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Tips On Humanoid Head Design For 3D Printing?

Tips On Humanoid Head Design For 3D Printing?

Soon, I will need to make a decision about whether the JD head will be the best choice for the user (student) interface for the...
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Multiple Robots

I know this topic has been done to death. I know this because I have been reading posts on it until Im bleary eyed. Out of all the posts I have read there have been some concrete answers and some iffy so Ive decided to add yet another to that long list of posts and just ask straight up. Ive only just ordered more EZB4s and some other parts so I...
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Usage Of Home Robot

hey I am currently pursuing my masters in Information Security. As a part of my thesis (on vulnerabilities in home robots), i am conducting a small survey on Usage of home robots. I shall be truly grateful, if you could spare 2 mins and complete this survey http://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/m3Nijxqt Thanks a million for the help...
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Southpark-Type Animation An Effective Substitute For Moving Mouth?

Im wondering if some sort of mouth animation as seen in characters in, say, South Park, might provide an effective alternative to using servos to manufacture jaw movement. And more servos to manipulate physical mouth movement. So, Ive just started looking around and am finding websites that claim that there are only 9 or 10 mouth (3D) phenome mouth...
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Sleep Zone

Sleep Zone

Well anyone else cant sleep because I cant ???? and Im starting to get board so anyone got an idea cause I got zip ?????????????? and its 4:23 here and now Im anoid to no blasted end on the eastern...
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Thoughts About Handwriting Recognition?

In my project prototype, I will have a JD head that provides interaction with a student who wants (needs?) to learn some remedial math. My design approach is that the bot interface will serve two purposes: 1. a friendly, engaging interface with the student 2. essentially a data collection device observing student understanding through a. spoken...
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Information On Available Servos

hello, I planned to restore my OMNIBOT 2000 and I wonder if we need servos left for the left arm and right servos for right fras? or is it that it does not matter? can someone informed me? thank you, sincerely eric
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Open Call Auditions - Bot Heads For Potential Use In Final Product

(Got a bit nervous about propriety and good tase . . . If I could delete, I would. I should just look through the showcase.) Ron
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Required Servos For Alan Kit

Will, (So sorry if this info is on another thread - I did search.) Just went to your website to inquire about purchase of one and multiple Alans for my project prototyping and for presentation to investors in a couple of months. I suspect I can reuse my JD head EZ-B, two servos, and camera to partially fill in Alans needs. However Id like to know...
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Custom Color Detection - Mutliple Objects

Hello everyone First of all sorry for my english not great eyeroll I acquired JD Humanoid recently and I enjoy myself immensely with the SDK C # to learn all the functionalities But I have a problem on the detection of custom colors with the camera. I have a sheet with 16 squares of identical color on ARC detects my 16 square. With the SDK C # and...
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New Project Based On Poppy

New Project Based On Poppy

For my next project I am interested in building a Poppy Project style robot. I like the light weight framework and design. It looks strong enough to allow it to carry...
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Omron B5t Board - Installtion, Connection And Scripts

Hello Guys and friends from the Omron Board, I like to follow your discussion about the Omron Board (https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/7914page=20) and I think is a good idea to open a new thread about the technical site of the Omron Board. So far, I rode some people got the Board and make some test with it. It will be cool if we can share...