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Benchmark Drops With Chatgpt And Camera

Benchmark Drops With Chatgpt And Camera

I’m running a Roli Rover with an EZ-B v4 from a Windows laptop and I’m trying to make it conversational while driving around. When I run the...
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Hugging Face Model Not Supported

Hugging Face Model Not Supported

I have a question about the ARC "Hugging Face" Robot Skill. I set up the API as instructed. I'm using a USB webcam (connected directly to the PC...
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Microphone Clap Trigger On Darwin Mini

Microphone Clap Trigger On Darwin Mini

Working on a ROBOTIS Darwin Mini (OpenCM9.04 flashed with the ARC firmware from the Synthiam hardware page), connected to ARC over USB for now....
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Servo Speed Not Affecting PCA9685

Servo Speed Not Affecting PCA9685

I’ve got an Arduino Uno over USB driving an Adafruit PCA9685 16-channel servo board (I2C address 0x40). The PCA9685’s V+ rail is on a separate 5V/6A...
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Switching Movement Control Between AR Drone And Ro

Switching Movement Control Between AR Drone And Ro

I’m trying to run an AR Parrot Drone and a ground bot in the same ARC project as a demo: the drone hovers while a Roomba...
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Watson TTS Halts Turtlebot3 Motion

Watson TTS Halts Turtlebot3 Motion

Running ARC on a TurtleBot3 with an x86 Windows SBC (NUC mounted on the robot) connected to the OpenCR over USB. I’m trying to have the robot announce...
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Choppy Audio File Out To EZ-B

Choppy Audio File Out To EZ-B

Running ARC directly on a Rock Pi X (Windows) mounted in my bot, streaming audio to an EZ-B v4 over WiFi using the Audio File Out EZB skill. The EZ-B is set as my...
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Controlcommand For Sphero From Script

Controlcommand For Sphero From Script

I’ve got a Sphero paired over Bluetooth to my Windows laptop and the Sphero Movement Panel in ARC drives it fine (forward/turn/stop from the UI...
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Route Audio File Out To EZB 1

Route Audio File Out To EZB 1

ARC is running on an Atomic Pi inside my bot, and I’m trying to get audio to come from the head speaker. I’ve got two controllers connected over WiFi: an EZB v4...
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Detect When PC Audio Finishes

Detect When PC Audio Finishes

Is there a built-in variable named $PCPlayingAudio? If not, how can I determine when an audio file has finished playing? I'm using the PlayAudio(filename)...
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Smoothing Frequency Detector To Mega Servo

Smoothing Frequency Detector To Mega Servo

I’ve got an Arduino Mega 2560 connected to ARC over USB using the ARC Arduino capability, with a single MG996R on ARC servo port D0...
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Using Getrss Data In Javascript

Using Getrss Data In Javascript

I’ve got an OpenCM 9.04-C on USB with an XL-320 (ID 1) and ARC is talking to it fine with the Robotis DYNAMIXEL robot skill. I can jog the servo and run a...