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Target Overlay by Synthiam
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Overlay translucent PNG targets onto a camera stream with loadable templates, attach/detach control, preview and status for visual alignment.

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EZ-Robot sponsors kids building an Off-Roadbot for Western Canadian Robot Games-assembling platform, motors, controller, sensors and camera.

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The Wisdom Of The Dead Zone: Why Great Robots Sometimes Ignore You

The Wisdom Of The Dead Zone: Why Great Robots Sometimes Ignore You

Your robot’s smartest move might be not moving. Here’s why a tiny patch of...
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Auto Position Jitter With XV11 LIDAR

Auto Position Jitter With XV11 LIDAR

I’ve got an OpenCR 1.0 (USB) acting as my EZB in ARC controlling a small hexapod with Dynamixel servos. ARC connection is on COM5 at 921,600 baud...
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Older ARC Version Availability

Older ARC Version Availability

What happened to the older version of ARC? The new ARC Lite doesn't work for me - I prefer the previous (full) ARC and I don't like the Lite version. Has the...
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Fxrtst's Mecha Morphix Robot Platform

Fxrtst's Mecha Morphix Robot Platform

Build and program the Mecha Morphix robot head ALAN with hours of 3D printing, assembly, wiring and coding tutorials plus BOM and modular parts.
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Omron HVC-P Vars Not Updating On Shell-E

Omron HVC-P Vars Not Updating On Shell-E

Working on a Shell-e build with an IoTiny over WiFi and trying to use the Omron HVC-P skill to do simple face tracking for a pan/tilt head...
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Speech Recognition Low Confidence Issue

Speech Recognition Low Confidence Issue

I'm having issues running the Speech Recognition Robot Skill in ARC Pro (version 2026.04.16.01). A script I use (titled "JD - Are You a...
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EZ-B Settings Targets Wrong Board

EZ-B Settings Targets Wrong Board

I’ve got an OpenCR 1.0 (Robotis) flashed with DJ’s OpenCR v1 firmware and connected to ARC over USB at 921,600 baud on COM5. That side is solid-servos...
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Single Camera Servo Server
By Synthiam

Single Camera Servo Server v11

TCP video server for Unity clients to stream camera video and send servo positions to ARC for remote robot control
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Remote Mouse DPI Scaling On Ohmni

Remote Mouse DPI Scaling On Ohmni

I’m running ARC directly on an Ohmnilabs Ohmni telepresence robot (Windows 10 Pro on the UpBoard. I use the Ohmnilabs Standalone movement panel to drive...
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PCA9685 I2C Port Selection

PCA9685 I2C Port Selection

Hi Athena, I'm using the PCA9685 Robot Skill in ARC with an EZB v4 controller, and the PCA9685 is connected to the EZB v4 via the I2C port. I'm not getting any response...
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Voice Activity Detection
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Voice Activity Detection v9

Real-time microphone VAD using FFT to detect speech start/end and trigger scripts, with live level graph and sensitivity tuning
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Atan2 Bearing Geometry Fix

Atan2 Bearing Geometry Fix

Summary: incorporating atan2() geometry @Athena - please review the following Arduino Mega sketch. This sketch implements a UART packet protocol over Serial3 to...