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Tts Voice

Hi all, I'm new to this robot stuff and having alot of fun with it, but looking for info. I want to try if my robot can speak Dutch. So I've started to look for info and found Ivona - Ruben as a voice. Can anyone confirm that Ivona voices are working on the latest build of ARC and Windows 10 64 bit?
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Robot Currently Operates By Time - What Would Be A Good Upgrade?

Hello there I am part of a robotics team. every year we get avrious challenges and travel to a competition. the challenge in the competition changes each year. last year we had to pick up milk crates and put them into various places. when the round starts, there were 15 seconds on which the robot drives autonomosly, and 2 minutes after that was...
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Another Dynamixel Servo Plugin Request

Robots (Mfg. of Dynamixl servos) has released their "TurtleBot 3" kits. "TurtleBot3 is a small, affordable, programmable, ROS-based mobile robot for use in education, research, hobby, and product prototyping." (From Robotics) These kits include a Robotics OpenCR board to control the servos, a Raspberry Pi (with camera) as...
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Alternative To Speech Recognition As A Fail Safe Method

I am looking to use JD as an assistant in a comedy show I am doing for children. I know the children can create a lot of noise. Therefore I need to find the best fallback if speech recognition does not work. Is a keyboard shortcut the best alternative?
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Questions Connecting To Robots Wifi

All our robots seem to have issue connecting the laptop to the robot wifi. I have ran updates on ARC latest version installed 2018.09.30.01and it then shows update available but when i download the latest version ending in 02 in doesn't install? When trying to connect the laptop to the robot the connecting always times out? Any help on getting...
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Omnibot 2000 Riser

Omnibot 2000 Riser

Want to make your Omnibot 2000 bigger? You can print this out and stack em up to the height you need your little guy to grow. The vertical striations are because I only printed it one...
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Servo Recorder Control

The servo recorder is great but only seems to playback any servos only connected to Board 0. I can record from Board 1 using the servo pad control ( it shows data) but it won't playback the recordings of those servos connected to Board 1 or any other board (1-4). Am I missing anything obvious or is the servo recorded control only for board 0? I am...
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Question With Synbot

Question With Synbot

Hi @Jlucben, I used Program O with AIML (because it work with french language) but I am interested by Synbot. I installed the plugin and followed the tutorial for the installation...
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Vertical Mounting Of Ez-B4, Hero-1 Reboot

Vertical Mounting Of Ez-B4, Hero-1 Reboot

Good Afternoon Community! I'm making slow but steady progress on rebuilding my Hero-1. I have a question: Has anyone run in to issues...
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Servo Control Voltage

I don't have a scope to verify this but would I be correct in assuming that the servo control voltage going to the servo is 3.3 volts on any particular digital port that a servo is connected to on an EZ Controller? The power to the servo would be the battery voltage that the EZ Controller is powered up from which is typically 7.2 Volts? Thanks...
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Broken / Stripped Servo Joints

I am having problems with the plastic joints stripping out where the servo gear contacts the joint. I have not used this bot but 4 times and he is setup properly. where can I get replacement joints....neck.....leg off of foot. Does anyone have 3d printer files that I can use to print replacements?
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Red Pepper Harvesting Robot

Hello friends , I will make an red pepper harvesting robot for my graduation project. It is my homework to graduate . The robot should be able to pick red vegetables from a garden and leave the green or yellow ones. It should perform this task autonomously and without damaging the plant. The Robot will go in a garden , When it detects rep pepper ,...