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Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

Can you confirm whether the Ultrasonic Distance Sensor (Collision) works with the Mobile App? Comments from 2017 suggests not, and it doesn't work for me. Works fine with ARC.
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Dome Lift Mechanism R2D2

Dome Lift Mechanism R2D2

I am trying to convert a system so it can be used in EZ-B/ The Dome Lift MEchanism by Matthew Zwarts https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3654411 The system works with a...
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Switch / Case Statement

I am neck deep  in programming my "Simone" robot. I know that I can use multiple or nested if/elseif/then statements, but what would really make my life easier would be a "switch / case statement." switch(expression) { case constant-expression : statement(s); break;  case constant-expression : statement(s); break; ...
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OTHER: Using ARC Without Internet Access?

OTHER: Using ARC Without Internet Access?

If I am out demonstrating my robot and there is bad internet service or even no internet service, how would I run ARC? Does ARC REQUIRE...
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How To Use Prosody Contour In Speech Synthesis

You have exposed most of the prosody features (pitch, emphasis, rate, volume, break, phonemes)  and I am thrilled that they all work perfectly! Thank you. I enjoy using them to vary my robot's voice. Still, there is one feature that is only partially exposed and that is "prosody contour. " When I attempt to use prosody contour, the voice...
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What Is The Difference Between Pauselistening  And Stoplistening

What Is The Difference Between Pauselistening And Stoplistening

I have been using these two commands together, one following the other in my scripts. So far...
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Can You Control More Than One Ezbv4/2 In The Mobile App?

Can You Control More Than One Ezbv4/2 In The Mobile App?

Am I missing something? Can the mobile app control multiple EZBs? I am using two in my robot and one is a...
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How To Use T265 With A Lidar?

How To Use T265 With A Lidar?

Hello guys. I'm trying to setup a base template project to use T265 and Lidar Plugins.  Can someone share a project or scripts to navigate and use the Lidar data...
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Stopping Bing From Recording

Something has changed I guess. Bing Speech Recognition used to have controls that let the software turn off recording using these settings in the control: 6. Level Threshold Field This adjustable threshold level is used for both Auto Recording (if enabled) and stopping recording. If you find that even in manual mode the recording manually stops too...
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Robot Skills Reach Daily Limit

I am new to ARC.  I purchased the premium subscription but was disappointed that it keeps kicking me out of skills as I'm building because I reach daily limits.  How do these limits work? Is there a way to get unlimited time on these skills? The latest issue was with Cognitive Face, but it also happened with Bing voice recognition. I got around...
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8X8 Animator Matrix Error

when I add the skill of HT16K33 Animator (8x8) (I2C), this problem occurred often. please give me a solution for this ? Version: 2021.03.02.00 System.Exception: Capability 'I2C Master' is not supported on this EZB device. at EZ_B.Firmware.FirmwareCls.CapabilityRequired(CapabilityCls cap) at EZ_B.I2C.RpX7g4ySPM7x8vc8Iwc(Object , Object ) at...
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Expand My Existing Robot Project With An ESP32-Cam And A Matrix (8X16)

My robot is now running fine with the 16 servos on the ESP32 and the PCA9658 and I have already been able to program some actions. Now I would like to expand my project with an ESP32 cam and a matrix. My problem is the following: I would like to connect the ESP32-Cam to the existing ESP32 (without WIFI) because the ESP32 already has a connection....