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Strange Behavior Servo

Strange Behavior Servo

i notest a strange behavior when using window horizontal servo. when i check the invert direction box.i can move the servo lower or higher, but when i let go my mouse button...
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Custom Robot Question?

Custom Robot Question?

Hello everyone! : ) This is my first post here. I don't even know if this is the correct forum to be posting my question but I will do my best here. First off, I can't even...
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Mike Voice Not Working In Speech Synthesis Settings

I have the Mike voice In my Audio, when I click on speech synthesis settings, I see the Mike selection, but it comes out I hear a voice of a girl. Any fixes for this?
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Creating Custom Voice

I am trying to create a custom voice for "Tin Man" my robot. Since there seems to be no way to really efficiently add third party voice to my windows pc I think i came up with a way to do this. If I create a audio mp3 with the voice I create on third party software then write that mp3 into code when I want my computer to say something....
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Anyone Hear Of The Tof10120 Distance Sensor ?

Semoic Range Sensor Module 10-180Cm Distance Sensor Tof10120 Distance Sensor anyone heard of this? Here is the info on this unit: https://dronebotworkshop.com/laser-vs-ultrasonic-distance-sensor-tests/
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Suggestion For Another Night...Like Hack Night?

I know time is money and you all have alot of gears turning there at Synthiam, but  have a suggestion since the platform is still developing. I'm not sure how many others feel the same as me...but I would love a live Q and A  stream, like a hack night but just answering questions about controls and scripting and anything ARC and hardware related....
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Soundboard Control

I am wanting to play audio files via the ARC Mobile App on my Tablet - not PC and not through the iOTiny. There doesn't seem to be any way of doing this. I tried utilising the SoundboardPC control and although this worked on the PC, it had no affect when used on my Tablet - audio went to the iOTiny, ignoring the SoundPC control used in the scripts....
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Voice Recognition And Usb Camera On Raspberry Pi 4 With ARC?

Hello all, I just got a Pi 4 and I have not had time to mess around , but I did want to ask about a couple features as I know things have really improved over the past year. Does ARC recognize a  usb camera on the pi? Also does voice synthesis and recognition work? Thank You everyone! - Josh
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Holidays Are Coming.

Doing my shopping now. Trying to keep aside some money for any new Synthiam announcements. Might anything interesting be coming up? If not from you but a particular product that you are about to offer support for. Love to have something to start working with over the break.
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Arduino Uno With A Ultrasound Sensor - ARC Control

I can’t seem to get hc-sr04 to function with above. I got servos working but this seems to hang- any thoughts thnx guys? Error message - Capability ultrasonic Ping distance sensor support’ is not supported on this EZ-B device.
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Measure Distance From Camera

Hi everyone, I know that EZ camera will can do it but let me ask: it can measure distance from existing plugins on the web right now. I want to use it to measure the distance of the mouth, when opening the mouth, the distance is large and the robot will scoop food for you?. I plan to make this idea for people with parkinson.   Thank you very...
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Wii Remote And Arduino

does a wii remote work with the Arduino? I would like to know is anyone made it work