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Ez_B Ai For Robots Question

Hi DJ, this question is mainly directed at you. All the talk of Artificial Intelligence in our Robots via ARC is great. I use the personality generator and it really gives the illusion Bobs up to something. I'm quite excited about extending this and was wondering how far away the next extension of this is via the ARC version update. Also, to...
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Questions With Speech Recognition

My speech recognition was working, although has always been a bit flakey (sometimes works, sometimes didn't) but in the last few days it has stopped completely. Other posts made me think that it was language incompatibility based and if I run debug I get the following message when I try to add the speech recognition control: "The language for...
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Quick Battery Question

which one of these should i use to control the ez-b that'll be connected to 5-6 servos and 2-3 sensors? 12v 2.3Ah or 12v 5Ah or 12v 3.4Ah feel free to let me know if my specs are wrong
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Dj About The New Synthia

i see you said it will use EZ-NET i guess that meens it needs to be hook up to the internet,why can it be added to the ARC i think it will me much more faster also with it have full emotions and displaying emotions or mostly a chat software
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Dj About The Ezb

are you using a crystal at 24 mhz or PLL to boost it its makes a difference in actual speed
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Help With Synapse And Xbee Rf Modules

Ok, after 2 days of netting the same results, I'm ready to ask for help. I had been planning on replacing my Bluetooth with Synapse RF Modules and decided to tackle it first thing yesterday. I have been using both Xbee's and Synapse modules successfully for a couple years with other microcontrollers. I also know how to connect and use USB FTDI...
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Proplem With Firmware Update

Good afternoon DJ. Sures. My name is SAKIS . I have the ez-b kit about 5 month. I have a problem with the update firmware V6.5, I did the steps to up date but i can't . This is the message that i saw when i try to update......... Attempting connection to COM18 EZ-B reports EZ-B Firmware V6.5 Connected T+NAMEsakissending ping sending ping sending...
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Voice Rec & Control Command - Can Do Discovery

Most of us use this forum to ask for help on something that's a negative. I thought I would give something back thats a positive with the ARC. For those of you actually up to the stage of giving your robot verbal commands I was curios to see if a voice command like "Danger" could activate both a sound script and an action script (robot...
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Windows Home Server

Hi all, Just been given a copy of Windows Home Server (Origional) and as I have not been able to get XP Home to work with the voice recognition I thought I'd install Windows Home Server.... Has anyone used this with the EZ-B? Any EZ-B compatibility issues known?
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Talking Robot

sup fellow bots just wondering, cos im new, if you could get a robot to talk to you? and.... when buying the parts what is the currency? where are you guys based?
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Scriptmanager Randomness

Hello, Is anyone experiencing so weird randomness with ScriptManager? I find if I have moved any of my scripts up/down it acts kinda weird afterwards. Almost like the script description has moved but the data table doesn't realize it. I'll Post my OmniBot Script up. -> Omnibots If you run "Start", wait a wee bit then run...
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Dual Cameras And Mic

These questions are regarding the ez robot kit. Does it have the ability to add 2 cameras and send video from both cameras back to the PC? (for a virtual reality/stereoscopic vision setup) Can 2 microphones be added and have the sound sent back to the PC (for virtual reality/stereoscopic sound) Basically it would be like you are sitting in the bot...