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Jd Helps Me Clean Up

This is so cool must see he is helping me clean up the Jenga game pieces Jd is awesome Jd is pretty useful in cleaning up let me know what u guys think Jd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesomeJd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesome Jd is awesomeJd is awesomeJd is...
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Making Jd Avoid Objects

I was wondering if anyone has tried to make JD avoid objects. The task seems a bit more cumbersome using a humanoid robot because it would not be so easy to mount the distance sensor. Placing the sensor on JDs head would be ideal because the head servos could be used to direct the scanning. If is on the front of the body, the sensor scanning would...
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Ot: Pinball Adjustment Suggestion For Dj

Ot: Pinball Adjustment Suggestion For Dj

Hey DJ, This is OT but Ive noticed you leave your Pinball games on all the time. Thats Ok because they are industrial machines and built to...
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Adding Robot Families To ARC

Hi, I am interested in finding out how easy (or difficult) it is to add a new robot family to ARC. Device Cortex Arm 3 based. Thanks Paul
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Adventure Bot Not Charging

I have an adventure bot that does want to charge. Charger lights just flash red. Was fully charged before powering on first time and was turned off after cycling power to hear the ez-b logon about 4 days ago. Never had low power warning, went to turn on today and dead, plugged charger on and get 3 lights cycling red green.
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Servo Tracking

Hey guys, so my son and I are having a great time with our little rolli robot. Yesterday, we decided to start experimenting with the tracking feature. Weve watched all of the related tutorials we can find, and it seems like a pretty strait forward thing, but we cannot get our little guy to track. When we enable servo tracking, and use any of the...
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Sabertooth/Kangaroo With Different Motor/Encoder Combination

Sabertooth/Kangaroo With Different Motor/Encoder Combination

Since I know some of you have used the Sabertooth and Kangaroo I figured I would ask opinions. I...
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Send Tweets To Robot That Execute Code/Actions

Hello! I dont think this will be unique, but I cant find an answer. Ive seen how you can have your ez-robot send tweets, but is there a way to receive tweets? One fun function Id like to do is have the notifications my phone receives sent to a Twitter account. These tweets would be read by the robot and actioned. For example: I receive a new email....
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Look Ma No Hands

Look Ma No Hands

Found these hands seem to work good on both JD ROLI might try to figure out away to use them on SIX
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Split Does Not Work

This code works as expected: 1: ClearVariables() 2: $Statement = one,two,three 3: $token1 = Split($Statement, ,, 0) 4: $token2 = Split($Statement, ,, 1) 5: $token3 = Split($Statement, ,, 2) The code below does not work: 1: ClearVariables() 2: $Statement = one two three 3: $token1 = Split($Statement, , 0) 4: $token2 = Split($Statement, , 1) 5:...
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Expression Parser Broken: Boolean Expressions With Negative Numbers

The code below does not work: 1: ClearVariables() 2: $status = -1 3: $retry = 3 4: if ($retry3 AND $status0) 5: #do something 6: endif error: Quote: Error on line 4: Missing String Quotes or Invalid Expression at index 8: -
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ARC Windows 8.1 No Minimize, No Maximize, No Resize, No Move

ARC Windows 8.1 No Minimize, No Maximize, No Resize, No Move

I have windows 8.1, ive attached a screenshot of the desktop, with ARC open over other windows...