TMesserschmidt
Country: USA
Member Since:
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)
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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...
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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...
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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; ...
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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 robot's 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...
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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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TMesserschmidt |
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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 can't 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 Bing's "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 don't want to upgrade. Why is ARC...
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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 Noah's 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 ARC have the ability to run
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TMesserschmidt |
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Tmesserschmidt's Simone AI (Openfembot)
Synthiam ARC makes coding Simone easy: openFembot humanoid AI featured on Servo Magazine with open-source hardware, software, and tutorials.
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JustinRatliff |
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Tmesserschmidt's Topsie The Easy To Build Robot Dog
Build Topsie, a low-cost DIY quadruped-no 3D printing or soldering; assemble in a week and program walking gaits with...
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Nink |
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Tmesserschmidt's The Vision (Marvel) Robot Replica
Build a Vision robot replica using a mannequin, Vision costume, hacked Elvis bust, servos and an EZ-B; fitted costume...
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RoboHappy |
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Tmesserschmidt's Meet Robot Betty9
Betty9: a 6' tall fembot with servos, blue eye LEDs, Arduinos, EZ-B and Echo Dot, mounted to a hacked Segway MiniLite for guided locomotion.
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Mickey666Maus |
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Tmesserschmidt's Meet Melvis: My Ultra Humanoid Robot
Melvis humanoid uses EZB for everything, Elvis-faced head, 3D-printed InMoov arms, planned Segway mobility and...
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Linux robot 9… |
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Tmesserschmidt's My Robot Would Be Sitting At A
Identify and 3D-localize table items (salt, pepper, beer can, knife, plate, spoon, carrots) so a robot can reach and pick up the beer.
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Tmesserschmidt's Annadroid: A Humanoid Robot
AnnaDroid life-size humanoid using Synthiam ARC: blinking eyes, TTS-synced jaw, speech recognition, face tracking, head/eye and Kinect sensing.
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David mcsdaver |
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app
Betty9 AI With Basic Motion
Betty9 AI with basic motion, 3 degrees of freedom in her neck, and GPT-3 driven sophisticated prompt - works
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TMesserschmidt |
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Betty9 Christmas Songs
Betty9 life-size humanoid fembot with 4 degrees of freedom, designed as a robot lounge singer; watch her singing performances on YouTube.
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TMesserschmidt |
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Simone AI Robot - Public Release1.12
Simone life-size humanoid fembot with articulated head and two-DOF arms. OpenFembot project; build on Servo Magazine; inspired by Hanson’s Sophia.
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TMesserschmidt |
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Verbal Intelligence Group Demo
Face-detecting Voice I/O that unpauses the Bing speech recognizer when you’re detected, with an option to use a female voice.
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TMesserschmidt |
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Simone AI Robot - Puppet Mode V 01,05
Simone life-size humanoid fembot, part of #OpenFembot and inspired by Hanson’s Sophia; build instructions on Servo Magazine; shown in puppet...
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TMesserschmidt |
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Get Me A Beer - Dynamixel
Animated Dynamixel arm uses voice and joystick control to fetch a beer using dead reckoning
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TMesserschmidt |
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Dynamixel Arm
Animated Dynamixel arm with voice control using EZ-B4 responds to four commands-demo to verify operation before expanding functionality
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TMesserschmidt |
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Big Foot II - Human-Size Bipedal Walking Robot
Big Foot II bipedal robot 27"/69cm uses eight 60kg/cm servos; needs external power-use 20A to avoid brownouts; powerful...
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TMesserschmidt |
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Simone AI Robot 0.17
Simone life-size humanoid fembot with articulated head and two-DOF arms, part of #OpenFembot; Servo Magazine build instructions inspired by Sophia
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TMesserschmidt |
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Custom Pandorabots AI
Pandorabot control loaded with a custom AI.
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TMesserschmidt |
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feature request
Add A Snap To Grid To The Workspaces
Optional snap-to-grid for workspaces to align and resize skill sub-windows with variable grid spacing and three standard sizes.
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Synthiam Suppo… |
feature request
I Know You Are Working To Get GPT-3 Working, But What About Dialogpt?
Synthiam ARC integration with Microsoft DialoGPT-large enables robot conversational skills using a 147M Reddit-trained, human-quality dialogue model.
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Synthiam Suppo… |
feature request
Ability To Comment Out Multiple Lines Of A Script All At Once With Context Menu
Right-click context menu to comment or uncomment multiple selected code lines for faster, easier scripting and reduced typing.
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TMesserschmidt |
feature request
Voice Print Skill That Would Identify Users By Voice.
Voice-print skill that identifies users by voice so robots recognize who to listen to and personalize responses.
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TMesserschmidt |
feature request
Request The Option To Reject ARC Updates
Control Synthiam ARC updates to avoid forced upgrades that disrupt lectures, demos and robot builds; maintain stability and update on your schedule.
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TMesserschmidt |
feature request
Aimlbot With AIML 2.X
AIML 2.x skill support for richer chatbot capabilities; AIML 1.x is no longer officially supported by Pandorabots.com
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DJ Sures |
feature request
Option To Reject Or Postpone Updates
Prevent ARC auto-updates that delete custom AIML and disrupt EZ-B robot deployments; add PRO option to reject or postpone updates
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DJ Sures |
feature request
Tensorflow - YOLO Or Similar For Object Classification And Recognition
Synthiam ARC object recognition vs Tensorflow pretrained models; explore software classification or HuskeyLens hardware interface options.
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ptp |