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Troop191Robotics

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  • 2012-07-11 - joined Synthiam
  • 2012-07-11 - joined your first forum discussion
  • 2012-09-04 - created first new question

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Is There A Better Wireless Camera For ARC?

We have two issues with the existing camera that came in the kit. 1) It drops the link and cant get it back for hours or days. 2) Ever since the new SW builds, where we lost resolution control, it is inadequate to accomplish the tasks that we designed the bot to do. We are now at the end of our time and we have nothing to demonstrate because it...
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Schematic For Ez-B Digital I/O?

Hello, Is there a schematic or data sheet for the Digital I/O drivers? It would be useful. Also any suggestions as to what might be blowing them out? I know that I have a lot of enthustiastic young hands on the HW, but Im not sure what is killing them. We are running out of working ports. Would plugging the 3-pin connectors on backwards, hot...
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Sound To The Robot Ideas?

Hello, We have some cool sounds that we play on the laptop from the SoundBoard. We bought a BlueTooth sound card with speakers for the bot. Any ideas as to how to send the sound over BlueTooth to the bot? Thanks again,
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Sevomovementpanel Vs. Horiz & Vert Servos?

I can control my servos, forward and reverse with the SMP. However, I can only drive them forward with the Horiz Servo or Vert Servo. Any ideas? Thanks again
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Pwm Script Command Does Not Appear To Work

Pwm Script Command Does Not Appear To Work

The PWM Script Command PWM(port#,position) does not appear to work. I test things using the sliders and when they work, I write script...
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Camera Resolution

My glyph detection dropped from 35 feet to 3 feet when I lost the ability to set the camera resolution. This is a major feature for our bot. Would you suggest that we go back a few releases to restore that function? If so, how can we download that previous release? Thanks again
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Control Command Does Not Recognize Window Names

Every time that I try to use a Control Command in a script, even in the supplied examples, I get the following error: Window named xxx does not exist. Can not send command yyy.
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Relative Tracking Within A Script Woes

Relative Tracking Within A Script Woes

Hello Gang, I tried to use relative tracking, within a script. It does not drive the motors that are in the modified servo movement panel The...
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Camera Device Commands

Camera Device Commands

Hello All, Can anyone point me to a detailed explanation of the difference between Camera Servo Tracking and Camera Servo Tracking Relative? Thanks
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Ez Robot Math

Hello Again, Has anyone figured out a way to do simple math with ARC? We have servo position and camera coordinates. We are trying to couple them to derive driving and firing solutions, while scanning the camera. We used to do all of that with a Cortex. It seems pretty simple. Maybe we need to go with a different processor. Any thoughts are...
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My Kingdom For A Manual

Hello Team, Does anyone know how to get the camera resolution settings back that used to be available? Thanks, Yours truely, Forum Groveler
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New Camera Tracking Functions

Hello Forum, Has anyone found the syntax for using the new camera tracking?
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Do We Need Sdk?

Do We Need Sdk?

Ill try to keep this brief. We are building a robot that will do the following task autonomously. 1) Avoid obstacles 2) Shoot at enemy glyphs 3) Rescue a victim, who is located near a...
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Sensor Integration Questions

Hello again, We are atttepting to scan the room looking for a glyph. Once detected we would like to drive over to it and stop just before it. To do this we mounted the ping sensor on top of the WIFI camera and mounted the camera to a servo. We used a modiifed servo movement panel to command the wheels to go when a glyph is detected. This work,...
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Ez B Control Of Pwm Motors

I have a box of VEX motors, both 2-wire dc motors and 3-wire PWM motors, which contain an internal motor controller. When I connect a 3-wire PWM motor to EZ B and try to control with PWM, nothing happens. Yet, when I connect it to a servo slider, I can control it. I am sourcing power from an external source, rather than from the EZ B port. Any...
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Wii Remote Questions

Hello Forum, We have been enjoying our EZ-Robot kit and making great strides in a short time. We are having issues with the Wii remote. We are using MicroSoft BlueTooth SW. We are using a BlueTooth dongle in the USB port of our laptop. We do have fresh batteries. We did try 3 different Wii remotes. We can add it as a BlueTooth devices and see it in...
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Bluetooth Camera Connection?

how do i get the ez-robot processor to recognize the bluettoth camera? I added it as a bluetooth device, my pc sees it, but i can onle access my webcam from the ARC SW. thanks, bl
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How Do I Get Specs On Ez-Robot Parts?

For example, how much weight does their 6-wheeled vehicle support?, what size is it,........
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