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Gaming Mouse Pad

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While programming your robot, these 9x7 inch personalized mouse pads deliver a smooth experience with a custom flair....
iRobot Roomba Movement Panel by iRobot
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Irobot Roomba Movement Panel

Control Roomba/Create via ARC: drive, stream sensors, read encoders, configure COM/HW UART, and send pose to NMS for mapping/navigation.

InMoov with 7 touch screen display and Lattepanda V1.1 by cem
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Robot By Cem

Run Synthiam ARC on a LattePanda V1.1 with a 7" touch screen for standalone InMoov control, auto-start projects and stylus navigation.

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Assistance With Slow Scripts

I am running 7 scripts at once.  Each is looping and looking for a variable that is generated by other scripts.  Once these variables are triggered,  each script runs a series of commands and returns back to looping. Some of my scripts have nested loops operating inside of other loops and break out as necessary. I am using FOREVER LOOPS because...
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Speech Recognition - Pause Not Working

Howdy When my voice recognition is paused it still activates. The sound wave is red and pause check box is grey. I have an enable phase as well, but doesn't seem to make a difference, the saved phrases seem to activate when paused and even if enable phase has not been  activated. ControlCommand( "Speech Recognition", PauseMS, 10000)...
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Chatbot And Speech Recogniton

how can I hook up the free speech recognition to PandoraBot?
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Question About Servos

is there a way to add a joystick or something similar to the workspace in ARC to control servos? I'm adding a Pan/Tilt servo mount to my robot to give the camera movement on the X and Y axis. I want to control the servos with mouse movement or use keys on a keyboard to control the pan-tilt mount. maybe use a wired video game controller? from finn
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I2C Device Voltage Question

Is it possible to connect an I2C device to the EZB v4/2 with just the SDA and the SCL lines connected with the device its self getting its voltage from a higher voltage source (Greater than 3.3v)?
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Need Help Wiring Remote Control Lawn Mower

Need Help Wiring Remote Control Lawn Mower

Hi all, This is a great forum and I am glad I found it! I am working on a 4wd remote control mower build. Here is what I have: 20 hp...
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Autoposition Missing Movement Arrows

Hi, I had the movement arrows on my Movement Panel (autoposition) but they have disappeared. Are there requirements needed for them to appear? Is there a way to get them back? (Don't want to have recreate all my frames!) Thanks Steve
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Color Tracking Settings Issue

Color Tracking Settings Issue

I'm setting up color tracking and following a tutorial but when I go to the camera settings I cant edit the areas circled in red tutorial(I'm on step 2):...
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Adding Servos To Six Robot

how can I add additional servos to my six hexapod? I have a 4 axis robot arm that I want to hook up but can't figure out how to control the new servos on the ARC application on my computer. can someone give me a step by step explanation on how to do it? from Finn
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Nest Annoying Error

Nest Annoying Error

im trying to connect the nest thermostat and I get this. Can somebody help????????
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Scripts Will Not Run From Previous Synthiam Version Software

Scripts Will Not Run From Previous Synthiam Version Software

I have tried to run both ARC 4.3 and ARC 4.5 with scripts from my previous Synthiam software.    I...
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Has Anyone Created A NFC Tag Reader Plug In

Has Anyone Created A NFC Tag Reader Plug In

Hi, I am looking at using NFC tags to identify objects. Has anyone integrated NFC reader capability into code?