Up The EZ-B To A Second Wifi (An Added Dongle) In Windows 11?
How do I hook up the EZ-B to a second WiFi (an added dongle) in...
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Dave Schulpius |
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Please Fix This Feature : 19 Skills Instead Of 20
Hello, The ARC Teams edition is supposed to allow 20 skills. I have found that it allows no more than 19 and truncates...
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Synthiam Suppo… |
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Support For The Oak-D Smart Camera By Luxonis
I am requesting a skill that would support the Oak-D (OpenCV AI Kit) by Luxonis. Having this interface would allow my robot to identify and locate an object such as a bottle, in 3D space, so that the robot could pick it up. Oak-d Information Oak-d More Information From their website: Quote:DepthAI is a platform built to allow the power of Spatial...
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Switch / Case Statement
I am neck deep in programming my Simone robot. I know that I can use multiple or nested if/elseif/then statements, but what would really make my life easier would be a switch / case statement. switch(expression) { case constant-expression : statement(s); break; case constant-expression : statement(s); break; default : By the way, what...
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DJ Sures |
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OTHER: Using ARC Without Internet Access?
If I am out demonstrating my robot and there is bad internet service or even no internet service, how would I run ARC? Does ARC REQUIRE...
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TMesserschmidt |
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How To Use Prosody Contour In Speech Synthesis
You have exposed most of the prosody features (pitch, emphasis, rate, volume, break, phonemes) and I am thrilled that they all work perfectly! Thank you. I enjoy using them to vary my robots voice. Still, there is one feature that is only partially exposed and that is prosody contour. When I attempt to use prosody contour, the voice is lowered in...
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What Is The Difference Between Pauselistening And Stoplistening
I have been using these two commands together, one following the other in my scripts. So far...
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How To Duplicate Robot Skills?
How can I duplicate skills, especially scripts so that I can easily reuse my code? Unfortunately, as is, This requires me to open the script editor for a...
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DJ Sures |
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Public Checkbox On New Tutorial Is Grayed Out.
I created a new tutorial but I cant seem to make it public. The public box is not enabled. What am I doing wrong?
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DJ Sures |
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Is There Any Way To Detect If The Bing Speech Recognition Is Paused?
Is there any way to detect if the Bing Speech Recognition is paused or not? Alexa lights up LEDs when she is listening. I wanted to write a script to light an LED that tells me when Bing is listening--the pause button is off, but I see no variables available for Bings Pause feature.
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DJ Sures |
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Is The Latest ARC Version Compatible With Windows 8.1?
Does it run and has it been tested on Windows 8.1?
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DJ Sures |
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Run Servo From Aimlbot?
Is it possible to run a servo or call a script directly from AIML (within AIMLBOT)? Or do I have to intercept all text with an ARC script?
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This ARC Build Has Expired Error
Hello, Today for the first time ever I got an This ARC build has expired error and ARC will not launch. I dont want to upgrade. Why is ARC expiring? Why am...
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DJ Sures |
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Is It Possible To Connect The EZ-B Directly To The PC Or Is Wi-Fi Required?
Is it possible to connect the EZ-B directly to the PC or is wi-fi required? Since laptops and single board computers have gotten both more powereful and cheaper, I want to use a separate Windows machine for each of my EZ-B robots. It would make my life so much easier if there existed a way to go from the laptop to the EZ-B, bypassing the wi-fi...
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Darknet / Yolo Real-Time Object Detection
DJ and Team, Have you seen the TensorFlow / Darknet / YOLO Real-time Object Detection videos? A friend of mine has implemented it on his...
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ARC Like Noahs Ark?
How do you pronounce your ARC? Or A. R. C.? Or something else? 2. Where did the name Synthiam come from and why the change?
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TMesserschmidt |
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Hard Drive Access?
Is there any way to read or write to a hard drive within the ARC? I wrote a MS Kinect software application that writes Kinect date to text files and updates them in real time. (I call it the painless data exchange protocol.) It would be really great if I could get Kinect data into ARC. If not directly, does EZ builder have the ability to run
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TMesserschmidt |
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robot
Tmesserschmidts Simone AI (Openfembot)
First Simone Article has been published in Servo Magazine! https://www.servomagazine.com/magazine We made the cover! Simone an AI robot is part...
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JustinRatliff |
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Tmesserschmidts Topsie The Easy To Build Robot Dog
Topsie is the dog robot (quadruped) that anyone can build. Building it takes no special skills. No 3D printing needed...
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Nink |
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Tmesserschmidts The Vision (Marvel) Robot Replica
Using a mannequin, a Vision robot costume, a hacked Elvis Alive bust, some servos and an EZ-B, I am building a replica of...
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RoboHappy |
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Tmesserschmidts Meet Robot Betty9
Meet Robot Betty9! My sassy 6 tall fembot. She has two servos in each arm, two in her neck, blue LEDs in her eyes, two Arduinos, one EZ-B, and an Echo Dot...
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Mickey666Maus |
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Tmesserschmidts Meet Melvis: My Ultra Humanoid Robot
Melvis (Sometimes called Stu) used to use several boards, but now I am just using the EZB for EVERYTHING! The...
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Linux robot 9… |
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Tmesserschmidts My Robot Would Be Sitting At A
My robot would be sitting at a table, and it would look down at the objects on that table. It would be able identify the objects on the table: salt, pepper, a can of beer, a knife, a plate a spoon, and carrots on the plate. It would also know the coordinates of each object in 3D space of each object. Knowing that it would reach out and pick up the...
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TMesserschmidt |
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Tmesserschmidts Annadroid: A Humanoid Robot
My current EZ-Robot project is called AnnaDroid. (on my web site: http://www.robots-and-androids.com/annidroid.html) Anna will be a life-size humanoid / android (not the phone OS silly!) kind of bot. She is being made from a face casting of my friend Annika Skywalker, and a modified Wowwee Alive Elvis Presley robot, and a plastic mannequin body. I...
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mcsdaver |
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app
Betty9 AI With Basic Motion
Betty9 AI with Basic Motion. She has 3 degrees of freedom in her neck. She uses GPT-3 with a sophisticated prompt. : WORKS
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TMesserschmidt |
app
Betty9 Christmas Songs
Betty9 is a Life-size humanoid fembot. She has 4 degrees of freedom. She was designed to be a robot lounge singer. Some videos of her singing can be found on YouTube....
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TMesserschmidt |
app
Simone AI Robot - Public Release1.12
UNFINISHED! STILL TESTING! Simone: Life-size humanoid fembot. Part of #OpenFembot. Fully Articultated head. Each arm has two degrees of freedom....
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app
Verbal Intelligence Group Demo
Voice I/O that can look for your face to unpause the Bing speech recognizer. I use a female voice with it.
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app
Simone AI Robot - Puppet Mode V 01,05
Simone is a Life-size humanoid fembot. She is part of #OpenFembot. Build instructions on Servo Magazine. She was inspired by Hansons Sophia robot....
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TMesserschmidt |
app
Get Me A Beer - Dynamixel
Animated Dynamixel Arm with Voice Control Gets a beer using dead reckoning. Also allows joystick control.
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TMesserschmidt |
app
Dynamixel Arm
Animated Dynamixel Arm with Voice Control Demo.Uses EZ-B4 directly plugged in. It responds to 4 voice commands. Just a demo really to make sure it is working before I expand upon it.
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app
Big Foot II - Human-Size Bipedal Walking Robot
Big Foot II Bipedal Walking Robot is 27/69cm at the waist. It uses 8 60kg/cm robot servos. Warning: you need an external source...
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TMesserschmidt |
app
Simone AI Robot 0.17
Simone: Life-size humanoid fembot. Part of #OpenFembot. Fully Articultated head. Each arm has two degrees of freedom. Build instructions on Servo Magazine. Inspired by Hansons...
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app
Custom Pandorabots AI
Just the Pandorabot control loaded with a custom AI.
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TMesserschmidt |
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feature request
Open
Add A Snap To Grid To The Workspaces
I see that you talked about a snap to grid for the workspaces back in April so I would like to make it a formal feature request. I usually use quite...
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Synthiam Suppo… |
feature request
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I Know You Are Working To Get GPT-3 Working, But What About Dialogpt?
It would be a lot of fun to get this working with ARC. The coding is over my head, but I know DJ (and company) could do it in a heartbeat. DialoGPT is a SOTA large-scale pretrained dialogue response generation model for multiturn conversations. The human evaluation results indicate that the response generated from DialoGPT is comparable to human...
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Synthiam Suppo… |
feature request
Open
Ability To Comment Out Multiple Lines Of A Script All At Once With Context Menu
I am often frustrated by the fact that I need to type #xxx for each line of code that I want to comment out. If I could select multiple lines with the right mouse button and then select comment or uncomment from a context menu with the mouse button, it would make my life a lot easier. Thanks for making a GREAT product! --Thomas
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feature request
Open
Voice Print Skill That Would Identify Users By Voice.
Would like a skill that could do a voice print and identify someone by their voice alone. Example: a user says, robot, its me and the robot analyzes the speech and identifies the person. It will help my robot by deciding who it should listen to and knowing who I am when I am talking. This would be a great feature.
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TMesserschmidt |
feature request
Completed
Request The Option To Reject ARC Updates
Please stop forcing me to update ARC. Updating on your schedule upsets everything I am doing. I give robotics lectures, sometimes several times a month. Before a lecture, I have no time to download and update and God forbid, fix my ARC code that breaks because of your updates. Yes, it has happened to me before. You and your team give lectures and...
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TMesserschmidt |
feature request
Completed
Aimlbot With AIML 2.X
Any chance of an AIML 2.x skill? AIML 1.x is not officially supported anymore by pandorabots.com. AIML 2.x is a much richer language. Thomas
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DJ Sures |
feature request
Completed
Option To Reject Or Postpone Updates
Hello, I am now using ARC for the control of a system that will eventually be sold. More specifically, I am building a robot that will ship with an...
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DJ Sures |
feature request
Completed
Tensorflow - YOLO Or Similar For Object Classification And Recognition
While ARCs object recognition is good, Tensorflows is better. Its better because it is pretrained with a large library (200?) of common objects. Pre-trained object classification software saves one the work of feeding the camera 5000 photos of dogs or 2000 photos of cups or 9000 photos of people, etc. Would ARC work with 2000 photos of a dog? I see...
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