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Bluetooth control for UBTech Alpha1 servos via ARC: map Vx to servo IDs, enable servos, and integrate with ARC movement & LEDs.

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Sphero Plus AR.Drone Camera Conflict

Sphero Plus AR.Drone Camera Conflict

Running ARC on Windows with a Sphero (Bluetooth) and a Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 (WiFi). Sphero connects fine and the Sphero Movement Panel drives it...
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Six Hexapod Ultrasonic Avoidance Blocking

Six Hexapod Ultrasonic Avoidance Blocking

Running a Six Hexapod (EZ-B v4 over WiFi) with an HCSR04 mounted front-center (Trig=D0, Echo=D1) and ARC on Windows. Locomotion is via...
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Smoothing Micro:Bit PWM From Slide Script

Smoothing Micro:Bit PWM From Slide Script

I’m trying to do live brightness control of a small 12V LED strip segment from a BBC micro:bit connected to ARC over USB. I flashed the...
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Dual-Axis Compass Jitter On Leonardo

Dual-Axis Compass Jitter On Leonardo

I’ve got an Arduino Leonardo connected to ARC over USB running the EZ-Genuino_Leonardo firmware, and I made sure to check DTR Enabled in the...
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Scriptstartwait Delay On ADC4

Scriptstartwait Delay On ADC4

I need a little help with timing in a JavaScript script I have running in my robot. It works great but there is one feature that I'd like to speed up. Here's what...
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MPU9150 Polling Freezes PCA9685 Servos

MPU9150 Polling Freezes PCA9685 Servos

Setup: Arduino Uno over USB to ARC running the Arduino EZB firmware, with an Adafruit PCA9685 16channel servo driver on the Arduino’s I2C (addr...
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Ensure Variable State Saver Loads First

Ensure Variable State Saver Loads First

Running a JD Humanoid over WiFi to an EZB, and I’m trying to persist a few calibration/tuning variables between ARC sessions using the...
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Sound Servo EZB Not Reacting On Roomba Iotiny

Sound Servo EZB Not Reacting On Roomba Iotiny

I’m building a talking Roomba (650) and hit a wall with Sound Servo (EZB). Hardware: Roomba base, Synthiam ARC on Windows,...
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Text Overlay Flicker With Hugging Face

Text Overlay Flicker With Hugging Face

I’ve got an Atomic Pi mounted in a small rover running Windows with ARC, a Logitech C920 on USB, and WiFi for internet access. I’m using the...
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Virtual Robot With Two Controllers

Virtual Robot With Two Controllers

Running ARC on a LattePanda (Windows) with the onboard Arduino Leonardo flashed with the EZ-Genuino_Leonardo firmware and connected over USB. I checked...
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Cloud Upload XML Error Large Project

Cloud Upload XML Error Large Project

I'm trying to save a large ARC project to the Synthiam cloud from the PC running ARC, but the upload fails with this error: "An error...
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ARC Onboard Versus Remote Limits

ARC Onboard Versus Remote Limits

If I run the ARC application on a Raspberry Pi 5 (Windows on ARM) mounted on my robot, with the robot’s controllers connected to that Pi, what limitations...