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Enterprise Firewall Affecting Smtp Plugin?

Hi All, I have tried, unsuccessfully, to send an email using my yahoo account. I have read, and re-read the plug-in information page as well as every forum discussion thread about the plug-in. I am 100% certain that I have input the information correctly, but I still receive the following error: "Error on line 1: Failure sending mail." I...
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Camerastop Command Still Crashes Everything

Camerastop Command Still Crashes Everything

Hi, Could someone fix once and for all this bug (see file attached)? This is a terribly annoying one... :s I'm using only EZB cams...
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( Within A String Variable

I receive the error: Error on line 7: Missing ) in Expression $HumanSaid = "How far is the earth from the moon" $URL="https://api.brainshop.ai/get?bid=xxx&key=xxxxxxxxxx&uid=1&msg=" + $HumanSaid $URL = $URL + "Hello There" sleep(3000) $Answer = HttpGet($URL) $StringLength = length($Answer) $MessageLength =...
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Camera Control Snapshot File Name

I have a script to command my robot to take a picture, after it takes the picture I have it open the folder location the picture went to so I can manually check the picture which works just fine. #This opens the folder where the picture was saved Exec("C:\Users\weyou_000\Pictures\My Robot Pictures") What would be even cooler is if I...
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Batteries Not Charging

I have plugged the battery in to charge multiple times following instructions, and it always flashes red. I can't tell what's wrong and the bot won't even turn on after leaving it plugged in for a few minutes. Not sure how to fix it.
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Myo Armband

Hi everyone, I've been trying to connect the myo to my ez robot, JD and for some reason I can't get it to work. The myo is functioning properly on its own. It picks up on all the movement and gestures, however, when I'm using ARC, the myo control panel barely picks up any of my gestures. It's picked up about 3 gestures over hundreds of tries. I've...
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Norton Security Threats Detected

Norton Security Threats Detected

I received a Threats Detected notification from Norton Security on my PC that identified the compressed files "b7ec29e.msi" and "ez-builder...
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Multi Colour Tracking

Would appreciate if someone could direct me to a sample script for multi colour tracking ,where each colour detected would carry out a specific task. Thank you
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Initial Build

Hi This is a pretty basic question but cant seem to find the answer. Ive got my new JD robot and looked at the instructions to build it and the first instruction says: Connect Left Shoulder to Servo port D3 Connect Right Shoulder to Servo port D2 how do i know which wire coming out of the chest is left shoulder and right shoulder? there doesn't...
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Ez-B + Arduino And Power

Ez-B + Arduino And Power

Hello all, I am working on a BB-8 and I want to use the Ez-B as the brains. I have wired up an arduino to take care of talking to the various LEDs in the head. But right...
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Revolution Roli Rover Robot

Hi, I,am a total novice and I have just purchased the Roli Rover Robot .I have followed all of the tutorials but have the following issues: (1) I can get all functions to operate except for the tracks and camera picture. I have checked the wiring instructions as in the tutorial which seem ok but the tracks do not move. (2) One of the three servos...
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Speech Settings

Speech Settings

I upgraded my system to Windows 10 and now in the Speech Settings control only female voice sounds are available. Is there a way to get male voice sounds or is this something Microsoft did?...