What’s the best tool in your shed? The best tool is the one that’s made for the job. There’s no best robot skill.

I think the best way to start for you is to learn the Auto Position and get servos moving. That’ll get you familiar with the ARC program and how it works.

Then add the speech recognition to triggers servo movements by voice. That’ll teach you how ARC robot skills talk to each other

Then add the camera device. Because that’ll teach you how to use the camera.

After that, it’s figuring out what you want the robot to do. Like maybe you want to control it with virtual reality from another room? Or maybe you want it to drive around your house and understand what room it’s in with a lidar?

There’s an infinite number of things you can do with arc. That’s the best part of the adventure

I understand why you don't want to keep paying for subscription to limit the skills you install due to cost. May I make a suggestion to look at this a different way? Why not build your robot using as many skills as you need to get it to work the way you want it to work. A free subscription is very limiting and I really think you will become frustrated and disillusioned. Why not get a year's Pro subscription? This way you have time to explore and learn all the offered skills and build your robot the way you want. Then, after a year or when you are not going to add anything more you can switch over to the free Runtime subscription. This is my plan. However over the years I've learned that the building of my B9 Robot is never complete. LOL. This doesn't mean I can't switch back and forth or even get a monthly subscription to make some changes.

Dave I have a pro subscription now and I will most likely will keep it going forward.  But some of the skills look like you need to also pay to use them over and above the pro subscription if I am reading them correctly.

Out of the 800 robot skills, I think there are only 4 or 5 that the 3rd parties charge for them. I think the only ones are...

• Advanced Bing Speech Recognition (but you can use the regular Bing speech recognition because you have a pro membership)

• Pandora Bot v2 (but you can use the regular pandora bot)

• Google Speech recognition (I've never used it)

• sighthound (But you can use the cognitive vision instead)

There might be a few others, but there are free substitutes. We're not in control of how 3rd party businesses run their business and what they charge - so the few that charge additional is their choice. But there are always free pro versions of the same thing Shrug

OK DJ,  that helps. I am just going to keep my questions on hold until I get to that point in my build and stop trying to plan ahead when it come to programing this thing.

Update: 5/3/2022:

Well had more printer issues with my MicroSwiss hotend getting clogged up printing PLA so I have decide to upgrade it to a Mosquito Magnum Hotend on my BondTech extruder.  I can't seem to locate my cutting guide for the PTFE/Capricorn Cutting Fixture to size the Capricorn to the right length so I am not sure how I am going to get around this, but I am sure I will find a way.

Update: 5/8/2022:  My new hotend came in yesterday and I have installed it and calibrated it.  I needed to have 5mm of Capricorn sticking out of the top end of the hotend. So far it seems to be working well I have printed the bottom battery door and a power supply end cover so I can get that all closed up to make it more safe.  I will be printing the top door for the back torso next and then move on to the last foot so I can complete the legs.  I will add pictures to the project page soon.

Just a note:  I use the Wham Bam build plate with PEX and this works great for PETG and everything else but PLA. To print PLA without issues I needed the PC Build Surface for things to stick to the bed when printing PLA. 

I have also been working on the wiring and so far I am happy with my progress.

I just realized that I'm not getting notifications for this project, probably because I hadn't commented yet

Excellent work @smiller29 I'm glad to see people such as yourself still building and improving on the inMoov design.

Thanks for the update on your hotends, if I move over to PETG I can see myself having to switch to all-metal hotends. I'm still debating about making the switch because all the printers I use are all tailored to PLA.

hi jeremie

i dont get any notification for very long time . i thought synthiam had stopped with sending notifications  ?

smiller29

wow you are going fast whit your inmoov . love the mustache .