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I Make Robots Crew Socks

I Make Robots Crew Socks

Exclusive to robot builders, these are a one-size-fits-all solution up to a men's size 12. The...
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Stream All The Video Sources by Synthiam
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Stream All The Video Sources

Stream video from any URI/protocol (RTMP, RTSP, HTTP, UDP, etc.) to a selected ARC camera device for real-time network feed playback.

Inmoov's Touch Sensors by bhouston
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Robot By Bhouston

Build DIY touch sensors for robots in Synthiam ARC using foil tape on an ADC port and simple scripting.

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Office Cameras Refreshing But Still 2Hrs. Behind

Office Cameras Refreshing But Still 2Hrs. Behind

The cameras when I took this should have been at 4:28pm(calgary time)
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Circle Navigator Coming Soon

Circle Navigator Coming Soon

From concept to commitment to construction is taking awhile but this project is beginning to take form. The 500 Roomba wheels took a lot of time to hack and replace...
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Robot Arm Designs

Robot Arm Designs

Anyone interested in creating a team to brain storm ideas and designs for robot arms for large or small robots. Perhaps collectively we could come up with a universal design that many of...
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Cheapest Blackbox Digital Port To Digital Port Transceiver

Hi Hardware, I have a HC-SR04 Distance Sensor plugged into my ez-b (or some other device that needs both digital input and output). I want to unplug the connecting digital wires, and in their place, send the digital signals via some kind of RF transceiver. So there would be one module connected to the ez-b, and other connected to the HC-SR04...
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The Apple Mfi Robot Edition Of ARC

Hello, I was reading the FAQs and it mentioned this 'The Apple MFI Robot edition of ARC ' What is it, and it this available? Is it a native version app for iOS?
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The Crew

The Crew

I was tidying up the office today. Snapped this pic of the kids. Plans - Omnibot #3 - Newest Omnibot I have . Currently un-touched. Thinking no dome mech warrior. Omnibot #2 - Mr. T. Going for paint...
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Odd Behavior With Xbox Wireless Controller

Odd Behavior With Xbox Wireless Controller

Hi, I am using the Xbox Wireless Controller and I noticed some odd behavior in the ARC. The left-side analog joystick on the controller...
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What Brand Is Dj's Soldering Iron?

in his motor controller video he has that blue soldering iron. Does anyone know what brand it is? Anyone personally own one?
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Detect Different Colors With Sdk?

I've been trying to figure out how to detect color with SDK without getting its location and it needs to be multicolor. I'm trying to make a program to detect these colors: white, green, blue, red, black. I am Not using ARC. My program does more that ARC cannot. I am Not looking for its location either. I just want it to be able to detect those 5...
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Open House Party

Any other locals heading to the Open House Party (May 28th)? I'm going to take the afternoon off work.
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Replacing Robosapien Batteries

Has anyone been successful replacing the Robosapien 4 D cells batteries. with one rechargeable batteries.
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Comm Err: The Operation Has Timed Out

my ez-b was working for 3 days, now when i try i get this... Attempting connection on COM3 Comm Err: The operation has timed out. BbytesToExpect: 1 Received: Disconnected Connection Failed: System.Exception: Controller Not Responding at EZ_B.EZB.Connect(String hostname, String tcpPassword, Int32 baudRate) Disconnected