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Lost In Space B9 Robot Wrist And Claws Upgrade! Danger! Danger!

Lost In Space B9 Robot Wrist And Claws Upgrade! Danger! Danger!

After many years it's time to make this big guy even better (I hope, LOL). In this video I'll...
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Humanoid Robots

I am building a humanoid robot and printing parts of different humanoid parts.  I am planning on putting a micro computer in the body with a 2 TB SSD. I believe people with disabilities needs this especially people with mental disabilities like myself who is a high functioning autistic. I am terrible at programming and will love to get started with...
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Rock Pi X CMOS Battery Power

Rock Pi X CMOS Battery Power

What are you guys that are using the Rock Pi X doing for standby power for the COMS when it's powered down?  The system clock wont run without a 3 volt backup...
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I'm Going To Build An Inmoov, Any Advice?

I'm Going To Build An Inmoov, Any Advice?

Hello, Synthiam community! I'm going to need your help. I would like to build an inMoov for the first time. I want to take full advantage...
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Win 10 Performance Tips Needs Updating - Fully Disabling Win 10 Updates

Win 10 Performance Tips Needs Updating - Fully Disabling Win 10 Updates

I have a couple suggestions for fixes and additions to your tutorials on...
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Anyone Built A Reachy (Telepresence Robot)?

Anyone Built A Reachy (Telepresence Robot)?

Reachy is a telepresence robot project that is open source hardware and software.  It is 3D printed (CC-BY-SA) So you can hack and...
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Submitting A New Robot Project

I've got some new Synthiam robots I'd like to share, but every time I go to New Robot - Synthiam and enter in all the info and attach images and video links as stated are required and click Save and Publish, but the site just cycles back to it like it is still in edit mode or something with no warning selections highlighted for something I missed....
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Digital Clone Rover Roli

Digital Clone Rover Roli

maybe someone can use it.... can be used with the standard project of Roli, just create an EZ-Script and run it: $go=true repeatwhile($go) $strSend = "D9@" +...
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The VR Rover - VR Robot For Meta Quest 2

The VR Rover - VR Robot For Meta Quest 2

My project is now ready to present it to you. The VR Rover VR Rover with 3D stereo camera, live voice chat, exchangeable battery system,...
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EZ-Robot Building A New Platform

Now I am intrigued. I received a survey from ez-robot about a new platform.  they didn’t say what the definition of a new platform is, hardware, software, both but they did mention sensors in the email  etc.  they are focused on education market now and not pure DIY so curious if anyone has inside scoop.   the obvious question is what do you want...
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@DJ And Your Music

Hey DJ, I've been thinking about the music you used to write and produce. I really liked the stuff you created. I haven't found any lately. Have you worked on this area of your interests lately or is it a past passion? Any chance of posting a link to your music library that could be either listened to or bought? Sometimes I put background music...
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Interesting Project From 2015

Interesting Project From 2015

Basically i was scrolling through youtube and found a robot that used both an EV3 board and the EZ-B4 controller board. any thoughts on this? (Credit to Irvin...