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Robo had a fun time going to the beach. A little hard to maneuvering, but mostly smoothe sailing. Vision in both eyes and some routines brought smiles

   Ta Da!!

  I put willie back together this morning. His arm wen't just fine. I printed one of the adjustable (rotatable), square potentiometer holders and used it. That had it's own issues of course, (freaking itty bitty screws), but after having replaced the shoulder drive gear and reinforced it with washers and epoxy to keep them from wanting to pull through the thin material of the cylinder and a few other minor non-standard modifications his right arm is hanging properly now and seems to be working well also.

 I have been searching the Google forum for help with this subject to no avail. If anyone knows the answer I would very much like to receive e-mail on the subject.

I have removed Willie's right arm for a tune up. Some of the holes in the cylinder of his shoulder rotation gear have become elongated so there is/was a lot of slop in the motion when he raised his forearm by rotating the shoulder gear.  This was the result of overdriving his arm. I do not remember now the excatct souce of that.

Why: Too many same things for same result with diffents code lines. From python land code & result was different from 1 speech service to an other.

Now, every speech service should use SpeechInterface and a common method will do the job to cache text and play it with AudioFile.

It's come to my attention that the joystick example scripts are pretty far out of date and definitely don't work very well with manticore.

I have updated an example joystick script that will work with manticore

https://github.com/MyRobotLab/pyrobotlab/blob/develop/home/kwatters/joys...

This is a very simple example of the joystick analog stick x axis controlling the speed and direction of the a servo motor.  This is a much more simplified approach than having to deal with the "sweep" function on the servo.

In the past the build server would often fail  (even Travis would) because of lacking resources.   But it was always nice to have a public place to show the current status. I have more resources locally and its less expensive for me to do builds.  We potentially also have a wider variety of resources too as a collective, which might be better testing too.

  Since my wife does not like the Fred, an since I was borrowing that name from Ray My Assistant has had his name changed from Fred-X to Willie. 

  I do apologize if this is confusing for anyone.