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UBTECH Alpha Servos UBT-12HC by UBTech
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Control UBTECH Alpha UBT-12HC smart servos via ARC using EZ-B v4/IoTiny UART, assign virtual ports, set baud, custom bits and position mapping.

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Variable Speed With Joystick And Continuous Rotation Servos

Hello everyone! first post here... I was a bit bummed when I found the joystick control with "Use variable movement speed" checked, did not change the speed of continuously rotating servos. Does this only work with H-bridge style movement controllers? To solve this I created a custom movement script so [Speed Left] and [Speed Right] could...
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Neat Little Bump Switch

Neat Little Bump Switch

Found a great little two pack bumper switch $12.99 plus shipping that will work with the digital ports of the EZ-B. Here's the URL.
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Sparkfun Mp3 Trigger

I purchased a MP3 Trigger for my Wall-e project. After building the trigger, I have connected a speaker, supplied power and it works. But when I connect it to the EZ-B board the trigger does not work. I have played around with the settings but with no luck. Do I need to use some particular naming convention for the MP3 files? This is the last piece...
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How To Get Audio Files Of Examples From Ez-Cloud

i am making a wall-e robot ,i am actually to getting how to get the audio files of mp3 trigger i need the wall-e audio files .............. plese help.........
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Exporting Video Stream To Open Cv/ Face Recognition

Hi there, I am trying to export my video feed to openCV via the ARC. Is there built in functionality to do this? I am aiming to implement a custom facial recognition fisherfaces algorithm on the video feed from the AR drone. Alternatively does anyone know if i can resolve the fisherfaces model to a Haar cascade which i could simply import into the...
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How To Trigger Mp3 In ARC

i am making a robot wall-e but i dont have mp3 trigger ,neither i planning to get one,i was plannin that instead of using mp3 trigger i was planning to use pc speakers but i am not getting how to make it do so
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Diy Attempt To Make Ar Drone 2.0 Ez-Robot Compatible

Well. I'm actually trying. So. Because the ar drone 2.0 is not compatible with ARC , I decided to try to do it myself. Right now, the movement panel for the ar drone 1.0 works with my 2.0, but I cant see the camera. So here's what I've come up with: 1.Mounting ez-b V4 with camera on ar drone(somewhat straight forward) Or 2.Find a way to connect to...
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Robot Head Tilt

Found this interesting tilt mechanism. Thought I would share. Thinking about trying this. But how would you keep the two servos from fighting each other? Robot Head Tilt
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Ez-Survey

You go through and answer 18 questions and then you're sent back to question 1 again. What up ?
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Uart Port On Ezb4

Will the new EZB4 with UART control/work with dynamixel servos? Thanks Chris
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The Future Of Design - 3D Metal Printing

The Future Of Design - 3D Metal Printing

New breakthroughs will change manufacturing as we know it. 3D Metal Printing
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Out Of Memory Which Saving Project

I'm running the latest version of ARC on win 7. Each time I try to save my project I get an out of memory error message. I click on the message and it comes back several times then finally saves . However the wallpaper disappears and background goes white. this is happening every time.