Robot Building Questions

Upgrade to ARC Pro
Subscribe to ARC Pro, and your robot will become a canvas for your imagination, limited only by your creativity.
Synthiam Credit
Earn synthiam credit to lower synthiam product costs
Your Synthiam Credit is $0.00
Discover ways you can lower the cost of Synthiam products by contributing to the platform and community.
Earn Synthiam Credit
Exosphere
Loading...
Remote control robots or add telepresence capabilities with Exosphere
Add remote telepresence capabilities to your robot from your phone or PC
Add your robot to Exosphere
Sythiam Swag
I Make Robots Crew Socks

I Make Robots Crew Socks

Exclusive to robot builders, these are a one-size-fits-all solution up to a mens size 12. The construction is 73%...
ArduinoComs by ShadowStudios
Featured
By ShadowStudios

ArduinoComs

A system that allows communication between the EZB-V4 and Arduino using I2C and can use user made code in C#.

My new robot arm on ARC by EzAng
Featured
By EzAng

My new robot arm on ARC

My new robot arm on Ez- builder - video next week coming - he has a gripping personality

Your Community Content

Welcome to the Synthiam Robotics Community

Sign in to unlock your personalized community feed — browse your posts, track replies, follow discussions, and join the conversation.

Log In to Access Your Content
question
What Is The Best Remote Control Solution For My 30Dof Robot?

What Is The Best Remote Control Solution For My 30Dof Robot?

Hi there, I would like to control my Humanoid Robot (custom robot with 30 degrees of freedom - 2...
question

One Board Connects To Wifi But Wont Get An Ip Address

Hello everybody! Just checking if I may be able to fix this issue otherwise than by changing the main board to my main robot. This robot has 2 V4 boards (+ 1 V3 that serves only to put everything on standby by controlling a simple relay). One of the 2 V4 boards will simply not be able to get a stable IP address. Since I use 2 DHCP routers which...
question

Action If A Variable Changes?

Maybe this is not possible, Im stuck on finding a method that would allow this to work. I know I can script checking for a specific variable change like this: If ($WhatIsForDinner = ChickenPotPie) Print(Yummy) EndIf But I would like a script to take action anytime a specific variable changes. This would just run all the time looping and looking...
question

Wifi On Board Or Using Another Network?

Here is My question and I may not be understanding the Wifi is the controller the Wifi ,or does it link to an existing network and use its wifi ? This makes a difference because of what i was planing to use the controller for which is outdoors away from any network
question

Ive Started To Work On Mapping Using The Vx-11 Lidar

The boards have been pretty quiet so I thought I would share what I am working on now. This is for robots using an on-board computer I have started making a plugin that is designed to use the xv-11 sensor, wheel radius and encoder counts per revolution of the wheels to make a map of the environment. It also uses the compass part of the 4-in-1...
question
Question Editing Frames

Question Editing Frames

I get a unhandled exception error whenever I try to edit frames. I am using a six with claw robot. I can see all the servos in the settings but error occurs when I select any...
question
ARC For Windows

ARC For Windows

I try to run the ARC for Windows using Parallells Desktop in a iMac. After downloading, I get error message like the attached image. Can anyone help please? confused Lennart
question

Executing Functions At Certain Times Of The Day

Depending on the time of the day, I want my robot to do one thing or a different thing. I cant figure the logic out to make something like below to happen. I am hoping someone can give me some hints. Here is my script If ($time 9:30:00 and $time 16:0000 and $time 09:30:00) print(to the other thing) endif Thanks in advance.
question

Serial Port Monitor On Ez-Bs Bluetooth Port ?

Saturday, 2 February 2013 Good Morning EZ-Robot Community ! HHD Software has a Serial Port Monitor that I used to Monitor Record the communication to my iRobot Roomba via an RS-232 Tether Cable. http://www.serial-port-monitor.com/ Does anyone have any success with any Serial Port Monitors for EZ-Bs Bluetooth Serial Port ? Mine is on (COM3) Best...
question

Servo Resolution Of Movement Question

@DJ_Sures I know that you can send a fractional degree to a servo via the Servo() instruction, for example 60.379. But, does the servo really move to 60.379 degrees or is the actual movement rounded down to 60? If it does move to a fractional degree, what is the resolution to which it can be set? Thanks.
question

Relationship Between Master And Slave Servo Positions

Im experimentig the interesting relative servos function, and I dont understand the mathematical relationship between master and slave servo positions . Can some ezb expert write some equation or a flow-chart describing what the position of slave servos will be, in function of the master servo position ? considering that each servo has its max-min...
question

Control Layout

They should make a barboard attachment because I have a great idea for some cool robot controllers so when I get the chance to Ill post what the controls will look like