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Motherboard Mini Itx At4nm10-I Dead

EZ-board and ARC + L.U.C.I.A. (my french speech project with SR, TTS, reader rss and Aiml) + face recognition = motherboard mini itx AT4NM10-I dead . My processor running at 100% and is dead. Well, my birthday is June 7. Please Darling offers me a new motherboard. I search a mini itx board with a dual core. What do you advise?
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Paralyzed Woman Moves Robot With Her Mind

I thought some would enjoy this video Paralyzed woman moves robot with her mind
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Camera Software

I just picked up a small laptop cheap. It does not have a CD drive to load the EZ-Robot camera drivers on to it that came with the kit. Is there somewhere I can download this software from. Forgive me for asking so many questions in the begining, I hope to be able to give instructions to other newbies one day. Thanks Tymtravler
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Motion Tracking Question

Just set up my camera and it works great tracking color and facial, however it does not track objects no matter how many times I configured it. I followed the tutorials and in setup and read as much in the community forum but still no joy.
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Sparkfun H-Bridge Not Working, Can Anyone Help?

Hi everyone, I've combed through the previous threads and even posted a few times asking for help but to no avail. I have that little red sparkfun h-bridge for my omnibot, I've wired it according to the video posted by DJ Sures, I've hooked up the battery and I've got nothing. Can anyone help me?
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Speech Recognition

Hi When I start the speech recognition I get the following error message: "Voice recognition was not able to start, there is either no listening device or your operating system is not supported." I am running Windows 7 and have tried setting inbuilt speakers and mic as default as well as headset speakers and mic, neither worked but both...
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Sdk Documentation Discrepancies

DJ, There are a few incorrectly documented values in the SDK. 1: The comment for SERVO_SPEED_SLOWEST indicates the value should be 255 when it is actually 10. 2: The comment for SERVO_CENTER says 70 when it is actually 50 3: The comment for SERVO_MAX says 140 when it is actually 100 Thank you.
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Omnibot + OQO + EZ-B

Omnibot + OQO + EZ-B

I wanted to share the start to my Omnibot build. Turns out the OQO-02 covers the tape deck and clock hole nicely with just a bit of dremel plastic melting. Picture Now imagine it...
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Ezb Firmware Update Failure   Help

Ezb Firmware Update Failure Help

ok all was working fine with ARC until i decided to upgrade to 12 26 version. down loaded ok then tried to run firmware update program. failure program...
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Question For Lloyd

Hey I wanted to send you some free dynamat sound deadening material for gizmo and some fans , I know you posted a email or something for me to contact you and I wasn't on the site for a couple days , I was in the hospital ( nothing too serious kidney stone and a restriction). If you would like to email me today Lloyd at [email protected] I would...
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2.5 Amp Motor Controller.... Help!

2.5 Amp Motor Controller.... Help!

I wired up the controller per DJ's instructions. It's getting power. The little light is on but nothing happens. Any ideas? Troubleshooting techniques?
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The Function Switchvideochannel() Or Videochannel() Not Working.

hey, in the ar-dron tutorial the function SwitchVideoChannel() and VideoChannel() not working. do you know why? and if theree is any way that we can change it to the vertical camera? thank shiran