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Up Board - Accessibility Of Pinouts With ARC

Hi, I have a question concerning the Up Board (it is more and more difficult to resist to this one :)). Are the pinouts of the Up board accessible with ARC (like an EZB)? I have noticed that there is 40 of them, including UART, and it would be really cool if it was possible to connect the Roomba directly to the Up Board and control it with the the...

Strange Issue With File.Appendstring

Hi, I have a very strange issue with File.AppendString. I have a very simple python script to write a text in a file: but it returns me(trad:"Illegal characters in the path"). What is very strange is that some really simple file names are problematic and others are not. For example "nine.txt" or "ten.txt" return the error, but not "eight.txt" or...

Irobot Roomba Movement Panel - UART Connection Issues

Hi, I am trying to use the Roomba Movement Panel, however I have some issues. It is very frequent that the panel is disconnected from the UART port, when I use it directly or through scripts. When the Sensor Streaming is active, I have the following error in the Movement Panel console: and all variables in the Variable Watcher are frozen, until I...

Python Script For The Roomba - UART.Hardwareuartread Issue

Hi, I am continuing my EZ-scripts to Python conversion and I have begin to work on my Roomba robot. All my command work with the EZ-scripts, but some of them don't with Python. I have in particular some difficulties with the reading of UART data. Here are some part of scripts used to identify the Roomba working mode: With EZ-Script With this...

Nest Smoke Detector

Hi, I am thinking of buying a NEST smoke detector, because it can be used with ARC (and yes, also for safety reasons :)). I have seen the example for the thermostat, but nothing about the smoke/CO detector. Does anyone know what kind of variables can be recover in ARC with the smoke detector ? Thanks.

Watch If A Script Is Running

Hi, I wanted to know if there some kind of script command to watch if another script is running. I want to do something like : Thanks.

Pixy Vision Sensor

Hi, I have found this on Kickstarter : Pixy "Pixy is a fast vision sensor you can quickly "teach" to find objects, and it reports its findings through several simple interfaces." It seems that it could be a interresting addition to EZB for object recognition. What do you think? An interresting aspect of the project is the...

Camera Config - Change Media Save Folder

Hi everyone, I tried recently to change the Media Save Folder in Camera Config from "C:\Users\Fredebec\Pictures\My Robot Pictures" to something else, but it don't seems to be possible anymore : the text field is not active. I know for sure I was able to do it in the past... I don't know if it is an ARC issue or if there is something wrong with my...

Script Using Multi Color For Personality Generator

edited with the full code Hi, Here is a small script I have written, using the new Multi Color tracking feature. The script tracks Multi Colors (here red, green and blue) and each time a color is tracked, the script update a textfile corresponding to the color and increases by 1 the number inside the file. So, the more a color is seen, higher the...

New Project: Pc-Bot

Hi, My desktop-PC's Motherboard just died yesterday... So maybe it is time to buy an all new PC! What I have in mind is to try to build a Desktop-PC-Bot around a mini-ITX MB: It should be a desktop-PC when I am at home and a robot when I am out (or when i don't need the PC). I will use a commercial or homemade chassis and put outside wheels, PING,...

Autoconnect Script, With Virtualrobot (And Digital)

Hi, Just to report a strange behavior with VirtualRobot in EZ Builder: When I add a Digital (Input or Outpout) to the VirtualRobot, then the autoconnect script (ControlCommand("Connection", Connect0)) don't work anymore and connection failed, without any error message. Manual connection in the "Connection" window is OK. I have tested it directly in...

Wireless Camera And Usb Dongle Pairing

Hi, This topic follows this one: http://www.ez-robot.com/Community/Forum/posts.aspx?threadId=2531, but i come with 1 (or 2) more precise questions: - Is it possible that the wireless camera loose the pairing with the usb dongle (even if everything was fine before)? - If yes, is there a way to redo the pairing but without the camera power button, as...

Camera Is Not Working Anymore

Hello Everyone and Happy new year! First I should precise that my ezb camera used to work very well, even after doing the modifications (soldering) to power it directly by the ezb. It is because everything went that well that i decided to put it in wall-e's eye and perform some tracking tests. But when I began to configure servo for tracking (and...

Secure Soldering With Hot Glue ?

Hi, I have modified the camera from the ezb kit by soldering wires on the camera board in order to power it by the ezb (like winstn6 did in this thread http://www.ez-robot.com/Community/Forum/posts.aspx?threadId=35, thanks to him). In my real" Wall-e", the camera will be inserted in the eye, but some wire will be unprotected, outside of it. My...