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Miscellaneous Utility Plugin by ptp
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Miscellaneous Utility Plugin

ARC utilities: DataQuery for SQL/ODBC/OLEDB/Excel with parameterized queries returning array variables; Ticks/Millis timing functions.

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Kobuki Support

Hello, I have a Kobuki base/platform that was originally intended for a turtlebot. Unfortunately ROS's learning curve has proven a bit to steep for me. Has anyone had success with an EZ Board/controller and a mobility?
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Help On Edit

I could not find instructions about entering contributions, no Help button, F1 doesn't work, and I also couldn't find a tutorial. Do I have to change my browser settings for display/access to such items? How can I e.g. quote text from another entry?
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Continuous Rotation Servo Powered Externally

Continuous Rotation Servo Powered Externally

Hello! So I've been battling with maths recently and trying to figure out the torque required to shift my robot. I've got some on...
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Cannot Connect In Wifi Client Mode

After configuring my Roli to client mode, it says that it connected successfully to my WLAN. But the ARC scan cannot find it :-( It may be a policy (firewall?) problem, but I have not installed or activated any AV software. [Using Win8]
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Movement Tracking

Movement Tracking

I am trying to get my Wall-E to follow the color red. The problem is when it see's the red object it turns away from the object. I have everything set up as in the Roli exercise. If I...
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How Do I Change My Email

My email is wrong. It needs to be [email protected]. Cant seem to fix from my end. Any help I can get or can you wipe the username and let me start again as I want to keep the user name. Thanks
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11.1V 1300Mah

11.1V 1300Mah

Can the ezb4 use a 11.1v 1300 mAh bettery directly?
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Using Kalman Filter For Tracking Position And Orientation Of Imu

I'm applying the Kalman Filter to track position and orientation of a device which has Inertial Navigation Units (accelerometer and gyroscope). I'm not sure if I use acceleration as input (control process) or velocity or none of them. Can you help me? And one of the propositions is that the velocity is constant (module).
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ARC To Text

Can the graphical interface of ARC be converted to a text file? What I mean is can I somehow convert my program in ARC to a script without coding it myself. Sort of like how with web design editors (WYSIWYGs) you can design the page in a graphical interface and then export the code in (X)HTML. Thanks.
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Elderly Assistant

Guy's trying to write a script that will remind my father to take his pills everyday, need some help on this one. Do i use the camara to find him in the house? How would i do this? Thanks confused
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How To Time Sendserial Command

Ok... So I have a quick scripting question... I have two motor controllers in my project, and one is used up with the movement panel and the other I use send serial commands to control. Issue is how to write script to control duration of movement of the second ? I know for my movement controls I can script something like Forward(XXXX,XXX) and that...
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Video Player Within ARC

Good Morning, Has anyone used the Video Player from within ARC? I just discovered it and I played back an mpeg file. The playback was choppy with pixels and the video stopped playing after about 10 seconds into my 30 second clip.