Stepper Servo icon Stepper Servo Control up to 127 stepper motors via Arduinos mapped to ARC servos; supports any stepper driver, serial network, home calibration, speed/accel. Try it →

Robot Building Questions

ARC Pro
Learn More
Upgrade to ARC Pro
ARC Pro is more than a tool; it's a creative playground for robot enthusiasts, where you can turn your wildest ideas into reality.
Synthiam Credit
Earn synthiam credit to lower synthiam product costs
Earn Credit
Contribute to the community and earn credit to lower the cost of Synthiam robotics products and subscriptions.
Log In to Earn Credit
Synthiam Swag
See All Swag
"I build robots" Hoodie

"I build robots" Hoodie

This heavy hooded sweatshirt is perfect for robot builders. The material mix of cotton and polyester...
View Product
User Defined Function Example by Synthiam
Featured
User Defined Function Example

Add custom EZ-Script functions in C# or JS; intercept unknown calls, parse parameters and return values via AdditionalFunctionEvent.

RGB Arduino, Python code with ARC by EzAng
Featured
Robot By Ezang

Control Arduino RGB LEDs via Synthiam ARC serial monitor with Python code; ask a color and watch R G B light up.

Community

Welcome to the Synthiam Robotics Community

Sign in to unlock your personalized community feed — browse your posts, track replies, follow discussions, and join the conversation.

Log In to Access Your Content
question
Need Help In Making Garden-Bot Work Outside In The Weather.

Need Help In Making Garden-Bot Work Outside In The Weather.

This is garden-bot my latest robot project. I need help in making garden-bot work outside in the...
question

Yahoo! The Revolution Has Started

PRE-ORDERS NOW AVAILABLE. YOU CAN PRE-ORDER ANY OF THE ROBOTS.
question
Heavy Duty Motors.

Heavy Duty Motors.

I am interested in building an Omnibot 2000 or Omnibot 3000 from the scrap... Using fiberglass... But I would like to know which motors shall I use to bear the weight (about 12-15 Kgs)...
question

Wireless Camera Driver

Hi Everyone, Right now I have a very old lappy which runs on Windows XP... So it can't install drivers on its own.. I need the driver of the wireless camera that comes with the EZ-kit.. Can any one guide me please...
question

Using ARC Behind A Proxy And Firewall

Our school uses a Proxy Server that requires authentication to access.... I would guess that most schools do the same. DJ I have started this thread so I can get our schools technical support involved in this one. They should join this thread sometime soon.
question
What Capacitor Is It?

What Capacitor Is It?

Yesterday when I was looking at my EZ-B, I observed a new kind of Capacitor in the place C1 of EZ-B... I have known about electrolytic capacitors and ceramic capacitors.. What...
question
Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

How do you connect the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor without losing servos. and How do you set up the robot to run on its own using the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor to keep...
question
Can I Do This With Ez Robot?

Can I Do This With Ez Robot?

What I want to do is the following - Encapsulated programs that will control motors and select voice files to be played. The programs will be randomly selected to...
question

Omnibot On Ebay - Might Be A Bargain

Here is an Omnibot auction on ebay - includes a Chatbot: 121174248933
question

Using Multiple Ez-B

I see a number of people here using multiple EZ-B on their robots, if the reason is just running out of port lines and number of servos etc, then there is a really good alternative. Many moons ago, long before the dawning of the EZ-B, the first AIMEC:3 used the SD20 (I2C 20 channel servo driver) chip www.robot-electronics.co.uk/htm/sd20tech.htm...
question

I2c Query

Hi folks, I have another I2C query. I've learned now that I2C devices have addresses meaning multiple devices can be attached. This is awesome of course. My question is now, if I had, say 2 accelerometer's of the same type attached, can these be accessed separately? Am I correct in thinking that they would have the same address code? For scripting...
question

Expanding Digitalports

I was wondering if anyone had a simple solution for adding more digital connections to the controller. One idea I had was to link an arduino to it via i2c, although I don't know where to start to do that. I need to increase the connections by about 6 ( making 26 ) minimum.