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Experiencing A Gradual Drop In Voice Rec With Bob - Any Clues ?

First of all, the voice recognition on the EZ-B is excellent. I was blown away by the fact you can add so many actions and sounds to run at the same time with the same voice command. What I'm experiencing now is response drop out. All the commands seem to drop out from a 5 to 10 minute interval. For a while Bob obeys and behaves like a good robot...
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Are Arbitrary Glyphs Possible?

Is there a way to add to the library of recognized glyphs? There are 4 pre-defined glyphs in the API. I would like to create an environment that uses about a dozen different glyphs. Does anyone know if there is any way to do that? Thanks!
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DC Motor Current Sensing

DC Motor Current Sensing

My omnibot robot has been getting stuck the odd time. I had a conversation with the guys at Solarbotics and they suggested I through in a current sensing circuit. Wicked...
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Rezero - Ballbot Performance And Interaction

I came across this video and I wanted to know if anyone thought about making a robot like this. Can ez robot support this kind of robot build? let me know what you think and if can be done, thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08EslPPX6f4&feature=related
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Bluetooth Antenna

hi all is the BT antenna in this store differant to ones i can buy on the street coz i've bought a few now and still can't get connected i've reformated, re pared, replaced chip (thanks DJ) got new rechargable batteries still no luck. i've had my ezb since may and tried all i know except ez robots bt antenna ps i follow the communtiy avidly you're...
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Bluetooth Camera Connection?

how do i get the ez-robot processor to recognize the bluettoth camera? I added it as a bluetooth device, my pc sees it, but i can onle access my webcam from the ARC SW. thanks, bl
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How Do I Get Specs On Ez-Robot Parts?

For example, how much weight does their 6-wheeled vehicle support?, what size is it,........
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Communications Auto Disconnect

Got a question. I was planning on devising some sort of dead man's switch to stop my 4WD Rover in the event it decided to run away from home, or at least out of my sight now that I'm using the long range Synapse RF modules. But, first I decided to see how it reacts if communications is disrupted while it is going forward. I discovered it does...
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Using A Spektrum Dx7s To Control The Ex-B3

I am exploring the idea of using a Spektrum DX7s (RC Transmitter used with RC cars/plans and boats) to communicate with an EZ-B3, thereby controlling two brushed motors? The design's current configuration is: 1. One EZ-B3 2. Two 7.2volt NMH battery's at 3000mAH 3. Two ESC ( Traxxas XL-5, Electronic Speed Controllers) 4. Two 7.2volt brushed motors...
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Character Strings In ARC

I can find variables in ARC for playing around with numbers but not for playing around with character or variable string arrays.... Eg. MyName$="Burt" YourName$="Human" Reply$ = ("Hello " + YourName$ + "I am " + MyName$) Say (Reply$) Can anyone help me? Or does this fall into the domains of VB or C#?
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Bluetooth Bandwidth ?

I am using a bluetooth dongle to connect Ez-b and connect PS3 control ,no problem works very well, excellent Purchased a bluetoot headset for voice command of Ez-b. when I open my ez-b file before making connection (to ez-b ) voice commands appear in window ,but once I connect to Ez-b I loose voice command I presume its my bluetooth ability to...
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Joystick Control

So I have built a small tracked robot running off a h-bridge and am running two DC motors to drive it. I started of with the h-bridge movement panel and it worked fine, I then got a wired controller to run it and the robot will move around correctly using the left joystick( using the default setting). My problem is I want to use the second joystick...