I just finished painting all the aluminum pieces being careful to mask off any area that may have a bearing seat. Just assembled j1 minus the motor. Still waiting on those from stepperonline. While I wait I will start making cables and mounting the Components that I have in the enclosure.

Do you have an AR3 to test with? I need to go in and look at the code and see how it correlates. I've always been more for the mechanical / electrical side of projects and not too much on the code side. Things will soon change! Will be looking forward to you posting about it.

Everything for the arm has been ordered and the majority of the parts will be delivered by the beginning of the next week. just waiting on encoders, motors and teensy. I'm hoping to have the arm up and ruinning by the first of the month if time is reasonable. Currently in the process of applying to grad schools and organizing an Architecture portfolio so life is a little hectic but I'm devoted to working on the project all summer to hopefully get some functionality. Chris already said that RoboDk was working on a processor for the AR3 but I have no idea how far they are into it. My knowledge of Python is very basic but I have friends who excel so hopefully I can hire them for some help.

Im wanting to use the arm for free form 3d printing using diagrid structures such as branch technology. I was planing on using Rhino and grasshopper with the Crystallon plugin and the RoboDK plugin to create a diagrid toolpath from a volume. Currently looking at making a pellet extruder from recycled ground PET bottles.

@Sandy Curth Would love to talk more about what you are working on! Seems like we have the same intent with this robot.