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pacomms

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  • 2011-11-10 - joined Synthiam
  • 2011-11-10 - created first new question
  • 2011-11-28 - joined your first forum discussion

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Battery Voltage Monitor

Battery Voltage Monitor

This is really a question aimed at DJ but if anyone else knows the answer please chip in, i want to know how i can use an ADC port to monitor the battery voltage on my 6v...
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Speech Recognition

So i am having a few issues using speech recognition module, i open ARC and goto speech recognition, when i start it i get an error saying that there is either no listening device or my operating system is not supported, i am running windows 7 64bit and my pc does have a mic as i can use the windows 7 built in speech recognition, any ideas ? Thanks...
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Yet Another Omnibot Question For Dj ;-)

Yet Another Omnibot Question For Dj ;-)

So i am still a little confused about the motor H bridge and the omnibot, i have bought the sparkfun motor controller you suggest and please...
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Question For DJ About New H Bridge

Hi there, so i have managed to get a BV4113 H Bridge, i have installed latest firware and connected as per your diagram on the tutorials page, i have a pretty significant issue however, i have opened up a new project and i only have the BV4113 movement panel active, i connect to the bot fine but the issue is that if i now press one of the movement...
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Using Scripts

Hi guys, so i have a quick question regarding scripting, basically im trying to make some kind of maping code with ARC, for some reason the sonar scan module doesnt work to well with my robot but thats another story, what i wanna know is 1 - can i jump to another script from within a running script and then back again , ie if i made a simple script...
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Question About Scripting

Hi again guys, so i have another question, i am trying to write a roam script for my bot but im a little confused about how i write a script to read a sonar, below is what i have so far I2CStart() I2CWrite(0x42, 5) I2CStop() sleep(2000) I2CRestart() I2CWrite(0x42, 0x20, Robot Roam Mode) I2CStop() :Main forward() sleep(2000) if(digital(D10) < 15)...
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New Servo Movement Panel

Hi DJ so i have downloaded the latest version of ARC and tried out the modified servo movement control with the values put in for my sabertooth, the forward back left and right are great, however the bot wont stop now because i cant put in a servo value for stop, any chance you could add a box on the movement panel for what the motors stop (servo...
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H Bridge

as im having a few issues using my sabertooth motor controller i was wondering if you have your new h bridge for sale yet ? or , which would be even better is there any way to alter the settings in the modified servo module to work with my sabertooth, ie i can change the values it pushes out if i say press forwards, back etc etc ? is there a config...
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GPS Support

GPS Support

So i have been thinking of ways to help omnibot now named T.E.D lol, to be able to navigate room to room indoors on command, my way of thinking is either to use roborealm which i have been told by...
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I2C Display Help Plzzz

So i have bought an I2C display and controller for my robot, the ebay link is http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310246198837?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 , i can get the display to power up but cant get any characters to display on it, the default address is 0x42 so i am sending the following via a script I2CStart() I2CWrites(0x42,...
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General Question

So after much fidling i have managed to blow up my sparkfun H bridge, oh well i hated the damn thing anyways so i have butchered an earlier bot i built and used the sabertooth H bridge controller i have, great.....nope for some reason the sabertooth doesnt understand the way that the modified servo panel works, but no issue i just made scripts to...
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Regarding Batteries

Regarding Batteries

Hi so just bought an ez board, quick question, what kind of batteries and voltage can be connected to these and can you charge whilst connected to the board on a stable power supply...
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Omnibot Connections

Ok so i finally have my ez board and my omnibot just waiting for the h bridge, i thought hmm i will connect my servos and give your omnibot software a go, ahh i thought so where the hell do i connect things to for the omnibot ? so my question is is there a page on this site or tutorial on what ports you have connected what to for your omnibot, plz...
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Quick Question Regarding Camera

so another probably noob question here but, i wanna put the camera i got with my ez b in the robot and control its on/off etc from the ez board, so question is as the camera obviously has a push switch on the back and a built in battery how do i connect the camera to the ez b, i presume i use a d port for the power but how does that work regarding...
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