I’m really impressed with the design details of these arms, Will! Also, really great (and funny) intro. Got a kick out of it!

Thanks DJ! It was a challenging build, but very happy with the results. Things should go quite quickly now, install the latte panda / touch screen and sew him space skirt to go with his space belt....then the fun time of painting him...I have some really neat paint designs.

I'm looking forward to this next episode. Installing the computer onboard the robot is something I;ve been wanting to do for years now. The thing that is stopping me is voice recognition. I'm real interested in how you will overcome the noise issues.

The mic will be set away from the robot. There is something I’m building to compliment the robot. That thing will also house the sonar and mic. Avoiding the issues with noise. It’s works for this but still would be an issue for b9. Especially with his background sound bite.

Good evening fxrtst - Will,

I told Dave the other day, between you and him, I really fell like a novice of 2 years, coming from knowing nothing.

I learned many things for all of you,

Thanks for being here.

EzAng

@fxrtst Has there been an issue with background noise? I ask only because I think sometimes my bot will leap forward if it hears any noise. Ive tweeked to acticate on a couple commands, but once activated I think any outside noise seems to make it do things on its own, until i tell it to stop. lol

@ezang We all started as novices when we got here years and years ago. That’s what is great about this community, I’ve learned so much from so many people and I’m glad some of what I’ve learned has been passed on!

@robohappy On the b9 ( lost in space robot) there is always a background sound that was played in the show and on our robots have the same sound..so it hard to have a hot mike active on the robot as it will pick up this sound.

My hope was to be able to have a "hot mic" open for anyone to be able to chat and command my robot. I tried many different types of mics. The best desktop mic I found for this purpose was the Big Blue Snowball. It seemed to give the best False Accept Rate. Still it was frustrating when he would hear something he thought he needed to respond to - falsely. Other times he wouldn't respond at all. I decided on getting a headset and be the only one to be able to command my robot. My percentage of False Accept Rate went almost down to zero. My choice was a ear headset used for cell phones. It's the Plantronics VOYAGER 5200 UC Headset. Amazing connection to my robot. Only drawback is the only person he'll respond to now is me because he can only hear me. Here's the headset I am using: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01G49I2FA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Taking this track I don't have to worry about the noise the robot makes. The headset allows me to talk to the robot from my headset to the computer where it's bluetooth connection is between it and the headset and then the computer sends the wifi command that ARC generaties to the robot.

I also have a "Wake up word" set like Amazon uses for their Alexa. I use the name "Robot". In my ARC project I have a Windows Voice Recognition control  installed. The only word it listens for is the name "Robot". I have a script written in it that when the Windows Voice Recognition control hears "Robot" it will wake up the Bing Voice Recognition control and start listening for scripted commands I've written in that control. All I need to do after I say "Ropbot" is wait a second to let Bing initialize before I start the command I want my robot to perform. To aid me in this wait I have a light pattern run on the robot to show me when to start speaking and how long I have to say it.