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Emotion Recognition

Emotion Recognition

Just stumbled across this one here...Apple acquired Emotient! Might not be great news, but emotion recognition seems to be only a few steps from being deployed in everyday life! This...
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Filereadline Question

Recently I have been working with a text file from which I read a series of comma delimited lines. Each item represents a series of numbers, like this: 27,28,29,31,32,34,35,37,38, The problem is that the FileReadLine function strips out the commas and reads the line as one huge number. It even adds exponent notation such as +E25 to the end, so I...
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Question: Ez-B V4 Controller Cannot Stay Connected To Wifi

I purchased an Ez-b v4 controller about a month ago to mod an Omnibot 5402 I bought from Ebay. Everything went completely smoothly, with the controller connecting to wifi with no problem and maintaining a stable connection. The robot operated under daily use for the next couple of weeks without a hitch. Now about a week ago, the controller suddenly...
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Ez-B And Camera Resolution

Just out of curiosity, can the video input on the EZ-B handle higher resolutions than 640X480? With so many miniature HD webcams available, I was wondering if one could be adapted (provided the cabling is compatible).
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Battery Replacement Instructions

Please point me at the instructions on how to remove and replace the battery on a JD and Roli
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Lever Server-Motor Speed

Is there a way to slow down the speed of the lever arm servos? I found the tutorial on the rotation servo speed adjustment by a screw on the servo
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How Can I Plug These Servos Into The Ezb?

How Can I Plug These Servos Into The Ezb?

How do I plug these servos into the EZB please? https://www.active-robots.com/high-torque-dc-servo-motor-60rpm-with-uart-12c-ppm-drive
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Long Life 7.4V Lipo Battery And Charger For Ez-B V4

Long Life 7.4V Lipo Battery And Charger For Ez-B V4

Hi everyone. I need a little advice in regards to LiPo batteries for the EZ-B v4. I have been waiting for my dev kit,...
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Roboscratch On Ios

I'm running RoboScratch on my iPad and have a couple of basic questions. 1. How do I delete a step once I have created it? I don't want to clear all the steps and start over. 2. How do I move steps around? Drag and drop doesn't work
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Mp3 Trigger Mobile Control

Hi Folks, Its that time of year to get the G-Bot ready for Halloween! Always exciting. I must say I was a little disappointed to see the MP3 Trigger control is not supported on the mobile interface. It would be so much easier to control the robot from my phone 100%. Anyone know if there are plans to implement this anytime soon? Thanks, Gwen
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Mini Electric Metal Gear Motor

This question may have already been answered and may even be a dumb question but i could not find it. How would i go about hooking this motor in the attached link to the ezbv4. It only has a positive and negative wire and no signal wire mini gear motor
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Galapagos Bot

The strafe buttons do not work on the Galapagos bot ARC app for the iPhone. Also is there a way to add a battery level indicator into the control panel, to be able to see a visual battery level?